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with the cold season approaching got me thinking about firewood season.
wondering how many other members get this honor and what they use to harvest: brand chainsaw, splitter etc. i got a husky 350 chainsaw and a troy built 27 ton splitter my haul rig is my 78 chevy 4x4 takes forever to fill that long wheel base bastard.
Stihl 034PRO AV 20" bar, MS260PRO 16" bar, brand new never started MS280 20" bar.
home made log splitter that hooks to the front of the skid steer and is built upside down so that you can drive up to the logs, set the splitter on top and never touch a log till you stack it.
Thats all my equipment, I have a 8ft truck bed trailer with 32in. sides on top of the bed sides that I pull with my 2002 tahoe and two of my friends help me cut they bith run echo saws one has a pickup bed trailer and a 1994 chevy 6.5 flatbed 3/4 ton, other friend has a 78 chevy 3/4 ton with 1 ton springs and helper springs.
4 of us can usually fill all three twice a day if we cut hard, we usually cut either white or red standing dead elm and burr oak. two if us will fell trees and drag them out of the creek into the field with the truck and the other two will cut and load, if we get too far ahead will will go back and help load. My dad buys most of our wood at $60 a load. Our house is completely heated by wood heat and our boiler had a 24inx24in. door and will fit a 54in log so we dont have to split much and we can cut them as big as we can lift so $60 is fair.
sounds like a good setup, i cut for 3 people. myself , my parents, and my grandmother. ours and my parents are both pretty small maybe 24 inch at max, my grandmothers i have to cut around 42 inch and split by hand my spiltter wont handle any bigger than a 25 inch.