Our Firewood Operation Pics

[Nailsbeats]

Here's some more shots of the 15 facecord we had left to put up today.
We had up to 11 people at one time, made quick work of it.


This is the 64' shed we finished up yesterday.

The guys fillings the second shed.

Log pile of stuff my uncle skidded up off the river bottom.

Log trailer.

Clam in action.

Setting up a cutting station.

 

[Nailsbeats]

The 64' shed finished.

Here's me cuttin with my 460.

Mandatory a$$ shot, lol.

Good saw storage, so it doesn't get run over.

Some saws and gear.

Our other splitter. We bought the splitter and built the trailer under it.

 

[Nailsbeats]

My skidsteer, homemade grapples and trailer. Brother built the flatbed on the truck, Cummins power.

Job finnished, beautiful.

 

[Nailsbeats]

Nailsbeats,

You don't mess around. That is a lot of wood. Great group effort.

If I remember correctly you built a couple of woodsheds at your place. Filled them with a big a$$ trailer and a contraption you called a cordmaster or something like that. You sure aren't afraid of a "little" work.

Unfortunately my team consist of a couple of saws, wedges and me and my pickup.

Thank you and you are correct. My brother just built a 27' gooseneck trailer that grosses at 20,000 lbs for hauling his John Deere 440B skidder. We also have a good friend Chaz, who is the tall guy in the first pictures I posted, who has the same type of trailer. We can put a 24', 27' and 30' goosenecks on the road for hauling if we have to. The Cordmaster didn't make it to this job, though it would have been nice for the high stacking.

My sheds are about 1 1/3 full, about 80 face cord out of 120 total. We will focus on filling them now, shouldn't take long, we have a lot of wood to go after.

Big or small operation doesn't matter, the effort is where the value lies. We started the same way.

 

[husky455rancher]

it must be great having all that heavy equipment to work with. looks like you got it pretty streamlined man nice job.

 

[cabinman]

6x36 ram????

Went down to the sheds today with a crew of guys to hammer out 2 semi loads of firewood. The sheds are owned by my dad and his brother and hold 200 face cord of firewood. We had 15 guys at one point, work was scheduled from 6 to noon, with a cookout to close the deal.



Uncle Bill's Rig for bringing the logs to the cutters.

Some saws and gear in my Bro's aluminum trailer he built.

The woodsplitter we built. 6"x36" ram, 18 twin Honda engine, 28 gpm pump.

Some campfire wood stacked in the TP fashion.

My brother sharpening on our homemade custom sharpening bench. We have a few of these that quikpin together.

Brother putting on a cuttin clinic with his 372.

Help me out here,.. Why a 6x36 in ram??? Iam jugleing the rams I have and cant make sence of using a 6 in dia ram for the rason its gona be slow,,even with my diesel,.... Eric

 

[Nailsbeats]

It's not slow with a 28 gpm pump. It is quite a bit faster than our splitter with the 5" ram.

 

[dolmen]

Nailsbeats, hats off to you and the team, great work and great outfit. I wonder about the 'Push me Pull you' log splitter? Thanks for sharing the pics

Cheers

 

[Zodiac45]

Well done Nails,

Nothing like a good team effort too keep everyone hustling too. Sort of like the military, no one wants to be the slacker so everyone keeps busy. Outstanding haul.

 

[NC Firewood]

Hard Work

That's a good deal of wood, especially by hand, have you figured up how many cord per hr. you can split with 11 people? That would be interesting. With my small business I'm paying 2 guys a couple days a week to saw and split. I know you said your dad burned some and gave some away, but what are your profit margins after you paid all those people? I've got some good friends, but I'd be in the negative for sure if I had to pay all those workers. Still, I commend you for splitting it the old fashioned way.

 

[b1rdman]

Nice job Nails...looks like the lot of you made quick work of a lot of wood.

I do, however, wish people would stop using the term facecords. You had pics so it wasn't so bad but without the pics it's useless information (unless you throw in the 3rd dimension).

 

[Nailsbeats]

A few people get bent out of shape about "facecords", it's no different than any other measurement as long as it is specified, example: 4'x8'x20", simple.
If it was a worthless term then it would never have been invented and would not still be used a lot today. It is "the" term around here when talking about cut firewood.

Nobody got paid, we are friends and family and help each other out, one hand washes the other.

 

[cabinman]

It's not slow with a 28 gpm pump. It is quite a bit faster than our splitter with the 5" ram.

Nail, I picked up a 5x36 in last week ,I want to use on my new splitter, but I got the job of setting up a 5 yard dump, tues and It needs a ram,...Ill keep lookin for another ram I think 5 in is more power than Ill ever need, 99,9 per of the time,... Nice pics good work,...Eric

 

[Nailsbeats]

5" ram is plenty, just keep your wedge narrow and it will split good size stuff.

 

[b1rdman]

A few people get bent out of shape about "facecords", it's no different than any other measurement as long as it is specified, example: 4'x8'x20", simple.
If it was a worthless term then it would never have been invented and would not still be used a lot today. It is "the" term around here when talking about cut firewood.

Nobody got paid, we are friends and family and help each other out, one hand washes the other.

Yep...you hit the nail on the head. 8 x 4 is superfluous but if you don't throw in that 20" you haven't really said much.

On a good day I can cut, split, and stack 2 face cords of 4 footers. I'd probably get laughed out of AS pretty quick if I made a big deal of "doing 2 facecords by myself in one day".

 

[woodfarmer]

stacked wood is the only way to go, it will not dry properly if just piled
NC speaking of stacked, nice pick of the gf, i mean splitter

 

[STLfirewood]

stacked wood is the only way to go, it will not dry properly if just piled

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I don't agree with that. I don't have any trouble with wood drying when I pile it. It won't dry as fast but it will dry. My customers all say it burns fine. Sorry to hijack thread.

Scott

 

[clearance]

Good on you guys. That grapple setup your uncle has on his Cat is very cool.

 

[mtfallsmikey]

I'm impressed!!!..Still a little too hot here in Va. for that, but the Rotten Stump Logging co. is gearing up!

 

[Ozzie]

You show a picture of wood skidded from the river bottom. Do you handle it any differently from the other wood? I've got access to quite a bit of wood from the Wabash River bottoms near me, but have shied away due to sand, dirt etc. Nice process you folks have put together.