For the real big rounds, I usually just use the single wedge on my tw6 to break them down into manageable pieces. Seems to be faster and cleaner than noodling.
I thought about using single wedge, but the way the splitter is set up next to the shed, I didn't want to handle 1/2 of that 29" round. I don't like noodling much either, always wind up with some wedge shape pieces.
Decided to move this 2 1/2 yr old mixed lot to another shed. (Oak, hickory, sweet gum, elm, catalpa, dogwood) Need the room to stack more oak. Saved a few pieces of dogwood for my knife maker friends. I really like the ray flecks it has. Took 2 trips to get it moved. We have a campfire load to deliver, so I pulled most of the sweet gum and a few pieces of catalpa and oak for it, got 1/2 tote full. We will top it off with more oak. Got it stacked in the 5x10 skinnies shed for personal use. Got Blue Samson set up, ready to buck some rounds. He looks hongry with that empty shed behind him. Should hold about 4-4.5 cords.
Huh! I havent cut any in quantity in a while and dont recall if it turns that color as it weathers. Wouldve been all in on mulberry. Do you have enough inventory to fill it?
A guy that lives down the road from my work had 2 water oaks taken down about a couple weeks ago. They got most of the brush piles, all we had to do was load and haul. This is the piles... Got 1 nice trailer load done, we carried it to the veteran down the road from us. We will help him cut and split it later We cleaned up and piled the rest. Planning on getting it Monday morning...
We made it back on May 15th and finished cleaning up the rest of the water oak. Got another good load... We also carried this to our veteran neighbor. This is his woodpile pile now We will get a group together and help him get it processed.
After we got the water oak finished, a coworker told me he had another post oak taken down...it was one he had asked us about doing. One of his friends needed some money for child support......he let him do it......at least we didn't have the liability... He climbed it with a ladder and took put some limbs, then tried pulling it with a big rope and tractor...... Rope broke, tree went wrong way. You can tell how far the trunk kicked back past the stump... The top hit the Chevy stepside in the background......dent the hood, broke headlight and grill... He then just cut it up in crazy pieces...pushed a lot of usable wood into the burn pile.... My coworker stopped him before it got worse, so we did get some nice rounds from the trunk...all the Kubota lift... Got the pieces close to the trailer and bucked them shorter... Got one big load... He also dropped a dead oak that was still solid...we got it and a few chunks from the other tree on the 2nd load He left some nice stumps... The dead oak The big oak... My coworker said that guy would definitely NOT be back...
A neighbor a couple miles from home had a big water oak break off in his yard while we were on vacation in PA. We went over Tuesday morning and helped clean it up. He had already cut the small limbs off. The main trunk was really rotten and hollow. We just put it in the woods. Some of the top was still good, so we got a small load home...some of it still has punky center A close neighbor that cuts grass had a big pecan limb break off in one of the yards he cuts. It was maybe a mile from home. We went early Friday morning to clean that up... We hauled 2 loads of brush off and got some nice logs... Wish Scotty Overkill was closer...
I wish I was closer too! I got all that pecan (or is it pronounced "peek-in"?) wood stacked (alongside my applewood) in my fruitwood rack underneath my tool shed overhang and I'll be using some of it to cook on Tuesday. Heck I may even burn something on the pit this evening! Spent all day yesterday (even in the pouring rain) stacking wood from the big pile. The boys helped me alot, we changed out the junk wood skids for the premium plastic ones I scored on FB. We got around 2.5 cord stacked with around 7-8 more to go. That big pile behind the pizza oven is slowly getting smaller..... How do you eat a big elephant? One bite at a time! And a side note, weve had a ridiculous amount of rain the past few weeks so the grass is once again green and needing mowed twice a week!
Everything on the left side of the red line is "peek-in". I'm gonna gamble and say not many other people 'round here have that much of it on stock....lol.
Time to bump the thread... Had a tote with some 14" oak in it, finally got a chance to spilt the short hickory from a load of tree service wood. A coworker that normally gets 15" splits said he would take it. Had enough hickory to do a 2nd tote for him Finished it with some oak from the Plantation job... Got 1 other customer that uses 14" splits. Gonna make them a couple totes Yesterday morning we went back to the Plantation, lightning hit 1 on the tall oaks we left in the backyard...probably 85' tall We got about 70' of main stem plus a few limbs...also cut off a few tall stumps, brought the oak stump home Cut 2 sweet gum stumps off... We then to another site, tree service had dropped the tree and hauled off the limbs, the neighborhood had taken all the smaller wood... Left us some nice trunk sections...lol... Tractor barely handled 3-3.5' sections... Nice wearing PPE in 98°...plenty of liquids were consumed Had to use the big tongs on these...and slide them in the back... 3 logs/6 rounds made a heavy load...
