Re: fall chores

Posted by Hal/WA on October 15, 2006 at 21:38:33 from (66.45.175.118):

In Reply to: fall chores posted by Leon R on October 13, 2006 at 16:51:52:

I have bought a couple of logging truck loads of firewood. One produced about 12 cords of stove sized wood and the other load was about 14. Your truck must be a LOT bigger than the ones I used. Or you are overestimating the yield of finished firewood.

Both of the truckloads I got were long loads, and held about as much as the full sized logging truck would hold. They probably sometimes haul much heavier green loads, but the firewood loads I got were supposed to have been from standing dead trees and were nice and dry.

Here in Eastern Washington, you might get the best firewood available, which is Red Fir and Tamarack (Larch), or lesser species for less money. The cheapest is white fir and Ponderosa pine. I prefer the medium priced Lodgepole pine, since it splits so easily and seems to burn very well. Ponderosa pine can be very hard to split. Of course Ponderosa is about the only tree that grows on my property! I have used a lot of Ponderosa pine just cleaning up my property, but I sure wouldn't pay much for it... I have not tried spruce.

If you are splitting with an axe, you might try using a splitting maul. I have tried both and much prefer a good maul with a fiberglass handle. My experience has been that a splitting maul seldom sticks in a cob of wood and usually splits a cob every swing. I always had trouble with my axe sticking and not completing a split....Wedge time! Good luck with your wood making.

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