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[shooterdon]

I cheat getting wood all the same length. There is a positive stop on the processor. Sold a load to my CPA, and he loved it. Seasoned and ALL THE SAME LENGTH!

He will be buying 4-6 cords a year.

If selling firewood it can make a difference. For my personal use it does not matter. Another selling feature is giving the customer a moisture reading.

 

[Jstpssng]

If selling firewood it can make a difference.

Er, yeah. My cousin asked me what I thought about a tractor trailer load of 8 foot firewood he had bought... every stick was 7'6". I suggested that somebody owed him firewood or money.
I'm not sure what he did, if anything.

 

[Helogabals]

How are people measuring to cut fire wood to the correct length? Maybe a better question is how are you marking it? I’ll hold my chainsaw bar sideways and use that or just guess and I end up all over the place.

in ancient times (before processor) my firewood was as long as saw's bar

Then we got this beast

That machine is with saw blade, thus D max is (rather humble) 25 cm / 10 in

So I still have to swing axe on bigger chunks.
But still - very happy with that

At my home I have both - heat pump and for freezing temp - firewood furnace. I have to use that processor for like 3 - 4 h / year to make dozen such totes

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For BIL and MIL houses that processor works for maybe 15 h/year. Seems like I will have something to put down in my will

 

[Duds13]

How are people measuring to cut fire wood to the correct length? Maybe a better question is how are you marking it? I’ll hold my chainsaw bar sideways and use that or just guess and I end up all over the place.

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How are people measuring to cut fire wood to the correct length? Maybe a better question is how are you marking it? I’ll hold my chainsaw bar sideways and use that or just guess and I end up all over the place.

I just guess and I end up all over the place.
Then again most of my stuff is really gnarly scrub oak so I'm not sure measuring would be much better.
Sometimes I've got a piece with a right angle partway in and I'm like "ok that would be two 16's and an 8 or I can make it two 20's - too long - or three 13's which works fine in the firebox"... guessing, of course. I'd rather cut the right angle off and keep things pretending to be straight...
It all works out when I'm tossing stuff in the totes anyways. I often have a bit of a gap between two rows and I fill it in with shorter stuff. I don't think my wife minds the shorter stuff anyways, they're lighter and easier for her to grab when feeding the fire.

 

[Jstpssng]

Sometimes I've got a piece with a right angle partway in and I'm like "ok that would be two 16's and an 8 or I can make it two 20's - too long -

I'd take two 16's, toss the crook aside in the pile with all of the rest of the odd pieces. I burn those first, before the fall rains come.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I'd take two 16's, toss the crook aside in the pile with all of the rest of the odd pieces. I burn those first, before the fall rains come.

That's what I do too. I end up with a pile of chunks, cookies, crooks, and junk or too rotten to put in the shed where I want good wood for the winter. I let them dry in the sun all summer then put them in the basement near the stove for early season fires.

gg

 

[goeduck]

I'm all over the place with my (un)calibrated eyeball method. My neighbor has an old tape measure that broke so he saved the first 20-24" at the end and a piece of sidewalk chalk. I saw a guy on YouTube use a contraption called a "Mingo Marker" that puts a green dot every 16"...

When I stretch my fingers and thumb out as far as I can, the distance from big finger-tip to thumb-tip is 9". So, after a cut I span my hand twice on the log with my free hand and eyeball a spot for an 18" cut. I cut some wood for my brother, and he was shocked at how uniform in length it was. Some people I cut for want 15" which is twice the 7.5" distance from the pointer-finger-tip to the thumb-tip. When I haul logs out of the woods with my grapple, I cut them to 180" with the help of a tape measure. 180" makes ten 18" pieces or twelve 15" pieces. No one gets wood from me that isn't either 18" or 15". Beyond those two lengths I get confused.

 

[shooterdon]

When I stretch my fingers and thumb out as far as I can, the distance from big finger-tip to thumb-tip is 9". So, after a cut I span my hand twice on the log with my free hand and eyeball a spot for an 18" cut. I cut some wood for my brother, and he was shocked at how uniform in length it was. Some people I cut for want 15" which is twice the 7.5" distance from the pointer-finger-tip to the thumb-tip. When I haul logs out of the woods with my grapple, I cut them to 180" with the help of a tape measure. 180" makes ten 18" pieces or twelve 15" pieces. No one gets wood from me that isn't either 18" or 15". Beyond those two lengths I get confused.

Loggers cords that I get have logs 102” long. I set up the processor to cut at 16 3/4”…leaving 1/4” for the kerf. That utilizes the whole log.

if I cut to 16”, I end up with 5” “cookies”. I was using the cookies for my own use and being happy about the free wood. But to get the cookies, I have to open the safety gate before the splitter cycles, pick them up and throw them into an IBC tote. That hurts productivity. It made more sense to sell the extra 3/4” per piece.

 

[Helogabals]

I just guess and I end up all over the place.
Then again most of my stuff is really gnarly scrub oak so I'm not sure measuring would be much better.
Sometimes I've got a piece with a right angle partway in and I'm like "ok that would be two 16's and an 8 or I can make it two 20's - too long - or three 13's which works fine in the firebox"... guessing, of course. I'd rather cut the right angle off and keep things pretending to be straight...
It all works out when I'm tossing stuff in the totes anyways. I often have a bit of a gap between two rows and I fill it in with shorter stuff. I don't think my wife minds the shorter stuff anyways, they're lighter and easier for her to grab when feeding the fire.

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Absolutely the same

That's what I do too. I end up with a pile of chunks, cookies, crooks, and junk or too rotten to put in the shed where I want good wood for the winter. I let them dry in the sun all summer then put them in the basement near the stove for early season fires.

gg

Maybe you have heard, here we have that funny Midsummer drinkingparty. For that event anchor is bonfire. With fire it's not like with alcohol or food, where you might think about some qualities or design or whatever. With bonfire is simple. Bigger = better.
So no problem with utilization of crooks and chunks