Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area

[Jere39]

In a different thread I posted pictures of a large Oak that came down across my utility lines severing power and phone. I'll get plenty firewood from that, but, probably not enough to pay the Electrical Contractor who had to re-set the utility pole and splice all the broken power lines. But, yesterday while transporting some of that oak from central driveway to a processing location I learned another smaller, dead Oak took the same windy opportunity to fall over. This one also did some damage, but had the good graces to fall right where I'll process it:



My grandson helped me inspect it. The ends will go back onto a brush pile, but the trunk of the tree is sound dead red.

 

[Otis B Knotknocker]

Eastern Washington buckskin tamarack..

 

[Woodchuckels]

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Thats really cool knoknocker!

 

[woodchuckcanuck]

 

[WeirWolf]

Nice yard woodchuck. What's the temp there?
I just bought a bc600xl Vermeer wood chipper for $2900, needed tlc, a new belt, came with 4 sets of new knives... So no more splitting for me for awhile. What I cannot chip I am bringing home to split


I put some cute stickers on the Vermeer

 

[woodchuckcanuck]

Nice yard woodchuck. What's the temp there?
I just bought a bc600xl Vermeer wood chipper for $2900, needed tlc, a new belt, came with 4 sets of new knives... So no more splitting for me for awhile. What I cannot chip I am bringing home to split
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I put some cute stickers on the Vermeer

Nice unit, good price. Temps here are hovering around 0ºC most of this winter. Snow comes then it melts. Comes and goes. Last few years been like that.

 

[WeirWolf]

Woodchuck what is that red piece of equipment that you have in your yard? Is that an auto splitter?

 

[mountainguyed67]

Woodchuck what is that red piece of equipment that you have in your yard? Is that an auto splitter?

Maybe one of these?

https://www.woodbeaver.net/

 

[WeirWolf]

Oh dang yeah you're right mountain guy ed. Very cool

 

[woodchuckcanuck]

Woodchuck what is that red piece of equipment that you have in your yard? Is that an auto splitter?

Hakki Pilki 37 Easy, good for blocking and splitting anything under 12 inches.

 

[WeirWolf]

Oh dang those are nice machines!

 

[mountainguyed67]

Hakki Pilki 37 Easy

Is this your video? The quad looks the same. Snow also.

 

[woodchuckcanuck]

Is this your video? The quad looks the same. Snow also.

Yes Detective , from a couple years back. That's when I first got it, learning how to use it. Can put them through faster than that now.

 

[mountainguyed67]

I thought Weir Wolf would like to see it.

 

[woodchuckcanuck]

Oh dang those are nice machines!

They can be fussy. If you have straight logs that are 8-12" diameter you can put through about 2 cord an hour over the top of the conveyour. That's not how we do it though. We stack it as it comes off the splitter. We buy our logs so we get what we get when it comes to quality. Logs can be between 3 and 20 inches. So between sorting and trimming, it takes about 2 hours (sometimes a little bit more if there are mechanical issues) to crack and stack one cord (4 crates). We don't do this full time, mostly to get the exercise.

 

[WeirWolf]

Nice, beautiful, flat and clean yard! When I go to my client's properties to split their wood it has usually already been bucked with poorly angled cuts, pieces to long... On steep slopes, in the bushes etc. We have a lot of white and black Oak here, some of the heaviest woods so it's a treat when they want me to split a pine, especially Cedar! Hope everyone has a great day! It's Friday

 

[EasyT]

In Florida, this is what we call a "mess a' wood."

 

[mountainguyed67]

In Florida, this is what we call a "mess a' wood."

Looks like a mess.

 

[woodchuckcanuck]

Nice, beautiful, flat and clean yard! When I go to my client's properties to split their wood it has usually already been bucked with poorly angled cuts, pieces to long... On steep slopes, in the bushes etc. We have a lot of white and black Oak here, some of the heaviest woods so it's a treat when they want me to split a pine, especially Cedar! Hope everyone has a great day! It's Friday

Any flat area on our property had to be created. Dirt from one area


had to be scooped over to fill in another area



It took the whole summer of afternoons and weekends to fill in that space all the way over to the far left.

 

[Jere39]

Sunny last day of February. I've got all my cut dead Oak is split and stacked.



Now, I have options: work up the big oak that fell taking out my utilities last week, or cut down another standing dead red oak. I doubt the oak that took out my utilities will be seasoned by next year. So, I believe I'll take down another dead oak.