It’s been a little while since I updated but that was because not much firewood got done during February. I had a couple weekends skiing in Vermont and then we had the snow to plow plus I did take a weekend off and did absolutely nothing (shhh don’t tell anyone!). I am now up to about 75 cords cut and split. The logs have kept coming in as well and I figure I have at least 125 cords of logs on site at the moment. I’ve been cutting the bigger logs to stage for the tw6 and the smaller logs for the small splitter (Iron and Oak with 4 way).
I always enjoy seeing your operation. When you have the wood dumped, what is the strategy you implement, if any, to keep from having to move wood to another area as you split it to keep your split piles from becoming too large. My operation is still a work in progress and sometimes feel like I’m moving it more than I should.
Do you market the stuff you sell as seasoned? If so, what does it usually test out at? Just curious as I only see piles of wood and as we all know, outside of the surface pieces, wood doesn't season worth a crap in piles.
I try to have the wood dumped as close to where it's going to get processed but that doesn't always happen. I agree, there are times where I feel moving a log or two at a time with the tractor is a waste of time but sometimes its unavoidable.
Haha, yes move in log form! The tractor makes easy work of that. But when I move it in pieces is when I actually make money!
I've heard there's a couple out there...but there are supposedly "Bigfoots" among us too so... I think most of the guys with the gasifiers have figured it out, or quickly do so...or end up selling "that newfangled POS that can't even hold my old Central Boiler's jockstrap!"
You have to limit the size of the piles and I believe to have found the threshold for it here at my location in south Jersey. I’ve been doing it this way for 25 years now and can easily sell 3x what I can produce with zero advertising. I wouldn’t think I’d be able to do that if I was selling wet wood. I would also venture to say the middle of a pile like that out in the open gets more air flow in it than a pile tightly stacked up against the back or side of a building or in a relatively enclosed shed.
I agree...but then my brain tells me from experience that the Oak on the bottom of that pile can't be dry...I'm having <input errors>
This afternoon was a steady diet of big oak. Some of the smaller ones were 24” diameter but the bigger stuff was more like 36”. You all know how much I just love those big logs. I figured noodled in half will work good enough for the log lift. The new 390 just gobbles them up!
You may be on to something there. I know those piles hold the heat from the summer pretty well, just as wood holds the cold from an extended cold snap as well.
