Time to stack wood

[lockhaven]

I guess it depends on the part of the country you are in and the type of wood. Oaks store water in the trunk, lots of it. By cutting a tree in full foliage and just that laying it down nothing more. The leaves will continue to use the water stored in the trunk until it is all gone then the leaves wilt and dry up. Most all of the water is gone. This is evident while splitting, even trees dead for years with intact bark water will be seen being pressed out of the wood. Trees cut with full leaves do not show as much water if any. Like I said maybe different types of trees farther north drain all the water before the big freeze.

 

[MacLawn]

I cut and stacked some last week. Used my new Stihl MS251. Had new fireplace put in last year and it takes only up to 16" pieces, so I had to recut some! But, that thing puts out the heat using very little wood! Love it. I've got a heap of dead dogwood, that is the best firewood I've ever used! Of course, one doesn't usually say, hey, let's go cut some dogwood!

 

[RobertBrown]

5 loads like this made the Saturday of the labour day weekend live up to its name. It will take me a while to chunk it up, but this will last me a couple of years and I won't actually burn any of these until next winter. My furnace will burn round logs no problem, so the only splitting that I have to do is enough to make sure I always have a few of sticks to light the fire and make a few coals. Ones that first batch of split ones has burned halfway down, I cna just feed round ones in from that point. :thumbsup:

That trailer is dang spiffy......I've never seen one like it.....no suspension, but a steering link. Good on flat ground and holds a lot of weight.

 

[boltz]

Is trailer, hay wagon style running gear? Just bought a running gear from an old hay wagon and put new floor, beams and tires on it. Loaded 5 cords freshly cut and split maple on it and am going to pull it around to deck in front of house so that I don't have carry fire wood up stairs in winter. Still have room for a 2-2 1/2 more cord, but floor has quite a wow at outside edge, so may just lower piles and be sensible with weight. Used hemlock beams turned on their sides, but floor was what ever I could scrounge up from old barn boards. Zing's wagon looks pretty good though.

 

[CobyRupert]

5 loads like this made the Saturday of the labour day weekend live up to its name. It will take me a while to chunk it up, but this will last me a couple of years and I won't actually burn any of these until next winter. My furnace will burn round logs no problem, so the only splitting that I have to do is enough to make sure I always have a few of sticks to light the fire and make a few coals. Ones that first batch of split ones has burned halfway down, I cna just feed round ones in from that point. :thumbsup:

Have you put a log through the rear window yet?

 

[zing]

That trailer is dang spiffy......I've never seen one like it.....no suspension, but a steering link. Good on flat ground and holds a lot of weight.

Wow, lotsa questions all of a sudden.

It is just a hay wagon frame with the tube at the bottom shrunk in to about as small as it will go. Then a plywood deck and some 4x4 uprights. It isn't even mine, to be honest. My neighbour owns it but doesn't have room to store it indoors so he asked me if it could go into my equipment shed, then said "use it all you want, if I need it I will come get it." He is a pretty great neighbor, even before the wagon arrived.

 

[zing]

Is trailer, hay wagon style running gear? Just bought a running gear from an old hay wagon and put new floor, beams and tires on it. Loaded 5 cords freshly cut and split maple on it and am going to pull it around to deck in front of house so that I don't have carry fire wood up stairs in winter. Still have room for a 2-2 1/2 more cord, but floor has quite a wow at outside edge, so may just lower piles and be sensible with weight. Used hemlock beams turned on their sides, but floor was what ever I could scrounge up from old barn boards. Zing's wagon looks pretty good though.

Yep, exactly. A hay wagon. 5 cords is a lot of space and a lot of weight, must be some wagon!

 

[zing]

Have you put a log through the rear window yet?

Bounced a couple off of it but nothing that became a passenger yet.

This is a couple years supply, so I don't have to do it very often. I have been thinking about a headache rack for the truck for a while, mostly as a tie down point for hay and lumber, but I haven't pulled the trigger yet because I normally have a tonneau cover on.

 

[SPIKER]

I helped drag out 2 pickup loads of wood today with a local guy who worked as same place I DID. He just bought the place down from me and I have the woods with plenty of downed usable wood. let him have it for 60 bucks and was well over a cord along with my tractor and labor for 3 hours so was a bargain...


Mark

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I'm about a half day short of finishing my bucking and splitting for this year. This'll be my first year using a wood stove, so I hope with our relatively mild winters, ten cords will be enough. Once it starts raining the little road back to the wood piles gets too slick for the tractor, and I need it to pull the logs out before I can limb them and buck them to length. But it's a good feeling to see all that wood stacked up neatly on the pallets and all ready to go, and know I won't be out suffering in the summer heat swinging the chain saw around. At least until next Spring...