Time for firewood cuttin yet?

Getting ready to fight the chiggers and ticks here, have a need to drop some dead stuff before winter.

TDF….that's cool lookin! I cut firewood all year round! haven't used any cept for yard fire pit past 10 years or so, but think'in bouts getting some up to the house for "just in case" this winter. I do donate a lot of the wood to the boy/girl scouts for their outings. and I give some away to my law enforcement friends. they tell me they heat part of their houses with it, I think they just light up a fire in the fireplace so they can gits laid in front of it!

Too hot for me to be cutting firewood. I have enough for this winter and several big oaks down that I need to get out of the woods. Going to cut and load some when it gets cooler and take to a friend.

Oh, forgot to mention, that I too like that firewood stack that you have there, TDF

Dave H wrote: That is a neat stack TDF. Mine gets dumped out of the loader bucket.

Exactly!  More friggin' work in stacking than cutting there lol!

Well Dusty, I was through your way twice in the last month....you should have said something!  Not sure how much wood I could haul in the wife's CX 5.  But the saw would have fit. 

john(MI) how do you get by on 2 cords of wood for the winter? I hear tell it's more like 15-20 cords.

I've been cutting up trees and limbs every few weeks this summer simply to keep the overgrowth under control.  Most of this summer's yield was red oak and soft maple, in a few weeks there'll be some more catulpa.

For my day-to-day, I have a Stihl MS-180 with improved exhaust and 3-degree timing advance, running a .050 14" bar and matching chain.  Contrary to the chatter otherwise, the 180's powerhead has no problem pulling it over the factory 'pico' chain, and the kerf is wide enough to keep the bar from binding.  Also in the 'small' armory is an Echo CS-310, which is stock, not as powerful as the MS180, but smooth and fairly quiet, great for stripping off twigs.

I handle the medium-weight work and smaller felling with a Shindaiwa 575 with a 24" bar.  It's a torquey beast, and has no difficulty sectioning 40" trunks or bucking 24" oak limbs into splittable pieces.

For really big felling or bucking, I use a Stihl MS-880 with a 40" bar... but not for very long...  I'm only man enough to sling that beast for a while.  When felling a 65" diameter soft maple, it left me standing in a big pile of woodchips every time.  Great machine at what it does, and once it's chewing through a big felled trunk under it's own weight, it's easy (just hold the throttle down and let it eat) but I hate carrying it, and swinging that long bar into position... the bar and chain weigh as much as the saw, and it's WAY out there.

Tbone95 wrote: Well Dusty, I was through your way twice in the last month....you should have said something!  Not sure how much wood I could haul in the wife's CX 5.  But the saw would have fit.    Why did the close The Gavel by the way?  I thought that was good.

i got an old husky that i use,,,been down in the woods painting the dead trees so i knows which ones need cleared out when the leaves are gone,,,got a few to cut this year,,,wood is all stacked on the south wall inside the barn from last year for this years burnin,,,that stuff is good and ready,,,i can get about 5 cord stacked on that wall,,,should be plenty,,cutting this year will be for next years burning,,,

Yeah yellow tape would be good...I didn't have any but I did have an old can of orange paint...lol...I dont think the saw or the stove will mind...but maybe the maul will...lol

Yeah this old husky gets heavier every year

That wood pile is cool for sure

Ocharry

Edited by ocharry - 23 Sep 2018 at 8:20pm

Cottonwood can be burnt for firewood once it days out. The wood can be stringy and hard to split. My father in law used to burn cottonwood and I would split for him with my tractor mounted splitter.

I tried seasoned cotton wood once.  Seems to be a little bit of heat and a lot of wood and ashes to haul. 

I have a pair of large gotten trees, would make good logs to saw into lumber. But who would want cotton wood lumber?