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The 2024 Firewood Thread

3 or so cords of 10+ to do this year. Love the splitter so far. I've got free logs lined up, as many as i can take. My buddy got a fire prevention grant area, what sucks is its mostly sub-alpine (piss) fir.
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I've been fucking around all summer instead of splitting wood. Put away another short bed load (1/2 cordish) today, got 2-3 cords on the ground still to split.
 
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I have lots of large red oak blocks and pieces 4-5' long that need to be worked up into firewood, hopefully I'll be well enough to do it soon. Or at least before snow fly's.
 
Brought home most of a maple I removed and more fir. First trip towing the dump trailer with my F150 so I didn't go crazy loading it down. Guys who bucked the fir weren't very consistent, gonna be some saw work to make it fit in the stove.

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I swear I'm a broken record with telling people I don't have seasoned wood for sale. It's "out if stock" on my site and has been for going on 2 years.
Not my problem you waited till now.

Had a guy try to pass blame in me "welll.... what the fuck am I supposed to do nowwwww?!"

Don't know, but have a good day. They he proceeded to call me 14 times the next hour. Phone was on the desk charging so didn't even notice, but stilI blocked the number. Have better things to deal with.

Plans to setup a new kiln, but it's down the list right now. Thinking that kiln dried wood is going to be near $500/cord vs $325 normal stuff to cover the added labor/handling and cost to dry it. Well, plus the ~10k for the kiln setup.
May setup a boiler on used oil but haven't figured out for sure.
 
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TrikeKid said:
Brought home most of a maple I removed and more fir.
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If you have problems with fire moving around or blowing smoke cutout holes in the bottom and it will draw from the ground and fire and smoke will stay vertical vs being blown all over.
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Well last winter was mild so only burned about 1/2 of what I had stacked. Still puts the wood shed at around 50%. Well between demoing the carport, work and kids I realized I am behind. So Instead of carving this afternoon I went a bucked up q down maple log. Will try and get it split tomorrow evening. Its pretty damn dry.
 
Been busy getting wood for this winter when I i feel like getting away from the shop and work. Sorry for the fuzzy pics, my phone case was messed up, but I got a new so the rest are better.

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I am about 75% full in the wood shed now, luckily we have lots of standing dead around , so drying the wood for winter isn't an issue. I just like to be ahead of the game... and cutting/splitting firewood is fun. I must be getting old.
 
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I was a little concerned falling this one, a lot of weight up there and I wasn't sure how long it had been dead for. Luckily it wasn't rotten yet, and everything went to plan. About 40" in diameter with the bark.

I had to shave the bark off to see what I was actually working with which is what the funny cuts are. good 6" of bark in soem spots.
 
TrikeKid said:
Fire pit is mint except it doesn't fit whole pallets. Maxed out at two before you hear the siding and gutters on the shop start moving from the heat.

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is the fire pit new?
it looks awesome

but being cement blocks, any real good heat will cause them to crumble over time.
what I did was line the inside of the ring with clay brick. they can take the heat better.
 
WLDWUN said:
is the fire pit new?
it looks awesome

but being cement blocks, any real good heat will cause them to crumble over time.
what I did was line the inside of the ring with clay brick. they can take the heat better.
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It was here when I moved in, about the only thing the previous owners did that was worth a shit honestly.
 
blakes said:
no pics, but as part of wildfire mitigation I cut 20 lodgepoles the other day and moved about half of them and their slash with the hoe today.
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I got a bunch of those to get soon as well, a few fell on my fence :mad3: The king needs to take better care of his forests up here. To many dead trees on his side of the fence :laughing:
 
Pook said:
Been busy getting wood for this winter when I i feel like getting away from the shop and work. Sorry for the fuzzy pics, my phone case was messed up, but I got a new so the rest are better.

I am about 75% full in the wood shed now, luckily we have lots of standing dead around , so drying the wood for winter isn't an issue. I just like to be ahead of the game... and cutting/splitting firewood is fun. I must be getting old.
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Which model of box blade is that?
 
