Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area

[Jakers]

Moving your firewood from inside a heated cab?! Nice man!

i still have to load the boxes every two weeks or so. i only have two made at the time. i burn through roughly 12-14 cord a year so i spend a lot of time preparing firewood. ill snap some pictures of the log piles i bring home from jobs next trip up the hill. it got too dark yesterday

 

[Guswhit]

From the pictures it looks like you make really small splits. What's your reason for that? Faster drying?

This is my wood that gets bagged for campers at parks. You know, the over priced bundled wood.

 

[Wildwinger]

i still have to load the boxes every two weeks or so. i only have two made at the time. i burn through roughly 12-14 cord a year so i spend a lot of time preparing firewood. ill snap some pictures of the log piles i bring home from jobs next trip up the hill. it got too dark yesterday

One day I'll have a setup like that. I'll split and stack onto pallet-crib things, and then not touch the wood until it goes inside my house.

I just need a few things first. Like a tractor. And a woodshed that I can drive said tractor into. And a house. Then I'll be all set

 

[caw]

I'm on a small scale, hand splitting for exercise. [photo="medium"]2369[/photo]

 

[mn woodcutter]

This is my wood that gets bagged for campers at parks. You know, the over priced bundled wood.

Well that makes sense!

 

[NZMatt]

Just getting into this loving how good the exercise is for me split and stacked this in four hours over two nights. Have been hand splitting for a good year now only just kept up through winter as its our first year hear but getting a good stockpile going now (midsummer). Could have kept going tonight but was getting dark. Learned the other night not to wear shorts when splitting my shins copped a bit heh. Nothing like productive hard work to make a guy feel satisfied. Learned pretty much everything I know from this forum and getting out there and doing it.

 

[gtrr4]

I was looking for this thread a while back.

 

[treebilly]

That's nice for drying having that corn field behind it. Lots of air flow

 

[mower16]

Some nice ideas in this thread

 

[gtrr4]

That's nice for drying having that corn field behind it. Lots of air flow

I know it that the corn would eliminate some air flow once it gets to a certain height. But it is only about 3 months out of the year and next year it will be beans. So raelly only an issue 3 months every two years. But it really is the only space I have.

 

[Gypo Logger]

 

[svk]

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Love those old pictures. Our hunting cabin is built on the site of a 1912 logging camp. They did it just like that back then.

 

[zogger]

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Way cool! About a good solid one week load for some of the guys here with smoke dragon OWBs......

I'd like to know how they stacked that, besides "very carefully".

 

[Philbert]

A number of things impress me from photos like that:
- HOW did they stack them that high without a crane*?
- WHY did they stack them that high?
- WHO thought that it would be a good idea to pull sleds that top heavy (certainly not the horses!) ?
- The logs are chained together now, but were they secured at each level while stacking?
- Is the guy at the top why workers' compensation insurance was invented?

*I know that they used swing arms and pulleys to lift the logs, but it would seem a lot saner to break that into 2 or 3 loads for handling, curves, trail wear, stopping, unloading, etc. Wonder if this was standard practice or done for the photo op?

Philbert

 

[svk]

A number of things impress me from photos like that:
- HOW did they stack them that high without a crane*?
- WHY did they stack them that high?
- WHO thought that it would be a good idea to pull sleds that top heavy (certainly not the horses!) ?
- The logs are chained together now, but were they secured at each level while stacking?
- Is the guy at the top why workers' compensation insurance was invented?

*I know that they used swing arms and pulleys to lift the logs, but it would seem a lot saner to break that into 2 or 3 loads for handling, curves, trail wear, stopping, unloading, etc. Wonder if this was standard practice or done for the photo op?

Philbert

From what I know they usually stacked about half that high.

Sleigh roads were almost perfectly flat (several hills around our hunting cabin have sleigh road beds trenched right through them-easier for men with shovels to move a hill than move hundreds of loads over the hill). The roads were iced over and the horses had shoes with fairly good sized spikes for traction. So as long as the load was lashed it didnt take much efford to move across ice.

 

[Philbert]

Sleigh roads were almost perfectly flat

Might depend on where you were at. Check out the roads in some of these historical logging videos.

http://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/the-west-coast-logging-legacy-video.264326/

Philbert

 

[svk]

Definitely a different story out there, by us they did everyting to control elevation.

 

[midwest_170]

I was looking for this thread a while back.
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Do you leave those traps on in the summertime?

 

[HD2010]

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I would not want to be the guy untieing that load.

 

[gtrr4]

Do you leave those traps on in the summertime?

No, they come off. Only there for the fall rains and the winter snow.