I found this wood for sale when I was trying to decide if I should pay for a tri axle of full logs or get a dumpster of shorts. See thread @ pay more to cut your own length or... seemed the best option out of all of them. As a scrounger and tight wad, it pains me to pay for firewood, but this is already split, cut into 4 foot lengths, I can litetally pull right next to the stacks, is primarily oak and dry! Hard to pass up. Total of 16 cords and I paid under $100.00/ cord. Pics are kind of boring, with no saws involved. First stack was 14' had a little cherry in it, which I don't mind. Got that home and started on stack #2 which is 18' long and so far all dry oak Using friend's dump trailer and the ole tahoe doing the grunt work. Get about half cord per load. Good thing house to house is only 4.5 miles. Dumping it for now until the boys can stack it. Wish I had a tractor with a grapple! I did start to loosely throw some in a pile to be cut and used this winter. Will be adding more to it.
Looks like its dry and ready to go despite have to buck yet. Im undecided if id buck on site then move or move as is. I think youre doing okay despite having to make numerous trips. Im a bigger tightwad and i feel your pain!
Nice score and at $100/cord you can't complain too much, as far as paying for firewood goes. What I want to know is how do you split 16 cords of 4' long rounds and sell it all that cheap? What kind of sorcery is this? I think you made out well regardless.
Looks like an awesome deal. I would cut on site ( if allowed). Leave the mess behind, and mound up the trailer, have the boys stack as you dump. I see lots of cutting on the pile for the 7310 in the future.
I think you got an awesome deal. I'd make some sort of jig to load a bunch of those 4 footers into, to guide cutting to length. My stove would yield one cut right down the middle. I'm imaging my 42" bar getting a good clip at a time. What size lengths do you need? Pretty cool that this score is so close to your home. How much do you guess they weight (each 4' split)? Curiosity had me seek out this log splitter. Found this:
I don't have anything to compare it to because I never used a tandem. Wish it could hold more. But Im borrowing it for nothing, and beggers can't be choosey. The gentleman has 25 acres of almost all hardwoods. He cut and split the standing dead. He has a wood furnace in the house (along with propane) and a stove in the pole building. He says he has more wood that he'll ever burn in his life. He's retired now but said processing firewood was his therapy when he was working We go through 4.5 -5 cords a year. That's counting SS. I'll try not to burn this for SS.
I could watch log splitter videos all day long. I am curious though what benefit is there to 4' long splits? Unless your stove is over 4' long. I don't really see a benefit to having to cut it twice.
It's pretty easy to move them as they are. I can have trailer loaded 15-20 minutes. Yeah I'm going to make a jig. Usually cut 16" Let the 7310 go at it. The way he split these is with a "torpedo" wedge run by his PTO. He said it will grab the log and there's an arm that stops the log from jumping. It pulls the log in and worms its way through. He said once it starts no stopping it and it's pretty violent He actually slipped and fell into it. Messed him up pretty bad, put him ICU. Don't know if they make something like that anymore or not. Sounds like a bad azz implement. Maybe I can take a pic of it.
I think they are splitting them down to fit through a processor that can't do biggees. Smaller saws needed if cutting by hand. Splitting one meter or three footers works for those with those snall stoves that only take 6,10 or 12 inch splits. Stacking that small is almost impossible.
I bet he has a Longwood furnace...IIRC they'd take super long stuff like this...sounds like a real PITA to load to me though... As far as that "screwy" splitter... Screwloose has a version of one of those...
I would've taken that deal twice! Good price for dry hardwood. Stack them like you have them only on stringers, drive a couple T posts in nice & tight. Buck the whole pile with the longest bar you've got, rinse & repeat. I had a Longwood furnace for years. 5' deep firebox & a real pita to load. Made good heat though.
I can only imagine...my old Yukon would take a 25" split and those were bad enough to load! They must have sold quite a few of the Longwood's though...I've read about quite a number of people that have/had them on the forums over the years....kinda surprising to me, not sure what the big draw was for something that used wood that long and hard to handle...?
I cut to 24" & double stacked it. Got pretty good at "launching" splits to the back. It was big enough to heat the whole place, but I learned to hate it lol.