I have more wood than I know what to do with :laughing:

a trailer load of dead pine, about a cord per load.
all from dead trees that were killed by bark beetles over the last 5 years.
I have 20 loads to move.
pile of brush in the background to get burned later this year

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about 5+ cords of the wood is starting to rot and I will just run it through the splitter once and burn it in the pit as well.

have another 20 trees I will thin out in the next year or so.
have marked everything in the yard with pink flagging.
went through two rolls of it so far and still need more.
need to get the big stuff done before I get too old. :laughing:

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most of the tree that will stay have been limbed up close to 30 feet
still need to do another 20 of those as well.
 
got all the downed trees cut up and piled (splitting is going to take some time)

first pile is 15 trees worth, at least 12 cords
will burn some in the wood stove, will give lots away, some will just get burned in an outside pit.
I have at least this much more pine around the yard as well
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second pile will just get split once and them into an outside pit
about 6-8 cords worth
part rotten or the lower stumps I cut off. all pine as well
just want it gone

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they died from bark beetles in 2021. bark was still on them when I took all the branches and tops off them
30 of them were completely killed, another 12 that I took just the top off and the rest of the tree lived

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left the poles standing as there was to much wood to have on the ground

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bark peeled off over the last two years and the bases are now getting soft where they enter the ground.
now they are down and cut up
just need to be split and/or burned
 
WLDWUN do you sell firewood as well or is this just cleaning up your property?


Looking at the weather it looks like it's finally gonna cool off this weekend. I need to get my ass back out and start cutting fence posts for some fence I need to build. I don't burn wood but a buddy does so what doesn't make hedge posts will get bucked up for him. He lets me use his skid steer when i need it so I try to build up some credit with the firewood.

I hated cutting firewood as a kid since we heated with it. Now that I don't heat with it I can cut when I feel like it. I know the guys from the Midwest will think I am nuts but I like to cut hedge (Osage Orange) especially when I am cutting for fence posts.
 
Wades_76_cj7 said:
WLDWUN do you sell firewood as well or is this just cleaning up your property?
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I have a severe addiction
thought that was obvious :laughing:

all of the pine that I cut on the property either gets burned at home, given away, or burned in a pit

that said I do sell about 30 cords of wood to others, mostly family friends
8 cords of Oak and 20+ of Douglas fir.
about 6k for the year

8 cords of Oak, have two piles this size currently
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40ish cords of Fir

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Wheelin66bronco said:
My buddy's leg after he fell a green aspen, it barberchaired, and his foot was stuck in a hole and he couldn't get out in time. He's lucky the rest of him wasnt in the way.
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Ouch!
hope he heals well

that is one of the first things they teach you...
a safe escape route...
and a backup to that

OHLEC

Objective
Regardless of task, develop a plan to determine where you want the cut piece to end up.
• If bucking, plan where you want the bucked log or round to go
• If limbing, determine sequence and direction for large branches when cut
• If brushing, particularly in thick brush, plan how you will remove the brush when it is cut

Hazards/obstacles
Develop a plan to identify the hazards/obstacles:
• That are overhead (fire, rotten top, widow makers and loose bark)
• That are in the piece of wood being cut (fire, rot and hinge wood integrity, hollow, bar/saw length compared to diameter, bees or poison plants)
• Springpoles
• Buildings, equipment or other trees you don’t want damaged
• That are associated with people and cutting area control

Leans/binds
Since lay, cut piece placement, sequence or removal was determined in O develop a plan to:
• Determine lean of a standing tree and calculate, in feet, the amount of head/back lean and side lean
• Determine binds in log to be bucked, spring poles, limbs or brush to be removed

Escape routes
Since leans and binds were determined in the previous step develop a plan to:
• Determine the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ side of the tree, log, springpole, limb or brush
• Determine and clear an escape route (or 2 routes if necessary for crosscut saw/axe work or situations that require two routes)

Cut Plan
Develop a cut plan to determine which technique will be used to remove wood fiber to achieve the desired result including:
• Face notch construction type (conventional, Humboldt or open face)
• Hinge position, length of hinge, depth of hinge and amount of stump shot needed
• Back cut type (straight in from the back or chase, boring back cut and out the back, boring back cut with release or holding wood or strap)
• Wedge placement including number of wedges and axe placement
• Sawyer communication to crew members, swamper or crosscut sawyer partner
 
Does anyone know anyone near central MA that needs wood for 2025 or so.

I'm gonna have ~5ac of birch, maple and oak that's mostly gonna get cut down over the coming year and if someone here knows someone they can have it for free if they help take it down.

Edit: INB4 the usual people show up acting like I'm asking someone to clear my land for free, I said "help". I'm expecting to do the bulk of the work myself.
 
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