One Round

[Labfriend]

Hi All,
I am a wood scrounger and have not paid for wood. I look on Facebook and Craiglist and get all I need. Typically someone is getting a tree cut down and I go and get a pickup load or two. This time a tree service asked if I wanted them to drop off a trailer load. I said sure, not knowing what I was getting into. Well, they dropped it off, filling up most of my driveway. Maybe ten to fifteen pick-up loads along with some huge pieces I would never have taken myself.

All in all it is a good problem to have I guess and it will sure keep me busy.

Below is a pick of one of the rounds and the amount of split wood it provided.

 

[Simonkenton]

Beautiful! A 30 inch drum. What did you split it with? Looks like ash, or maybe white oak.

 

[Ashful]

I've brought home single rounds as heavy as 1400#, most notably a white oak that grew to 60" diameter. The heartwood was rotten below 14 feet, but the solid rounds above that height were still 49" diameter. You can get more than 1/4 cord from a single Ø49" x 20"L round, at typical stacking density.

 

[Creekside Farms]

Great for you! Not all problems are bad, some just require a little more effort than others.

 

[Vg3200p]

Right on man good score!!

 

[Labfriend]

Beautiful! A 30 inch drum. What did you split it with? Looks like ash, or maybe white oak.

Luckily I had recently bought an electric splitter. For the big pieces, I have to slab the sides with an ax and/or maul; Fiskars. Until last summer I did all of my splitting manually. Getting old though and the shoulder and elbow were not feeling it any more.

 

[Labfriend]

I've brought home single rounds as heavy as 1400#, most notably a white oak that grew to 60" diameter. The heartwood was rotten below 14 feet, but the solid rounds above that height were still 49" diameter. You can get more than 1/4 cord from a single Ø49" x 20"L round, at typical stacking density.

Wow, 60 inches. That's almost a dining room table.

 

[j7art2]

Holy smokes. I just did a 20" oak round the other day that I estimated was about 150lbs when I heaved it into the van. If that's green, hopefully you have a ramp and a trailer. Heck, a 60" round is probably a single load on my little Harbor Freight trailer.

 

[Jags]

Good stuff. 30 inch stuff is good to learn your preferred technic for the day that the big stuff shows up. 50+ inch rounds brings a whole different level of game to town.

 

[Ashful]

Wow, 60 inches. That's almost a dining room table.

Yeah, and a big one at that, if it weren't hollow. Typical 4-person kitchen table is 42" diameter.

But this was all rotten mush at the base, and a hurricane had broken it off about 15 feet above the ground. Like a standing tube of good sapwood around a hollow core. Largest good solid rounds were above the break and Ø49" or smaller, which were still insanely heavy, and yielded 1/4 cord per round.

Love that trailer, Jags!

 

[Jags]

5 ton john deere running gear.