Nice looking logs You have, what wood that is and how You split those, axe... ?
This is My new firewood processor for cut and split woods
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Ashful
Minister of Fire
What I think we have here is a difference in perception. As Metsaman stated, anything much larger than a sapling gets sold for lumber, in his locale. We're used to using 40"+ trees for firewood, which would probably make any Fin's head spin. Different geography and economics, different "best" processing methods.
I drag home at least one tree in that 40" to 60" (100 - 150 cm) diameter, every year. I used to try to hump them onto the 22-ton splitter, set vertically, which just wore me out. Now I just leave the rounds on their side when they come off the trailer, and noodle them to 6" thick slabs. I can then splits the slabs down to my final firewood size, using my 22-ton splitter. When a single 20" long x 50" diameter round weighs 1500 lb., those 6" x 20" x 50" slabs can still weigh as much as 220 lb (100 kg) each.
I drag home at least one tree in that 40" to 60" (100 - 150 cm) diameter, every year. I used to try to hump them onto the 22-ton splitter, set vertically, which just wore me out. Now I just leave the rounds on their side when they come off the trailer, and noodle them to 6" thick slabs. I can then splits the slabs down to my final firewood size, using my 22-ton splitter. When a single 20" long x 50" diameter round weighs 1500 lb., those 6" x 20" x 50" slabs can still weigh as much as 220 lb (100 kg) each.
Here Finland are professional firewood makers / sellers that use bigger woods too but if You have big logs and they are ok, You get those logs more money if You sell to forest companys.
Oldman47
Minister of Fire
It is much the same here Metsaman. The difference is what we consider to be large logs. The lumber processors do not use smaller logs in either place but we have some very large logs in many places. A log only 45 cm would be considered too small to use for lumber here. Even a 60 cm log would be considered no more than marginal for lumber.
Firewood Bandit
Minister of Fire
No I use a 28 ton splitter. It can be used vertically too if one cannot pick up the round. However it is easier to take a big saw, noodle it 3/4 of the through and the split it with a Fiskars X27. I break up the rounds into chunks smaller than 100 so they can be easily lifted on to the splitter.
Firewood Bandit
Minister of Fire
Don't mean to hijack your thread, but here is what timber around here looks like.
We have some pretty nice timber here. The pics of the sorted log landing amounted to 1.5 days of the boys working.
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Nice wood and nice logs, very happy to see others work and playground too, very nice landscape 
You get lots of firewood those logs or do You make all that in firewoods. ?
You get lots of firewood those logs or do You make all that in firewoods. ?
Firewood Bandit
Minister of Fire
Nice wood and nice logs, very happy to see others work and playground too, very nice landscape
You get lots of firewood those logs or do You make all that in firewoods. ?
The logs in the 3rd and 4th from the top are veneer grade, those are $1/board foot for the landowner. In other words, very valuable.
The cut offs I deal with are waste and don't have much value other than firewood. They are harder to process than cull logs but the wood is just as good
Ashful
Minister of Fire
The 60" diameter oak I cut after superstorm Sandy was standing in that spot since at least the 1740's, and I suspect it was a good many years old then, since they chose to make a picnic grove under it at that time.
Firewood Bandit
Minister of Fire
I think here in Finland trees grow more slowly then compare You country/place...
Ashful
Minister of Fire
I'm sure you're right. You're at the same latitude as Canada's Northwest Territories. 95% of those on this forum are very much south of you.
And it sounds like you can actually see Russia from your house.
Good Lord no but I have only about 200 km to Russian Federation border...
Ashful
Minister of Fire
jatoxico
Minister of Fire
Now to the real question; bark up or bark down? Yeah we heard about you guys over there!
Now to the real question; bark up or bark down? Yeah we heard about you guys over there!
Do You mean how I gone pile firewoods. ?
A while back someone posted a link to a story and TV show about either Swedes, Finns or Norwegians (I apologize -- but I forget which nationality it was) that had a great debate going on whether to stack their splits in their wood piles with the bark facing up or down.
jatoxico
Minister of Fire
I found the article . . . Norway.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/w...rogram-on-firewood-elicits-passions.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/w...rogram-on-firewood-elicits-passions.html?_r=0
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