That's about what I said! I've been practicing social distancing since the 90's!
Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area
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I’m stuck inside because of rain, but we’ve gone a long time without precipitation so I can’t complain. Yesterday I was pulling weeds in the garden, and the dirt was so dry that it was just dropping off of the roots. Now it’s soaked.
What is this tool you’re holding, and is it any good?
In Michigan I pay $2,100. for 20 cord of 100" oak logs.
I'm guessing it is trucked about 80 - 100 miles one way, as the logging sites change during the year, and year to year depending on their contracts.
Logs, time (road time, loading and unloading time), and mileage adds up.
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How much do you charge for processed firewood? $300 per cord?
Me too. I loaded six dump trailers, four for me, two for my buddy. Still have at least one day to go. Hopefully several more days. I got a little screwed on this deal. My buddy’s wife works with the home owner. They had about thirty big Oaks go down in a storm. Two hangers, the rest on the ground. I told them I’d work for $250 a day till done plus whatever Mike needs. He said he would just take a load of wood a day. Then when we got in the truck he said, I hope you left some cash in there for me too? Now I’m working for $150 and he gets $100. Still OK to get paid to haul out straight Oak logs and leave every thing else where it lays.
Brownthumb
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I split under the carport and the wife and girls stack on the porch. When the porch fills up I fill the carport.
By the time that's cut and split that's about 50 face cord, correct?
Probably boring many of you folks, but we are working from home during the virus threat, and two of my best (and only) helpers are pretty proud of this pile. We hauled the last load of it out of the woods today, and the taller one did the tractor steering:
My kids loved helping when they were that age.
My homemade rig to lift large items 
Price per cord. I charge $300.
50/3 = 16.666 cord. That's very close. I get about 16 that I sell, and some good shorts and punky, dirty junk that gets bundled on pallets and we burn ourselves. I figure 16 per 20 cord truckload.
Years ago on AS, Curly Cherry did a bench top example.
He cut dowels and stacked in proportional racks.
He then split them and re-stacked.
The result was an increase in volume.
In my opinion this result is correct.
However...it misses the logs to rounds factors. And of course logs are much different than dowels.
May of 2014 I did a logs to rounds, and rounds to splits based on two cords. I shared it on AS in a thread but do not have a clue which one.
Nor do I remember the numbers.
I do remember logs to rounds was a loss of one, to one and a half, face cord (face cord being 1/3 cord).
Rounds to splits was a gain (as Curly Cherry has shown) from there, but no where near the full two cord.
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An old butchering tripod, re-purposed to move 9 cairns from my Dad's place. Switched to a come-along for the lifting
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johnnyballs
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Northerner
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got some tamarack cut up today. Next comes the real work putting the fiskars to work.
What did you use to grind the stumps? Rented something? I have some stumps the loader won’t push out, haven’t decided what I’m going to do about it.
Do you sell them the logs? Or pay them to mill the wood? Or?
I have two California black oak logs that are oval from 30 to 35 inches (at the biggest end), each is 12 feet long. I plan to take them to the sawmill once enough snow is gone that he can get in there.
I have two California black oak logs that are oval from 30 to 35 inches (at the biggest end), each is 12 feet long. I plan to take them to the sawmill once enough snow is gone that he can get in there.
