What's your processing setup?

Sounds like how I process. I pretty much only scrounge though. Generally I buck them where I find them into manageable length, trailer them to where I process (less than a mile from my house), cut, split, stack and season there.

Then when it gets cool reload them on the trailer and restack at my house.

I tried to do it all at my house but finding room, keeping it clean and keeping bride happy with the mess was too much of a challenge

 

That's past downhill logging, it's borderline ski resort

 

I cut and haul wood to my yard for processing. First I cut only as much as necessary to allow me to pick up the logs and load them into the trailer. For a 10 inch log this might mean a six foot piece, for a really big diameter tree it might mean 16 inch piece split once or twice.

At home I put the wood into a pile of logs. I buck a little at a time, generally a tank or two of gas run through the saw. Then I toss rounds into a pile. I split a little almost every day and toss splits into a pile near the place where they will be stacked. When I am in the stacking mood, or when the split pile gets too high, I stack some.

Basically I haul wood home in the largest pieces I can lift, then process at my leisure. Fortunately I have a big yard.

 

And therein is your problem; you stack sober! Try a wee drop of the dew of the roses, 4 Roses that is![/QUOTE]
I have so much to learn. You live pretty close to me. If I need a coach on not stacking sober I will call.

 

Thanks for the input and sharing how everyone get's it done. It's true we do have a system that has worked for a long time, just trying to see if there are things that can be done to improve upon it. One thing I see some potential with is bucking in the woods where the trees come down. Typically we have pulled them in in big chunks but they pick up some dirt that way and I'm sure it doesn't help with chain life. I've actually got a project "garden" tractor that I'm working on with the idea of it becoming a wood collecting machine with a trailer (John Deere 400, a BIG garden tractor). We do have a real tractor as well that we use for pulling in the logs.

The thing about stacking multiple years of wood at our house isn't just about looks, it's about space. My wife and I are on a 7500 sq ft lot, it could fit but it would take up a lot of the back yard.

 

Run it by your wife I'm sure she'll understand.

 

Me too, just get them home and process there.

 

Always the helpful husband you are!

 

My wife is the stacker in the family

 

My wood comes from all over. My property, tree companies & offsite.
I get it bucked & directly onto pallets which I can move around with my tractor.
I bring bucked pallets to my splitter - split & stack directly back onto palletts.
From there I can move the split palletts to my sunny & windy drying area.
Ready to burn palletts are then moved to my front of the house for the upstairs fireplace or to the downstairs mud room door for the basement fireplace or to my outdoor wood boiler.
For me this minimizes hand restacking.

 

Nice wood rack on wheels. I love mine.

 

Thanks for the wonderful suggestion. It worked. She said I can shop for one as soon as I'm released from the hospital.

 

That rack didn't roll very well on those wheels. I finally broke down and bought some good wheels and mounted them on a different rack. I hope to test it out today.

 

Sounds good jo191145 ... only missed one part tho...

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There... fixed it...

 

Didn't mean to get you beat up!

 

Go out back after work , cut three or four dead standing Oaks, pull then or winch them to the trail, buck them to 16", load trailer head back to the house.

At house back trailer and splitter to stacks split and stack. Put trailer and splitter away walk to house get a few Bluemoon beers sit back and admire my work.

 

I cut mostly in the National Forest, so I cut or split the wood right there into pieces I can pick up and put on the truck. Then I dump the pieces beside my wood stacks. When I split I don't have far to go to stack. Sometimes I split the wood immediately other times I wait. It all depends on what else I have going on.