OT/Cutting and Splitting Firewood

Fergienewbee · Mar 29, 2009

Assuming the pieces are a size you can lift, do you split the wood in the woods or bring the pieces back to the house and split it there? I like spliiting the wood at the house because I can go out for a few minutes after supper and split and stack it a little at a time. I split it by hand, if that matters. My BIL splits everything in the woods with a splitter and loads it in a pick-up. Just curious what everyone thinks is the most efficient method, or does it even matter?

Larry in Michigan

OH Boy · Mar 29, 2009

I like your way the best, I figure I get more wood home if I am focused on actually loading wood in the truck when I am in the woods. Then I can split it at my leisure once its home.

Chuck (CA) · Mar 29, 2009

I'm with you. Around here, almond is the wood of choice. It's real gnarly and I need a hydraulic splitter. Too much for me to tow and manuever.
However, I think you can get more in the truck if you split it before you load.
By the time I've cut enough to fill my truck, I would be too tired to split it before I loaded it anyways.

Chuck

steveormary · Mar 29, 2009

Ya,split wood at the house.

steveormary

Zachary Hoyt · Mar 29, 2009

I often prefer to split in the woods because I am using an MF35 with a dump wagon, and when I bring i back I can position it so that I can pick up the wood off the top of the pile coming out of the wagon and put it on the stack without having to bend all the way to the floor. Also I am seven feet tall and I can't get a real good swing on the maul inside the shed without hitting the trusses.
Zach

glennster · Mar 29, 2009

i prefer to split it in the woods. my neighbor and i cut and split a little over a cord yesterday of oak. cut back a treeline along the field. you end up not handling each log so may times and it makes less of a mess at the woodpile.

Paul from MI · Mar 29, 2009

Split at home unless it's too big to load in one piece. Split as I get time.

Phil in Pa · Mar 29, 2009

I like splitting in the woods, mainly because I like working in that atmosphere. I do plenty of other things in my back yard.
When feasible though, I also leave my woodpiles there until needed at home.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 29, 2009

Depends where the wood is . I usually like to cut it long ,,drag it to a central place in woods where I have splitter set up .Split it , load it and haul it home. Keeps the mess from splitting out in the woods, and caget more wood in truck if it's split .

Anonymous-0 · Mar 29, 2009

I like working with big log sections--use a ramp or loader to get them on my trailer, then at home pull the woodsplitter up behind the trailer and roll the sections onto the splitter. The one half can drop back onto the trailer while I work on the other piece. Have a smaller trailer to toss the split pieces on.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 29, 2009

i split mine in the woods with a hyd. woodsplitter driven off the tractor.i have a trailor made from a old worn out manure spreader.if i have help i will have someone pull it with the other tractor and stack it in the trailor as i split. RICK

4430jd · Mar 29, 2009

I usually drag logs to a place where I have room along the woods to park the hay wagon, Cut into pieces and split ( Splitter is 3 point ) and then trow onto the wagon, When it is very cold & windy out I thow the chunks onto the wagon and split as I unload the wagon, To keep out the wind & cold. Any way you do it if it gets you out in the open what the heck.

Tony Vidlak Sr. · Mar 29, 2009

I haul it home in 12 to 16 foot logs and stack on my log pile then I cut and split when I have time with a hydraulic splitter.I work for the city forstery dept.so I have the pleasure of picking the wood I want nice straight pieces.
Plus with me taking it, it doesn't cost the city to get rid of it so I use the city dump truck to haul to my place.

dwrk · Mar 29, 2009

Depends how hard the ground is frozen and where I'm delivering it. If the ground's frozen hard I'll often split it at the edge of the woods and load it right on my dump trailer there (3 cords on a load) and deliver it to the customer right from the woods. More often than not I bring it home either in log length or blocked and put it in the empty side of my bunker silo, split it on the cement so I can use the loader to load it later for delivery.

Got about 40 cords done so far this year, maybe the same left to go.

ray sprague · Mar 29, 2009

we like to bring the hole logs home load them on my trailer with the skid steer 18 to 20 foot long then we have a fire wood procecer that i built to put the hole log on and split it with the machine it can eather fall out the back of the machine and keep moving machine foward as we split or it can drop right into the truck to deliver

Sean Feeney · Mar 29, 2009

Tony: I hope all the people that burn wood for heat, in your city get to read this, and understand how much your helping and looking out for them.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 29, 2009

I split in the woods, leave the mess there, but I only do 4 or 5 cords a year. Some of the pieces are too big to pick up and have to be rolled under the splitter.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 29, 2009

I split mine were the truck unloads the logs in my wood lot just off the road, as I split I put the wood in a lawn dump cart pulled buy my Honda fourtrax to the wood shed. If am really feeling like knocking a hog in the $ss, I have a gutted manure spreader I made into a wood wagon. Takes awhile to fill it thought.

