Loaded truck pics.

@ Eric Schamell nailed it. Osage Orange, my Dad & brother had a fence line taken out last fall, I cut all the rootballs off & got it all limbed up, cleaned up all the debris & have finally started cutting fence posts out of the remains. Anything that won’t make a fence post is getting lopped up for firewood.

 

Another load of yellow wood this morning

 

My weekly haul. I have been hauled at least a cord out of this ranch every week since December. Somewhere around 27 cord since December. Sold a bunch, gave some away, have just over 9 cords ready for fall. Coming to an end for the year due to fire danger. Probably one more weekend. Kinda bittersweet, I live cutting but it’s getting up to 90* now. Just too damm hot. It will be 110 in the summers here, many times not dipping under 100 at night.

 

Not really a loaded truck but it will haul more weight. This is green elm.
Anyone have a formula for converting cubic yards to cords? It is a 4 yard bucket

 

Quick online search will give you cubic feet, which for a 4 cubic yard bucket is 108. Then take 108/128 which is roughly 0.84 cord. Nice little load for one bucket’s worth

 

Here is how I would do the math.

One yard= 3x3x3= 27
Then multiply by 4 because the bucket is 4 yards.

27x 4= 108
Ok now a cord is 128 cubic feet. So the next step would be.

108÷128= .84375 cord.

Now its unsplit but it gets a pretty close idea. I think that when you have loose wood as opposed to ranked tightly you lose about 20%.

So I would then .84375 cord x .71= .59906 cord

That just my take...

I see Eric beat me to it.

 

I like your explanation better though

 

Thank you Eric,

My 20% was off now that i looked it up. 180 cubic feet of loose thrown wood will be 128 cubic ranked wood. Or very close. So the ending multiplier would be .71 instead of .8.

 

Didn't get a load of wood this weekend. I picked up a Grizzly 7x12 horizontal bandsaw with 5 blades, and 2-55 gallon drums from a machine shop. 2-2 ton beam trolleys, a 125 cf CO/argon bottle, and 300+ pounds of steel from a scrap yard. It's been a good shop equipment weekend.

 

Wow ...thanks guys! I was really kinda just smart ashing. Gotta be careful what you ask about here at FHC

 

What species is it ?
Some of the rounds look like Sitka Cypress ( yellow cedar )

 

Wow ! Major score !

 

Osage Orange, I am cutting fence posts, whatever doesn’t make posts is firewood.

 

That's what I did with the fire killed white spruce.

 

Had a burr oak fall on the side of the road 1/4 mile from the house. Finally got ahold of the new homeowner, and he didn’t want anything to do with it. So this is the 4th load, and only 7 rounds that all got noodled so I could pick them up. So far I have 2 totes filled, but working on more.

 

It was said earlier that 4 yards is 108 cubic feet.

 

Load #5: just 3 rounds noodled to reduce weight

 

Now thats what i call a load of firewood! Nicely done Jason (and dad?)