That's pretty much what you have to/are supposed to do here as well. If it's your first burn the FD might come out and make sure you have a clue.
I made it back out to the project today. Got a full load on the gold pickup, split and stacked in the box. Didn’t get the trailer Very full, but was at a good stopping spot and getting low on gas for the splitter. 12 very large rounds left ( if you wanna call them rounds, a couple are more like triangles). Next outing will involve some serious noodling. Today’s pictures End up with quite a bit more than that in the trailer, that picture is more of the dog resting on the pickup cab
3 loads in the gold pickup, one in the green pickup, & 2 trailer loads so far. Probably over one good load left, maybe two. All split in the field before it came home.
The size of that stump is pretty mind-blowing. The edged of the splits look pretty sharp, is it putting up much of a fight with the splitter?
I’m used to splitting elm so no more fighting than normal. I’m sure a bunch of people would have passed on it long ago. But it’s about as good as firewood as I can get around here. There’s been a lot more punk/soft stuff than I thought there would be
You are right as i wouldve passed on it. Maybe fun to take a saw to, but not to split. When i see pictures of the treeless landscape in your area i understand why you take what you can get. Keep up the great work!
Finally finished up this score today One more full load of splits on the gold pickup (lots of uglies in it) on Saturday this is what was left for Sunday Took the skid steer out today to load the last of the large rounds. I’ll deal with them later after they dry some and I have fresh chains for noodling. The one large single round in the grapple I threw in the landowners burn pile. That’s a 72” wide grapple All the remaining trash was swept up with skid steer and piled on the stump. Final tallies = 4 loads on the gold pickup, 2 on the trailer, 1 full load on green pickup + the rounds hauled in today in green pickup and skid steer trailer would probably be a full load in the gold one if it was split. I figure 2 1/2 cords in the stacks + the uglies and rounds to deal with latter. It’s the longer part of the stack from the divider in these 2 pics. plus this little pile which is probably 2 days worth after all that and seeing how fast some of you others pile up the wood, I gotta wonder if it was worth the effort. But it’s gotta be really close to a whole season’s worth for me & gets me one year closer to the 3 year plan. So yes it was worth it . After all..... we all gotta burn what we are dealt
Well, that wasn't exactly an easy looking tree to process. Even with some of the heavy duty artillery.
Lots of great firewood! Landowner has to appreciate your attention to cleanup details. You certainly give hoarders a good reputation!
Oh yeah she’s always got to be climbing up on something so she can see, Mother Nature was kinda mean to beagles, giving them short legs. I often refer to her as my “ stack stability inspector” always climbing on them
Of course it was worth the effort. You seem to enjoy making firewood, have the equipment to do so and that was a LOT of wood at once. And IMO a real nice stack as an end result. Of course a lot of uglies and chunkies but those are to be expected with a tree like that. Do you have an idea of how many hours you put in at the score? Was it close to home?
@ 250/cord ( price of oak and often "mixed hardwoods" here) x 2.5 cords would be worth $625 here (before it is well seasoned). I don't know how many hours you got into it but figure it's a great hobby that didn't cost much, you got a good workout that would cost at least something at a local gym. Plus it gets ya out of the house and doing something besides work (unless you cut trees for a living, then you might need a new hobby ). Stacks of firewood hedging and leveraging future heating bills seems worth it to me, plus in a pinch you could sell, trade/barter it. Plus all the planning, doing and dealing with things is much better exercise for the brain than watching CNN.
Yeah having spent some time in NW Kansas and seeing the backdrop of your pictures, looks like big trees are fairly scarce out there. Great work getting all that knocked out!!