Thank you! i love this method, i have used this method for the last few years with great results but was looking for a method that would yield longer stacks cause my property is not very flat
Welcome to the forum Joe. The only way to post a video on this forum is to first upload it to another site; usually youtube works best. Then just post the address to the video and it will post here. I wish it were different but at least it works.
Thanks PA Dutch and I don't think I've yet welcomed you to the forum so consider this a warm welcome to you.
I tried the YouTube thing, it won’t work. Keeps saying error when I up load.. searched around the net for fixes and nothing works from my I phone 7
that is nuts, is the wood all flats, or cut offs from a mill...... either way thats alot of determination
15 cord done... 115 more to go. Mostly sugar maple and yellow/white birch. Firewood for sale to the left, 32x48 pallet, stacked 36" high, 16" long, crates are 1/4 cord each. We build the pallets and crate from slabs off the sawmill. The lone crate to the back right is a 1/2 cord of odds and ends left off each log. The two crates to the far right side of the image is 'camp wood'. When we split the firewood, we split away the low grade/rot from the firewood and put it aside to sell for camp firewood. This is our current setup.
Nice looking operation. I like the crates of wood, like "measuring cups: full of wood. Are these for next burning season Jim Barry
The cups comments is almost on point. I'm a baker by trade (retired from that but still practise the craft). All that is currently crated, plus another 10 or so cords are logs felled Feb 2018. So its only a matter of splitting and letting sit out for a couple months over the summer and it will be ready. Some of it is ready now as we started cutting a couple months ago. The stash of 110 log cords was felled Feb 2019.
Just the wife and I, the log pile is across the road from our work yard. To the log pile she drives the truck while I'm in the skidsteer. The logs we are currently picking from are random length 16-20 ft long. I cut them to about 8ft to handle on my cutting bench, load a cord, and then back to the yard. Takes about 45 min. Then offload the truck in about 3-4 groups of logs onto the log deck. Cut and split, re-split some to remove rotten wood, stack and move the loaded crates to the field. That takes about 2 hours. I'm always crunching numbers, looking for efficiencies to improve workflow without having to go the route of buying a $30-40k processor. So, between the two of us, it takes about 3 hours, 6 man hours, to get a cord of firewood blocked, stacked and stored. It just seems like a long time. Can't do it any faster unless we add another person to the workflow.
How much do you pay Jim Barry ? Ill work for US dollars and some doughnuts! I have experience. Im not fluent in Canadien though!
