WinonaRail's Wood Yard

It's nice to have the guaranteed business but you need to be almost full time in firewood to keep them happy.

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Agreed. I don't mind being "full time" firewood in the cold, but I'm starting to tire of it. Now with cold going into mud season throws another wrench into the logistics nightmare.

 

I enjoyed firewood, I didn't want it to become a JOB...knowing you had to get out and do it. At the time, it sounded great, but I still working my 12hr shift job, and then someone got hurt worked a good bit of OT for about 5 months...

 

The last bit of sun for the day looked really pretty. I grabbed this shot when I was coming in from the shop.

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Took another afternoon off work today and delivered 1/4 cord of mixed hardwoods. When I got back I decided to split some shorts from my maple log pile. I just finished when one of my tree service buddies showed up with a full load of chips from a maple. He added them to the pile. I need to spread some next week.

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That's great, that will help with the mud problem

 

That's absolutely right. I really love getting chips to spread wherever I need them.

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The weather is decent today and it is supposed to rain tomorrow so I decided this would be a good night to do some spring cleaning. My burn pit was well past full and I had quite a bit of punky and rotten willow that a tree service dropped off but I wanted to get out of my woody yard. So the obvious choice was to load as much as possible with the skid steer, dump it and burn.

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The weather yesterday afternoon was spectacular for March. I continued working away on the last load of maple tree service wood. This is rack 5, each one being approximately 1/4 cord. Looks like I should have one rack left. I'll also top off a rack of shorts when I finish cutting.

I'm finally getting to the big chunks. There's a bit of noodling going on. I loaded everything in the rack except for one round. After an attempt to lift, I decided I didn't have enough steam left in me and used the skid steer.

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Smart move, my friend. Pulled muscles HURT..

 

I took the afternoon off to continue the spring cleaning. I had several straight maple shorts that I split for tabletop fire pits and mini bundles. Then I split 1/2 rack of bone dry cherry rounds to top off some smoking wood that I keep handy for the roadside stand. Then I split some ugly shorts that I split and threw in a rack for the roadside stand.

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We had beautiful weather today and people came out of hibernation to get firewood. The first one came just before I got home and picked up a 4'x2' stack of mixed hardwoods and 3 mini bundles. As I started to restock, another customer came for 3 mini bundles. While I was wrapping the replacements, yet another customer showed up for 2 campfire bundles so he could have a fire while watching basketball with a buddy this weekend. It looks like spring burning season is officially starting.

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WooHoo! Keep on

I think Winter cordage sales are finished for me. I picked up 3-4 off season volume customers so between now and the end of April im hoping to fill those. Around five cords. Bundle sales will slow now and usually April/May a bit better. Wholesale of course. Picked up another store. Thinking 2500 bundles for 2025. One quarter of the way there already with a delivery today. Hoping smoker wood sales are decent this season.

 

That's great, Gary and Brad

 

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You are the bundle king! I made 8 last night and wasn't interested in doing more. What is your total cordage for bulk wood?

 

I think I figured 35 cords between bundles, general cordage, and BL/specialty woods.

Not a fan of doing bundles myself. I always try to keep ahead but that seldom works out.

 

Firewood loading in process on a gloomy colder March morning.

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I didn't initially notice but I see the poor fella is wearing a sling and loading a piece at a time. He's still there and looks to be loading either hickory or sugar maple.

 

Dedicated customer!