Good morning FHC! Happy Sunday, happy December, Advent is here! I hope everyone is doing well and staying warm wherever you are. It was a beautiful day yesterday in Northwest NJ. I had a little fun while splitting some ash. I took a round and quartered it. I took the first quarter before I decided to take picture and eventually post this. Nonetheless, you can see the diameter of the round being about 21”. The reason I say that is because I’m excluding the bark on the left side (1”). So how many pieces do you think? So here are the pieces after the 1st quarter. Below is after 2 quarters. Below is after the 3rd quarter. And below is after all 4 quarters. Had to give some love to my Fiskars. 44 pieces in total. I went slightly smaller pieces. Had a blast doing it. Hope you enjoyed. As always, burn on.
I love splitting big knot free rounds with my X27. Although i had some fresh cut ash about the same size i couldnt half. Had to use the maul. Nice looking wood and work sir
Thank you buZZsaw BRAD. Knot free is the way to go! I’m somewhat new to burning ash and let me say that I am hooked! Great wood to burn!
Looks like a nice day LumberJacked Your measures are great. It gives me some info about something I’ve wondered about but haven’t done any work to answer it. 21” in diameter is about 2.4 sq ft. You’ve split and stacked all of it and put the 27 up as a reference. Vent to snout, the 27 is 3 feet. Eyeballing the stack and mentally placing some of the top pieces in the gaps and then estimating the height of the stack to be a little less than half the 27, call it 16” or 1.33 sq ft; 3 ft long x 1.33 high gets you 4 sq ft. So, wood split is 1.67 time more firewood than it is timber. I’m not sure how useful that is, or accurate, but it’s something to think about. How old was the round anyway?
I thought it wood be. But I’m not sure how I’ll use it. What are your ideas? I suppose if I bought or sold log length fire wood I’d know what that was in cords given a length and an average diameter of a log.
Nice calculations M2theB. I will have to test that number of 1.67 with another trial in the near future. That round was from the middle of this past summer. I didn't check them with my moisture meter but they felt and sounded pretty dry. Regardless they will be next years heat.
Well said Canadian border VT. You're right, it is not fresh cut. It's from this past summer. Some nice ash.
Haha. Good point MikeInMa. We'll have to do some examples for everyone. The goal is to be able to get the volume of splits from the volume of the log before you split it. Theoretically, you'll be able to multiply the volume of the log by a number (right now it's 1.67, thanks M2theB) and get the volume of the split pieces before you split the log. Then, we should be able to figure out the volume of split and stacked wood from any tree, truck load, trailer load, or tri-axle load. How? We could set up an excel spreadsheet template where all you would have to do is input the diameter and length of a log or tree to get the volume of split and stacked firewood. Does that already exist? Let's see how we do.
Here's a chart to determine cordage yield for standing trees. I dont know how accurate it is as ive never tried it. I just felled a 15" DBH beech on Sunday. I have the rounds ready for splitting. Ill have to give it a try. Estimating Firewood from Standing Trees - UC ANR
I split the beech today. Did you see my thread A Beech Named Eileen! I think im gonna try to see how accurate that chart is using this tree.
