Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area

[owbguy]

I see you have a "bloodwood" model. Would you comment on the quoted 6 second cycle time? Is it that fast?

6 seconds is with a 24" stroke, I believe. Mine has a 30" stroke and is 8 seconds. I don't recall the exact time, but I did test the timing a bunch to be sure. Seems like it was just under 8 seconds. I'll check again when I'm splitting and remember to do it. It is fast.

 

[Hedgerow]

6 seconds is with a 24" stroke, I believe. Mine has a 30" stroke and is 8 seconds. I don't recall the exact time, but I did test the timing a bunch to be sure. Seems like it was just under 8 seconds. I'll check again when I'm splitting and remember to do it. It is fast.

I have eyeballed those for a while... Look to be very well built...

 

[marcomjl]

6 seconds is with a 24" stroke, I believe. Mine has a 30" stroke and is 8 seconds. I don't recall the exact time, but I did test the timing a bunch to be sure. Seems like it was just under 8 seconds. I'll check again when I'm splitting and remember to do it. It is fast.

I've been looking for a splitter to model my own after and I like the muscle or bloodwood models. They look nice.

 

[owbguy]

This is an old dried elm round going through the 6-way wedge

 

[hardpan]

LOL, never heard it called that before but I certainly like it. I have found this to be a very effective and fast way to get the wood to dry out. Its right around 75 cords and I hope to have it all gone by Christmas.

I have never tried that style of stacking/piling. If it remained in those piles for 3 - 5 years what do you suppose the pieces in the middle and on the bottom would look like? Many years ago a friend tried the "teepee" style and said it worked well but I can't remember if it was off the ground or covered or only a 1 year experiment.

 

[jrider]

I have never tried that style of stacking/piling. If it remained in those piles for 3 - 5 years what do you suppose the pieces in the middle and on the bottom would look like? Many years ago a friend tried the "teepee" style and said it worked well but I can't remember if it was off the ground or covered or only a 1 year experiment.

Don't know and don't intend to find out. The longest it ever hangs around is 18 months. I would imagine the stuff on the ground would be on its way out but the stuff in the middle gets plenty of air flow in piles this size yet none of the rainfall so I imagine it would be great.

 

[Gjt1980]

My little stock pile

 

[terryknight]

My little stock pile

so straight and neat :msp_thumbup:

 

[ri chevy]

Nice. They look like cord piles.

 

[zogger]

Day two swamp hickory

Well, I left about 7 feet or so on the stub and cut the tree off the rootball. Cut it there because i had some room under it to cut. That boy stood up fast, whomp! It can remain there, too, either resprout or go back into the natural swamp eco-system......

stub

So the remaining big log I chained up and tried to drag it up and out..jokeski! Tractor goes "no way man"..grumble..shin deep clay mud has zeero traction....cut it into thirds then, managed after much rookie junior logging and rigging action work to get two of the three chunks dragged out. Cut up one and a half of those chunks and got them home, I am *tired*. The tires on that trailer are wuss, so I stopped cutting and loading there (handy because I was wussing out too at that point...). Doesn't look it, but that's a much heavier load than that branch wood load I got yesterday. Loaded that guy in a "dry" area.....

day two score

I forgot two things today, one, my back brace, two, forgot how freeking HEAVY green wet hickory is. These rounds were my absolute limit on picking up and getting them onto the trailer. the rest, seeing as how I can't get to the last third, the big stuff, with my chain, I'll have to cut to size, bust those into quarters where they are, and hump them out by hand.

Luckily after that I have several mambo trees all with much easier access...This is just as much fun to me as getting the wood to burn. I was determined to get that nice hickory out of that swamp.

 

[H-Ranch]

This one doesn't hurt my neck so much! Nice stacks by the way. :msp_thumbup:

 

[Gjt1980]

Sorry about the crooked pic. I started selling a little wood last year and sold it from a pile and i was worried about shorting people so i ended up getting shorted, so now they are measured all are a little over a face cord just to keep people happy and coming back.

 

[redprospector]

A few piles.

Andy

 

[zogger]

last load hickory

Finished up that hickory this afternoon. It was MUCH easier busting and noodling the rounds up into quarters and halves beore humping them uphill and into the trailer. Still heavy but really..I ain't 20 years old anymore.... I DID remember my back brace today, that surely helps. Hickory is no joke dense heavy wood!

Next tree I think I am going back to oak, a big one knocked down where the boss is digging dirt to pack around the clucker houses, but after that I have a flock of assorted in a group near this hickory I have to fell and take, they are too close to the broiler house and the large propane tank. Beaucoup, as in lots, bunches, a whole big pile, with a nice tractor access road right into the middle of them! Couple dozen trees many of them quite large. Gotta love them swamp trees, man they grow! More shagbark, some white oak, some red, some elm, and some standing dead mystery trees, I think some oak some gum.

Here's today's score. I think all told I got 1.25 to 1.50, around there, cord from that tree. Hickory seems to be twice the work of oak. Certainly much harder to split, I had to cut a kerf and sledge and wedge them in half, then noodle into quarters. Oak I can just blast with the fiskars, any size, green or dry, usually anyway.

 

[KiwiBro]

A few piles.

Thanks. how are you loading that lot out? Digger with a bucket?

 

[NHlocal]

Finally finished stacking what got hauled up to my woodshed, looks like I'm gonna need at least another cord.....

