I just discovered the totes ...I'm a bit slow...lol but yes this set up makes it easy Fer sure Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk
I am blessed with the fact that all my wood comes from the back yard. In 8 years of cutting I am not more than 100 yards from the house yet. So I only cut two to three dead standing Red Oak at a time and winch them to my trails. Buck them there and load in the trailer. Head back to the house split and stack at the same time.
Do you lay something down on the stones to catch all the stuff splitting leaves? Appears you do or have never split on them before. After getting fresh stone a year or so ago, I've been trying to keep mine "clean". Nice looking set up ya have!
I use to just blow the chips away then saw someone on here that put a tarp down. Now a harbor freight freebe tarp goes down first.
Going back through this, I realized I've NEVER split several cord all at once. What I meant to say was I've split several cord (usually over a several day period of time), THEN stacked. Didn't want anyone mistaking me for Superman (like that would ever happen).
I cut and load the truck, get home, back up to the wood shed, lock splitter on truck hitch, split and stack. On occasion the splitter goes to the woods with me.
This is how I have been processing lately... back the trailer with the rounds up to the splitter, split, then immediately stack. All my totes are full right now, otherwise I split where the tree falls.
I scrounge all my wood. I dump the rounds in a big pile, and go for more. After I set up another pallet wood rack, I park the splitter next to it and put my son to work. I keep him supplied with rounds, stacked right next to the splitter, and use my fiskars pickaroon to help me lift and stack the splits. He's 13 and loves splitting the wood while jamming to Christian contemporary on my old 3M radio ear protection. I know there was a thread about these great ear protectors, these got left outside in our big storm in October, I dried them off and they are still going strong.
Due to circumstances beyond my control, this is my only “wood processing” area this fall: It’s probably the neatest wood processing system I’ll ever have.
Good thread. I drop the tree, skid out the log with the tractor, stack with the excavator. logs sit a year, and I buck them off the pile. I then split into my tractor bucket or gator. Drive about 300 ft to the wood shed near the house. Two major moves, but I keep the logs away from the house due to varmints etc. any logs from off my property go into the same processing pile. I do keep a separate log pile for little stuff, 8 inches and smaller.
These days I’m not living in a place where I could use my Woodstock Ideal Steel so my brother TurboDiesel is using it in his home. I’m just experimenting with diy Rocket Heaters, but the compressed fire fuel bricks work very well in them.
