Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How many times do you pick up a piece of firewood...

Just like long distance shooting and your lat/long coordinates.

You need to take the coriolis effect into account on those long runs Steve.

I run very strong saws and highly aggressive chain.

If I am cutting up an 18 to 30 inch diameter log... I cut 2" or 3" frisbee discs. If I am bucking up smaller logs or branches I make my pieces about the size of a coffee can.

I never cut anything bigger then I can handle with one hand tossing it into the bed of my dump truck.

Dump the truck near the back door. Handle the wood a second time when I go get it for the wood stove.

When I finish building the house up in West Virginia and I have an outside wood furnace I'll probably cut the pieces bigger.

Very nice job, Steve. Looks great to me.

Something to think about would be those beams running outside the roof line. I've found that often times, after several years of sun and rain (looks like you noramlly get plenty of rain), the ends will start to rot unless religiously kept painted or sealed. To combat that eventual headache I've been attaching galvanized L flashing cut and bent to fit the top and sides of beam. Might save some problems down the road. Easily painted to match. Just my humble 2 cents.

All the beams are pressure treated. They seem to hold up here. Even our 10 yo deck beams are in good shape.

Might have to do something about the rafter end's though. There is flashing over them, but not all the way

Two inches out? Du faul Schweinehund! Ganz Verboten!

NEVER tell what you know and can see that others can’t!

We are out own worst critics.

Valsdad,
I heard from a motel owner that the pro guy charges 125 a cord if you bring your trailer. So Mister Motel like to go over from the east side of the mountain over the pass (about six hours, 300 miles r/t) with his trailer and his wife. They hit the retail coming or going as it's better shopping than in Conrad pop about 2000.
But yes, there are still people dumb enough to hand-job all of that and only charge 175-200 stacked. Crazy. That's a lot of effing work and not real profitable.

My regular firewood guy has been busy. With fall approaching I had another guy deliver some today. $150 for a full cord (he's new to me so I measured), split and delivered, but I get to move and stack it in the shed.



This fella came with two helpers, young neighbors. Don't know how much he's paying them, seems they all watched football games at his mom's property up the road where he gets the wood before they came by.

Delivered on Modoc time. He was supposed to be here at 1000, called about 0935 and asked if 1600 would be OK so he could watch some football, called again at 1610 or so and said "we're on the way, it'll be about 25 minutes, ok? "

Guys like this are why I would find it hard to mechanize my friend's firewood operation. Hard to beat $150 a cord, delivered, no sawing necessary, no splitting necessary.

I like to split wood too, my other guy usually goes $170 or so split, $150 for rounds which I prefer. But I can't lose on today's deal either.

What kinda wood is that, Geno? Looks almost like juniper from the pic.