Firewood carrier

[JDGreenGrass]

Cord talk. Interesting.

Up here in Maine it all goes by weight now.

 

[carpenter383]

Cord talk. Interesting.

Up here in Maine it all goes by weight now.

Interesting, but it seems like that would encourage people to try and sell green wood.

 

[JerryK]

Here in Michigan, if you buy bulk dried hardwood it usually comes in 10 or 20 full cord loads [ full cord= 4 feet high by 8 feet long by 4 feet deep ]. Face cords [ face cord= 4 feet high by 8 feet long by ? inches deep ] can be of any lenght, and are usually sold in 5 facecord minumum loads. I cut my wood in 18" lenghts to allow me to stack it in 6 foot high piles in the barn. I also cut a bunch of 'chunk' lenghts out of the real nasty looking crooked stuff, to add to a fire later in the day when you are about to knock off work. If you buy face cords, they can be all over the place lenghtwise, and depending how you stack it you might not be getting a full facecord. Kind of a buyer beware thing, and something you have to check out before you buy. Just like everything else in life.

 

[Dead Horse]

Interesting, but it seems like that would encourage people to try and sell green wood.

I put up 24 cord this year, (since may 1) and have tried all sorts of handling options. The idea being to handle as little as possible.

I have a Farmi 601, so use it to winch and skid logs to a cutting site. In one approach I skid the logs all the way from the forest to the wood shed, buck, split and load them into the FEL for stacking.

In another approach I bucked rounds in the foreast and loaded them into my dump truck via FEL, across logging roads. Dump the rounds at the shed, rinse and repeat.

The third approach involved winching whole trees up an embankment limbing them, feeding the brush to the chipper, winching another 30 feet and stacking them against some live trees. Later I brought the splitter up along with an ATV pulling a trailer. The trailer capacity is 2100 pounds, so I could only get about 2/3rds of a cord loaded without overloading. It worked well, as I could then make less trips to the wood ricks/shed.

I like the idea of prepackedged ricks........ I have to figure out how to make that work for me. Keeping the wood in the shed gets it to seasoned state pretty fast as it stays dry and gets air all around it (stacked on pallets) as it bakes in the hot summer sun under a tin roof. The shed is full now and I have 7 covered "super" ricks within a few feet of the Central Boiler.

 

[JerryK]

Nice wood shed.... Something I hope to build someday. But with all the snow we get I would have to put the opening on the ends. The constant iceburgs flowing off the steel roof would close off the openings unless you fought them daily. Once and awhile, the snow comes off my barn roof in big roof sized sheets and flies 20 feet out in the yard, just about wiping out everything in its path. Makes a heck of a racket if you are inside working, and could be real deadly if you happened to be outside in the wrong place. Beats shoveling the roof, though...

 

[Dead Horse]

Nice wood shed.... Something I hope to build someday. But with all the snow we get I would have to put the opening on the ends. The constant iceburgs flowing off the steel roof would close off the openings unless you fought them daily. Once and awhile, the snow comes off my barn roof in big roof sized sheets and flies 20 feet out in the yard, just about wiping out everything in its path. Makes a heck of a racket if you are inside working, and could be real deadly if you happened to be outside in the wrong place. Beats shoveling the roof, though...

We get plenty of snow, but I can keep it cleared with the big loader. The shed shares a wall with one of the barns, which are right off the road, so I don't have very far to go to collect the firewood. I finished bringing the grade up another 6 inches at the base of the shed, with gravel and the summer heat packed it down pretty solid. keeping it scraped off will let it freeze and actually make access to the shed easier.

The house and wood boiler are 3/4 of a mile up the mountain from the shed, but the road is paved for most of it. The floor in the shed sure notices the weight this year!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ken45101]

A couple of observations:

A "cord" is the only standard term recognized everywhere (4x4x8). A "face cord" or "rick" varies all over the map and could mean whatever someone wants it to mean. It doesn't easily communicate the actual amount of wood.

(For humor regarding cordwood measurement, I once called an ad in the newspaper that was advertising firewood by the "truckload". I asked how much wood was actually there and the woman responded "I don't know but it's a big truck, it has lots of gears" I am serious! Geesh!)

I have one of the "carry alls" but it didn't hold up and bent quickly. Dumb me, I thought it would be stronger. It wasn't. But then I was trying to carry creek rock.

The OP's device is very nice but I would really prefer less handling, e.g. the multiple holders from pallets that can be moved and left loaded. Unfortunately, my shed ($795 carport) is too low to get the tractor and loader underneath
And furthermore, I usually buck in the woods and bring in the rounds and dump them outside the shed and split and stack it later.

Maybe I'll try something with pallets to bring in the rounds from the woods. It would be cheap and easy to try, at least.

Ken

 

[Bedlam]

I really like the halfed pallet version. I have forks that go on WITH the bucket so weight way out is a serious concern.Th half pallet one is simple and cheap.