Whataya do with the crotches

[echomeister]

Speaking of firewood of course. I had a bunch of oak with joints in it. I set em up and noodled them trying to separate the straight and splittable wood from the twisted wood. I noodled through the centers of each branch to release the outer, presumably straight grained wood , and keeping the centers seperate.

Anyway how do you pro's deal with the crotch wood.

 

[LoveStihlQuality]

Burn pit or burn pile

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[echomeister]

Yeah I am thinking it's not worth the effort.

 

[LoveStihlQuality]

Yeah I am thinking it's not worth the effort.

Yeah, we've got so much wood, some would cry over what we push into burn pile. Never thought of trying to sell. Too mild in in Indiana.

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[buzz sawyer]

Speaking of firewood of course. I had a bunch of oak with joints in it. I set em up and noodled them trying to separate the straight and splittable wood from the twisted wood. I noodled through the centers of each branch to release the outer, presumably straight grained wood , and keeping the centers seperate.

Anyway how do you pro's deal with the crotch wood.

I'm no pro but if it's good wood I do what you do.

 

[cantoo]

I usually only have maple or ash wood and usually not really big stuff, max of 22" or so. When splitting wood to sell I mark all my logs to 16" and don't worry about crotches or branches. My push plate is on my cylinder so I put the single end on the wedge and push the crotch into the wedge. I split it so it's a Y when done. In my opinion this is the easiest way to split crotches. I have an adjustable 4 way splitter but usually don't raise it for crotches unless it looks like an easy split one. This looks like a sawn one but looks the same.

 

[svk]

If it's elm or something else difficult I'll noodle it. Otherwise I'll split the outside of each round off then split the crotch with the splitter. Both crossways and if needed lengthwise again.

 

[OnTheRoad]

I leave them right where they lay. Along with the brush, bark, rot, punk, crooked wood and wood too small to split.. Making firewood is hard enough without dealing with trash.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Whataya do with the crotches

Just like all of my other firewood rounds, I push them through my 4-way wedge!

NO problem at all,

And keep on pushing them through,

until I get the size splits I want...like I said, no problem at all...

SR

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

Split it. Once in a while it's just too knarly to split well, it heats the shop. 2ft door on the shop stove, 4ftx7ft stove.

 

[turnkey4099]

I usually only have maple or ash wood and usually not really big stuff, max of 22" or so. When splitting wood to sell I mark all my logs to 16" and don't worry about crotches or branches. My push plate is on my cylinder so I put the single end on the wedge and push the crotch into the wedge. I split it so it's a Y when done. In my opinion this is the easiest way to split crotches. I have an adjustable 4 way splitter but usually don't raise it for crotches unless it looks like an easy split one. This looks like a sawn one but looks the same.
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I do the same but split it through the crotch. That will usually split it right down the "seam". If too crooked to stack decent it goes on my 'ugly' pile (shorts, longs, crooks, knots, etc). That is usually the first stuff I burn in the fall.

Knots and crotches are usually the densest and best burning parts of a tree and I don't waste them.

 

[CaseyForrest]

Ill cut them down to make them easier to split... say 8-10 inches and then they go in the shorts bin... Right now my shorts bin is roughly 32' long by 4' wide and 50" tall. Its almost full.

 

[LoveStihlQuality]

I do the same but split it through the crotch. That will usually split it right down the "seam". If too crooked to stack decent it goes on my 'ugly' pile (shorts, longs, crooks, knots, etc). That is usually the first stuff I burn in the fall.

Knots and crotches are usually the densest and best burning parts of a tree and I don't waste them.

I have split a lot of crotches, stacking is issue. Try to b put uglies on top. Like Casey's shorts bin.

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[jrider]

Do the best I can to split it in nice looking pieces to sell. If it's ugly or won't push through the splitter, it goes in the pile for my owb.

 

[buzz sawyer]

Almost forgot - here is one other thing I do with crotches.... butterfly and make a table. This one is about 28" x 40".

 

[sunfish]

If it's elm or something else difficult I'll noodle it. Otherwise I'll split the outside of each round off then split the crotch with the splitter. Both crossways and if needed lengthwise again.

Same here and Oak is easy.

 

[sunfish]

Walnut crotches here get turned into knife handle blocks.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I've opened up more than a few of them too,

SR

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

Ill cut them down to make them easier to split... say 8-10 inches and then they go in the shorts bin... Right now my shorts bin is roughly 32' long by 4' wide and 50" tall. Its almost full.

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I stack that stuff in with the regular wood. I used to not, but I'd end up with several cords a year that I couldn't even give away!

 

[PhilMcWoody]

Noodle down to a manageable size with whatever of my 2 saws is at hand.

I'm not a pro, and good scrounges of firewood in legally accessible places can be hard to come by in my corner of NY, so I never waste a crotch. Besides they burn very well. I'm happy when an arborist/tree co. leaves them behind (so keep on doing that please )

Sometimes, because they can be hard to stack, sections of noodled crotch often get the unenviable job of weighing down the tarps on my woodpile, but they eventually go in the fireplace.