Loaded truck pics.

You could probably sell it for that or more now.

 

If I were to venture a guess, someones going cutting tomorrow?

 

Have fun today

 

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Hoard on and cut safe!

 

Truck and trailer load.


Mostly pignut hickory and some white oak.

 

Chainsaws work better with a chain.
Nice score of heavyweights.

 

That's a good mix of wood right there

 

Good outing The Wood Wolverine

 

Thats some sweet wood. Not used to seeing you cut Goldilocks size.

 

The older dad gets, the more he appreciates the smaller stuff. It's a pain to pick it all up IMO but I'll do it for the good stuff. I like using my Husky log tongs and when the wood gets too small for those, I stack it up on my right arm. He only helped me for about an hour then had somewhere to be so I was solo for most of it.

 

Im starting to agree with him. Not that I want a lot of it, but I'm much more efficient with Goldilocks sized rounds vs big rounds. Hopefully I'll be able to be firewooding at his age.

 

Mixed load of seven species from this weeks cut. Black birch, black walnut, cottonwood, elm, dead ash, Norway and silver maple. Thinking its the most variety I've had in a single load.

 

It is, but, many times that stuff doesn't need to be split, so is it really that much more work/time in the end? I love having some unsplit rounds mixed in to a load...it seems to coal better than splits (on average)

 

A big round can be equivalent to 20+ little pieces? For me it’s a pain gathering it all but I agree, I like having them un-split for the stove and the coaling properties.

 

I thought little stuff meant limb wood...

 

Yes, that's what I'm talking about. Having to gather 4-6 pieces at a time takes walking back and forth to the truck/trailer more, more bending over, more unloading time etc. I can get the equivalent of 3-4 trips worth of those in one larger round. Completely personal preference, but I'd prefer somewhere around 18" rounds and up. It seems more productive to me. I can't imagine gathering one full cord of wrist size pieces, loading them on the truck, bringing them home etc.. Sure I wouldn't have to get the splitter out but I think I'd rather make the larger square splits. Maybe I'm just not old enough yet, lol.

 

OK, I'm smellin what you are stepping in now...yeah I'd hafta agree that 8-18"(maybe 20") rounds are "the best", but I guess the ability to go straight to the stack with the small rounds is how I justify fooling with them
And I certainly don't shy away from working up the bigguns either, but I think I may have lost a bit of enthusiasm for them in the last 5 years...

 

I lost every bit of my enthusiasm for them at Adam's GTG. Those were some heavy Sum-of-a-biatches!