Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area

[zogger]

A few piles beside the house, oak and cherry.

Looking good, nice combo! Another "laser level" stack job. Mine are a bit more "free form".

 

[Denis Gionet]

Denis ; am I OK if they are

bigger than 2' dia ?


Sitka spruce, 394 Husky 42" Windsor bar.

Yeah, you still suck. You just got bigger trees than us. HOLEY CRAPOLA ! And I always thought that was just a myth, trees big enough to be a load on their own for a log truck & trailer.

I did a cedar this summer that's about 300 years old, that was maybe, MAYBE 18" DBH, cut it for boards. I was super-impressed with its size and age, big wood just doesn't happen up here close to James Bay on the Ontario Trans-Canada Highway. A friend down around in Southern Ontario has some 4 footers around, and apparently they're not rare. Up here we're on the edge of the lowlands around James Bay, different topography and woodlands. Another 200km further North and trees are very tiny, due to the climate. I'd like to take a vacation to the Big Wood country and bring a 3120 and a 4 foot b/c just for snits & giggles !

I turned these ....

.... into this ....

.... and this.

The door has 4 hinges and swings like a bank vault door ....

Repped ya for the nice pic of the industrial sized wood ....


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[NHlocal]

pickupporter,
I hope you don't take this the wrong way but, um, you've got some nice "piles".....

 

[ri chevy]

Not sure how old it was, over 500 years old. Actually the pic is a ringer. The tree was on my strip partners strip right next to my strip. It was on Prince of Wales Is. In southeast Alaska. If I remember right we were cutting off the White Rock road kinda in the Naukity area. He fell it, hence the gross stump pull. I took the pics. .I've got pics of a lot bigger I've fell but didn't want to overdo it :msp_wink:

We didn't take many pics back then. As I remember that tree had around 8,000 nd ft in it, woods scale.

I think I now know where the earthquakes are coming from. Wow. I am sure the earth shakes when something like that hits the ground.

 

[BSD]

But the question remains...... How did you get the sticks on that trailer? :hmm3grin2orange:

these ones were loaded with a new holland 185 skid steer that we had on the job. unloaded with my Kubota L48 back at the yard. BTW, that's 22' of deck on that trailer.

 

[Wolfen]

If I get rounds that big it takes three of us ( two men and boy for real) to roll them into the back yard, and they get cut up with a chain saw into manageable sizes for my splitter, either that or I get mad and wack them with the maul till they submit to my will

 

[ri chevy]

these ones were loaded with a new holland 185 skid steer that we had on the job. unloaded with my Kubota L48 back at the yard. BTW, that's 22' of deck on that trailer.

Thanks. That is a big trailer. :msp_thumbup:

 

[Steve NW WI]

Indoor woodpile #2, an unused room in the back of the basement. I'm working on a wood chute to come in that window for easier filling. The big stack is .6 cords of elm, most of it a little to medium punky. On the right is .1 cord of ironwood, kept off to the side for those -30° nights.

Here's my kindling splitting area, with the new star of the show, X-7 Fiskars. That little puppy makes it so fun to split kindling, I've got to wonder what I'm gonna do with all the splitter trash I've saved I've never had a hatchet that worked so well or just felt as "right" as that one does. The piece of OSB under the tub protects the blade from the concrete if I screw up.

The ash tub, haven't dumped it yet this year, and I'm getting close to a 1/3 cord of pine "squarewood" burned. I have to dump ashes once or more a week with bark on hardwoods. I'm convinced most of the ash comes from the bark.

There's some cold but badly needed rain falling here today, I'm happy to have a little over a cord in the house and 4 more under cover outside, along with the 8+ cords out in the open in various states of seasoning.

 

[tramp bushler]

I think I now know where the earthquakes are coming from. Wow. I am sure the earth shakes when something like that hits the ground.

Sometimes it really does. But one of the arts of being a good Faller is to lay the good ones down nice and easy .. difinately don't want to break them. That tree, at that time sold for 4-6,000 $ along side the ship. The Faller made about 50$ for falling and bucking it.

 

[tramp bushler]

" Denis ; that looks awesome. Was it milled with a band mill or an Alaskan mill. ? It's White Cedar isn't it?
I like the Tundra also. About the handiest snow machine there is! !

 

[Rudedog]

Here's my kindling splitting area, with the new star of the show, X-7 Fiskars. That little puppy makes it so fun to split kindling, I've got to wonder what I'm gonna do with all the splitter trash I've saved I've never had a hatchet that worked so well or just felt as "right" as that one does. The piece of OSB under the tub protects the blade from the concrete if I screw up.

I have one of those too and it makes splitting kindling really fun. I just make sure I get any kindling work done before I have a beer so I can keep all of my fingers and toes.

 

[Denis Gionet]

" Denis ; that looks awesome. Was it milled with a band mill or an Alaskan mill. ? It's White Cedar isn't it?
I like the Tundra also. About the handiest snow machine there is! !

