There’s probably more hardwood firewood in those 3 pictures than there is in the whole county I reside in. no sympathy here
I agree and look at the way i do it! If thats all i had maybe yes but i frown upon them. Can you put em aside and process in the cool weather?
I get ya for sure rider as these 22'' are a pain to deal with. I'll do the Backwoods Savage maneuver for sure.
I’ll take all the big stuff I can get. Quarter noodle with the 7900, wait a year, then split. All the splits came from one round. The rounds were 41” dia.
I like the bigger ones myself,,,,for my own selfish reasons. With the winch lift on the splitter it’s easier for me to get them up than manually do a bunch of smaller stuff. It’s less work for me. There is a limit tho. Some of the monsters you guys are showing I’d noodle first. Depending on the weight of the species I’d say anything above 26” will get noodled. There’s only so much room on a average horizontal splitter to deal with that stuff.
I find the big ones a love/hate relationship. Just picked up some oak, the biggest was 34" diameter by 27" long. That was a pain just to get on the Tommy Lift for loading. I thought there was a calculator someplace that could tell the weight of logs, be fun to find. So I get you that it takes longer for process and you don't have time for that. My pet peeve is more that no one even attempts to make 16"-18" cuts. Keep up the great work jrider , you are a roll model for many here.
Timber and Lumber Calculators at WOODWEB Assuming Northern Red Oak, it would be 868 lbs for a 34" diameter x 27" long round.
Its pretty crazy what wood can weigh. The logs in my above pic on the Kioti are both around 5 feet long and are each around 2500 lbs