Mayor · Mar 29, 2009

We cut/split about 50 truckloads a year for Myself, my dad, the folks at the farm, my neighbor fella.....a lot of wood!
We all get together on the weekends and cut/split/load on site in the woods. I like doing everything in the woods due too the mess it makes at the house when you split it. We have a big hydraulic splitter and a 16' trailer along with our duallies......pretty easy too get too the woodlot up on the hill and the ole M makes draggin logs and pulling the splitter around a breeze!.

El Toro · Mar 29, 2009

I usually broughtt the wood home until I had a big enough pile to split. Then I would bring out the splitter. Hal

Larry59 · Mar 29, 2009

I agree with Glennstar. Why handle the big logs more then you have to. Cut them and then split there and load. This way you can take a few out and stack away as you want and not handle the big log twice.... However if your young and want to build up some muscle. Do it.. As for me.. well I am not so young no more. Bones hurt even when the weather changes around here. lol

JK-NY · Mar 29, 2009

Funny you should ask about splitting wood -, I just finished up Fri. I haul the wood home cut to length and split it here right by where I stack it. Makes for less handling . I also usually work at splitting/stacking in spare time, and do most of the splitting manually .

Nancy Howell · Mar 29, 2009

Cut the trees into 6' to 9' lengths.

Put cut lengths on front end loader.

Drop off lengths at the house.

Split wood on coldest day available.

Getting too old, or too lazy, to handle wood down in the woods.

James Howell · Mar 29, 2009

Sorry.

Forgot to change the name.

Just another senior moment.

Mark - IN. · Mar 29, 2009

That's pretty much the jest of it. There's more than one reason for doing it on the coldest days possible. Besides not overheating myself, frozen wood ticks are preferable over non-frozen wood ticks. None have killed me yet, but just the same, they are bothersome. Besides, when you head down to the tavern to flex them muscles afterwards for them women, they're more attracted to you when you don't have 10 or 40 ticks stuck on your face. If you think having a chive stuck on your tooth is bad, ...

Mark

Bob Kerr · Mar 29, 2009

I do it two different ways, depending where I am cutting at. Here in town at a small woodlot I am clearing, I cut the tree down, hook up to the boom pole on the tractor, drag it over to the burn pile and top and limb it out and put the limbs on the pile as that is what the owner wants which is fine with me. Then back the log up to the splitter and cut it up there. Then toss the stuff in the truck which is parked right next to the splitter as it is split. If I do it at Dads woods I have a small trailer down there. I cut the tree and cut the log into sections and load into trailer. Then haul to the splitter which is trailered on the back of the truck and again just toss them in the truck. Basicly it is just picking them off the ground once. Once is enough for me and my wore out back. If the chunks are too big to pick up, then I bust them in the woods once or twice. I like leaving the mess out in the woods and especially if I get a chunk of wood with carpenter ants in it I will leave them in the woods instead of bringing them home.

Billy NY · Mar 30, 2009

I try to handle it as little as possible, but it's always a good work out when hauling wood back to the house, I do like Nancy mentioned, cut into 6'-8' lengths, roll onto the old car lift arms, that I made into bucket forks, then haul to the house, into my old grain truck to haul to the house, or drop at a header/staging area. This part is not too bad, I can put a load on that old truck in decent time and dump off by the house, but without having a heck of a lot of room there, it has to be bucked to length, stacked and usually split by hand later, sometimes I'll split enough and re-stack or loose pile and cover up, to last a week. I don't like bucking em in the woods, as I can move more wood cut in lengths, only labor is to get em onto the forks. Always a work out too, good exercise, and best done in the cooler weather.

Brian G. NY · Mar 30, 2009

I cut the trees and "limb" them out in the woods.
Then haul in tree lengths out of the woods with my WD Allis to a level area near the road. My wood lot is abot a half mile from my house so I split most of the wood there and throw it into the truck as I'm splitting. When I had a 4WD Ranger a few years ago, I would drive right into the woods to load it with "bucked-up" wood. I would keep the "limb" wood and splittable pieces separate and then split from the back of my truck and throw the split pieces right back on.

Oldmax · Mar 30, 2009

I cut trees down pull to splitter with 350-D Cut in lenghts, split and load then hual to house 45 miles away.

Tony Vidlak Sr. · Mar 30, 2009

Sean, This is a conversation on cutting and splitting firewood.You don't mention how you do yours ? So why don't you keep your smart a** remarks to your self.

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