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[PhysAssist]

I think buying logs makes good sense. I'm considering buying a load myself this winter. Around here we pay about $80-100/cord for a 10 cord load delivered. Yes, I have a tractor and a winch, but when you figure in the wear and tear on your equipment and your time, $100/cord isn't so bad. I can cut out myself for less, but it takes time, and if you wreck something like a tire or a hydraulic line, or snag an oil filter, those couple of logs can get very expensive.

That's what we have been doing for the past 6 or 7 years, mostly since there haven't been as many trees being put out to the road, or at the Public Works Taxpayer Give-Back lots lately, AND we have pretty much cleaned out all the old standing dead wood, threatened trees, and all the otherwise apropos and accessible [i.e., not in standing water] trees, etc from our approx 6 acres of swampy bottom woods.

We get ours mostly from tree surgeons, so right now with the scares going around about Emerald Ash borers, a lot of it is Green Ash, but there are other trees like oak, sugar maple, and locust mixed in.

Even in my younger days, I would've had a much harder and less safe time doing this [getting 10'- 20' logs off a tall pile and cutting them up] without our Kubota.

 

[4570Man]

Yea it is pretty efficient. I can even split when it is raining without getting to wet. I'm not quite sure if that is a good thing or not.

That's pretty similar to how I do it. It's nice to leave a pile of rounds and come back when it's raining or after a rain and split "dry" wood. I don't like handling soggy bark wood. I like to split it at the start of the tunnels and throw the wood on the ground. Then I push the piles back with the tractor and stack them. I've since added another stack of wood and the tractor won't fit anymore so I had to take a different approach to get the last little bit in. When I was in production mode I cut and split on the other side of the wall and moved it with my grapple.

 

[DieselBound]

I think buying logs makes good sense. I'm considering buying a load myself this winter. Around here we pay about $80-100/cord for a 10 cord load delivered. Yes, I have a tractor and a winch, but when you figure in the wear and tear on your equipment and your time, $100/cord isn't so bad. I can cut out myself for less, but it takes time, and if you wreck something like a tire or a hydraulic line, or snag an oil filter, those couple of logs can get very expensive.

I agree that it's a good idea to mindful of one's costs. I have folks around me doing this very thing (buying logs).

Most of my wood is from downed trees, stuff that would need clean-up anyways, in which I could say that my hauling costs are offset by my savings on cleanup costs (and I doubt that anyone would come in and clean up for free for that wood).

 

[motownbrowne]

I agree that it's a good idea to mindful of one's costs. I have folks around me doing this very thing (buying logs).

Most of my wood is from downed trees, stuff that would need clean-up anyways, in which I could say that my hauling costs are offset by my savings on cleanup costs (and I doubt that anyone would come in and clean up for free for that wood).

Exactly. No wrong way to get wood. The important part is to get out and run saws, make firewood, have fun.

 

[motownbrowne]

Last couple days work. Making good use of the new excavator. Big ole ash.





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Looking GOOD! That 046 looks pretty cherry.

 

[andy1981]

Moved 2 trailer loads of logs down to my shop from about a mile away on the other side of my property. I hauled the tractor up to load them then then hauled them down and unloaded them with the excavator. I ended up calling it quit s when the rain started so I didn't make a mess.

 

[ultrarunner]

Plenty of storm fall oak left to rot around here... easy to get but with fireplace burn bans it costs money to dispose so it is left to rot.

Been going out the brothers farm and around 6 I will head over to the house and get a fire going in the LOPI pedestal stove... around 7 everyone starts coming in from the Tree Lot to a nice warm house... it really is nice to come home to and my sister in law is ever so grateful.

Mom and I went out last February with a saw and splitter and did about a cord and half and stacked some old stuff...

With dry 100 degree summer days the split wood seasons fast...

When they bought the place the LOPI was on the list to get rid of... the minute I said I will haul it away it gave them pause... now they are glad to have it.

It is a small LOPI for the family room so the pieces need to be sized accordingly....

 

[MossRoad]

Plenty of storm fall oak left to rot around here... easy to get but with fireplace burn bans it costs money to dispose so it is left to rot.

Been going out the brothers farm and around 6 I will head over to the house and get a fire going in the LOPI pedestal stove... around 7 everyone starts coming in from the Tree Lot to a nice warm house... it really is nice to come home to and my sister in law is ever so grateful.

Mom and I went out last February with a saw and splitter and did about a cord and half and stacked some old stuff...

With dry 100 degree summer days the split wood seasons fast...

When they bought the place the LOPI was on the list to get rid of... the minute I said I will haul it away it gave them pause... now they are glad to have it.

It is a small LOPI for the family room so the pieces need to be sized accordingly....

You ever find a solution for your car top strapping at the tree farm?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I had a big load of rounds to split, so I backed up my "self propelled" splitter up to my "self unloading" trailer, raised the 3 point high enough to put the table grate over the side and started splitting,

It works out GREAT, the splitter easily pushes the big crotches right through the 4-way wedge and off the end of the grate, filling the trailer,

What didn't fit in the trailer, I split on the ground,

I ended up with about two cords of splits.

This is for next years heating season... Now to go cut another load!

SR

 

[VroomVroom]

Andy1981. I noticed your location. I know Hudson , is located in barneville NY. I was wondering what the price of their winches were compared to other brands? Uniforest. I'm in Newfoundland. There are no winched here go look at. And the only price I can see is approximately $ 4000 usd, for a 35m 7700lb. My tractor is a mahindra 28 hp. Less on the pto