Summer break ends

[jrider]

Some of you may remember my thread in June titled first day of summer break. Well tomorrow marks the last day and I'm spending it down the shore with the family. I didn't work as much as I usually do but I got a bigger faster splitter and was able to spend more time with the kids. I also had a 4 day workshop for a new class I'm teaching this year (AP environmental science) and the wife and I spent 6 days in Antigua. The long piles are 16" splits and are either all oak or mixed hardwood. The small pile is short cutoffs I sell to a few guys with small stoves. The 3 pallets are 20-24" pieces cr a couple guys with larger fireplaces. The logs pictured is what I didn't get to yet...probably 10 cords max. The wood stored under cover is uglies for my OWB. Looking at around 90 cords of wood to be sold. It's a down year for me but that's ok. Delivery season starts in a few weeks and I already have 27 cords ordered. This should be gone by Halloween.

 

[chucker]

makes for a more enjoyable winter for sure!

 

[svk]

Well done

 

[avason]

I have summer off too but was a lot lazier than you. I’ll start splitting some wood for my owb today after seeing this. Nice Job!!

 

[Ryan A]

Best of luck to all the teachers this school year. I start my fourth year in my current role teaching Autism Support

 

[jrider]

Best of luck to all the teachers this school year. I start my fourth year in my current role teaching Autism Support

18th year for me.

 

[Ryan A]

If you don't mind me asking, are you paying for the local tree guy for delivered loads? I am a MUCH smaller operation and sell about 5 cords a year. Always willing to learn from guys like you who have been in the game much longer...

I typically teach extended school year (ESY) in the summer. If you are looking for extra help in the summer, keep me in mind. I'm right over the bridge in the suburbs of Philly.....

 

[sb47]

I started putting seasoned wood into dry storage this week. Gonna put back about 5 cords for myself, everything else I'll sell.

 

[jrider]

If you don't mind me asking, are you paying for the local tree guy for delivered loads? I am a MUCH smaller operation and sell about 5 cords a year. Always willing to learn from guys like you who have been in the game much longer...

I typically teach extended school year (ESY) in the summer. If you are looking for extra help in the summer, keep me in mind. I'm right over the bridge in the suburbs of Philly.....

I get quite a bit from tree guys. Sometimes I pay, sometimes I don't. If I do pay it's never more than $100 for a grapple truck which will hold up to 3 cords. For every 10 tree guys I contact, probably 1 comes through.

 

[Guswhit]

Well done! Hope your summer helpers worked out okay for you. My wife just started back to school as well, 21 years-elementary special ed. I can take a vacation now that she's not planning my off time! LOL

 

[lknchoppers]

jrider, so how are you liking that new splitter, looks nice.

 

[jrider]

jrider, so how are you liking that new splitter, looks nice.

I'm really liking the splitter...my back especially. I used to come home and have my 7 year old walk on my back daily. This summer I only asked a handful of times. And the speed of it is something. I can keep 1 guy darn near running.

 

[jrider]

Well done! Hope your summer helpers worked out okay for you. My wife just started back to school as well, 21 years-elementary special ed. I can take a vacation now that she's not planning my off time! LOL

My good helpers took very extended vacations and I hardly saw them. I had to break in a few newbies which isn't much fun. One lasted 2 hours.

 

[Marine5068]

View attachment 672437 View attachment 672438 View attachment 672439 View attachment 672440 View attachment 672441 View attachment 672442 View attachment 672443 View attachment 672444 Some of you may remember my thread in June titled first day of summer break. Well tomorrow marks the last day and I'm spending it down the shore with the family. I didn't work as much as I usually do but I got a bigger faster splitter and was able to spend more time with the kids. I also had a 4 day workshop for a new class I'm teaching this year (AP environmental science) and the wife and I spent 6 days in Antigua. The long piles are 16" splits and are either all oak or mixed hardwood. The small pile is short cutoffs I sell to a few guys with small stoves. The 3 pallets are 20-24" pieces cr a couple guys with larger fireplaces. The logs pictured is what I didn't get to yet...probably 10 cords max. The wood stored under cover is uglies for my OWB. Looking at around 90 cords of wood to be sold. It's a down year for me but that's ok. Delivery season starts in a few weeks and I already have 27 cords ordered. This should be gone by Halloween.

Wow....90 cords is a lot.....I was gonna ask if you sell it or are heat a host of barns with it...lol. Amazing site to see nonetheless.
I hope you tell people that they should be buying the wood for NEXT years burning and not this year.
Even piled outside the wood doesn't start to really get seasoned until it it stacked and needs one to two years before burning, but you know all this.
Most amateur wood burners around me burn wet wood and risk their lives and family's lives by doing so not to mention throwing money out the window, or should I say up the chimney.
Curious but how much is a cord of hardwood there now?

 

[jrider]

All of that wood will be sold before thanksgiving. You would be surprised how well the wood seasons out in the field when you get 30+ days of 90 degrees plus. Been doing it this way a little over 20 years now and could sell 3 times the amount of wood I can process.

 

[lknchoppers]

While it's nice to season firewood for a year or two it's not real practical when you are selling 100+ cords every year. In NC here we have hot weather day after day and it does season pretty quick. Once the wood hits 25% moisture content it's good enough for outdoor fire pits, outdoor fire places and regular fireplaces. That is where the majority of people around here use firewood. What model is that Timberwolf? TW5 or TW6.

 

[jrider]

While it's nice to season firewood for a year or two it's not real practical when you are selling 100+ cords every year. In NC here we have hot weather day after day and it does season pretty quick. Once the wood hits 25% moisture content it's good enough for outdoor fire pits, outdoor fire places and regular fireplaces. That is where the majority of people around here use firewood. What model is that Timberwolf? TW5 or TW6.

TW6 Bought it used end of December last year...It had 22 hours on it and it was just over 3 years old. Garage kept.

 

[lknchoppers]

TW6 Bought it used end of December last year...It had 22 hours on it and it was just over 3 years old. Garage kept.

Looks great, I couldn't find a TW6 in my area that I liked, I just picked up an ALLWOOD splitter last week that is 4 years old and garage kept as well, it's still like new. It has a log lift and a great working height, my back is loving it. Split a cord of big oak rounds the other day and I wasn't even tired.

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

I've never had a chance to stockpile! Had planned on taking ~2 weeks "off" in July to put together another dumptruck, but never got caught up enough.

Right now around 70 cords behind on orders.

Dealing with "polite" people demanding things gets very old. Sorry you waited to the last minute, but I don't have a magic wand!

Typically lots of rain in the fall here. I have some wood in vented FIBCs. They dried well in summer, but turned all moldly from the rain. Working on covers for the bags.

 

[jrider]

I've never had a chance to stockpile! Had planned on taking ~2 weeks "off" in July to put together another dumptruck, but never got caught up enough.

Right now around 70 cords behind on orders.

Dealing with "polite" people demanding things gets very old. Sorry you waited to the last minute, but I don't have a magic wand!

Typically lots of rain in the fall here. I have some wood in vented FIBCs. They dried well in summer, but turned all moldly from the rain. Working on covers for the bags.

70 cords behind....how many do you sell a year? Is it full time for you?