2 trips to wood cutting area, pics

[tfdchief]

Yea please don't roll that sucker again Dave. We like the pics too much to see you hurt or worse. A C

For sure!! It can hurt really bad. Just ask me

 

[firefighterjake]

More like I don't put any pics up cause it would make Dave look bad. hehe. What he cuts in a whole day I do before I go back in the house for breakfast

(where's that little face dude with a stick poking?!)

Seriously though it takes me about 5-6 hours to cut, split and stack a cord. Dunno if that is good or bad but that's working at a reasonable pace.



Oh I cut some maple the other day. The couple I had planted last did didn't survive the winter. They were maybe 2" across, but I cut it and put it in my wood stack just so I could say I burned some.

It certainly is a lot easier and faster when all you're doing is bucking up, splitting and stacking wood all in one pile . . . but just not as cheap.

Saw plenty of Alaskans harvesting wood while I was out there . . . some folks up in Willow off the Willow-Hatcher Pass Road were harvesting birch from where we rode the ATV . . . and then down in Hope a number of folks were bucking up beetle kill spruce hauled out to the road . . . I kindof wondered how many were cutting up the wood for use this Fall though . . . .

 

[nate379]

Many I'd suspect. I had a guy call last week and wanted 7 cords delivered in October for this winter. I could have said sure, your on the list, but I warned him that it wouldn't be burnable. He went off on a rant about me being full of crap about "seasoning" wood, it burns better when wet, etc.
Told him to have a nice day and left it at that. Can't fix stupid.

I have to stack it on my trailer so it takes a bit of time as well. Where I'm cutting the wood is a few miles from my house, though most of the wood has been going to people in Anchorage. There's no way I could meet the demands of the customers if I was felling the wood as well. I'd have to invest a TON of money into heavy equipment to make it profitable.