So I helped my sons freind to drop a couple big spruce trees Saturday.he had borrowed a small chipper and brought my bucket forks to carry branches and stack logs with my Kubota.also used my 661 to drop them.i decided to take the logs for firewood.i have plenty of hardwoods seasoning right now ,but figured i would try a cord or so of spruce to change things up.if they can use it in Canada and Alaska I’m pretty sure it will keep me warm in Pa.also going to split a load for my parents to help them with starting fires.
We cut them 9 foot 6 inches so they would fit in the dump trailer.we loaded them with a truck crane with a scale ( my machine couldn’t lift them high enough to heavy.the bottom row is still there going to get this week after work . So far the heaviest piece was 967 lbs.im sure the bottom row logs will be 1200 lbs ish
I scored a cord of blue spruce a year ago, it was green wood. After I got it CSS I let the sun and wind do there thing. Started burning it in December, mixing it with pine and Douglas fir. Better wood than many give it credit for. And yes there are places in Canada and Alaska where all they burn is spruce.
It did the job. It was an older chipper . The only real trouble we had was material building up under feed table.every so often we would knock it down or pull chipper ahead.all chips got shot into a wooded area At the edge of his lawn
If it was easy why not try it? It can be a bear to split so hope you have a hydro. Plenty of hardwoods here in CT so I seldom take any softwoods. Limited storage too.
