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How many rounds/splits have you made?

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  1. isaaccarlson

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    I was just talking with my wife about how many rounds I have cut in my life and how many pieces of firewood I have made. She guessed millions, and my first thought was “yeah, that might be”, but then I did some rough math and was shocked. I figured a rough average of 6 cord a year for 35 years. If each cord has 700 splits, that’s close to 150,000 splits. Round count might be around 30,000. That’s only counting useable firewood rounds and I figured 5 splits per round average.

    How many rounds/splits do you guys think you have cut/split in your life?
     
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    Not nearly enough! There is still room to stack in the wood yard!:axe::stacker:
     
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    No clue, but my hands feel like millions and I don’t understand why I still don’t have Bruce Lee forearms. Maybe if I ate more canned spinach.
     
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    Thats Popeye, not Bruce Lee! :rofl: :lol:

    Unless you started eating protein fortified spinach! :D
     
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    These are the rabbit holes that I step over. I can't deal with these kinds of metrics in my life. :thumbs:
     
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    I was thinking you meant how many "splits per round".....

    I've had a few rounds over the years that yielded 50+ splits but it's been a while since I've done any that big. More recently some oaks I've cut and split yielded 36 splits per round.
     
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    Using 700 splits per cord and 7 splits per for bundled wood. My son and I are at 170,000 this year. Previous to getting into the wood business my guess would be 300,000. Interesting!
     
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    I use 6 or 7 cords( complete guess) to heat my house
    House wood used to be by hand but I cheat and use a splitter now.
    Still move all my rounds/logs by hand, I don't own a tractor

    We split 30 to 50 cords a year at work.
    (Not just me)
    Using splitter, and we used dingo or skid to move the logs around at work
     
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    I have no idea.
     
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    This^^^^^
     
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    As Chud says...way too much...lol...
    Just between these sheds is 15+ cords... 20250417_104937.jpg 20250215_220156.jpg 20250924_193426.jpg
    Not counting the other sheds and IBC totes that have been done. We have only been heating/selling wood for 11 yrs, but I grew up cutting wood for mom and dad.
     
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    About 275,000 just last year.
     
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    I figure roughly 800 splits per one of my cords so 28-30000 splits per year at 35 cords.

    I tried counting once but lost track in May!:doh:
     
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    Woodstacking perfection! I might steal one of these for the FHC Facebook page!
     
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    I'm guessing at least 25K-35K splits per year. Bear in mind that I split small and also split kindling so I make lots of 'em per cord!
     
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    Don’t know, don’t care! In the time it would take me to come up with a ballpark figure, I could have made another 75-100 splits
     
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