Well, snow is upon us and i did what i could with the time and misfortune i had lol. Hit a rock twice, had to deal with a dying atv battery and ran out of fuel in the woods! Anyway, this is what i managed to cut for the year after next year, how much do you think this is?
Can you give us estimate dimensions? Are those 16" 'ish rounds? About 8'ft wide piles (x3). If so, I'll bet that about a cord or a bit more. Assuming 2 of those 3 stacks are a little over 5' tall.
128 cu ft is a cord. I'd guesstimate about 2/3 cord. Depends how long you buck your rounds, what the distance is between the uprights, and how tall each is.
Those are huge rounds, a lot of them over 16 inches and i cut them at bar length, seems like less than 16 inches long to me maybe 14 inches, i measure them from the spiky things next to the chain to the tip of the bar.
Pallets are 42”. 1st stack is about 11x5. 2nd larger one appears to be a little longer. My math says about 1.25. Just a guess on dimensions though
You guys do see the second stack in the far left on the top picture right? Sorry if it's not obvious but there are 3 stacks, the 2 in the top picture and the third one in the second picture.
If the stack in the background is not the stack in the second pic then closer to two cords. If your saw has a 16" bar then to the 'spiky things' is likely 15 inches. Mine is. WAG without going and getting rough measurements probably just under two cords. There's a calculator in the resources section of this website that will do the math for you. You just have to have all dimensions in either inches or feet. The stack in the foreground of the first pic appears to be 12 feet long and about 5 feet high using the 40x48 pallets as a visual reference, so that one is probably around 78 cu ft or ,609 of a cord. (5 x 12 x 1.3 ) If there are three of those, then 1.8 cord.
They protect the paint from the harsh bark. The chain can also pull the saw into the tree and they help with some control with that, it's mostly a control/safety thing. You can also pry/pivot the bar into the cut with them but that is not necessarily a good practice. Like with almost all cutting devices the device should be doing the work with just guidance no force from the operator. Hence the name bumper spike.
Pine trees aren't the greatest to stack between despite being convenient. They wiggle too much in the wind and the stack can eventually tumble over from all the minor wiggling. Been there done that. With smaller rounds though which is probably more prone to tumbling over.
