How Long Should it Take to Produce a Cord of Wood?

[Gypo Logger]

When the wood and the customer are close it should take about 5hrs. If you dont have to split it. Im back to basics with a Honda Big Red trike and trailer and the wood is only 800 ft. away on the stump.
Under the same circumstances hardwood should take 4 hrs, as this spruce Im cutting is very limbey.
What time should it take.
Btw, I'm using a moded 266 that makes the trees piss their roots. Lol
John

 

[hanniedog]

Ya got to factor in chunking down all the hung up trees being a Gypo Logger.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Ya got to factor in chunking down all the hung up trees being a Gypo Logger.

Ya, there are lots of snags, blown downs and wind tossed trees, but take that in stride.
Trail making and clearing trails is also a factor as is taking a few breaks along the way. Lol

 

[Trx250r180]

If the logs are decked 30 min to buck hour to split,30 min to load the trailer,you may consider a hotrod stihl 440 hybrid if it takes 5 hours with a husky

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

From standing tree to dropped off at customer's house.... hard to say. The hardest work I have to do in the whole process is stacking the firewood in the dump truck, everything else I have machinery available to make it easier.

 

[KiwiBro]

Depends how hot she is.

 

[Gypo Logger]

I once did 3 cords in 45 minutes, but the wood was already blocked and I had a splitter with conveyor and 5 ton truck. Also had an extra hand. False economy this quadruple handling. Lol

 

[turnkey4099]

When the wood and the customer are close it should take about 5hrs. If you dont have to split it. Im back to basics with a Honda Big Red trike and trailer and the wood is only 800 ft. away on the stump.
Under the same circumstances hardwood should take 4 hrs, as this spruce Im cutting is very limbey.
What time should it take.
Btw, I'm using a moded 266 that makes the trees piss their roots. Lol
John

Too many variables. Species, how much brush, do you have to pile the brush, etc. Ihave never had the pleasure of being able to leave the brush where it falls. Usually figure about two hours clean-up to every hour spent actually cutting firewood.

Harry K

 

[toqua]

You guys are a lot better men then Me.I take longer then that.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Too many variables. Species, how much brush, do you have to pile the brush, etc. Ihave never had the pleasure of being able to leave the brush where it falls. Usually figure about two hours clean-up to every hour spent actually cutting firewood.

Harry K

I never hump brush or pile it unless I'm paid to do so. I just cut around as opposed to through. Brush is best strewn evenly throughout the bush.
I will take some pics of my bad haircut tomorrow. Lol

 

[esshup]

I once did 3 cords in 45 minutes, but the wood was already blocked and I had a splitter with conveyor and 5 ton truck. Also had an extra hand. False economy this quadruple handling. Lol

I'd like to see a video of this with the blocks being 16" length, 24"-40" diameter pin oak. The diameter of the trees has about as much to do with the time to split a cord than the species of tree. The extra hand makes it 1 1/2 hrs. Even so, I'd like to see that happen with a lot of the trees that I have here.

 

[muddstopper]

I think I can say with confidence that big wood doesnt mean faster production. I was splitting some 40" whiteoak today. Using a hydraulic splitter with adjustable 6way wedge and 5in cylinder it still worked my butt off. With 20-24in wood and a 6way wedge, you can produce a bunch of splits in a hurry. Even with a winch boom to handle the large 40in size rounds, you have to lower your wedge to only a 4way to prevent damage to the splitter. Then the splits all need resplitting and they are still heavy enough to need the boom to put them back on the splitter. Big wood just plain takes longer to process than small and medium size rounds, and are a back breaker to handle. Give me 16-20in dia rounds and I can process twice as much wood in the same time it takes me to process those big round, and not be half as tired doing it.

 

[olyman]

Ya, there are lots of snags, blown downs and wind tossed trees, but take that in stride.
Trail making and clearing trails is also a factor as is taking a few breaks along the way. Lol

with your barley pop breaks,, there is NO way youll make 4 hrs..maybe 14!!!!!!!

 

[svk]

Moving the wood always takes the most time.

• Felling/bucking goes pretty quick with a good saw. I'd say at most an hour per cord unless you get a hanger or have excessive limbs.
• Moving wood from stump to the road-big variable here.
• I use a rule of thumb of an hour per cord to split whether I'm using a Fiskars or Hydro. Granted you can split at that rate all day with hydro and only a few hours with an axe. And I'm normally splitting birch, aspen, maple, and ash. That makes it go fast.
• Tossing versus stacking the load. If I'm not going far it's faster to toss and make an extra trip.

I usually figure 4 hours per cord not counting drive time. Again I'm always scrounging my wood. Delivered logs would speed things up significantly.

Last fall I dropped a good sized aspen right next to the road and pulled the truck and hydro right next to it. From starting to saw for dropping the tree to having a half cord of splits in the truck was 25 minutes with two guys.