Cleaned up the top and limbs from the last tree with the 241. Bucked most of what I could. Need the bigger saw to finish the trunk then the last tree will come down. Forgot to take pics but it happened.
Took the last tree down this afternoon. 17" DBH. 462 did the honors. Again not my best stump but dropped it perfectly where I wanted. 241 got in on the fun. Ill finish it up tomorrow. Oh, and I hate Flippy caps. Felt something cold hit my leg when I picked the saw up...gas. Cap popped off.
Bucked the rest up this afternoon. Next step will be to bring the hydro over and get to work splitting. Probably 2.5 cords to process.
Is it just easier to split on site then move the wood compared to just loading the bucked wood and splitting at your place And now I see why you wore the tires out on your splitter
Its located where I store mostly bundle wood and next door to my main storage where the hydro is. Ill grade the splits as I go and toss into mounds accordingly. If the splits come nice and straight I'm guessing 75-90% of the wood will be for bundles and the rest general cordage.
Ground froze up. brought the splitter over and started in. Frozen ground a huge incentive. Mound of splits is general cordage. Splits on truck got moved to the back for bundle wood. Couple more sessions next week. Ill set the splitter vertical for the bigguns.
New England fescue...some tough stuff! Actually the coldest its been this Winter with some brutal wind chills this week. Ground nice and frozen and looks to stay for next week too.
Moved a mound of splits Thursday and filled an empty half cord rack. Spent the afternoon rolling out big rounds and using the splitter vertically to chunk them down. Then switched to horizontal and split away. Moved bundle splits to the back. Heading there today and hopefully finish before the rain comes. Rolled the big rounds out and sectioned them up with the splitter vertical.
I planned on splitting until the rain started yesterday. Topped off the gas and a light rain started a bit later. Being in the mid 40's it wasn't too bad. Had planned on splitting until it ran out, but I got too wet. Bundle wood on the PU got moved to the back. Mounds of general cordage splits will get moved at a later date. Maybe an hours worth of splitting left which I'll do today.
Very nice! I like how you cherry pick your bundle wood. They don't do that around here, twisted, knotted, crooked. It all goes into there bundles
Question Brad. I knew you occasionally used a splitter but did you actually buy one? If so, must have missed that. After using one for a while it sure is hard to go back to only hand splitting! Very nice looking bunch of wood! I can see where one might be forced to go vertical on the splitter to bust the largest rounds. Just don't fall into the habit of using it the wrong way!
Thanks for the kind words. Straight primo splits are made 2/3 the size of general cordage wood. Faster drying and consumers feel like they are getting more. Just wish I wasn't so fussy when I'm assembling them.
I don't own a gas powered hydro. That one is my friends who rarely uses it and is my main splitter. I've used my other friends splitter at my black locust storage. I have my little electric one here when I make bundles up here. I don't split rounds with the electric one just resize bigger splits. I did look into an electric super split for use at main storage, but the price really shied me away at nearly 4K loaded. Ive been looking into used generic splitters for having an extra that I could use at scores or do an occasional splitting job. The rounds from two of the trees were good sized and I normally bust em down with the isocore to load the PU at a score. Here I rolled them out and knelt to quarter them up going vertical.. Honestly didn't even think of using the Isocore here. Red maple can be easy or tough when hand splitting.
