After our PA GTG vacation and 4 days of work, we started back to work on my days off. Friday, moved logs and cut rounds... Tried a different approach this time, cut the logs in an open area, and used the grapple to pile the round next to the splitter... The bigger rounds, I could pick up 3-4 at once. Worked great. Split this small pile Saturday night.. Stacked it Monday morning. That made about 5 1/2 rows in the shed. Blue Samson was hungry Monday, so fed him more oak, got a nice pile done before lunch... Stacked it Monday evening, that finished the 5th row and started the 6th. Over half way done now.
We finished the big pile of rounds Wednesday. Made it 1/2 way up on the 7th row... Cleaned up the area, moved splitter back to shed after a small offsite splitting job. Picked out some of the bigger logs, thick bark that I hope comes off easy, staged them Thursday evening... Cut 6 of the logs into 18" rounds this morning...I know, one of those guys that cuts saw logs into firewood......wish Sawdust Man was a bit closer... Blue Samson should get fed in the morning. I'm hoping to save this shed for our use, would probably get us on the 10 yr plan...
Oh that hurts to see such perfect logs going into firewood.....all the while, I'm sawing dinky crooked logs into lumber... At least y'all do em justice with your perfect stacks. Impressive to say the least!
Thanks, my friend. It was a real blessing to get that job. Cut almost 3 acres, tallest oaks were over 90'. Had some pines in the 80' range.
Split and stacked awhile Saturday morning. Got lucky when we dropped this oak. Glad we were cutting the stumps low, missed the barbed wire fence. We made a little dent in the pile, hard to see from this angle though... We stopped before 11:30AM, as I'm on nigjt shift. Got the 7th row finished, good base on the 8th. Set up the big fan and let it blow 24/7 until Monday morning. Almost 100° air dryer...
I've hit barbed wire before and the same high tinsel wire used to train young apple tree limbs. It kills chain, you got lucky indeed.
Split and stacked a couple hours this morning by myself, Miz Carol had grandsons duty. These big rounds made some nice splits. Almost done with 8th row, got 8 more rounds to split. Should be enough to start on the last row...
Got the last 8 rounds split and stacked this morning after getting the ribs on the smoker. Finished the 8th row and started on the last row.
A true work of art Jeff. I can only dream having such beautiful stacks. How are you liking the X-Cut chain?
Thanks, having great logs makes stacking easy. Got some uglies on top...lol... And the X-cut .325 chain is nice. I carried 2 to PA with us. The semi chisel works great on skidded logs. I was able to closely match the factory grind with our Super Jolly grinder when they needed sharpening...cuts great... Only complaint I have is it's almost made like a safety chain, the drive link has a hump next to the depth gauge, can't use the progressive file gauge on it. I will have to use regular file guide or grinder if I want to go more than .025 on them.
Happy to say we finished the oak side of the calico shed today, 9 rows deep. Should be about 4.5 cords. I hope when we finish processing all the Plantation wood, somebody can help tally the score...
Love it! Perfect wood size IMO. I got distracted mid vid but I counted 21 splits on that first round.
