Skidding logs is just the start. Then what?

[Grandad4]

gotta agree with everything Arrow said!

+1 We skidded wood for several years with a 3 point logging winch and found it's most efficient to get the logs out of the woods before slicing them up. Less damage to the ground also.

 

[ultraglide62]

I use my Bobcat 343 excavator with the thumb to make my firewood cutting easier. Normally dig around tree and use the trees weight to take out stump at same time. Cut the Douglas fir into 20 foot lengths and save the logs I want to make into lumber on my Woodmizer. The other logs are limbed in the air and them I index the firewood log to my friend that stands in one place over our dump trailer and he curs 18 inch rounds.
Is this cheating?
Ultraglide62

 

[arrow]

I'll let ya come here and cut all my wood if you have so much fun doing it. I won't even charge ya anything.

You gots any wiggle room in this negotiation?

 

[arrow]

gotta agree with everything Arrow said! My trails are too hilly to haul a trailer full of logs so its one stem at a time to the woodshed. I have a gizmo I made for my 3pth so I can lift one end high and keep most of the log clean while skidding. When I do have to cut muddy or sandy logs, I try to cut so the chain pulls the crud clear of the cut, not into the log. Any short/small branches/stumps get pushed over the hill behind the woodshed.

Glad to see you still around Pat. We's go back aways.

 

[dickfoster]

You gots any wiggle room in this negotiation?

OK OK if you're gonna be that way about it, I'll supply the fuel but then you're on your own and I don't want you leaving a mess.

 

[arrow]

OK OK if you're gonna be that way about it, I'll supply the fuel but then you're on your own and I don't want you leaving a mess.

Glad to see you've come to your senses. Might take me a while to get there as I have to drive the tractor over but at least my fuel costs will be covered.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I'm just about convinced myself to build a bunch of them Rob. Do you stack right into them off the splitter to dry? That would be my plan, eventually I'd need a few dozen+. That sure would save a lot of time for me, by the time I need it, my stacks are under snow & ice, and a chore just to get that stuff off the top. I do top cover with old barn metal, but my stacks are 6' tall. The pic say's it all!

The way I designed them, there are two rows, that way air can pass over and through the box/splits. I can put green splits right in the boxes and they dry out right in place, no more handling until they go down in the basement.

I'm very happy with the design...

SR

 

[BoylermanCT]

I built pallets for my firewood so once split I can store them in a sunny spot to season and then use the tractor forks to move the close to the house before the snow flies. I am slowly switching from wooden pallets to metal IBC cages. Will last much longer!

 

[MMfrompa]

I think it all depends on many factors, like how much wood are you wanting to get out each year, what diameter are the logs, how far from the woods to the wood pile etc. Here is my system unless the rounds are real big then I take the splitter to the logs,