How many times do you handle the wood?

[Wolves-Lower]

That seems to be the issue with me.

1) Cut the wood
2) Into the Truck
3) Out of the Truck
4) Split the wood
5) Stack the wood
6) Burn the wood
7) Take ashes out


Who can do it in less then or equal to 4?

 

[Eric Johnson]

Don't feel bad:

1.) Cut the wood
2.) Load and Haul it
3.) Unload it
4.) Split it
5.) Stack to dry (1 or 2 years)
6.) Haul into barn
7.) Stack
8.) Burn
9.) Remove ashes

 

[Wolves-Lower]

So I am being a wuss then?
haha

 

[Matt_W]

I have to say it has been alot easier since I bought my tractor!

1) Cut the wood
2) Roll it into my tractor bucket
3) Dump on 3 sets of 4 stacked pallets I consider my table beside the spitter
4) Roll it onto my splitter to split
5) Stack the wood into a wood rack that can be lifted on tractor forks and loaded into wood shed.
6) Burn the wood
7) Take ashes out

 

[Todd]

supprised nobody poked fun at the title?

1. cut wood
2. haul to house
3. split
4. stack
5. haul into house
6. burn
7. remove ashes

So it warms me 7 times over if I process it myself. If I buy it only 4 times.

 

[DriftWood]

Typical Garage Sale / Moving Sale Free Wood Scrounge.

1 Load dark gray, dry, cut, split wood into trunk.
2 Stack wood from truck on porch.
3 Load into firebox
4 Clean out ash.

If reloading the fire box is needed.

1 Load dark gray, dry, cut, split wood into trunk..
3 Load from truck into firebox
4 Clean out ash

 

[Corey]

Too...many! I guess it depends on how you want to break it down:

1) Cut the wood
2) Stack into the truck and drive home
3) Out of the truck and into wheelbarrow
4) Out of wheelbarrow and into pile in the back yard
5) Pick out of the pile and split the wood, throw toward wood pile
6) Pick off the ground and stack the wood for seasoning
7) Take the wood from the seasoning stack far from the house, haul it to the house, up a flight of stairs and stack it on the deck (about 1/4 cord at a time)
8) Haul a days worth of wood inside
9) Off the day pile and burn the wood
10) Take ashes out to the steel can on the deck
11) Take the steel can out to the trash once every month or so.

 

[TresK3]

Driftwood-

As a scrounger-wanna be, I'm curious how garage sales/rummage sales relate to getting wood?

Tanks,
Tres

 

[Nofossil]

I started another thread a while back on ideas to reduce handling. The thread is at https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/9482/ - Some great ideas. Not all of them work for me, but YMMV.

For me, even without ashes, there's way too many steps. Part of it is that I handle wood more than I need to in order to stage a season's worth of dry wood right outside the boiler room so that I don't have to slog through snow in the winter to get wood.

1) Cut the tree
2) Drag it to horizontal with the dozer or tractor
3) Section the trunk (if over 5” or so) into 21” logs
4) Section the limbs into 84” (quad length) logs
5) Bring sawhorse to pile (still in the woods) and cut quad logs in batches to 21” lengths
6) Throw the logs into a trailer and bring to the ‘processing’ area
7) Split any logs that require splitting
8) Load logs onto gardenway cart and transport to stack area (very nearby)
9) Stack all wood in covered piles for seasoning (a year goes by at this point)
10) Load logs into gardenway cart again and transport to deck
11) Stack wood under deck
12) Pass wood into basement (every couple of weeks during the winter)
13) Stack wood in basement
14) Burn it.

 

[buxbud2]

I can do it in zero touches.....just send the wife out to do it. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[Wolves-Lower]

I started another thread a while back on ideas to reduce handling. The thread is at https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/9482/ - Some great ideas. Not all of them work for me, but YMMV.

Wow...I just read that thread...and yep...I am a WUSS!
Some of you people burn a lot of wood!
I burn about 3 cords a year and never turn my LP on for heat. Of course I live in a small house!
I kind of like the idea of a seasoning trailer. That would be sweet!
I did a thread search and couldn't find anything related to how many times you handle wood, so sorry about posting a redundant topic.

