OT Fire wood

BANDITFARMER · Nov 11, 2010

I have just loved this wonderful warm weather this fall and have taken full advantage of it getting all my wood cut early. I know I will have alot left over for next year, but when the cutting is good you just keep going. This is the second truck load this fall and its in the barn nice and dry. Like grandpa would say you don't leave the woods till the trucks is full! Its nice to know when the snow fly and its cold I don't have to even think of cutting any wood. What I would like to ask all of you is how is your wood cutting going? I know I would rather sweat than to freeze. Bandit

molinebob · Nov 11, 2010

Had all of mine cut about a month ago, as kids growing up we were out there all winter long, never wanted to heat with wood when i moved out of home, heated with propane for 9 years and decided it was to expensive, so i picked up a outdoor boiler, from my dad that he was going to scrap, weld had broke and it was leaking water, so i welded it up two years ago and hasnt lost a drop of water, but yeah i will never cut wood in the dead of winter again, buy my permits in the beginning of august and try have it all in by the end of august....been good so far... Bob

M Nut · Nov 11, 2010

Nice work! Always a good feeling to be prepared for winter, although I am the opposite of you. I don't like cutting wood until it gets down to about 10 degrees or so. I'll do it when it is 40, but no warmer if I can help it. 6" of snow for skidding the wood out and keeping it clean is about perfect too.

Brian Love · Nov 11, 2010

usually burn 25-30 rick a year wood waster in garage&wood waster in basement but this year i bought a wood furnace put it in garage piped underground to house hope to heat both with 10-15 ricks!but i have at least 30 cut & stacked now

kendak · Nov 11, 2010

got my "wood" in last week also ...about the same size truck but had propane written on it's side ....350gal. at $1.69 a gal. will last me 2yrs......could never relax in a house that smells like it's on fire all the time & then you have to bring wood in & ashes out ...no way...LOL

larry@stinescorner · Nov 11, 2010

that looks like a tough old truck! nice picture , thanks for sending it

Russ from MN · Nov 11, 2010

I like to cut wood when it's cold out, you can work hard enough to keep warm! As long the snow isn't over 6" deep and there isn't any up in the trees, I don't like getting it down my neck. When I used to split by hand it was much easier to split when frozen, I remember my father standing up all the big ones and going out in the morning when it was -30f and they would just pop!

BANDITFARMER · Nov 11, 2010

Thank Larry. Its an old Dodge back when they made real trucks, no frills but gets the job done. You know you have to be humble to drive an old dodge. Bandit

dmiller · Nov 11, 2010

I do about 20 cord a year to sell. Here's a load on my old truck from back in June. Sure is nice to have a hydraulic hoist.

chevytaHOE5674 · Nov 11, 2010

Had all of this winters wood done this spring. Started working on next winters wood already as this weather has been so nice until now.

Firewood · Nov 11, 2010

I like to wait until the ground freezes as skidding logs on soft ground really grinds the dirt into them and I am not partial to sharpening the chainsaw constantly. May get a couple of dead elm down next week as I can get the tractor right near them.
Got the wood for heating the house this winter and next all piled up. Now it will be making the wood for boiling sap in the spring of 2012.

Oldmax · Nov 11, 2010

My firewood for winter 2010. Cut last year split this for this winter. Cut Split Stacked & Covered.

Ultradog MN · Nov 11, 2010

Great old trucks in the pictures. A guy is lucky to have one and codger it along for something useful like that.
Myself I'm on natural gas.
What can I say?

JayinNY · Nov 11, 2010

Heres my firewood for the season. When its full I can fit 12 cords in the shed. J

John S-B · Nov 11, 2010

I don't use firewood to heat, just a fireplace for ambiance and in an emergency. I get mine free from a golf course, but they don't cut trees down until the ground is frozen hard so the greens don't get torn up. The trees they cut are dead already so they don't have to season, they're dry enough to burn when I split it.

Fawteen · Nov 12, 2010

6 +/- cords of two year old in the wood shed for this winter and...

8 +/- cords cut, split stacked and covered drying for next year.

I'll order up another truckload of tree length late winter (around February) and peck away at it off and on all year, weather permitting.

Love the truck! I use a 4x8 trailer and my trusty old F-14 to haul mine from the "woodyard" to the wood shed.

mike delaney · Nov 12, 2010

I need to get going on mine, I've been too busy with other projects. Got alot cut and VERY large pile but not enough split. Somebody motivate me! :>) Mike

Brian G. NY · Nov 12, 2010

My unseasoned wood for next winter; mixture of red and white oak. Approx. 1-3/4 cords.
About half what I'll use; still cuttin' and splittin'.

Brian G. NY · Nov 12, 2010

I have a propane furnace and if I could get LP for a $1.69 a gal. here in NYS I would stuff a lot less wood into my woodstove. LOL

Brian G. NY · Nov 12, 2010

This year's wood; mixture of red and white oak, sugar maple, ash, ironwood and some red maple.
Not quite enuf for the winter but I've got a couple of good sized ironwoods all cut and ready to be split to add to the pile.

Brian G. NY · Nov 12, 2010

Talk about nice trucks!! That's an old International, right?

JOCCO · Nov 12, 2010

I like the dodge!!!

Mike (WA) · Nov 12, 2010

Guess I'm gettin' old- we have a woodstove, but only use it when its really cold, which is seldom, here. Got some down trees that I really need to work up- maybe you've all inspired me to get on it.

But then again, looks like rain. . .

BANDITFARMER · Nov 12, 2010

We logged our woods 2 years ago mostly white oak, catawba and some pin oak and 3 black oaks. About 40 cords later I am still cutting tops and downed trees and have only made a small dent in whats left. The loggers hauled 18 semi loads out of the woods and I think the biggest tree was 75 inch across the stump, so you can imagine how big the tops were. Got three guys coming Saturday with trucks and trailers to cut all day. Maybe someday I will get the rest cut up, I think Saturday I will stay back and watch and clean up some of the multi-flora rose bushes out of there way with the bob-cat so they can cut more. Bandit

kendak · Nov 12, 2010

all the LP dealers around here have a summer time special...price right now is $2.09...took my delivery late this year because the farmers come first with LP for their grain bins....have several tractors that I fill off that tank also...take care

dmiller · Nov 12, 2010

1940 DS30 I do about 200 miles a year on it hauling in hay and firewood. The miles add up pretty quick when it"s 12 miles one way to the farthest hay field.

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