Busy Afternoon

[BrotherBart]

At noon these 23 rounds were all 800 feet down the hill in the woods. Think it is time for a Natty Light or six.

 

[Diabel]

What will this yield on terms of cords?

I just bucked three hemlocks of similar size and was thinking....

 

[BrotherBart]

Never know. I quit guessing years ago because when it is split and stacked it is always less than the guess. Most big oaks like this one stack out to between 3/4 cord to a cord.

 

[BrotherBart]

Just did a count. Actually there are 30 rounds in the pile. Big'uns.

Now if they would just split and stack themselves...

 

[Hickorynut]

Looks like you still got it BrotherBart, doing firewood must make you tough, or you got to be tough doing firewood, not totally sure which comes first

 

[BrotherBart]

Doing firewood just makes me tired. For 30 years I humped those rounds into the garden tractor trailer and crawled up the hill. This time I humped them into the FEL bucket on the tractor I should have bought in 1990 and cruised up that hill.

Of course the price of the tractor would have paid for heating the joint with electricity for the rest of my my life but...

 

[Mag Craft]

Doing firewood just makes me tired. For 30 years I humped those rounds into the garden tractor trailer and crawled up the hill. This time I humped them into the FEL bucket on the tractor I should have bought in 1990 and cruised up that hill.

Of course the price of the tractor would have paid for heating the joint with electricity for the rest of my my life but...

That is probably true but you would have missed all the fun your having with that tractor.

 

[BrotherBart]

You can tell the man from the boy by the price of the toy.

 

[Mag Craft]

You can tell the man from the boy by the price of the toy.

How true.

 

[BrotherBart]

Bought it to redo a 1,300 foot gravel driveway but man I love how that sucker moves wood. Kinda like they say about the first time you have sex. You want to kill yourself for what you have been missing.

 

[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

I see no pics of the toy....

 

[Woody Stover]

I'm guessing White Oak, the King of Woods?

 

[Ashful]

Just did a count. Actually there are 30 rounds in the pile. Big'uns.

Now if they would just split and stack themselves...

Length and diameter? I'm pretty good at figuring cord volume in the round.

 

[BrotherBart]

Yup.

Died next to the power line and had to come down into the woods.

 

[BrotherBart]

 

[Jags]

I like working those big ones when somebody else (or mother nature) makes them horizontal, first.

 

[Mag Craft]

I don't mind felling the big ones as long as there is nothing else around for about a mile.

 

[BrotherBart]

The pain in the butt with these is that the foreman asked me if I wanted the tree bucked. Never wanting to miss a chance to save some work I said yes and said I needed it to be in 16" to 18" rounds. He told his village idiot to get busy bucking and I had to go back to the house for a phone call. I came back to a tree bucked into 21" and 22" rounds with stoves up at the house that will only take 20" at the very max.

Should have done it myself. I will have to cut just as much as I would have if I had bucked the damn thing.

 

[Mag Craft]

Well you will have plenty of cookies left over. I burn them myself, but would have been nice if done right.

 

[Ashful]

The pain in the butt with these is that the foreman asked me if I wanted the tree bucked. Never wanting to miss a chance to save some work I said yes and said I needed it to be in 16" to 18" rounds. He told his village idiot to get busy bucking and I had to go back to the house for a phone call. I came back to a tree bucked into 21" and 22" rounds with stoves up at the house that will only take 20" at the very max.

Should have done it myself. I will have to cut just as much as I would have if I had bucked the damn thing.

Hmm... I seem to remember this same exact situation, last time you had a line crew bucking for you.

 

[BrotherBart]

Hmm... I seem to remember this same exact situation, last time you had a line crew bucking for you.

Nah. Same tree. Done last summer and I am just now getting it done.

 

[osagebow]

Nah. Same tree. Done last summer and I am just now getting it done.

In this 90* heat? Good luck!

 

[BrotherBart]

Not today. Worked it Sat. and Sun. but I am waiting till it cools off Wed. to do that stuff again. This year is screwing me up. I usually do wood in April and May. April was too cold and wet and now May wants to act like July.

"Riggs, I am getting too old for this $^%&."

 

[MaintenanceMan]

The pain in the butt with these is that the foreman asked me if I wanted the tree bucked. Never wanting to miss a chance to save some work I said yes and said I needed it to be in 16" to 18" rounds. He told his village idiot to get busy bucking and I had to go back to the house for a phone call. I came back to a tree bucked into 21" and 22" rounds with stoves up at the house that will only take 20" at the very max.

Should have done it myself. I will have to cut just as much as I would have if I had bucked the damn thing.

Every time I've told a tree trimmer or crew to buck the logs to "16 inches or less" they cut it to 18 inches or better..... Never fails. Most of them could drop a monster tree on a dime if needed, but definitely need their internal bucking tape measure calibrated.