Yes, it's White Cedar. Milled with an Alaskan II, borrowed from a family friend. The 181 Husky I used was also borrowed, a friend at the lake offered it up. The 435 just wasn't quite up to the task when attached to the mill.

Oddly enough, I cut all the planks for the other 2 sides of the shed with the 435, by hand with no guide, just eyeballing it. The saw didn't seem to mind hand cutting the planks, but would stall the chain repeatedly with the mill attached. I'm going to try to make myself a semi-permanent guide that'll go directly on the bar, bolted on, rather than clamped, for portable milling in the bush, just for day trips.

The sled is actually a Safari Cheyenne, 503 fan, 16.5" track, anxious to try it in the deep snow (I can't believe I just said that ..... :bang:



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[ShaneLogs]

Nice mill and nice job, Denis Gionet. Love the ol' 181!

 

[marcomjl]

Indoor woodpile #2, an unused room in the back of the basement. I'm working on a wood chute to come in that window for easier filling. The big stack is .6 cords of elm, most of it a little to medium punky. On the right is .1 cord of ironwood, kept off to the side for those -30° nights.

Here's my kindling splitting area, with the new star of the show, X-7 Fiskars. That little puppy makes it so fun to split kindling, I've got to wonder what I'm gonna do with all the splitter trash I've saved I've never had a hatchet that worked so well or just felt as "right" as that one does. The piece of OSB under the tub protects the blade from the concrete if I screw up.

The ash tub, haven't dumped it yet this year, and I'm getting close to a 1/3 cord of pine "squarewood" burned. I have to dump ashes once or more a week with bark on hardwoods. I'm convinced most of the ash comes from the bark.

There's some cold but badly needed rain falling here today, I'm happy to have a little over a cord in the house and 4 more under cover outside, along with the 8+ cords out in the open in various states of seasoning.

I'm fairly convinced myself that hardwood bark accounts for 80% of my ashes also.

 

[Denis Gionet]

Nice mill and nice job, Denis Gionet. Love the ol' 181!

I love the 181 too ! I just wished it was mine, just the right size powerhead for milling, I'll never do any boards bigger than those. It'd just need a 24" bar and a ripping semi chisel chain for it, notice how the cut is really rough, that was with the full chisel chain I had available. Made do with what I had or borrowed.

If money doesn't buy happiness, it'd at least buy me a bigger saw and bar.... which I'd be happy to use ;-)

 

[tramp bushler]

Denis ; hands down the shortest bar I've ever seen on an Alaskan mill .. Did you have any challenges starting the 181 . They can be hard on hands if they have good compression. I don't know if the 435 is any higher proformance than the 235 ? I wouldn't want to do much milling with my wife's 235 . . But I think hers is kindof a lemon.

 

[Denis Gionet]

Denis ; hands down the shortest bar I've ever seen on an Alaskan mill .. Did you have any challenges starting the 181 . They can be hard on hands if they have good compression. I don't know if the 435 is any higher proformance than the 235 ? I wouldn't want to do much milling with my wife's 235 . . But I think hers is kindof a lemon.

Don't laugh, that's an 18 incher, the saw came with a 16" !!! They only put kindling bars on the saws way up here in the land of little sticks. And no, the 181 wasn't hard to start, and yes, it has PLENTY of compression. Never yanked back on me, I guess I gots me some shoulders ....

The 435 cuts really nice on firewood duty, probably on par with a 45-50cc homeowner saw, it keeps up to the BIL's 51. It did alright on the boards I handbombed (see below) but would just hang up in the cut with the mill. I don't think it's a lack of power (although it's only 41cc, so yeah, it lacks power anyway), as much as it was an alignment or drag issue with the mill attached. It seemed to grab on the return side of the chain, I never figured out what the issue was. You could tell it was warm (understatement) after an 8 foot run, but didn't have any negative side effects to date. The 181 had the snot to keep going anyway, even on a 14" board in a 300 year old tree, I just wish it had a good ripping chain, would have reduced the cutting time by half easily. The spots with knots were really long to get through, they were super-hard.

I've still got a cookie from that tree that I wanted to buff/sand to easily count the rings, gotta do that someday ...

Here's what the 435 thought of a 14 foot run of planks of big Cedar, by hand ...

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[ri chevy]

Sometimes it really does. But one of the arts of being a good Faller is to lay the good ones down nice and easy .. difinately don't want to break them. That tree, at that time sold for 4-6,000 $ along side the ship. The Faller made about 50$ for falling and bucking it.

Wow! Thanks for the update on that. I did not realize that trees were worth that much.

 

[NHlocal]

Hauled in two more loads of Red Oak today, after I finished cutting it all to 16" lengths. A one man wrecking crew. :hmm3grin2orange:
Now I'm tired and sore, time for sleep.....here's a few pics.

.....after load #4.....

.....after load #5.....

 

[ri chevy]

Real nice work there NHLocal!