Firewood thread!!! Let's see what you got!!!!

[Sloughfoot]

Sycamore? Fair heat, a bear to split. If it's eucalyptus, I have no idea.

Yeh it's Sycamore or Plains Tree. Fair heat ain't worth the trouble. Noodled a few into quarters and still tough to split. There's plenty of oak, madrone, doug fir around here.

 

[Hinerman]

This worth messing with? 22 rounds average about 16 inches. I have lots of options. Don’t “need” it.

No, it is sycamore!!!

 

[STOVE]

Carpenter ants. I don’t like em. Cost me several pretty rounds in my last load. Whole dang colony hidden in one. Startled the dickens out of me when I cracked it open

 

[Lawless]

I don’t waste poplar here. I use it for days when I am able to feed it every 3-4 hours. I don’t burn pine, too many other options here. 75% of hardwood trees on my property are oaks. Most is Chestnut Oak with White and Red mixed in.

Yellow pine and White pine here too. I want to mill some. My entire shop is framed rough sawn yellow pine.

 

[JimG.]

 

[jblnut]

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My carpel tunnel is acting up just looking at those sweet old saws

 

[They call me Mr. Kibbs]

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Beech?
If so, we have a lot around our place, weighs a ton green but great overnight wood. We've joked that if Anheuser Busch ever needs more for their aging barrels we're set for life!

 

[JimG.]

Yellow birch.
I'm thinking of putting some on the mill to see how it looks inside.

 

[nbbt]

Good morning folks. Nice and sunny for the time being with temps approaching 50f today.

To bad there has been a temp yo-yo effect lately.

oops, wanted to say nice hauls in this thread. . .

 

[jblnut]

Instead of carrying the wood to the big pile we decided to move the bucking table, splitter trailer and a few totes to the wood pile. Pops ran the lawnmower and loaded while I cut and put the cut up chunks in their places.


Two full totes of smalls and a full trailer of splitters to get after tomorrow.


This doesn’t look like nearly as many chips as it turnt out to be. They didn’t all fit in that bucket.


The 044 got warmed up, cut a few chunks and didn’t start again. Gonna have to investigate that tonight. The 066 did the rest of the cutting and only drank a single tank of fuel. Cutting cottonwood doesn’t work it all that hard lol.

 

[Khntr85]

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Is that a 25 or 28 on that 460??

 

[jblnut]

Is that a 25 or 28 on that 460??

Maybe you can read it more clearly now that it isn’t upside down. That thing must cut crazy slow being all upside down and such

 

[Lawless]

Is that a 25 or 28 on that 460??

It is a 440 with my 28” bar. It mostly wears a 25” though.

Maybe you can read it more clearly now that it isn’t upside down. That thing must cut crazy slow being all upside down and such
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I am not an Aussie

 

[They call me Mr. Kibbs]

Instead of carrying the wood to the big pile we decided to move the bucking table, splitter trailer and a few totes to the wood pile. Pops ran the lawnmower and loaded while I cut and put the cut up chunks in their places.
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Two full totes of smalls and a full trailer of splitters to get after tomorrow.
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This doesn’t look like nearly as many chips as it turnt out to be. They didn’t all fit in that bucket.
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The 044 got warmed up, cut a few chunks and didn’t start again. Gonna have to investigate that tonight. The 066 did the rest of the cutting and only drank a single tank of fuel. Cutting cottonwood doesn’t work it all that hard lol.
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@jblnut , I'm interested in the grapple on your lawnmower in the 1st pic. If you think about it, and no rush at all, could we get a closer pic / model info, etc.?
Think yours is the bigger brother to my little 1025R lawnmower loader, but I have run into several light duty situations where a thumb or lightweight grapple would be handy.
Thanks in advance

 

[jblnut]

It is a 440 with my 28” bar. It mostly wears a 25” though.
I am not an Aussie

I laughed when I went back and looked at the most recent pic I posted and I have an upside down bar on my 044 as well

@jblnut , I'm interested in the grapple on your lawnmower in the 1st pic. If you think about it, and no rush at all, could we get a closer pic / model info, etc.?
Think yours is the bigger brother to my little 1025R lawnmower loader, but I have run into several light duty situations where a thumb or lightweight grapple would be handy.
Thanks in advance

No trouble at all !! It's a Frontier PG11. Lawnmower is a 2038r and was already quite a bit larger than the one I went in to buy. I went to look at a very nice Deere 445 and came home with this thing lol. That being said, the next one will absolutely be a 3046r or whatever is the largest 3r series around 2030. I can't believe how handy having a little loader tractor is vs climbing in and out of a skiddy all the time.



I beefed it up a bit as it decided to fold over on itself while picking a log up last fall.


It's quite handy for wood things. I had visions of building a wooden top plate of sorts for the pallet forks so I wouldn't destroy a chain if I hit it and decided to just be careful. So far it's been working out lol.


I cut a fair bit this way before building the bucking trailer. Building that trailer was a major improvement in my wood cutting/processing system.


When I decided to go the pallet grapple route I was being cheap and telling myself I didn't need a grapple for the lawnmower. I think I'd do it this way again but it is by no means a replacement for an actual grapple. It does work well to move logs and cut them into chunks. I didn't really think I needed another actual grapple because I have one for the skiddy as well as a brush puller and a few other wood related things.

 

[JimG.]

Into some black cherry today.
5400 is running very nicely. Thanks @Bill G .

 

[SawAddictedFarmer]

Into some black cherry today.
5400 is running very nicely. Thanks @Bill G .


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That cherry is good stuff.

 

[EFSM]

Into some black cherry today.
5400 is running very nicely. Thanks @Bill G .


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It’s not my wood, but seeing that cut into firewood makes me almost sick. Why not sell it for lumber?

 

[JimG.]

I had set those two stems aside from the firewood pile in order to do just that. The top was blown out of that cherry and rot got into the stem. I thought I could get an 8' sawlog out of it but, alas, when I cut into it there was rot all the way down. You can see white in the visible cracks, that is fungus. It would not have been worth the effort. Trust me, I love black cherry lumber. Much of the trim in my house is black cherry I milled from these woods.