We drove out to an area that has lots of dead trees to cut up. Most of them were on the ground, some too wet to make use of. But a couple has just fell recently, and still pretty dry. Other than those lots of dead trees were standing, though we cut them down last as they are a little more risky to deal with than the already downed trees.
We spend a few hours driving back and forth loading up the truck and get lots of already dry, seasoned wood ready to burn. It was a great day, weather was not too bad during the day. A little muddy but nothing that bad.
The road to the downed trees is all rutted out, but with my big mud tires I have on my truck we will get through it.
We cut logs down to size to fit into the wood furnace, around 2-3 feet long. And we try to keep them under 100 pounds so we can move them without needing to team up. A bag of concrete is around 80 pounds, so having firewood heavier than that to deal with is a pain in the ass.
Most of these trees are alive, they may be missing their leaves but they are just dormant. Waiting for the winter to end, then they will grow new leaves. I am not after those trees, just the dead ones. Otherwise I have to dry out the fresh trees.. also known as green wood.
The truck did great on the road, did not even need to put in 4WD.
We eventually run out of wood laying around, and cut down the dead trees.
Once down we cut them into smaller pieces.
My foreman cuts them up and I haul them, then he joins me once he finishes cutting up wood.
Sometimes they are little piles, other times its bigger logs.
I really love my truck, the headache rack and new tailgate are great additions. The bars by the back glass gives that window protection. And that tailgate is so light, but really sturdy.
We could load it up even more if we put some wood siding on the back and along the left and right side of the truck.
Each load should last us a few days. We go back and forth and get a few truck loads.
Having big logs is great, but we also use smaller branches to burn as well. I have a whole barn full of smaller branches, so mostly we are just looking for bigger logs.
Eventually the sun starts going down, it gets really cold so we wrap up on our last load to haul back. And when we return we get an amazing sunset to see. All that wood should last a little less than a week when its warm. When its cold it will go through all of that much faster.
Surprised to see that he doesn't wear any Safety Equipment with the chainsaw eyes and ear ,
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I offer it to him, he rejects it.
Great job picking up the fresh downed trees and clearing out the ones still standing. The nice thing about that is it provides you firewood, but also cuts down on the chances of forest fire as you are removing much of the possible fuel! It's much nicer to collect free wood vs having to buy it, fire wood is outlandishly expensive anymore. Along with just about everything else in the country! Good thing you grow your own weed!
Indeed, having all of wood to collect is nice to have. Though it is a lot of work collecting it.
So true, everything is going up these days.. Hah glad I grow weed too.
This is mindful to have a check on the weight. Afterall it is going to lifted and we cant expect someone to help all the time. This is a good stacking...the sunset pics is really good one..
Thanks much, yeah we tried to stack them as neatly as possible to haul as much at a time. The truck bed can hold about 3000 pounds, so I think we are good.
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Do I remember you saying you have state land around you? Are you able to pull naturally felled trees off that land legally? I think you can in Michigan.
Yeah there are state parks around me. No idea, would rather not deal with rangers and just collect from my own property. I also have permission to collect from another farm and they have a lot of acres too.
Ah okay, that is cool. Plus you are planting, so eventually it will be self sustaining hopefully!
How long will it last?
A load of wood is about 1-2 days worth of firewood.