Never again

[TIMMYDUCK]

Been feeding wood stoves for over 5 decades.

I love the big rounds and the yields they produce.

 

[JimR]

Been cutting wood for 60 years.
I tried something new today.
Had a load of stems delivered and the driver asked if he could bring me a 40” wide stem, 15’ long and tapering to 32”. I said “sure” since I got this new Champion vert/*** splitter.
So I take to it with my 20” bar and my tried and true Husky 257 and 3 cuts into this thing and I’m out of fuel. Now I have these 3 cookies averaging 36” wide and 16” long and they weigh at least 250 lbs per.
I try to stand them on end so I can roll them to the splitter and have to use a 4’ peavy to get them up.
I get them to the splitter and push them up the splitter foot w the tractor.
The 27 ton splitter easily splits this wood but to wrangle the splits is back breaking.
4 hrs later including bringing these splits to the woodshed to be stacked, I got the stem half done.
Yes it produces a lot of wood but it’s way too much work so, I won’t be doing that again.

You should have quartered them with your chainsaw to make them much more manageable to move around. It saves your back from a lot of undo stress.

 

[Rick Sladewski]

Been cutting wood for 60 years.
I tried something new today.
Had a load of stems delivered and the driver asked if he could bring me a 40” wide stem, 15’ long and tapering to 32”. I said “sure” since I got this new Champion vert/*** splitter.
So I take to it with my 20” bar and my tried and true Husky 257 and 3 cuts into this thing and I’m out of fuel. Now I have these 3 cookies averaging 36” wide and 16” long and they weigh at least 250 lbs per.
I try to stand them on end so I can roll them to the splitter and have to use a 4’ peavy to get them up.
I get them to the splitter and push them up the splitter foot w the tractor.
The 27 ton splitter easily splits this wood but to wrangle the splits is back breaking.
4 hrs later including bringing these splits to the woodshed to be stacked, I got the stem half done.
Yes it produces a lot of wood but it’s way too much work so, I won’t be doing that again.

I use my bucket to gently set the big stuff on the splinter. Either vert or ***. I am to old to pick up that much. Work smarter not dumber

 

[walnutman]

Cookies are short rounds.

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And stems LOL. In the US a stem is a stick. We call the big stuff logs.
The different terms among countries is interesting.

 

[RB5]

Been cutting wood for 60 years.
I tried something new today.
Had a load of stems delivered and the driver asked if he could bring me a 40” wide stem, 15’ long and tapering to 32”. I said “sure” since I got this new Champion vert/*** splitter.
So I take to it with my 20” bar and my tried and true Husky 257 and 3 cuts into this thing and I’m out of fuel. Now I have these 3 cookies averaging 36” wide and 16” long and they weigh at least 250 lbs per.
I try to stand them on end so I can roll them to the splitter and have to use a 4’ peavy to get them up.
I get them to the splitter and push them up the splitter foot w the tractor.
The 27 ton splitter easily splits this wood but to wrangle the splits is back breaking.
4 hrs later including bringing these splits to the woodshed to be stacked, I got the stem half done.
Yes it produces a lot of wood but it’s way too much work so, I won’t be doing that again.

This is exactly why I usually cut smaller trees that are manageable. Any trunks that size should probably go to the mill if there is one close enough. I have some old oaks that are more than 4 or 5' across. I would not try to cut those on my own with the equipment I have. I learned the hard way when I was cutting firewood to sell as a teen that I didn't want to deal with the bigger logs.

 

[walnutman]

My back has paid the price.

 

[charlessenf]

"Much faster than noodling."

What is 'noodling?'

"I could have used my 272 that was stolen years ago."

Right, but even if you could find him after all this time, what makes you think he would lend it to you?

 

[WinterDeere]

What is 'noodling?'

Cutting with the grain. Saw will spit out long streams of linguini-like "noodles". It's an extremely fast way to halve or quarter a round, many times faster than traditional rip cutting.

 

[charlessenf]

Mama said "Your eyes are bigger than your stomach," and while you ain't eatin' logs . . .

Geeze she was smart as a whip - and never logged a tree in her 91 years.

 

[charlessenf]

Cutting with the grain. Saw will spit out long streams of linguini-like "noodles". It's an extremely fast way to halve or quarter a round, many times faster than traditional rip cutting.

Thank you - I've done it! But just called it ripping. And on much smaller 'stems' (that I've always called logs - but I get the logic).

We've heated with our own logs for twenty some years now and I still don't know what what I've been doing's called!

Imagine that!