Gray

 

[bjorn773]

Yes, I too handle my wood to many times
1. Cut the wood
2. Load the wood and haul to splitting/seasoning site
3. Unload the wood
4. Split the wood
5. Stack the wood
6. Load the wood and haul home
7. Unload the wood and stack at home
8. Transport wood from storage stack to inhome bin
9. Load wood into stove
10. Remove ashes

Yes, too many times, but it is what it is. I don't have enough room to have 2 years worth of wood at home so the storage/seasoning step is a necessary evil. As Bruce Lee put it "opportunity for daily exercise".

 

[Henz]

1. Buck up the logs
2. split
3. throw into trailer
4. stack from trailer
5. throw back into trailer
6. dump the trailer and then laod into ATV trailer
7. stack onto screen patio
8. load the inside wood ring
9. fill woodstove
10. remove ashes.

 

[DriftWood]

Driftwood-

As a scrounger-wanna be, I'm curious how garage sales/rummage sales relate to getting wood?

Tanks,
Tres

Keep your eves open ask about any wood pile you see at moving sales. When crusing the garage sale route look for any down wood by the road, in a pile next to a house with no smoke stack. or rounds from a recent tree cutting. Ask about any wood you see, you never know. Ask about any wood you see before you take it.... Dont be caught wood rustling.


This is a photo of a road find while garage saleing las year. I think of these vans as covered 1/4 ton pickups. This load was a scrounge where I saw a sign “free wood” by the road with no time to remove the seats or spread a tarp. As I was loading a man was waiting to get what I did not take with a trailer, so I had one shot to get all I could stuff in. I will load the frount passenger seat and floor if I need to.

https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php?ACT=24&fid=3&aid=4505_RlngIEeBEFkXBe6LQBVj&board_id=1

 

[Gunner]

That looks safe....should have put some on the roof rack too %-P

 

[Deerlope]

I never count but the old timeres say that burning wood warms you 5 times.

1.cut & spiltting
2. Hauling
3. stacking
4. burning
5. Taking out ashes.

 

[Stevebass4]

logs get deleivered

buck

lift rounds up to the splitter

split

toss in a big pile

move to stack using a wheel barrel

stack

move two days worth inside

remove ashes

 

[jpl1nh]

Driftwood-

As a scrounger-wanna be, I'm curious how garage sales/rummage sales relate to getting wood?

Tanks,
Tres

Keep your eves open ask about any wood pile you see at moving sales. When crusing the garage sale route look for any down wood by the road, in a pile next to a house with no smoke stack. or rounds from a recent tree cutting. Ask about any wood you see, you never know. Ask about any wood you see before you take it.... Dont be caught wood rustling.


This is a photo of a road find while garage saleing las year. I think of these vans as covered 1/4 ton pickups. This load was a scrounge where I saw a sign “free wood” by the road with no time to remove the seats or spread a tarp. As I was loading a man was waiting to get what I did not take with a trailer, so I had one shot to get all I could stuff in. I will load the frount passenger seat and floor if I need to.

https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php?ACT=24&fid=3&aid=4505_RlngIEeBEFkXBe6LQBVj&board_id=1

:lol: :lol:
:lol: :lol: I take it you don't take the wife and kids to the yard sales with you.. :blank:

 

[Gunner]

Driftwood goes to home depot....

 

[TresK3]

Driftwood-

That's good to see. I've got a couple of cords of standing-dead on my property, but once that's gone I'll be a-scroungin' My vehicle looks alot like yours, (only blue... and a different manufacture... but the same general design). I figure I'll keep a tarp in the back for those quick finds. I'm also alerting friends and neighbors that I'll take their downed wood.

Thanks

 

[DriftWood]

Driftwood goes to home depot....

Not my car.

Looks like the same one I saw last week though. Some Canadian trying to get back the bridge after a spending spree in the states. With the Loonie at a dollar four and our prices for the same thing 25% less the parking lots aer full of Canadians shopping here.

 

[wg_bent]

I counted once.

drop tree, cut rounds, toss rounds, carry rounds to cart, put them in van, take out of van and toss in pile, restack pile, pick up round put it on chopping block, hit with maul. put back on block, hit with maul, put back on block, split round, pick up splits, split split, pick up other split and split, then put splits in wheel barrel, place on pallet, remove from pallet put in wheel barrel, remove from wheel barrel place in round rack in garage, remove from rack place in black tub, carry in to house, place in stove.

I count 25 if the splitting all goes well.

 

[nshif]

My count is too many, BUT it beats handeling the gas or elec bill once a month.