11-19-2019, 05:06 PM
(11-18-2019, 08:05 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Finally: Check with professional tree cutters. They may pay you (a percentage of what they cut) for the wood
We have sold timber off this farm before. When we pick trees for firewood we don't cut any that are big and straight enough to have value as timber.
The timber cutters will just drop the trees and cut off the limbs. We still have to cut anything left to length and haul it in for firewood.
(11-18-2019, 08:45 PM)bfine32 Wrote: You cannot cut down and split a tree today and put it in the stove tonight.
That's correct. I dropped these trees back in the summer. When my dad was younger they would keep almost a year ahead. Much of what they split and stacked one year would season for a year before being burnt.
(11-18-2019, 09:11 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: You need a vertical hydraulic splitter. Tow it to where you need to use it, stand it up at the log, and pull the lever!
That is what we have. But at times I was working with pieces of hickory more than 24 inches across and 20 inches long. They had to weigh over 80 lbs. So even rolling and twisting them onto a vertical splitter was a lot of work.
(11-18-2019, 09:51 PM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: 150 acres, Jesus.
(11-18-2019, 10:19 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: You don't send you kid to college to be a lawyer with a 1/2 acre?
The farm only has about 8-10 acres of "bottom land" where they used to grow tobacco. They just cut hay off it now. The rest of the farm is rough wooded mountainous land that can only be used to graze cattle. My parents bought it (with no house) from an estate in 1974 for $25K. My dad work at a GM plant (laborer) in Dayton and my mom worked jobs like waitress and busdriver. I was raised lower middle class.
(11-18-2019, 11:45 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Pneumatic log splitter?? Aren't you a spoiled child. Some of us had to use axe, wedge and maul..
I know all about that. My dad claimed that I could turn ax handles into kindling faster than anyone he ever knew.
Seriously though, have split a good bit of wood with a maul before. It is actually 10 times faster than using a splitter. But my shoulders can't take that anymore. I can't even throw anything very hard overhand any more. Plus some wood (elm, pine) is almost impossible to split. And even good hardwood is tough to split when it has a lot of limbs and branches.
