jegushee1
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Selling wood in the round seems to be my new fav way to go.
Firewood in the round
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Selling wood in the round seems to be my new fav way to go.
TreeTangler
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Is it selling good? Price per cord? Species? Pick up or delivery? There does seem to be a market for it.
jegushee1
ArboristSite Operative
I like havin people pick up. $125 a cord picked up
jegushee1
ArboristSite Operative
Standard mix beech maple oak. I save out ash for down the road
TreeTangler
ArboristSite Guru
That sounds like a pretty good deal to me all the way around!!!!
TreeTangler
ArboristSite Guru
You don't waste all the time splitting making very little per hour, and folks get a better deal on a product they might not have access to in raw form and get to choose the size of the splits they want. I like it.
Looks good, very uniform for length. Are you using a processor or Built-Rite's 'block master'?
jaroh
ArboristSite Operative
I noticed that most craigslist ads here in Montana are truck loads of rounds. I think here, the price is too high and the amount claimed in the load is too low. I have a flat bed 3/4 ton pick up and can safely get 3/4 a chord in larger rounds and 1 chord of smaller rounds per load. If I were selling I think I would at least quarter each round to fill in the gaps.
I guess, if people are buying and not complaining, I would probably sell in rounds too so I could spend more time goofing off.
I guess, if people are buying and not complaining, I would probably sell in rounds too so I could spend more time goofing off.
mt.stalker
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Sure beats handling it 6 times !!!
ashy larry
ArboristSite Operative
Does it season as good as splits that size? Mine doesnt.
TreeTangler
ArboristSite Guru
I'm assuming it's being sold as unseasoned or "fresh cut". Buyer processes on they're own.
You get more wood in a load with rounds than splits. Every time you split a round it will take up more space when stacked. May not look logical but it is true, I think there is sticky on the subject with several experiments that prove it.
As for "fill in the gaps', it is amazing how small a split piece needs to be to fit into what looks like a big holes.
Harry K
ChoppyChoppy
Tree Freak
I've tried it before, took a stack of rounds and split it than restacked. Was always a bit less. Rounds leaves tons of space unless it's fairly small stuff, maybe 8-10"
Full Chisel
Slingin' Stihls and runnin' Huskies
Agree with this. With some of the rounds and chunks I cut, I could fit a herd of cats in the empty spaces. Splits leave much less airspace, especially if you stack them and not thrown.
hardpan
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I have lost a lot of wood in my piles because I left them round instead of splitting, no more. They will rot instead of dry. Priced accordingly and clearly stating it is not dry I can imagine some folks would like to split it to their preference. Of course there is a big difference from one kind of wood to another. Last week-end I hauled up white oak that was bucked 3 years ago and cherry that was bucked 1 year ago. The cherry was much drier than the oak.
QUOTE="Full Chisel, post: 5623869, member: 125418"]Agree with this. With some of the rounds and chunks I cut, I could fit a herd of cats in the empty spaces. Splits leave much less airspace, especially if you stack them and not thrown.[/QUOTE]
I ran into this fact that defies logic back in the 50s in a book somewhere. I also didn't believe it until it tried it a couple times.
You are ignoring that the spaces are smaller but there are a lot lmore of them. I challenge you to perform a simple experiment.
Take a box top, a tapered carrot. Slice carrot in rounds. Pack as many of them as you can fit into the box top. Now dump those out, split in half and try to put them back in. It can't be done unless you match up each half with its orginal one.
Or review some of the experiments that were done in that sticky (if it still exists)
Each time to make a split you increase the surface area.
General rule is that a stack of rounds will grow about 10% after splitting. Unless of course the rounds are stacked veeerrrryy loosely.
Harry K
I ran into this fact that defies logic back in the 50s in a book somewhere. I also didn't believe it until it tried it a couple times.
You are ignoring that the spaces are smaller but there are a lot lmore of them. I challenge you to perform a simple experiment.
Take a box top, a tapered carrot. Slice carrot in rounds. Pack as many of them as you can fit into the box top. Now dump those out, split in half and try to put them back in. It can't be done unless you match up each half with its orginal one.
Or review some of the experiments that were done in that sticky (if it still exists)
Each time to make a split you increase the surface area.
General rule is that a stack of rounds will grow about 10% after splitting. Unless of course the rounds are stacked veeerrrryy loosely.
Harry K
ChoppyChoppy
Tree Freak
For $125/cord I'd be happy to split it myself. Shoot, that's less than I pay for tree length logs.
No the sticky does not exist, but I remember it, Harry is correct.
http://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/rounds-versus-splits.167659/#post-2837340
http://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/rounds-versus-splits.167659/#post-2837340
stihly dan
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I have a stack of rounds going now. I will find out soon enough how much it grows when split.
If you didn't pay for the wood or only paid a little initially that's a real nice profit.
