My firewood stuff

[Tirediron]

At the landing
you can kind of see the cable set to pull them together

the stump, that the cable is snatch blocked to

My in the bush cable storage method,

detail

the trailing arch in place , the ground is getting soft, so dragging the ends messes up the skid trail and gets the wood dirty.

 

[Magus]

Have you ever stacked cut wood on mobile racks and moved one indoors all at once?
My landlord and I both did that until we both got too beat up to do it.

 

[Tirediron]

tractor end detail

the arch end , ready to go

ready to head back to the other end

the bind at the arch end held this set apart. Kind of amazing

and we made it back,
that operation took about 40 minutes, the travel distance is about 1/8 of a mile each way.

 

[Tirediron]

Have you ever stacked cut wood on mobile racks and moved one indoors all at once?
My landlord and I both did that until we both got too beat up to do it.

when I was younger we did some pretty work intensive wood moving methods, My son and I used to buck and hand split 1/3 of a cord at a time , and bring it back to his house on his farm hand F10 loader, then pack it down to his basement in rubber maids,and re stack it. Just thinking about it makes me sore now.

 

[LadyLocust]

I cut all my firewood by hand, I have only a small simple set up, if I keep it simple its much easier post SHTF when the power goes out.

What kind of wood do you have available?

 

[Tirediron]

What kind of wood do you have available?

mostly poplar, Yellow and balsam/black, there is a bit of dead spruce. kind of a weird thing, not much "good" wood around here. But really poplar is a very decent firewood, it just takes a little more, and almost no creosote.

 

[Tirediron]

As this adventure goes on, I keep looking for improvements. and less machine and or labor involvement.
Part of my "problem" is that I am only using standing dead or fresh windfalls, which usually means the better stuff is kind of scattered, and due to the wood species, sometimes you don't know what you have until it is cut.
Another is that the next improvement doesn't "show the need" until another one is made.

 

[LadyLocust]

As this adventure goes on, I keep looking for improvements. and less machine and or labor involvement.
Part of my "problem" is that I am only using standing dead of fresh windfalls, which usually means the better stuff is kind of scattered, and due to the wood species, sometimes you don't know what you have until it is cut.
Another is that the next improvement doesn't "show the need" until another one is made.

That last statement seems true in many aspects of life.