Splitters and Wood, show your pics!

Jstpssng · Mar 5, 2020

^^^^
Yes but I"m already eyeing next year's wood. Hopefully I will find time to get a year ahead this spring, or at least get it on the ground.

goeduck · Mar 5, 2020

I am getting close to shutting down the wood stove. Nighttime temperatures are still in the 30s, but as soon as they are in the mid 40s, down it goes. Daytime heat then mostly holds overnight. 20 cords split and stacked, the next 2 , 3 years are set.

deezler · Mar 6, 2020

Scut 4 Big Bucks said:
Well, I guess splitting wood is over for now. The temps look springy for southern WI.

No way, start on next years stash! I gotta get back to splitting, myself. I like to take the coldest part of winter off, and split mostly in the shoulder seasons when its cool but nice out, with no bugs!

fruitcakesa · Mar 6, 2020

deezler said:
No way, start on next years stash! I gotta get back to splitting, myself. I like to take the coldest part of winter off, and split mostly in the shoulder seasons when its cool but nice out, with no bugs!

That is my MO too, but till the mud passes, no splitting going on.

Gordon Gould · Mar 6, 2020

fruitcakesa said:
That is my MO too, but till the mud passes, no splitting going on.

Like wise. As the woods slowly dry out in April and May I work on my 2021/22 firewood in this nice dry sunny spot. Cut late last fall.

gg

Gordon Gould · Mar 6, 2020

Jstpssng said:
^^^^
Yes but I"m already eyeing next year's wood. Hopefully I will find time to get a year ahead this spring, or at least get it on the ground.

It is hard to get ahead especially when your not retired and there are so many other things that you need or want to do. Hopefully you don't learn the hard way how good it is to be ahead. It is worth the effort if you rely on wood.

gg

Jstpssng · Mar 6, 2020

Gordon Gould said:
It is hard to get ahead especially when your not retired and there are so many other things that you need or want to do. Hopefully you don't learn the hard way how good it is to be ahead. It is worth the effort if you rely on wood.

gg

To be honest, most of my wood right now comes from cleaning up wood yards after the trucking is done. I have a lot of yellow birch which isn't quite as dry as it should be. Even though it was cut in 2019 and 2018, I didn't get it cut and split until last fall. I have enough older,drier wood to get the fire going though, and just clean the chimney more often.

ChesapeakeBoy · Mar 6, 2020

BrokenTrack · Mar 8, 2020

I have the worst luck!

Back when we had very little for logging equipment, we had to put up 25 cords per year in all the stoves that we had. But now that we have a lot of equipment so that 90% of firewood processing is mechanized, we just burn wood pellets instead.

I cut enough tree length firewood last year in one day, to sell it to other firewood people, so that I could buy wood pellets to heat my own house for the heating season. (9 cords of treelength for 3 tons of wood pellets).

Everyone has their reasons for doing what they do, but that is a plan I am going to replicate next year. W have never been so warm, for so little money, so easily via work.

But in the interest of the topic: here is my upside down woodsplitter. It works by swinging over the cut up rounds, pinching it, then bringing it up over my dumpbody (not pictured) and then finish-splitting it. With a 4 way splitter, not many times dos it need a second split. When the dump trailer is full, at the wood shed, I would just dump the dumpbody, and then push the wood into it with the tractor bucket. It is the only woodsplitter I know with a reclining seat, lumbar support, and cup holder! (LOL)

fruitcakesa · Mar 8, 2020

The ground was frozen this morning, so I got the T1460 started and dragged the splitter out to the woodpile.
Most of the stuff I cut last fall was frozen in but I managed to knock a few free and continue splitting next years firewood.
I didn't get too far today, but the days are warming, ice is melting and the mud will hopefully recede quickly