The nice thing about being retired is planning to do something fun based on good weather conditions. Really nice not to be limited just the days you have or take off to do it.
I have a pile of logs waiting to be cut, split and stacked. Probably 8-10 rick of it. Sounds like a perfect weekend job!
A rick is 16 inch wide logs stacked 4 foot tall by 8 foot long. Most folks talk about chords of wood i guess. 8-10 rick would be about 2 or 3 chords of wood.
Makes me want to dig out the chainsaw and splitting maul, nope I kid although I do have 2 large oaks to deal with from last summer storms. A cord of oak is $200 up here. I could cut and split the wood and sell it, would cover having the dock put in.
I've got 13 or 14 down the past few years. Will be cutting a few of those up for my daughter's wood pile
We call them face cords here also. I store logs that are 9 feet long in piles. I have 2 presently. The reason for 9' is because I like 18" firewood for my fire pit. I get 6 logs to split out of a 9 footer. I only burn recreationally. Sent from my SM-G981U using Tapatalk
I had seven Ash trees removed that were close to the driveway and power lines. They were standing dead from beetle kill. Guy stacked them close to my wood pile. Will get out the tractor with grapple and use it to pick up the logs to saw at waist level... Bad back. Makes it easier and keeps the chain saw sharp.
That is a good way to do it. Sometimes I use my grapple like that as well. Most of the time I park next to one of the piles of big logs the use my backhoe with thumb to pick up the logs and cut at waist level. Many times my wife operates the backhoe and I buck the logs. Then we split and stack together. Back and chain do last much longer that way. Late summer I felled 10 standing dead red oak (oak wilt) that were adjacent to my log processing area. It was convenient that I only had to grapple them a short distance, 50 -70 feet, and pile them up. Ten whole trees. A friend of mine came over with his truck and trailer and helped cut them up. I gave him all of the wood as he helps me a lot and I was full up myself. It took a day and a half with 2 of his trailers full and 2 heaping loads in my dump truck. I have pictures somewhere. I cannot keep up with Mother Nature when it comes to processing her messes.
I found an old pic of the thumb and the face cord racks I used to use. We now stack firewood on pallets. I usually keep hickory and cherry separate for cooking purposes.
Here's a pic of one of the loads of oak that I gave to my friend. He treated me to lunch and a couple of beers at a local establishment. Sent from my SM-G981U using Tapatalk
So I told the wife today that we were going to dust all the ceiling fans in the house. First one she does she snaps a fan blade bracket in half.... yep! More work... Off to Menards to get all new brackets.. drill screw hang.. what a pian in the arse! Might have been better off going out to the garage an organizing my fishing tackle!
I sold “sustainably harvested, hand split, organic firewood” for a few years to make extra cash while I was in college. Hippies and skinny jeans folks would come out every week to buy more so they could burn it at their parties and brag to all their friends about how they only burn organic, free range firewood. I would take 5-6 logs and tie them up into gas station sized bundles with sisal twine (people buying organic firewood don’t like it wrapped in plastic shrink wrap) and I’d charge $10 per bundle. I’d get a booth at the farmers market for 10 or so Saturday’s in the fall to sell it and would go through like 1-1/2 cords or so and that would net me like $7,500. I had a few customers (mostly college kids with access to their parents checking accounts) who liked it so much they would buy a whole face cord from me for $1,200 delivered and stacked. It was really good firewood, all oak and hickory and I would split, de-bark, and stack it on 4x4’s to keep it off the ground and season it covered for at least a year so it was extremely dry, clean wood and my face cords were true tightly stacked face cords with no softwood mixed in. Most of the other folks who sold wood down there “seasoned” it by letting it lay in the mud, uncovered for a month or 2 then they would stack it loosely with lots of air space and mix in some poplar in the middle to the stack so they could make 2/3 of a face cord look like a full one. Granted those guys only charged $150 for their “non-organic” firewood. The craziest thing was that I sold it to probably 200-300 different people during the 3 years I did it and out of all those people less than 10 of them ever actually realized that all firewood is organic and called me out on it. There were certainly a lot of folks who were walking by my stand and caught on and they got a pretty good laugh, especially if there was somebody at the stand buying some, but of those who actually bought the wood hardly any of them ever figured it out. That was 10-15 years ago when people weren’t nearly as clueless as they are now. I bet these days you could probably charge $15-20 per bundle. I was in Charleston, SC at the time (IE a liberal city in the south where fires are mainly for looks rather than for heat) and that certainly had a lot to do with why I was able to get away with it. You probably wouldn’t sell a single bundle in a rural area where people actually understand where firewood comes from or up north where people build fires for heating instead of for fun.
Yeah if I tried to sell organic fire wood I might as well have a mask on, and a Biden flag in my yard, it would not go well.
You would need to haul it into a big city. Country folks have too much common sense. A mask and Biden flag would increase sales considering your target customer. BLM flag would be even better. Maybe advertise a 5% discount for minority, female, lgbtq, etc customers.
