The real story?
If I'm working by myself, falling, limbing, bucking, piling brush, loading, hauling, splitting, and stacking...a cord a day is about as good as I've ever done. Or wanted to do, either.
I usually get my firewood the easy way. If we're on a new sale or if we're building landings or punching in new roads there's almost always stuff that gets pushed aside because it won't make scale for a saw log. Some of it is too scattered to make it worth chipping. I usually have the skidder guys roadside some of the better stuff for me, especially if there's oak or madrone. After work, or when I'm headed to town, I cut it up and toss it in the back of the pickup. I throw it in a green-deck at home and buck it and split it when I have time.
I get enough falling and bucking when I'm working. Having to get firewood that way is just an aggravation.
If I'm working by myself, falling, limbing, bucking, piling brush, loading, hauling, splitting, and stacking...a cord a day is about as good as I've ever done. Or wanted to do, either.
I usually get my firewood the easy way. If we're on a new sale or if we're building landings or punching in new roads there's almost always stuff that gets pushed aside because it won't make scale for a saw log. Some of it is too scattered to make it worth chipping. I usually have the skidder guys roadside some of the better stuff for me, especially if there's oak or madrone. After work, or when I'm headed to town, I cut it up and toss it in the back of the pickup. I throw it in a green-deck at home and buck it and split it when I have time.
I get enough falling and bucking when I'm working. Having to get firewood that way is just an aggravation.