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Started by Woodhauler, October 01, 2012, 04:49:46 PM

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Woodhauler

Split 2 cord this afternoon! Want to get it all done and in by hunting season! Season starts end of this month.
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lumberjack48

You must not be a full time logger, a logger doesn't put firewood up.  :D :D
Third generation logger, owner operator, 30 yrs felling experience with pole skidder. I got my neck broke back in 89, left me a quad. The wife kept the job going up to 96.

Woodhauler

No most loggers haul it home as they burn it! I like mine all in the cellar ready to go!
2013 westernstar tri-axle with 2015 rotobec elite 80 loader!Sold 2000 westernstar tractor with stairs air ride trailer and a 1985 huskybrute 175 T/L loader!

lumberjack48

I just simply couldn't find time to put firewood up. When i look back it was simply ridiculousness i didn't have time.

I had oil back up, i could make more logging, then i could save putting firewood up. Thats my story and i'm sticking to it.
Third generation logger, owner operator, 30 yrs felling experience with pole skidder. I got my neck broke back in 89, left me a quad. The wife kept the job going up to 96.

thecfarm

I'm just starting to think about mine. No,I'm not a full time logger either.  ;D I just cut the dead stuff and push it up into a pile and work on through the winter when there is snow on the ground.I have too much too do around here when the ground is not frozen. Or so I think. When the snow falls is when I can not work the ground or clear out the grown up pasture. Than I start on firewood.
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rick f

Got all mine in the celler from the wood shed before I went north for harvest. That was my goal and I made it.
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clww

I have about 15-20 cords ready to go at the cabin. When I get done clearing the right-of-way for the power lines to come in, I swear I think I'll have another 30-50 cords of firewood. If I did the pines and hemlock, it would be double. SO glad I bought that log splitter 4 years ago.
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SwampDonkey

Mine gets done in 3 days. 1.5 cord in the shop, 8 in the house basement and another cord stacked out by my basement window on old boards off the mud. Never thought it was that big of a deal. If I was a logger, I doubt I'd make a fortune in 3 days.  Just wondering how many Fridays were knocked off for one thing or another not related to wood cut'n. ;D :D

Partridge season is open now up here.
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James Arsenault

I heat with 100% wood, 8 cords a year. Seems I'm always behind the 8-ball on getting it done though.

I claim being too busy....but mostly because I take time off in the fall to hunt and trap instead of putting up the firewood, haha.....

My father, who lives next door, owns 148 acres. Usually my skidder (or a skidder I can use) ends up near home, and I yank out my wood as well as my father's off from his land. I yard the wood right onto my back lawn.

If no skidder,we use Dad's tractor with an old army winch. Too darn slow though. Better than handling it by hand though.

lumberjack48

I see so many people putting firewood up in 80/90+ degree weather [why] and they make such a big deal out of it. Its cool in the spring, and in the fall, why not do it nice cool weather.

The son-in-law does the same thing, he had the grand daughters, 15 an 13 yrs old out there this summer, splitting and piling firewood in the shed on the hot days. He only puts up 4 cds and it takes him all summer, i told the girls if i was on my feet, i could do it in one day. I wouldn't have anybody put wood up in that heat, let alone my daughters. To me its crazy, i remember guys coming in to the pub, [95 outside] soaking wet with sweat bragging that their putting firewood up. To me a logger it was stupid to be putting wood up in this kind of heat. [ Am i missing something ? ]

make a fortune in 3 days. 

Three days logging, we could make 600. to 1500. heating oil, .50 to 1.00 a gal., when we came home in the dark i didn't feel like monkeying around with firewood, we had to get up in the dark an leave again. In the winter there isn't much rest for a logger, you have about 12 good weeks to make it, if the weather is good to you. We worked everyday we could until they put the road restrictions on.
Third generation logger, owner operator, 30 yrs felling experience with pole skidder. I got my neck broke back in 89, left me a quad. The wife kept the job going up to 96.

WH_Conley

I agree about firewood at 90 degree. I wait til we have a little frost then get out the good heavy tie siding slabs and run them across the swing saw. Usually have a couple of the girls helping. (They stack) Takes less than a day. The wood goes on racks. I carry the racks up to the basement door a couple of times during the winter. Get the kids out with a chute to slide the wood down. They usually make a game of it, good old family time, wood is in and everybody is happy.
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SwampDonkey

I know a lot of loggers who brought home a pickup load of firewood every day until the wood was in.

We would cut ours in January and haul it in July. Farming was year around. Grow it and then market it the rest of the year. You just took time out for the wood because it needed doing and didn't worry about a day lost moving produce. We weren't hurt'n that bad for a buck.
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Maine372

mud season is for making firewood. you cant be in the woods so you might as well keep the saw runnin at home. ive managed to get ahead and stay ahead for the last couple years. i burn 3-4cd a year and i have 7 worked up and another 1 ready to be worked up.

