It holds about 6 1/2 cord. This is all that is left for the rest of the burning season. Of course, it's almost all that EVIL pine. Still have plenty of outside stacks for another 2 years.
However, my neighbor down the road is clear cutting a house lot for his son asked if I wanted the pine trees. He has an OWB but doesn't like to burn pine. So much the better for me! After checking out the site, I found that more than half the logs are saw quality logs. Nice and straight with few branches. They were already cut to 12ft and stacked. The mill on it's trailer can handle 9ft lengths, so I lopped off 3ft from all the logs (more burning wood).
It's about 1/2 mile up the road, so the challenge was to get the logs to my place. Skidding was out of the question because it would damage the dirt road. So I got a small log arch that is perfect for the job. It's also small enough for maneuvering on the tight trails of my property should I decide to take a log for sawing instead of burning. I replaced the hand winch with a 12v electric winch and replaced the standard bearings with tapered wheel bearings since they did not hold up to 20mph loaded speeds. Other than that, I find the arch works great. It can handle 16" diameter logs which is the limit of my mill anyway.
I estimate I can recover about 8 cord of burning wood at least a couple dozen saw logs. The ironic part is I'm probably going to use the lumber to build another wood shed! Does this wood addiction ever end?!
However, my neighbor down the road is clear cutting a house lot for his son asked if I wanted the pine trees. He has an OWB but doesn't like to burn pine. So much the better for me! After checking out the site, I found that more than half the logs are saw quality logs. Nice and straight with few branches. They were already cut to 12ft and stacked. The mill on it's trailer can handle 9ft lengths, so I lopped off 3ft from all the logs (more burning wood).
It's about 1/2 mile up the road, so the challenge was to get the logs to my place. Skidding was out of the question because it would damage the dirt road. So I got a small log arch that is perfect for the job. It's also small enough for maneuvering on the tight trails of my property should I decide to take a log for sawing instead of burning. I replaced the hand winch with a 12v electric winch and replaced the standard bearings with tapered wheel bearings since they did not hold up to 20mph loaded speeds. Other than that, I find the arch works great. It can handle 16" diameter logs which is the limit of my mill anyway.
I estimate I can recover about 8 cord of burning wood at least a couple dozen saw logs. The ironic part is I'm probably going to use the lumber to build another wood shed! Does this wood addiction ever end?!
