Since we ran the woodsplitter. It fired up right away. Not too often do we split firewood in the carport but firewood is getting harder to scrounge in the woods. We had a drop off of about a cord so we went out this morning to tackle it. It was brought in a small dump truck. I didn't take pictures right away as we were trying to get our working flow straighten around. We had worked on about 1/4 a cord by this point. Which gave us about a half row in the wood shed. campinspecter's favourite part of firewood hoarding. I didn't get any videos of the woodsplitter working. Sorry guys. Maybe next time. This is western hemlock. Very wet and very heavy. A full row in the wood shed and this is what is left. Time to call it a day. A half cord is about all we can manage to process especially having done nothing wood related for quite some time. Woodshed smells great with the fresh split firewood. We are splitting down smaller for our use. The lengths were pretty consistent.
Awesome! I like that old wood splitter. It's vertical but it has a table off the ground. I saw a new one like that recently. Mine is on the blink.
Always good to see you folks in action. Love that splitter setup. I've used a similar one with a foot pedal and the only way I'd go vertical when splitting.
For really big blocks, campinspecter uses the winch to hoist the blocks on the table while the woodsplitter is hooked up to the truck. The winch wasn't needed today.
I hope your scrounging days are not over. We pile wood the same way, me and him. Right up to the joists!
After we processed the rest of the first load, we had another load dropped in the morning. This is the little dump truck he is using. All western hemlock - very wet and very heavy. campinspecter's favourite job Here is the video I promised you Starting to fill up We almost had the second load finished when the third load arrived. This had some red alder mixed into it. We didn't start on this until the next day. We thought this was going to be the last day without rain so we started earlier This section of the wood shed is full. About 2 1/2 cords per section for our 10 cord wood shed. The wheelbarrow. What was left had to transported around to the other end of the woodshed to fill up the empty space. We could have used a wheelbarrow but it was going to be a lot of work. So we used the back of the truck. This is what was left to process. So we put 2 1/2 rows of firewood in the back of the truck and cleaned up and parked the truck. We were done for the day. I could barely walk BUT because I have bad knees, campinspecter loaded the back of the truck with the splits and I got to use the woodsplitter just like my hero, Miz Carol. I don't think I could drive a tractor though. This morning was dry so we parked the truck by the other end of the woodshed and moved the firewood into it. I didn't get any pictures, sorry. I was having a hard time just keeping myself moving. Stay tuned as we have another 1/2 load of red alder coming to fill the empty space in the wood shed. We will probably be working in the rain.
I tried to post a link to our supplier's Facebook ad as he has a neat video of the equipment he uses. The link didn't work.
for both of you. Glad to see you getting the firewood in! A tremendous sense of accomplishment when the wood shed is full! I know what you mean about how you feel when you have not been processing for a while. I split and stacked about 2/3 a cord day before yesterday. Probably spent way too long at it as some of the rounds were just a bit too small to go vertical (don't tell Dennis that I would ever do that) so I was grunting and lifting and pivoting to place them on the rack to split them horizontal. Yesterday I was eating those purple naproxen capsules like they were jelly beans! Y'all don't over tax yourselves although, in spite of the sore muscles, it is a good feeling to be back in the game!
The transition from cold frosty nights and sunny days to warmer than freezing temps for the last day didn't involve getting snow. We are now in a rain cycle of storms coming in from the Pacific so rain for the next week or so. We had our inch of snow for the winter a week before Christmas. The Fern storm didn't affect us snow wise other than us getting warmer air from the Pacific.
Woodwidow my brother drives 18 wheeler and he is scared of driving tractor also; and not meant to damage the hero status of Miz Carole in any way. But driving a 50 horsepower diesel tractor is easy; Rules go slow don’t hit anything Leave bucket or 3 pt alone until your comfortable Drive it until comfortable I literally taught 8 year old to do it because he wasn’t tall enough to drive riding lawn mower AND his brother was teasing him Yes I stood on step while child drove giving me access to all controls.. His proving brother wrong was priceless edit to add many men like to make it seem harder than it is
The splitter has a Honda engine so the noise isn't too bad, even in the carport. I didn't need hearing protection for it.
That's some great pictures. Glad ya'll had wood dropped off. Not as much fun as hoarding your own but it was more convenient. Good picture of campinspecter sitting by the splitter at the end of the day. Hope your knees aren't too bad today. Thanks for the mention of Miz Carol, I'll be sure to tell her. It's not hard to drive the tractor, especially the new one. She had never driven one until we got the L3130 in '07, she wanted to learn, so I turned her loose in the woods...she out...I told her "learn here and the fields will be easy. "
When dry, it is about the same heat output. It takes longer to dry than Fir, at least here on the coast it does. With your hotter, drier summers, it could be the same as fir. Our hemlock is usually quite heavy and wet when green.
