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9 wagons of split and stacked wood. 4 in shop and double cover others until time to move them in.

I cut wood for myself . I bunr about 5 cords a year . been burning now for 33 yrs. I figure about 165 cords . I am heating with wood right now with my wood boiler. It is an EKO 25 , a gassifier that burns the smoke. It pulls the smoke down through the hot coals . Then it is 1000 degree gas and then it goes into the lower chamber to meet the air and it looks like a 1"x6" blue torch down there that meets 50 lbs of firebrick. It is very effficient. The hot water then goes through 1,000 ' of pex that is stapled close to the bottom of the floor and makes the floor nice and warm. Google up gassifier wood boiler. It is amazing .

Firewood, logs for small bandsaw mil. Nothing serious

Mt Grandpa had a 52 inch Howell 0 with a 671 Detroit for a power plant. The edger was powerd by a Minneapolis Moline tractor as was the planer. As a kid I had unlimited income available to me..........it was just a matter of how much lumber I wanted to strip pile. Those 16 foot White Pine 2x12's coming off the live belt were fun for my 65 pound little arse to pile!

Did this the other day.....Fell this rather nice Fir onto the road, about 36"-40" at the stump, 120ft-130ft in length, I got almost 3 cords out of it..

I used this stump to hook a yarding block on, then put a 100ft 3/8 cable on it, pull out whatever size lengths I figure I can pull out to the road.

Then made it into this. This is the best time of year for firewood, the logs stay on the snow above all the dirt and pesky rocks.

Heated the house with wood for most of the 80s.

Fell, limbed, bucked, 10-25 trees a year for the last 20 years. For the first 15 of those years I split 4 cords of wood by hand with a maul. Two hand surgeries later and a mad back, I finally bought a splitter. Still do all the cutting myself. As a former forester, nothing better than managing your own forest.

You are smarter than I am. I did 18 cords one winter all cut, split and piled by hand. I like to cut a "patch" each winter to diversify my property and replant in the spring with something entirely different. I have "pockets" of spruce, pine, cedar, oak and LOTS of apples. When I die and someone else ends up with this chunk of dirt they are going to scratch their heads at the timber arrangement here.

I cut wood...but with precision. Still hats off to those of you who do the heavy lifting.

pal, you have far more skill and patience than I do! That stuff is beautiful.

no brag just a simple yes from me

Nicked my pecker with a razor once.

Other than that, my dad and I would cut 8 or 9 cords a year. When I moved out, he bought a heat pump.

Yes.

Pal, impressive.

Started off help pap stack as a young lad, then I was on the splitting maul, 18lb go devil. I still have it. Then he started letting me run the saws.

Now we cut our own wood to heat the house

On my 21st year of heating with wood.
Average 12 cord a year No propane unless I'm traveling for work.
All splitting is done with a maul and a wedge for the tough stuff.

Yes depends on propane price