I made a pledge at the beginning of the year that I'd hand split 20 cords for 2014.
I did not achieve that goal.
In total I processed about 25 cords of wood. From there I'd break it out to the following:
15 cords true hand split (13 cords with X27, 2 cords between sledge/wedge, mauls, splitting axe, and leveraxe)
4 cords with hydraulic
6 cords of rounds too small to split.
I'd say this is a conservative number as I quit keeping track in October and reconciled the rest of the year from memory.
I've also got an easy 5 cords sitting in rounds to split in 15'. Also lots of dying aspen to cut and split here. There's about 20 cords total but I'm going to space that out over a couple of years.
I'm not going to set a number goal for 2015 but my scrounge efforts will be focused on quality rather that quantity. The lowest BTU wood I plan to bring home will be Norway pine and black ash that Ive already identified but I'm going to focus on maple, white and yellow birch, and oak.
How did your year turn out?
(The workhorses.)
I did not achieve that goal.
In total I processed about 25 cords of wood. From there I'd break it out to the following:
15 cords true hand split (13 cords with X27, 2 cords between sledge/wedge, mauls, splitting axe, and leveraxe)
4 cords with hydraulic
6 cords of rounds too small to split.
I'd say this is a conservative number as I quit keeping track in October and reconciled the rest of the year from memory.
I've also got an easy 5 cords sitting in rounds to split in 15'. Also lots of dying aspen to cut and split here. There's about 20 cords total but I'm going to space that out over a couple of years.
I'm not going to set a number goal for 2015 but my scrounge efforts will be focused on quality rather that quantity. The lowest BTU wood I plan to bring home will be Norway pine and black ash that Ive already identified but I'm going to focus on maple, white and yellow birch, and oak.
How did your year turn out?
(The workhorses.)