Starting the season with inferior wood

Forced to make firewood out of less than desirable wood today. My logger buddies have two upcoming jobs where I have exclusive rights to the log cut offs but one won't start till the ground freezes and the other is unknown. Both will be very large projects, 120 and 50 acres respectively.

The place I was cutting just sold for $1,000,000 and the new owner didn't give me permission to the logging spoils but he didn't say know either. When he sees the blackberry brush growing in the tops he may change his mind as he wanted the place for hunting.

Anyway starting the season off with a mix of black walnut and found some oak.

This has been laying since last fall and had a fair amount of ground dirt when turned over, hard on chain.







This sold in the last month or so.



Well one load down, 29 more to equal last year. FWIW, this afternoon a tree service was working down the road. I did them a favor and took some birch. The birch and walnut will be set aside for campfire wood rather than heating wood. The tree service guy is going to give me wood chips free next year for my orchard.

 

That's saweet. That will keep you busy for a little time

 

So were you down to nothing? I'm a bit confused-I too cut 30 truckloads last year which was 9 cord-And when you say "this" sold in the last month, do you mean you sold what was on the pallets or your former honey hole? And is the wood on the other side of the fence your neighbors or seasoned good to go? Just curious...

 

The pallets were full a month ago, it has been sold. Looked like this before:





Don't get me going on the neighbors crap. It is rotting, unsplit spruce and has absolutely no value. It is rapidly approaching the point where it won't even burn in a fire pit.

The place I was cutting on last year was sold. The new owner hasn't even looked at it yet according to what he told me on the phone. Heck it's only a million bucks.

 

Ok, thanks for clarifying. Beautiful lawn btw-so you personally are ok on the wood you will burn, you just sell and are low on inventory? Just concerned for a fellow hoarder, thats all

 

The darn grass was growing so fast when the pic was taken, it was hard to keep up on mowing and it was piling up a little bit.


I sell the whole stack every year and start over. It never ends.

 

I am confused, do you have enough wood for 16/17 and you are working on 17/18/19, or you just sell wood?

 

Just sell it. I cut as much as I can right now and haul home before the snow gets too deep. Then I have something to do in the Winter in this God forsaken climate.
The process is pretty efficient. Rounds are picked off the pallet, split and stacked right back on the pallets so the wood is only handled once.

 

So you are saying you are now more like the rest of us,
Scrounging & taking whatever you can get ?

You start burning shoulder fires there?

Good luck with the new areas,
"No such thing as "Easy Firewood"

 

^^^this^^^

 

For the time being, I have to back off on being a wood snob. Before it was only Red & white oak, plus hickory. Now I am stooping to taking cherry and black walnut. (the walnut really does split easy and is not near as heavy, got load #2 today.

As I said before, I will have exclusive rights to the log cut offs on two very large timber operations. The one should keep me supplied at least 3 years and it's 10 miles away. The other, all hickory is further. The amount of refuse is incredible. This pic is less than 1/4 of what will be produced. Easy to get at too.

 

I almost feel sorry for you


My choices are spruce & birch & I "wood snob" only birch
BUT now it's an 84 mile round trip.

keep the great pics coming.
I'd give away one of my saws for a few cords of shagbark hickory ,
some white oak would be sweet too.

PS: I still consider you "spoiled"
& know how much work goes into a cord of split firewood, regardless of the type

 

OK, now I will give you something to call me spoiled. This is my logger buddies setting me up.

My neighbor has a roll off business and I work for them on a snow removal contract running a Cat 277 skid steer, (If you don't know what that is, it's really cool) The owed me and in lieu of payment had them do some hauling for me.











The white oak in the middle was about36" and weighed about 2500#s.

 

No, not spoiled-Now you just suck...

 

Now I am going to just feel bad the whole rest of the night.

 

You need to bring that inferior wood over to my house and get rid of that crap

 

Nah my friend, thats still a lot of work for sure, some of that looks pretty gnarly...I just flash back to all the crap I took when my friend grappled with an excavator and held waist high for me logs to cut standing in the back of my truck and on the trailer...good times...

 

30" rounds are waist high to me  well close