 

[Customcuts]

Bark scraps

View attachment 257048What's everyone doing with the the leftover bark and small scrap pieces leftover from splitting? I was just wondering if there is anything useful to do with it besides dumping it with the brush? View attachment 257047View attachment 257049
I plan on selling the big knotty pieces as camping wood at a discounted price as I have past couple years. Also wha has anyone found anything wierd in logs while being split?

 

[zogger]

Finally finished stacking what got hauled up to my woodshed, looks like I'm gonna need at least another cord.....

Yep, another cord! Then after that..another woodshed! Then more cords, then more sheds...

FAD is worse than CAD. CAD you just throw money and bench time at it, FAD involves work! BWAHAHAHAHA wicked fun though..can't say any other job I have ever done is as much fun as getting firewood. I don't golf, watch TV outside of the weather and pop a movie in, so no sports, don't do nascar races, football, etc. Nuthin. I cut wood. Go catch some bass a few times a year, and stopped hunting a long time ago, have no need for it anymore, have all the meat I want. So..besides my pets, I have TREES here the boss needs cutting or doesn't care if I cut, all I want,, so chainsaws and cutting wood is the big hobby.

Sometimes I feel like a piker compared to the guys who cut "pro" or "semi pro" and have and use a lot of heavy equipment to work and process mass quantitites, but..as a hobby, I am just maintaining the fun and good exercise angle. I have to do some good physical work therapy all the time or I will cripple up and..well.that's it, not be able to do anything. If I don't work my back, it will fail, sucks. On going "keep the back functional" stuff. As a hobby, I can do as little or as much as I want, when I want, take breaks when I want and need them. Beats paying money to go to some gym! If it was a day to day job..dunno, not sure how long that would last before it went from fun to drudgery. I guess, if it was limited to say two cords a week, with a little bit more mechanization it would be OK.

 

[NHlocal]

Yep, another cord! Then after that..another woodshed! Then more cords, then more sheds...

FAD is worse than CAD. CAD you just throw money and bench time at it, FAD involves work! BWAHAHAHAHA wicked fun though..can't say any other job I have ever done is as much fun as getting firewood. I don't golf, watch TV outside of the weather and pop a movie in, so no sports, don't do nascar races, football, etc. Nuthin. I cut wood. Go catch some bass a few times a year, and stopped hunting a long time ago, have no need for it anymore, have all the meat I want. So..besides my pets, I have TREES here the boss needs cutting or doesn't care if I cut, all I want,, so chainsaws and cutting wood is the big hobby.

Sometimes I feel like a piker compared to the guys who cut "pro" or "semi pro" and have and use a lot of heavy equipment to work and process mass quantitites, but..as a hobby, I am just maintaining the fun and good exercise angle. I have to do some good physical work therapy all the time or I will cripple up and..well.that's it, not be able to do anything. If I don't work my back, it will fail, sucks. On going "keep the back functional" stuff. As a hobby, I can do as little or as much as I want, when I want, take breaks when I want and need them. Beats paying money to go to some gym! If it was a day to day job..dunno, not sure how long that would last before it went from fun to drudgery. I guess, if it was limited to say two cords a week, with a little bit more mechanization it would be OK.

Well said. :msp_thumbup:
I don't know about it being a hobby but it does keep me from burning oil to heat the house(which I can't afford anyway), and I really do enjoy the work. As you said, if I had to do it "full time" I don't know if my body would hold up, and I'm not sure it would be quite as enjoyable. But I still love the work.(FAD!) :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[russhd1997]

Yep, another cord! Then after that..another woodshed! Then more cords, then more sheds...

FAD is worse than CAD. CAD you just throw money and bench time at it, FAD involves work! BWAHAHAHAHA wicked fun though..can't say any other job I have ever done is as much fun as getting firewood. I don't golf, watch TV outside of the weather and pop a movie in, so no sports, don't do nascar races, football, etc. Nuthin. I cut wood. Go catch some bass a few times a year, and stopped hunting a long time ago, have no need for it anymore, have all the meat I want. So..besides my pets, I have TREES here the boss needs cutting or doesn't care if I cut, all I want,, so chainsaws and cutting wood is the big hobby.

Sometimes I feel like a piker compared to the guys who cut "pro" or "semi pro" and have and use a lot of heavy equipment to work and process mass quantitites, but..as a hobby, I am just maintaining the fun and good exercise angle. I have to do some good physical work therapy all the time or I will cripple up and..well.that's it, not be able to do anything. If I don't work my back, it will fail, sucks. On going "keep the back functional" stuff. As a hobby, I can do as little or as much as I want, when I want, take breaks when I want and need them. Beats paying money to go to some gym! If it was a day to day job..dunno, not sure how long that would last before it went from fun to drudgery. I guess, if it was limited to say two cords a week, with a little bit more mechanization it would be OK.

Well said. :msp_thumbup:
I don't know about it being a hobby but it does keep me from burning oil to heat the house(which I can't afford anyway), and I really do enjoy the work. As you said, if I had to do it "full time" I don't know if my body would hold up, and I'm not sure it would be quite as enjoyable. But I still love the work.(FAD!) :hmm3grin2orange:

I have to agree with you guys. Cutting firewood is one of my favorite outdoor activities. The other is making maple syrup. Both are great exercise and get you into the woods. I guess it runs in the family. My father and grandfather both enjoyed cutting wood and making maple syrup too.

NHlocal I can't afford the heating oil either. I like to be comfortable in my own house and just keep putting the wood to the OWB and keep the thermostat where I want it.

I need your woodshed beside my OWB. I have planning to build one like that but haven't been able to find the time when I have the funds and can't find the funds when I have the time.