2022Firewood season has started

[Firewood Bandit]

I follow my logger buddies around and make contact with landowners to clean up the refuse after the job is done. Generally one spot can keep me going for a year. When they are in the area, they fill my 18', 10,000# trailer in minutes.
This is this year's spot:
I've spent two days now , it has two landings that are pretty decent and one so so. I cut the first load off the latter.
What I look for in a spot is good access and that requires that it be fairly level. I can get around in foot of snow as long as it is level.
These pics I took today of one of the better spots, there should be enough to keep me going all season. As a bonus this must have been worked when the ground was froze hard as the wood is not near as dirty as I am used to. I even used a single small saw today, a 60cc Husky 562XPG. Do love the heated handles early in the morning.

 

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[KS Plainsman]

Sounds like ya got some good connections. Makes things pretty nice I bet.

 

[Firewood Bandit]

Sounds like ya got some good connections. Makes things pretty nice I bet.

If one is going to cut a LOT of wood it takes a lot of wood. A scrounge here or there just doesn't cut it.

Here is a normal year.

 

[KS Plainsman]

Do you sell firewood, or is this all personal wood?

 

[merc_man]

Looks like you got a lot of wood stacked up. Nice splitter too.

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[Wolverine]

Outstanding!

 

[Stump Shot]

Splitter envy... it's real.
Nice batch of wood there.

 

[JugHead27]

Good stuff. It’s always firewood season here tho lol

 

[bradb123]

View attachment 354939 View attachment 354940 View attachment 354941 View attachment 354942 View attachment 354943 I follow my logger buddies around and make contact with landowners to clean up the refuse after the job is done. Generally one spot can keep me going for a year. When they are in the area, they fill my 18', 10,000# trailer in minutes.
This is this year's spot:
I've spent two days now , it has two landings that are pretty decent and one so so. I cut the first load off the latter.
What I look for in a spot is good access and that requires that it be fairly level. I can get around in foot of snow as long as it is level.
These pics I took today of one of the better spots, there should be enough to keep me going all season. As a bonus this must have been worked when the ground was froze hard as the wood is not near as dirty as I am used to. I even used a single small saw today, a 60cc Husky 562XPG. Do love the heated handles early in the morning.

It sounds like you have a great firewood gig ! It looks like you're logging friends lay out there scraps so it's easy for you to cut up the wood . Not all logging company's do that nice of a job . The property I cut on got hit bad by tornadoes in July of 2019 . The logging company pushed all their scraps up into nasty piles . There are 3 different scrap piles on the property I cut on . You can defiantly sort through and find a lot of firewood out of these piles . I've cut up at least 20 cords out this pile over the last few years .

 

[bradb123]

Here's the second scrap pile . This pile was massive 3 years ago . I probably cut 20- 25 cords out ot before these pics were taken .

 

[Al Smith]

Cutting down out of those piles you get a lot of file time .

 

[bradb123]

Cutting down out of those piles you get a lot of file time .

I use a grinder for sharpening my chains . I just bring a lot of chains with me and swap them out when they get dull . All the wood in the piles were skidded out , some still have 5" of dirt and sod on them .

 

[Firewood Bandit]

Cutting down out of those piles you get a lot of file time .

Due to cutting cable skidded log cut offs, I have switched to 404 semi chisel on big saws, 395 and ported 288 with hard nosed bars, because the maintain sharp so much longer.

Technique makes a huge difference too on how you cut, almost every round is plunge cut.

 

[Al Smith]

When Mt St.Helens blew it's top it took down millions of board feet of timber .From what's been said the forestry dept gave huge portions of it to places like Weyerhaeuser ,no charge , The cutters said on many forums it was a chore because of the ash that acted like valve grinding compound that just ate the chains up in addition to wearing the saws out . Oregon probably sold a lot of chain for a couple of years .
I've been working on a huge pile of oak that was shoved back with a skid loader like 10 years ago .I got around 3 cords of it last summer until I got tired of filing chains .It's white oak and still good stuff but my word the work it is .

 

[bradb123]

I normally try to cut around the pieces that are really dirty . I also run a lot of 404 chain in these piles .

 

[Firewood Bandit]

I use a grinder for sharpening my chains . I just bring a lot of chains with me and swap them out when they get dull . All the wood in the piles were skidded out , some still have 5" of dirt and sod on them .

Ever seen a grinder like this one?

 

[bradb123]

Ever seen a grinder like this one?

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No I haven't . I have a Oregon 410-120 and a Oregon 620-120 grinders . I recently purchased a Simington 451c grinder that I'm picking up next Saturday at the Twin Cities gtg . BTW here's a pic of the third scrap pile . Tomorrow morning I'll start cutting up
. The pics from Thanksgiving weekend last year .

 

[Firewood Bandit]

No I haven't . I have a Oregon 410-120 and a Oregon 620-120 grinders . I recently purchased a Simington 451c grinder that I'm picking up next Saturday at the Twin Cities gtg . BTW here's a pic of the third scrap pile . Tomorrow morning I'll start cutting up
. The pics from Thanksgiving weekend last year .

The Simington is very cool, A lot more of a learning curve with true square chisel.