Just curious how you guys set your logs aside, or if you do at all. I will set these up like this till fall and once the 50 degree days set in attack it. Right now I am stacking 17/18 and splitting 19 etc Just curious as I see many log piles all out of sorts (mine included sometimes)
I C/S/S one tree start to finish or buck and stack the rounds when I'm trying to get a lot moved. I don't have a good way to move log lengths yet.
I rarely have mine in log form like that.... but I am processing some in log form. This isn't at my place but my parents. I'll steady this when I get the chance and bring it from 3-6 foot sections to rounds. Piled up on a pallet, I got a good load of oak limbs. Waiting as well. They'll at least be ok for the time being. I knew when I got them that I wanted to get them stacked off the ground. Anything around here that stays on the ground for more than a couple months is just gonna collect dirt and bury itself.
I always cut the tree up on the spot and haul the rounds out in the tractor bucket. I can't drag logs down like that without completely destroying my tractor roads on these hillsides. 95% of what I cut is up on the hillsides, the other rare occasions when something falls within distance of dragging out of the woods with the truck or tractor I still just cut it up on the spot...but I can drag it to a "convenient" spot.
That is as good as anything else. You have the logs up off the ground and should be good until you get around to bucking them up and then splitting.
On occasion I'll drag an entire log out, however, I typically spend one day felling the tree, cut it into rounds, load the rounds into my trailer, dump the rounds near my stacks. Then another day (or days) I'll spend splitting and and stacking them. I've uploaded these pics before, but I'll put them up again since their show my process well.
I stack them up on either old utility pole pieces or cross arms (3 1/2" x 4 1/2" x 8' or 10') I bring home from work just to keep them off the ground and even the same with the rounds until I get to splitting
We rarely used to do this but the last 2 years we've had a bunch of good guys come here and they love to cut wood. So we have drug out a few logs for them to work on and they make short work of them! All of these logs were hauled out on the dray (pictured in the first picture) using the atv. They were all stacked by hand too. However, that stacking by hand is coming to a halt fast. We got a new tractor and come winter we'll be getting a set of forks for the FEL and will use that for stacking and perhaps some for loading onto the dray too. Most times we just lay down 2 logs to stack onto but sometimes we just stack on the ground so long as we're on a relatively high spot. We can do that and get away with it on this sandy ground we have.
That ought to work but the bottom logs are sacrificial. I do not do that but the only time I have a log form is when a tree is a blow down or otherwise dropped by ma nature. In that case the log is off the ground because of the root ball and the top holding it up.
Not always sacrificial. We do it and the bottom logs are just fine. They usually are only sacrificed if left in a stack like that for a long time.
