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This is the first year I have been behind on wood since I moved here to help out family. Got boogered up spine right now am unable to run a saw or swing a maul, and I missed all three big block sales at the tie yard this summer! I hate not having my shiiiit wired tight!

I'm still getting lucky.....grin

It is some work, but I still enjoy it.

This year I kept rough track of the hours I put in on the firewood. About 18 hours on the saw cutting, 16 hours splitting, and about 6 hours stacking. About 40 hours overall. Not really that bad.

Hope you get to feeling better soon.

I hear ya. Ruptured L4/5 back in 2002. Laminectomy/discectomy. I still have to be careful with my form when doing work, and not over do it.


Hope you get to feeling better soon.

Haha.

Slum got you as the flag man?

You need a orange vest ....

Ya, for sure MM, glad you are still hard at it. My last accident was about '02, as well! That and too many injuries. I got these two big assed trees down along the creek I want to get cut up , my mind says no big deal, my body is whining something fierce!

I am always 2 years ahead on firewood. It takes me 7 cords in a normal heating season. I do have natural gas for a backup but the furnace hasn't kicked on for 4 years.

I have access to red and white oak so that's all I burn.

WS

Great way to stay in shape,and a beautiful view while at work.
What's not to like?
How many cord you need out in Montana?

We seem to burn about 4-5 cords a year.

My wood shed is full. Primarily beech and maple with some cherry and ash. Still working on next years wood though. Almost done. Couple more days.

MM, what’s a truckload like that cost?

I’d like to be but I’m considering my reserve to be a 1-year supply.

Although I have many logs ready to be cut into roundies and split. All close by. I have a staging area outside our driveway.

Lightning or wind is always toppling or killing something around here. I just take my backhoe and go snatch it and drag it home like a redneck caveman

Had a cord of oak delivered a couple of weeks ago. Should be good for a couple of years.

I dropped a doe smoking a cigar with an ipod in one ear listening to 80's metal.

😉

Now that's how you get firewood delivered!

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I’ve got about 16 cord split and stacked now, guessing another 8 or so at least in logs I’d like to get processed before it’s covered in snow. Most of it larch, but a fair bit of spruce, and some lodgepole. Only go through 5-6 cord a year. I should be set for awhile.

I used to stay two years ahead of the game when my sis and family still owned all the farm and I had access to mega wood. These last few years I have been buying big blocks from the Stella Jones plant in Rockland. Mostly oak and maple butt ends from the finished ties, clean wood before they creosote bath. Stuff runs $30 bucks a ton, a bargain if one has had to buy oak around here at $125 a face cord. I traded out some concrete work for some farmers and they haul me the blocks in their dump trucks. This year the timing did not work out as they were always haying and then picking beans. I supplement the blocks with whatever comes my way locally.

always take a rifle late season while cutting wood. Curious deer have come to me before while running a saw.

I try to stay at least a year ahead. I am just finishing up next years wood. Almost all ash since we have so much of it beetle killed here, a little maple and oak mixed in.