I think you'll like the 330 gallon totes. I stack the splits somewhat neatly and then load the tote with my skid steer into the back of the truck for delivery. I do cut the opening a little bigger to easily reach in and even step inside to make unloading easier. This is MUCH quicker than loading a truck by hand!
We don't have that many totes...only have 8 or 9... We're using those for wood we will burn or probably chunk storage...
We got the trailer load finished this morning. Even got the 2 elm rounds split and loaded. Then we got a tote full of chunks from the cutoffs. We took it over to my cousin's house. Set it by his back steps We have 3 loads going out today. Mixed load of smoker wood...cherry, pecan and hickory...first thing this morning. Then deliver the trailer load... About 4:00 new customer is coming over. He burns an open fireplace, probably going to get some of the long DRY (5-6 yrs)oak and tulip poplar from the shop, then maybe some 1 yr old hickory limbs, hope to add a little oak from this last score, too.
Thanks, brother. This has been our biggest year, so far. I think 24 cords of firewood since early May, probably a couple cords of cooking woods. Some has been seasoned, some not so much. We are honest and tell them so. Our summers do dry it out faster...
Load we had to cut Saturday. 14" splits, mostly hickory and 4 rounds of oak split across the back. Front row is 7 yr old oak we cut down to about 12"...
Customers living within your delivery area are very lucky indeed! I've never seen such good looking firewood for sale where I live.
Thank you, we do have a lot of repeat customers. We have been blessed lately with some beautiful logs...
This is what I cut in half. Had some tulip poplar mixed in. Some of the oak had punky sapwood. We kept 5 buckets of leftovers. I knew they needed some dry wood to get the hickory going and the oak on the back needs to dry some more. They have a young daughter too. Didn't take long with the jig and top handle Echo to handle it...
Got 1 side of the big shed ready for new wood... Got 6 of the hickory logs bucked and stacked, 42 rounds... Noodled this 17" round, hope to get something made from it...
We got the 41 rounds of hickory split and stacked in the shed. Got 3 more logs bucked and staged, but didn't get a ...... Had a few days off this week, so we loaded up theand headed back to the honey hole. We found plenty to ... Got 4 loads home 1st load was mixed, ash, hickory, oak and tulip poplar 2nd load was all oak from the trees he had thinned. 3rd load we finished cleaning up the thinned trees he had down and added a couple white oak logs we found. The guy bucking the trees for him got way off on his measurements...lol...had to cut them down to fit on the trailer, loaded those cutoffs on the truck. And these 4th load was 1 hickory log, several ash logs and white and red oak. The big oak on top was 17' long, 'Bota handled 8.5' nicely... Got to get all this sorted and stacked, no more room to dump on the woodyard.
Some nice Goldilocks wood there. Must be a welcomed relief from all those mammoth rounds you process. Hoard on and cut safe my friend!
It's nice, but takes a long time to get a trailer full. I told Miz Carol we had some rounds she could handle now...... We'll see if she gets back on the splitter soon...
Needed some woodyard therapy after work last night. Had 21 rounds ready on the ramps... Got started about 8PM splitting, made a nice little pile Still wasn't late, so decided to stack it too. The stack before... After it was finished. Headed to the house by 9:30. T'was a good evening...
Some great work there Jeff. So glad to see you and Miz Carol get such a great load of logs to work on.
Thanks brother. That has been a great honey hole so far. Gotten 10 loads to our house, 3 loads to some friends... And he is taking down more oaks...
