You’re just on the same track here, now that my daughter is two she's a handful and eyefuls. I can really only get any wood work done when shes either napping or she’s away. When that’s possible, I’m just multitasking by the moment.
If you have a smart phone you can get email alerts when your predetermined words are used on Craigslist. I've seen a few slip through, but if I'm looking for something specific, it seems to work pretty well.
Excellent idea and I don't know why I haven't set that up on Craigslist yet. I have it set up like that on Facebook Marketplace but I haven't had nearly the luck on there as I do on good ol Craigslist.
Is it not possible to make the processing area next to the stacks? It would eliminate the need to dump, then reload the splits if you were splitting right off the truck then stacking. I've found the easiest way so far is to let someone else process the wood, then all I have to do is stack it. Depending on where the wood is coming from somewhat determines how it gets processed, and sometimes I'll do a little splitting, then stack either the same time or the next day, or whenever. I've also splits several cord at once, then stacked. When I had log loads, the stacking area was somewhere else, so I would buck the logs, splits the rounds right into a trailer, then take that to the stacks. It's been an evolution and still changes depending on a lot of factors. Where's bogydave ? He's got quite the system goin' on.
It depends on what sort of wood we get. At home we mostly get scrounged wood from tree services, so that's variable in diameter, and either gets dumped in our driveway or we cut it up to reasonable lengths and put it on a trailer, and then split it at home with a hydraulic splitter, or a MegaMaul if I'm feeling strong and don't want to go to the gym. At our cabin we are fortunate to have a lot of wood available, so we choose the easiest workflow. That's to cut ~8" diameter saplings, haul them at full length to the trailer, then cut to length at the trailer. From the trailer it gets stacked for a few years, until we bring it inside and burn it. This is the best, because it means no splitting and fewer trips of hauling wood to the trailer, versus hauling rounds or splits. The added drying time from leaving it unsplit isn't really an issue up there, because we don't burn a lot.
The wood cutting is keeping you young BS. I told my sister to look you up at the Woodstock picnic but said she didn't see and older guy with a cap on, you skip last year?
This. I usually bring home in rounds, split as I unload, then stack right there or straight to the wheelbarrow to stack elsewhere. Every time wood hits the ground it requires more energy to pick up and move so I try to avoid tossing rounds,and splits on the ground. Why toss them on the ground, then pick them up to put on the block or into my wheelbarrow later?
She must have missed you then, she ended up buying the Keystone, I was hoping she went for the ideal steel but I think after talking to Loren she decided on the Keystone, she loves it and heated her house much better than her dutchwest and on less wood. She raved about it last winter.
That would have been nice to meet her and sorry we didn't. That Keystone is a good stove and should serve her well.
Just recycled industrial shelving, but man it makes it easy ...I load the shelf with the bobcat Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk
That's what the long summer nights are for, right? I've got a work light in my sights that will make it possible to operate in the dark, so evenings like this one where baby's in bed but it's still warm enough to operate (29 and still here - perfect working weather) will be on the table.
My strategy is this; when in hoard mode, rounds get thrown on as tall of a pile as I can make. Smallest stuff at the bottom so the heavier is already high. Then when it's time to split, I park the Wheel Horse with my 4x8 trailer beside the splitter and throw the splits in it. Then each load gets stacked, rinse/repeat. This pile is 6 16" rounds high.
You’re not fooling around! I had my uncle help me install a light fixture from the outside so I could have the light to work just a couple weeks ago! It has outstanding light now. It used to just be a motion sensor light, but I asked for a switch on the ground level for ease of use. The motion sensor was kicked off by my stacks having tarps on them flapping in the wind at 2 in the morning, shining in my bedroom! Good thing is that its mostly my needing to see if my dog is alright as she hangs out or if I need light to bring in wood to the box for now but indeed the night draws on, Papas like us we do work son. Cooler, easier to have the kid napping away. Makes stack work easier.
I like that set up! Id definitely get some of these if I had a wood shed that was like an open air but lots of overhang. Those totes are just fantastic aren’t they?
I like the statement, "I focus on only picking it up off the ground one time only." My goal has been to handle the wood as few times as possible. Like several have already pointed out there are a lot of variables, but I like to cut to stove lengths, rounds that don't need split are tossed on the pickup, those that need split get tossed in the trailer. When I get home they're unloaded directly to the stacks. As I split the rounds, I toss them into the trailer without taking much care to get them packed tightly, reducing the handling of the wood. I believe that my weakest link is my where my stacks are. I have a limited amount of space near my outdoor wood stove. I have had to start stacking my wood along my shelter belt around the exterior of the yard. Now that wood needs to move about 100 feet to the stove, requiring being handled once more. Honestly I can blame this on you guys. I never heard of the 3 year plan until finding this group.
