Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[aba4430]

Nothing mighty as some other posts within this thread but this is my tiny Yanmar with a large enough tree. I used my trusty 22 year old Echo CS-345 16” saw to cut the tree up prior to transporting it with the tractor.

 

[Citydude]

My wife runs the valve lever when I split wood. Like you say, it can be a fast way of splitting. She also brushes away debris by the time I can get another round up there. After we burn through a tank of fuel, it surly is break time.

That is the key to speed. My wife does the same thing.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I'm in the middle of two weeks of cataract surgery recovery, had the second eye done this morning, so I'm not doing much in the woods. So this is a "cart and wood" picture from yesterday. Brought in three loads so the wife wouldn't yap at me for doing too much to soon ????

We had our first snow last night, about an inch. And about a month later than usual.

gg

 

[Runner]

I'm in the middle of two weeks of cataract surgery recovery, had the second eye done this morning, so I'm not doing much in the woods. So this is a "cart and wood" picture from yesterday. Brought in three loads so the wife wouldn't yap at me for doing too much to soon ????


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We had our first snow last night, about an inch. And about a month later than usual.

gg

That is a fine looking woodshed!

 

[deezler]

Yeah, walnut trees are not great yard trees. Some things won't grow under them, they get their leaves last in spring, and lose them first in the fall. Although lack of leaf clean-up is one bonus, since the walnut leaves all seem to blow away into the woods, on their own.

Interesting! I never peel the bark, so you may be right there. I manually transfer my wood from the shed to my wagon, and if bark falls off then, I toss it into the woods or the fire pit. But most Walnut bark tends to stay attached, even after 3-4 years of drying, so it usually goes into the stove, here.

Our heat load really isn't that terrible, considering the size and construction. I'm heating about 7800 sq.ft. of our 8100 sq.ft. total, with 60 windows, half of which were installed in 1775. We also have 13 exterior doors, the oldest dating to 1734, and a few more from the 1775 expansion.

Wow! Can we see a pic or two, or do you have a thread on your historic house?

Because my house is small (1650 sq ft) and super tight, we actually kind of like medium-BTU firewood. A few hearty sticks of solid oak when it's not frigid outside, and our living room temperatures can soar into the 80s.

Funny that we sorta have the inverse wood species situation. EAB Ash is some great firewood also, mine is just about all cut up and burnt now. We burned it exclusively in the first couple years in our house because it only needed to dry for a month of two before burning well. Now I try to stay a year ahead.

 

[whatscooking]

Another load today

 

[Gordon Gould]

Wow! Can we see a pic or two, or do you have a thread on your historic house?

Because my house is small (1650 sq ft) and super tight, we actually kind of like medium-BTU firewood. A few hearty sticks of solid oak when it's not frigid outside, and our living room temperatures can soar into the 80s.

Funny that we sorta have the inverse wood species situation. EAB Ash is some great firewood also, mine is just about all cut up and burnt now. We burned it exclusively in the first couple years in our house because it only needed to dry for a month of two before burning well. Now I try to stay a year ahead.

Our situation is similar to yours. We have a nice tight 1365 sq-ft ranch with an England 3500 add on hot air furnace that we was as a stand alone main furnace in the insulated basement. I keep the basement about 75* so we have warm floors up stairs and there are two ducts from the stove going upstairs. One 4" duct to the bath room and a 10" duct that splits into two with a register on each side of the living/sitting room. We burn about 3-1/2 half cord a year and stay perfectly comfortable. Mostly white and yellow birch and red maple from thinning with a little BBD'd beech mixed in for the colder snaps. It is easy to over heat the place. I don't cut hard maple or oak unless it is dead as I am trying to promote those species as the woodlot recovers form a liquidation cut in the mid 90's.

gg

 

[Gordon Gould]

The wood wall is nearing completion. 29 totes in the first row and 22 in the second for a total of 51 so far

That's quite a "wall" for sure !! I cut my wood in the winter and work it up in the spring so that it has two summers to dry. The fist summer in the sun typically like this

and the second summer in the wood shed. We use one side of the shed each year keeping us ahead one year.

gg

 

[JasperFrank]

I can't believe the good fortune of a local mill that gives their cast offs for free to pick up. Free heating this winter with the woodstove.

 

[dodge man]

I brought up about 8 wheel barrow loads to the porch of our house. I don’t know when I’ll start a fire. If it gets above 40 during the day it just gets to hot. It’s 71 outside now, 84 tomorrow and 82 Wednesday.