Firewood pics from today.

JayinNY · Jan 20, 2017

We're at our friends golf course again this year, been there on and off since November, we prolly cut close to 40-45 cords of wood out since last January. My brother grabs the logs with the grapple on his skidsteer than me or dad bucks up the log, that machine moves the logs like tooth pics, so nice, no bending over or cutting on the ground! After it's bucked up, we load it on my rack truck and bring it home. Now it's so muddy, we can't haul out on the cart path so we got shut down today until we freeze up again.

larry@stinescorner · Jan 20, 2017

Nice wood///whos old dump truck is that?

Trkr · Jan 20, 2017

Looks like a lota locust!

JayinNY · Jan 20, 2017

Our friends, the owner of the golf course.

JayinNY · Jan 20, 2017

Mainly locust, also alot of cherry some oak and a little maple.

jeffcat · Jan 20, 2017

With that kind of cutting you are a prime candidate for a Bow saw. You cut straight up and down with one and so easy on the arms, back, and body. FAST too. I have 5 different saws with those on them. If you were anywhere near NJ I would come over and help with my 4hp bow saws. Would be fun.

rick n ohio · Jan 20, 2017

jay did you ever think about cutting some of those into fence post.some people pay real good money for locust post
RICK

JayinNY · Jan 20, 2017

We had one guy that wanted some, but he never followed threw,, so its more valuable to us as firewood.

Adirondack case guy · Jan 20, 2017

My fire wood work isn't very strenuous this time of year. Pushed my 4 wheel wood cart from in front of the boiler, in my shop, about 25' out to woodshed , loaded it, and pulled it back in. It holds about a 1/4 face cord of 19" wood. A cart load last 2-3 days depending on weather. and heats the whole house, cellar and shop. The wifey is happy. Temp hovers in mid 70s in the family areas most days.
Loren

JayinNY · Jan 20, 2017

We're getting this for next year and years later, we still have 13 cords in log lengths at our property, this wood is just a added bonus, we like doing wood when it's cooler out, than in the heat.
My boiler takes 24" logs and my brothers takes 20" so we made 2 piles of bucked up logs.

WI Dan · Jan 20, 2017

Nice work!
The flat ground makes it easy, so long as your base is solid.

Adirondack case guy · Jan 20, 2017

Jay, We're having an unusual streak of Jan. weather. Make the best of it. I'm no longer into stacking 25# of Carharts and boots over my body and heading out to cut wood. A pair of jeans and T shirt suits me much better at my age. HeHe
Loren

JayinNY · Jan 20, 2017

Ya, very strange weather, this place is on sand, but some sandy mud because of the frost in the ground, nothing like the clay I'm on, I cut in jeans, sweat shirt and work boots today, and most of the time, If the ground wernt froze below it would drain, this course can take on 3 inches of rain and be open the next day in the summer, when other places close. Bad part is it burns out fast during a drought like last summer, the irrigation system can't keep up when it's 90* and no rain for 2 weeks! Never an even keel! Lol

IA Roy · Jan 20, 2017

You need to hang a work platform off the side of the truck. Otherwise a free standing platform of the correct height. Then you could stand on it and let the chunks fall into the truck as you cut them and not have to pick them up. One more step to making your back last longer and save time and work. Might have to think a little harder on how to do the section in the grapple.

john in la · Jan 20, 2017

Bow Saw

Do they still sell those death traps?

Bob Harvey · Jan 20, 2017

We only use about 3 (real) cords per year. Start burning in late Sept. until early March. The heater has a fire EVERY day in that time frame. I buy my wood in blocks -rounds or 1/2 rounds about 2' in dia. Fir. I get the stuff in May, split and stack it into the 'woodshed'. Come the 'time' - end of Sept., it takes 5 sticks (8" long) of Cedar kindling and my Propane torch to put the system into operation. Just sayin.

Philip d · Jan 20, 2017

That's a great way to handle it,we started doing it with a pallet fork this year and it's so much nicer to be at a comfortable working height on level ground. That grapple would keep it really still,slick setup!

David G · Jan 20, 2017

Cottonwood?

Philip d · Jan 20, 2017

That's a nice cart ,save a lot of trips

JayinNY · Jan 20, 2017

We load the truck with the grapple, no lifting on our part. We do as little hand work as we can!

JayinNY · Jan 20, 2017

Locust.

Richard G. · Jan 20, 2017

Black locust is the best wood we have ever used. Got enough growing on the place to outlast me.
Richard in NW SC

Ivan in Mich · Jan 20, 2017

You need the toy I have sitting in my woods today. It is a JD wood processor. The saw operater told me the guy that runs it has done a few times 100 cords of wood a day. It has about a 20 foot long boom with a saw head on the end that can swivel any which way

jeffcat · Jan 20, 2017

Yes, they do, but death trap is not fair. You really need to be carefully shown how to ues one. Also NEVER remove any of the guards on them. They are In the $135.oo plus range. That is Just the bar. I had a guy train me who had cut a huge amount of pulp wood in the Carolinas when he was younger. You want the tree on the ground and you stand over it. The bar is in front of you at a 90* angle. All you do is pull the trigger and guide the saw. I love how it works, but again I will say you must get some trainiing! Being a wise a*** will get you hurt.

JayinNY · Jan 20, 2017

I don't have one of those, but have watched videos of them
on utube, certainly different, I use a Stihl ms 460 magnum with either 20" or 25" bar, with a chisel chain, I think I might try a full skip chain too, oh what the heck, maybe ill just get a ms 660! Lol thated be some saw!

Traditional Farmer · Jan 21, 2017

Bow saws are great and really safer than a bar for cutting firewood if used correctly as you stated,also a back saver.Most people that run down bow saws have never used one.I can take a bow saw and way out cut someone with a bar especially something like laps.

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