How much can you fell/buck/split/stack by hand in a day?

[Bill G]

I was not asking them?

No one here confuses a track loader with a skid loader but heck I guess other areas are different.

They are probably the same guys that call a Chevy a truck

 

[davidwyby]

They were trucks until 1987 or so

 

[Woodwackr]

I have friends (even people who are in the tree service industry) that call skid steers "skidders" also. I never understood it. Though, in my particular area, I've almost never seen an actual skidder, so that may have something to do with it. Also, I hear a skid steers called a "skiddy". Maybe it evolved from that.

“Skidders”…reminds me of “ Falling Skies”

 

[Bill G]

They were trucks until 1987 or so

This one made it a whopping 4 years.

 

[Bill G]

Whew a quality ole gal..................

 

[mainer_in_ak]

Whew a quality ole gal..................

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Bill, those 67-72 chevies held up purdy good here in interior Alaska. No salt on the roads and extremely dry/long winters. Nothing rusts when you have below zero temps from November to April. Here's my 68 k20 wood truck:

 

[Bill G]

Salt on the roads here is common practice

 

[Hoser]

Every truck rusts if it sees salt and no care dodge, Chevy, ford all turns to rust.
I used to think of chevys as a weak sister until we had a 90’s 6.5 k1500 that got beaten into submission as a farm truck for years, jumped, raced, burnouts until the tires popped that thing took it all and all we did was add more diesel

 

[mainer_in_ak]

Hoser, yep that salt always surprises me, what it does to the undercarriage of a work truck. I feel awful for the mechanics who have to battle with that level of rust.

But I won't imply that Alaska is all that great either. Ran 30 bales of straw on the Taylor highway last week to Eagle, Alaska(on the Yukon River. Hundreds of miles of sharp gravel, frost heaves, slick patches of ice, steep grades, water holes, rock slides and mud on everything. Something always rattles loose on the wood truck, this time I lost a manual locking hub off the front axle and the shocks are toast.

Lotta solid axle Ford 3/4-1 ton trucks owned by those who live in Eagle or miners in Chicken and haul loads on Taylor Highway. Very few IFS rigs.

 

[Al Smith]

Realisticaly probabley a cord a day using a hydraulic splitter but usually about half that much .A skidder is just that .Could be a mule,garden tractor,farm tractor, dozer .Depends on weather it's a pecker pole or a 3 foot white oak . I've got tractors and dozers but no mules nor will I ever .I doubt if myself and mule would get along very well .

 

[Ryan Browne]

Realisticaly probabley a cord a day using a hydraulic splitter but usually about half that much .A skidder is just that .Could be a mule,garden tractor,farm tractor, dozer .Depends on weather it's a pecker pole or a 3 foot white oak . I've got tractors and dozers but no mules nor will I ever .I doubt if myself and mule would get along very well .

I think the ones that say Kawasaki are supposed to be pretty good. Wouldn't want one that eats hay myself.

 

[Bill G]

I think the ones that say Kawasaki are supposed to be pretty good. Wouldn't want one that eats hay myself.

 

[thedude74]

This is about my average for a day. sometimes a little less. Limited access and hauling loads on the 4wheeler burns up some time.

 

[dangerousatom]

Here in north central Pennsylvania it’s a lot more work then most places on just about every step. Finding dead trees is the easy part but getting them out to process without creating a massive trail is tricky. It’s rocks like pointed razor blades all over, so you can’t just drive a truck in and haul a log out or drive a load that’s split out. We use a rope & snatch blocks to drag/run the logs out to a main trail, then chain drag them to the cabin to buck/split/stack. The old 1994 jeep grand cherokee does all the work, with a 3” lift and v-bar snow chains and a few extra tred chains the things unstoppable even with balled tires from the local junk yard. The jeep barely goes into the woods just up n down the trail hauling a log or pulling a tree out on the snatch line.
We do all our cutting this time of year before the rain/snow comes in. Its usually a 3 weekend deal to get about 12 cords. 12-20 guys 5-6 saws n 2-3 splitters. I prefer a splitting maul if I’m not felling and setting the snatch lines. I’ve been splitting since I was 12, got good by 15 and can do a cord of just about anything straight in 6-7 hours. I’m 48 and run circle around the hydro splitters if one of my nephews is there to stand the 1/2s n 1/4s back up.

Keep in mind the less you touch the wood the easier it is to process. Meaning cutting it, bucking it, and splitting it all in different places is way more work than keeping it all centralized. If you can get a full log to an area near your finished staking location and process it all there without handing it numerous time it way less work. I hated how my hunting cabin used to do it before I became a member. Fell a tree buck it there, then into a pickup if u can get it close. Then toss it out to split ,then back in a truck/trailer to the wood shed to be stacked. You ended up touching each piece 5 or more times