Don't really time myself, but lately I go out for 3-4 hours, split, throwing the wood in the pickup. Since I tend to have some shorts and longs, it hard to tell for sure how much is in a load but maybe .5-.75 cord per load. Some I bring to the house while others get stacked in totes at Bunny's. Not fast, but tend to stay steady until I finish for the day. Before Lefty passed we would stack the wood directly into totes and he would move them while I am not there. Need to work on getting a tractor with loader running again next spring so I can go back to that and save some time.
yeah, I haven't been as diligent about keeping up as I should be. My wife and son sometimes help, but a lot of it is by myself. My brother asked me today if he could help split for an afternoon and then take some home. I told him to get his tail over here, lol. I don't know when he will come over, maybe next weekend.
I never just split. A cord of douglas fir weighs between 3000 and 5000lbs depending on how dry it is. I'm not throwing 3000+ lbs of splits on the ground and then picking them up again. Wood goes from the truck, to the chopping block (in a tire), to the wheelbarrow, to the stack.
Math might be wrong here. Cylinder 6” radius x 16” length = 1,810 cubic inches. Cord 48” x 96” x 48” = 221,184 cubic inches 221,184 / 1,810 = 122.2 pieces 122.2 x 8 = ~978 seconds 978 / 60 seconds = 16.3 minute. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
