Oak Score

[buildmyown]

Well here it is.
First load on the truck bump stops were about 2 inches from the axel. The second load sorry no pics of that on the truck but I was on the bump stops and that is an F-250 8 foot bed. Oh and these are only the limbs from the tree.

Heres the pile so far might get one more load out of this tree.

 

[Rudedog]

Pretty sweet. Most of those are close to stove length. I hate it when they're too short. I'm picking up a pile of ash that is not quite as much as yours that a guy has been saving for me. It's free, what the hey.

 

[buildmyown]

Its all close to stove size cause I cut it all to load it. The long pieces are what i could load without cutting.

 

[Steve2910]

I hate it when they're too short.

Or too long... Most of what I got this year was already cut. 12" long rounds, 22" lengths of branch wood, & everything in between. I guess if they're not firewooding it-- what do they care!

 

[buildmyown]

short doesnt bother me it doesnt need anymore work. To long can be a pain last year I cut most of my wood to 20-22 inches for my old stove in the basment. I added a new stove upstairs that only takes 16 inches finally fiqured out a system made a rack that would hold a few days supply and then run the saw down one side shaving off a few inches and the cutoffs would fall into a bin.

 

[Steve2910]

short doesnt bother me it doesnt need anymore work.

Stacking wood of odd lengths is a pain. If you're selling it, measuring out a cord is nearly impossible.

 

[buildmyown]

Ill give you that one I dont sell so it doesnt really make a difference.

 

[Blackbruin]

Get a set of timbrens for that puppy. They replace the bump stops with a lifetime guarantee under 200 bucks, rated for 5k. They make a big difference and use the same bolts or holes. Good score. I also hate stacking odd sized wood. looks like crap.

 

[anymanusa]

Nice. Check out my white oak score. The rounds that I got were about 30" dia, and I cut them 14-16" long, I could hardly push them to the spitter.

 

[Steve2910]

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Nice. Check out my white oak score. The rounds that I got were about 30" dia, and I cut them 14-16" long, I could hardly push them to the spitter.

Heavy stuff for sure. Picked this up off of Craig's last week. White oak, already cut to random length. The first load was load & go.
http://www.arboristsite.com/images/attach/jpg.gif

2nd load was from the 36" trunk. It was on the "wrong side" of a split rail fence, so I had to bust it up by noodling/maul into throwable chunks & chuck it over the fence.
http://www.arboristsite.com/images/attach/jpg.gif

 

[anymanusa]

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Heavy stuff for sure. Picked this up off of Craig's last week. White oak, already cut to random length. The first load was load & go.
http://www.arboristsite.com/images/attach/jpg.gif

2nd load was from the 36" trunk. It was on the "wrong side" of a split rail fence, so I had to bust it up by noodling/maul into throwable chunks & chuck it over the fence.
http://www.arboristsite.com/images/attach/jpg.gif

^^^I haven't been motivated to work that hard in a while...lol.

 

[zogger]

Nice stuff

Nice to split, too. Man, I *really* like me some nice straight oak to split... or ash, my two favs...

I cut my stuff different sizes because of ease of handling. My heater can take upwards of twenty inch long pieces, but no way am I going to cut big rounds that long, so I cut from ten inches to around 18 depending on piece diameter. Mostly I try to hit sixteen on anything that doesn't need splitting, but you always wind up with that last chunk working down a branch where you have to decide "two small pieces or one larger one" so I cut larger then. On the main trunk, I go the opposite way, cut smaller. It stacks, it burns. Gf does the stacking and hauling it into the house, (I fell, buck, haul and split) except for the big oddball "all nighters", I bring those in and load them through the top of the heater right before I go crash out.

I can appreciate laser level built stacks, but meh, what we have works.

 

[Steve2910]

^^^I haven't been motivated to work that hard in a while...lol.

I was told over the phone, before I saw it " 15 or 16 big rounds & really straight grained-- nice wood". My experience is that w/ log diameter, it's always a "fish story". Figured I'd noodle them in half, bust the halves into quarters w/ the maul, be out of there in an hour or so... Can't remember the last time I worked that hard! I'd do it again-- a day's work to have (what I figure will yield about 2 1/2 cords) of White Oak sitting in my wood yard in very manageable pieces.http://www.arboristsite.com/attachm...nt/197650d1315102493-0901111427awhite-oak-jpg

 

[Steve2910]

"two small pieces or one larger one"

Indeed, a question which has plagued man since firewood cutting began!

 

[crowbuster]

My piles dont care how long or short.

 

[johninky]

Just a photo of my old Dodge. Long way to go before it bottoms out.

 

[Rigwelder]

I love that old dodge!!! They are some of the tuffest old pickups you can find!! All you gottta do now is put a cummings in that thing and you will be set to pull anything anywhere!!