Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area

[svk]

I’m finally getting caught up at work and with closing my mom’s estate now. The last 8 weeks plus holidays have been just crazy. I still haven’t been able to fish or run saws as much as I’d like but at least I’m making progress.

With the estate, it’s the little things that take the most work too. I highly recommend to everyone to at least have a will and also establish pay on death on ALL of your financial accounts. My mom had one checking account that didn’t have POD and that’s about the only thing that isn’t in process.

I’m also helping the children of a former colleague work through his estate. He didn’t have a will so they need to petition the court to appoint one of the kids as executor. It’s going to cost them hundreds to thousands of dollars as well as months of time that things will be tangled up with courts.

 

[sean donato]

I’m finally getting caught up at work and with closing my mom’s estate now. The last 8 weeks plus holidays have been just crazy. I still haven’t been able to fish or run saws as much as I’d like but at least I’m making progress.

With the estate, it’s the little things that take the most work too. I highly recommend to everyone to at least have a will and also establish pay on death on ALL of your financial accounts. My mom had one checking account that didn’t have POD and that’s about the only thing that isn’t in process.

I’m also helping the children of a former colleague work through his estate. He didn’t have a will so they need to petition the court to appoint one of the kids as executor. It’s going to cost them hundreds to thousands of dollars as well as months of time that things will be tangled up with courts.

That's total crap that is. Hope they muddle through it ok. When my pop passed there was a family war, fortunately he had laid out an iron clad will, which stopped the squabbling. (Mostly)

 

[svk]

Thankfully he only had two children who get along well (so far)....I have seen the horrors of estate fights and it is downright disgusting.

 

[svk]

Oh, and getting a medallion guarantee stamp (like a notary but for financial transactions) up in Hickville is almost impossible!!!

 

[johnnyballs]

Learning to fly the new Christmas present:

love your posts...always looks like you've got your s%$t together...

 

[REJ2]

My windfall of flood kill wood from a state park at Kansas’s largest reservoir, Milford Lake. Many pieces quartered from 30-34” rounds. Even the 24” oak rounds I couldn’t lift if I cut them any longer than 10”. A mix of oak and ash with a touch of walnut and hickory.

 

[isaaccarlson]

This was my wood cutting area for the last few years. Now it's my parking area again.
We split and stacked almost 25 cord this year! We have 12-13 cord stacked by the back door and the rest is stacked by the shed in the pictures.
Maple and oak with some elm and ash mixed in. It went a lot faster after making a 4 way for the splitter!

 

[FinnKamp]

X25 starts to look so small

 

[Jere39]

My tractor was out of service briefly while I replaced the tie-rod and welded on ball joints. Took the opportunity (while the front end was jacked up) to replace the front tires that were running pretty smooth. With that all finished, it was back to the woods this weekend for some skidding, bucking, wacking, and stacking:



I usually tie Scout to a tree when I am running the saw, and he almost always goes to the end of his tether and sits looking the other way. Some might think he is mad at me for the tie-up, I like to think he's got my 6.

 

[isaaccarlson]

My german shepherd does the same thing. If i'm busy looking down, he's watching the other way

 

[mountainguyed67]

Even the 24” oak rounds I couldn’t lift if I cut them any longer than 10”.

Could you roll them into the truck/trailer?

 

[mountainguyed67]

I usually tie Scout to a tree when I am running the saw

Because the noise scares him and he will take off? I have that problem with my dog.

 

[Jere39]

Because the noise scares him and he will take off? I have that problem with my dog.

Scout doesn't like loud noise, but I don't think he would run off because of it. I'm more concerned about him coming up behind me and jumping into the saw. He thinks he is playing when I split and brings me pieces of wood and bark.

 

[isaaccarlson]

Scout doesn't like loud noise, but I don't think he would run off because of it. I'm more concerned about him coming up behind me and jumping into the saw. He thinks he is playing when I split and brings me pieces of wood and bark.

Mine likes to play with the splits, except he leaves them all over the yard.

 

[Haywire]

 

[svk]

Speaking of that, my friend’s lab mix tagged along with him one time and stays away from the saw but broke through the crick. If he had started his saw 30 seconds earlier He wouldn’t have heard the ice break and the dog probably would have drowned.

 

[panolo]

Mine likes to play with the splits, except he leaves them all over the yard.

I have one of those too. Than I have two bark eaters. So I get half eaten bark around the yard as well.

 

[REJ2]

Could you roll them into the truck/trailer?

No trailer, just a 2001 Chevy 2500HD, it ended up easier to just quarter them. Just plain heavy for a 63 year old. I retired at the end 2019 after 40 years in the glass and glazing business. My back, knees, and shoulders are very well used, I gotta try and save what's left of me. My new NorthStar log splitter just arrived today, I have started the assembly but will have to get a friend to help me stand the beam up.

 

[Sandhill Crane]

My tractor was out of service briefly while I replaced the tie-rod and welded on ball joints.

My quad is fifteen years old and has moved semi loads of logs. Unbelievable really. I do a complete service every winter, removing all body panels, changing four fluids, new drive belt, and throughly checking components for loose bolts or torn cvc boots. It is constantly hooked to one of two trailers and was used in the woods for many, many years with the log arch. Snow plowing is the hardest on it, so now I snow blow larger accumulations and clean up with the plow (which hasn't been touched the last two winters).
My wood lot change this year is going from a flatbed truck to a dump trailer, which I intend to load with the conveyor. Which means double duty for the conveyor and moving it to do so. I'll be putting a front mount receiver hitch on the quad this winter to reposition the conveyor more easily back in place for palletizing.

 

[Sandhill Crane]

X25 starts to look so small
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FinnKamp, what is the bridge in your firewood stack for? It looks like a pass through.