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Started cutting my 2015 firewood.

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I'm getting a late start this year. By this time last year I had 17.5 full cord of wood cut split and stacked in my wood shed. We burned 12 cord heating the entire house and my attached tractor shop last winter. No heating oil used, been burning it in my Kubota tractor and trackhoe. I skidded out windfalls today. We have had more than usual wind damage this summer. I estimate that I skidded about 4 cord to two landing sites today. I don't work real fast anymore, and sat back some, and just enjoyed the shade and quiet in the woods today.
Loren, the Acg.
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That little tractor is doing well to pull that log, with turf tires on the back. 4wd makes a difference.

KEH
 
Cutting wood is a winter time job as far as I'm concerned. lol Been missing your posts lately. How is the wife?
 
It is hard to see in the pics., but I built a 3pt. arch, which I can drop, hook and then raise the butt of the log. It will spin out before it will pick the front end off the ground. When I have the chains on, I have to carry some weight in the loader bucket.
Loren
 
Jon,
She has to be at the hospital tomarrow morning at 7:00 for more tests. They still haven't figured out what was causing the issues she had when she was hospitalized. She has felt pretty decent this week. She made 26 pts. of sweet pickels today.
Loren
 
I've been cutting and splitting too. We had several trees go down a couple of years ago, but I didn't have a splitter. We made it through the winter cutting dead elm to burn on a weekly basis. Don't want to do that again. My only concern is if the wood will dry it time. There's plenty of dead/dry limbs to cut and I hope to burn those until the split oak dries.

Larry
 
I have 5 cord of wood from last year that will get me to Jan. 2015. then I will be burning this.
I don't agree with people who say that you must season wood for a year or more. It burns way too fast. 4 to 6 months seasoning time is plenty enough for my boiler set up.
Loren
 
I'd love to get caught up to the point where I am cutting a year ahead. LOL! I agree with you on the seasoning of wood. Just getting caught up to the point where I can start thinking about cutting wood. Got several days of serious woods road repairs yet, (see above post) then to the fire wood.
 
I find that if you get it done before or at least during the summer and get it aired out, some summer heat, etc. most will season just fine in a few months, Elm, Black Cherry, which dries fast, maple etc,. oak takes a long time for sure, but if you have it done before September, stacked cover on top at least, seems to burn, ignite just fine. I had filled my dads woodshed years back, and recall some several year seasoned, air tight stove, ignites like paper on a small bed of coals and you could dial it in nicely, does seem to burn faster, but the heat does last and that house was always toasty warm when I was working on it then.

I'll be shooting for getting the rest of mine done by the end of the month, got a lot of felling and towing in to do yet, darned elm just keeps dying around here, all 35+ yr trees too, in places I remember where there were no trees prior too.
 
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