And I think I know who it is. Only one crew brings only the best, clean wood and stacks it this neatly in the processing area. You can use the mauls & shovel to the left to gauge the size of what he left. All clean rounds split to a manageable size. The other guys bring decent wood but there are often crotches and stumps mixed in. And they just dump it where ever they find room. Not that I complain about free wood... When I find this crew I'll bring them coffee & donuts if it is early or pizza & coke if near lunch time. KaptJaq
When they are working on the small peninsula where I live it is a lot quicker and cheaper to bring the wood here than go cross county to the dump. The trip to the dump would waste gas, time, and they would have to pay the tipping fee. Around here the tipping fee is by the pound so that oak would have cost them a couple of bucks. If you were a little closer I would certainly give them your address (after my stacks were full). KaptJaq
Had some time today so I started to split & stack. I really enjoy splitting red oak, one or two clean hits and it is done. The wood I split today is on the front stack to the left. The racks I stack on are 10' long and the last stack to the right behind the new stack is about 6'6" high. The stack I am working on will top out at about 5'. the empty one in front will go to 4' high. Then I have to do one more 5' stack on the side. I don't like the 6'+ stacks on the ends. I worry somebody might run into one and knock it down on themselves. I taper the outermost stacks... KaptJaq
Im sorry ...tipping fee? This sounds like a fee you'd pay for like using the tailgate lift...and that's a bit extreme to say.
Sorry for back to back posts but nice stacks and since im learning, can you explain your stacks a bit? Seem to get a different pattern here, I like it!
"Tipping Fee" is when you take a load to the town dump and dump it there. I think it comes from tipping a cart load of garbage to unload it. The non-commercial tipping fee is 6 cents a pound. They weigh your rig (truck, trailer, car, etc) on the way in and again going out. You pay by the pound for the difference in weight.
Due to limited level ground to stack, I stack in a block. Each row you see is 10' long and about 6'6" high. I made racks out of 10' long PT 2x4s. Since the ground slopes down to the left I use bricks to level the racks before I load them. With the 2x4s under the wood and the stacks being about 6" apart it lets some air move through the rows. There are currently 14 rows in that area. When I finish there will be 16. There is another slightly more level area that has 3 rows that are 20' long and about 7' high. That area is under a deck and the deck posts help support the stacks. KaptJaq
I too was on the receiving end the other day. A small load. Nice red oak. A few days worth of heat. The best part is piece is exactly 16". I gave this guy a Mingo marker a while back and his crew likes to use it. No re-cutting and odd lengths to deal with!
Definitely. That's a great crew to leave great wood so nicely stacked. That's big stuff too. Either that or those are tiny axes/ mauls.
