Firewood Season 2024

[yetti462]

have a guy just south of me that cuts after dark, am I the only that thinks that is a little nuts?

There is a guy south of me I can hear at night, usually about 9:00. Probably like me, do it when you have time.

 

[Michigan Slim]

Make hay when the sun shines. And sometimes when it don't.

 

[tmschuller]

There is a guy south of me I can hear at night, usually about 9:00. Probably like me, do it when you have time.

I’ve had to do it before.. sometimes you just have to.

 

[Leadeye]

have a guy just south of me that cuts after dark, am I the only that thinks that is a little nuts?

Just needs lights.

I've cut up trees by car headlights after a storm.

 

[yetti462]

With work and kids events and a list of crap to do that never gets shorter, I've managed to accomplish a lot in the dark. Usually in a mad rush to beat some weather system that's forecasted.

The most recent was tar papering my porch roof project before a snow, finished with a head lamp on. My wife tried helping with a 1 mil candle power spot light, all that did was blind me.

Other night time activities have been food plot work from mowing, plowing and planting. Have moved tree stands, hauled wood, split wood, the list goes on. There is something peaceful about being out in the dark.

 

[klausm]

Oh, he is my big brother. I'm much younger and better looking.

and if we asked him about that what would his response be?

 

[Michigan Slim]

and if we asked him about that what would his response be?

Pretty sure he started laughing and didn't know why.

 

[cmann250]

Split and stacked about a cord of cherry, oak, and walnut.

 

[Remington 90T]

Just got the thunder wedge out to finish up some big logs --great fun went through 2# of black powder.

 

[Leadeye]

Mice moved into the log splitter again, cost me another coil and switch wiring. I'm getting quick at these repairs, but tired of doing them all the time.

 

[d.kaufman]

Burning a little if my stash tonight. Decent evening for a fire

 

[klausm]

I hate cleaning up tree service leftovers. all the wrong length and cut crooked as a dogs hind leg, end up cutting each piece. Cutting up a whole tree goes faster

 

[yetti462]

My neighbor is doing a tree removal job just down the road. He asked if I wanted the wood, soft maple, I said yes. Dump trailer, yeah, I need one.

 

[bobjones223]

Split and stacked about a cord of cherry, oak, and walnut.

Soooo how well does the tire trick work for splitting?

Seen it online but never tried it.

 

[cmann250]

Soooo how well does the tire trick work for splitting?

Seen it online but never tried it.

It works pretty well. It would work better if I fastened the tire to the stump somehow. Sometimes the tire falls off the stump and defeats the whole purpose. Though without the tire, 100% of the splits fall off the chopping block

 

[indyjohn]

My neighbor is doing a tree removal job just down the road. He asked if I wanted the wood, soft maple, I said yes. Dump trailer, yeah, I need one.

Me too brother. In 2016, I bought a new Sure-Trac high side utility trailer from Detro. I got it for a good price and it has served me well. But what I know now, I wish I had bought a dump trailer instead. I could have still hauled around the gator and done a whole lot more with it. Now the prices on trailers are off the scale, making it hard to get into one.

 

[JTKelly]

Soooo how well does the tire trick work for splitting?

Seen it online but never tried it.

Its "ok". I think it gets anoying picking up the wood over and over one or two pieces at a time. I usually set up a half dozen in a line and split them all until they are all knocked over. Then you can split a few again with out even setting them up.

 

[indyjohn]

It's a good morning.

 

[buckwacker]

I finally dropped that dead white oak in the back yard. I wasnt watching chain tension closely enough and bent the chain when it jumped off the bar when i started limbing. I didn't get it cleaned up because I had to run to get another chain and ran out of time.

I wanted to ask the braintrust about some peculiarities on the tree. It has a couple swelled areas lower on the trunk, one just above the cut in the pics, one below on the stump. Any idea what causes this and if it would affect the grain through the entire log. I'd hate to just cut and split it up to find some really nice figure in the grain that might be worth something. If it's just shallow due to a recent fungal infection or something (maybe that's what killed the tree) it probably wouldn't be worth saving.

 

[yetti462]

^^the only way to know is saw. Sometimes it's nothing, sometimes it's deep defect that's grown over.