Corley5

Since I've had my firewood machine I haven't stocked any wood.  I process it as I need it.  This season I plan to fill my woodshed for the 1st time in about 6 years I think.  I'm looking to not be in the firewood business this winter.  I sold all my hardwood pulp as it was produced this year just so I wouldn't have any seasoned wood to sell.  When the snow comes and stays I plan to put the processor and elevator in the barn for the winter and be done with firewood until spring.  I'm tired of fighting the snow and cold and dealing with people who didn't believe winter was really coming and want perfectly dry firewood in February.  If I had natural gas I'd be heating with it and paying the bill with firewood sales from the warmer parts of the year  ;) ;D
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Slab Slicer

10 dry cords piled, and another 7 for the next year. Stopped "putting it up" a few years ago. Easier to dump it into a pile with the loader, and it will still dry just fine. We keep it tarped. Deb likes to haul it in during the burning season. I don't mind. I've handled it enough by then.  :D
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lynde37avery

half of our business is firewood, we seem to bring home 1/2 or a whole pickup load home at a time once or twice a month and i split it in the rain. or mud season, seems like nothing. splitting 100+ cord of firewood for customers a year since i was about 11. its all ive ever done so it comes second nature to me. i dislike the oil/propane prices. and the woods free minus my labor. its a simple life in my eyes.
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CuddleBugFirewood

 

 

Thought you guys might likes this.  You can see more pics on our facebook page. 
There is about 740 1/3 cord pallets.  Not much by some firewood business standards as we are still part time.  Growing a little every year.   Hope it all sells! 

drobertson

Hey cuddle, this sounds wierd!  Nice jag,(under statement)  This looks like the way to handle the wood to me. Thought about this many times.  I am going to the father-in-laws tomorrow, his splitter,his saw, and mine. front bucket on the kiote, a big trailor, and a furnace waiting to be feed,  forcast is for 28 in the morning, perfect for cutting firewood. 
only have a few chain saws I'm not suppose to use, but will at times, one dog Dolly, pretty good dog, just not sure what for yet,  working on getting the gardening back in order, and kinda thinking on maybe a small bbq bizz,  thinking about it,

Autocar

I cut wood when ever theres time, it can be hotter then and colder then but by fall theres wood stacked as close as I can get it to the boiler. I miss the stove in the house I always enjoyed warming up after a cold day in the woods drying my gloves and the smell when there dry. Everyone at church remarked about your cloths smelled like hickory. I suppose I'll cut wood as long as Iam able.
Bill

redprospector

Being a thinning contractor, the hardest part of my job is finding a market for the small diameter wood.
I burn wood (about 5 cords a year), I have a Chomper processor to make firewood. Everybody and their dog's sell's firewood around here so there's no profit in it. So I usually give mine away to folks who are elderly, or down on their luck. I get paid to take the wood out, but not until it's gone.

Andy
1996 Timber King B-20 with 14' extension, Morgan Mini Scragg Mill, Fastline Band Scragg Mill (project), 1973 JD 440-b skidder, 2008 Bobcat T-320 with buckets, grapple, auger, Tushogg mulching head, etc., 2006 Fecon FTX-90L with Bull Hog 74SS head, 1994 Vermeer 1250 BC Chipper. A bunch of chainsaws.

lumberjack48

Thats the way it was around here, i had a hard time giving wood away. It had to be moved off the sale before they'd close the block, and if we didn't remove it we faced a penalty. The last wood i delivered with the Mack i got $25. a cord, this is 100" wood. If we could have sold all of it for that price we would have been happy, you sold a load here an there, most of it rotted in the pile. There used to be piles of junk wood all over in the Chippewa National Forest, this was 25, 30 yrs ago.
barbenders logging there, maybe he'll give use an update on how firewood is selling.
Third generation logger, owner operator, 30 yrs felling experience with pole skidder. I got my neck broke back in 89, left me a quad. The wife kept the job going up to 96.

SwampDonkey

It was funny after the 70's oil flip flop, oil was cheap and everyone installed oil furnaces here as a backup for wood. Actually it was a little further back, almost 40 years ago now. I was likely about 8. It was still pretty cheap until Katrina put ideas into people's heads that oil was rare again. We still had our wood here, just the same. No way I'd give that up for no oil. :D
"No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randi

1 Thessalonians 5:21

2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

sparky1

got all my wood cut and split for the winter. took me two days (7-8 hour days) and my brother helped me. Id say we did about 12 to 13 cords. we used a bobcat with a grapple, and a splitter I made for the bobcat. what a time saver in the woods a grapple is!!!!  little sore, but relieved to be done!!! 8)
Shaun J

Phorester


Average firewood prices in my local paper this fall:  $100/cord if you come get it, $150/cord delivered.  Ads say seasoned wood, either "mixed hardwood" or "all oak". 

Virginia law says if you advertise a cord of wood, it must measure 4ft. x 4 ft. x 8ft. As for the terms "seasoned", "mixed hardwood", "all oak", "pickup load", etc., buyer beware.

Slab Slicer

Pricing around here starts at $150 / cord, and goes up from there. $200 delivered in most cases. Mixed hardwood in most cases, but some will tell you about a small percentage of soft woods (poplar). Once fuel oil prices start rising, so will the cost of a cord.
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Chuck

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