THIS IS THE FINAL STAGE OF THIS FIREWOOD PROJECT , FOR NOW. I WILL TOUCH MY FIREWOOD ONE OR TWO MORE TIMES AND ITS JOURNEY WILL BE COMPLETE. AS IT GOES UP IN SMOKE .
Don't worry about posting videos of pure rambling,because you always have somekind of wisdom in it anyways and it's really enjoyable to watch. Have a good one Buckin' Billy! Cheers.
You do a great job cutting consistent sizes. I agree with you on staying ahead. We try and keep a three year supply. Great looking piles. I need to get a shed setup like that.
KEVIN AND KAREN , YOU GUYS ARE GREAT FOR SUBBIN IN , THX SO MUCK . STAY ACTIVE IN THE COMMENTS GUYS, AWESOME ... TELL FRIENDS AND FAMILY SHOOTIN FOR 2000 SUBS BY SUNDAY NIGHT,, HA HA LOL ,, STAY WELL GUYS . THX AGAIN
Really like the pallets on the ground for stacking, ya need air/ mice under there too! Plus pallets are plentiful and best of all free all over the place. Great stacking tips too, Thanks Really like the pallets on the ground for stacken, ya need air there too! Plus pallets are plentiful and best of all free all over the place
I stack my firewood in a similar fashion, but I also place "tie-rods" between the stacks----4' chunks of saplings----to stabilize the pile. AND my wood comes from the splitter on the bucket of the tractor at a nice back-saving height. Old fat guys don't like bending over even a little bit! Your stacks look real nice guy!
It would be awesome if you had a video of how you made those wood shacks! I have been looking into options to stack wood without spending a ton of money. It looks great!
It's nice for you to share your enjoyment of splitting and stacking firewood for the winter. I pulled the mussels in my shoulder and it was the same with you. Will 8 be able to cut and split my fire wood. It takes me a little longer but I still can
Just got to have home inspection then moving to New Hampshire first step to me making my life easier and more satisfying nice chunk of land. This didn't happen because of bucking but he got me thinking and then I said I better step my game up and start living my life thanks bucking keep these videos coming I'll be representing bucking army in two states now lol.
We tend to stack wood about the same height, but a single row, and out in the open. (No cover at all). Quite common in the old days before the new fangled stoves that dont use a lot of wood for heating, and most cooking on electric or gas, to see it stacked all around the house and serve double duty as a fence to keep the cows out! Just keep adding at one end, taking away at the other end. Our fire wood is usually quite dense hardwoods, (eucalyptus / gum trees mostly) we tend to avoid anything from the pine families because of the creosote and it just burns up to quick. I mostly use box and black wattle, which is harvested off my own property. The box burns well, but the black wattle burns really hot, and is really full of oils. When I fell it I burn all the branches dead green, as I toss each branch on the fire it "wooshes" up like I have thrown a cup of petrol on the fire!. Given you have an abundance of wood and can pick and chose what you keep in your line of work - do you have a particular preference on the type of wood you store?
I found that with a deep shed like yours that you have to completely empty it before you can refill it. Open ends mean you can at least do half and half. I then built a different style shed with bays eight feet square and sixty feet long. It worked better as you could remove wood from each long side from the front and the back. Then I discovered the holzhausen, and I never looked back. I posted some on your Instagram page. I was out harvesting some wind blown Ash today, with the sound of your harmonica in my mind. Great channel, keep the videos coming. Keep showing knots too. Best wishes from Scotland
I have found memories or Pop taking his chain saw to a place that people were aloud to collect the downed timber, by the Government here in Australia for Pops old wood stove, funny how things take you back, I just bought ourselves an old one that needs some fixing here as I Love Cooking for the Family so I am thinking over Christmas I will set a place for her and start working on the things I need to fabricate as well it has hot water in it so will end up with 2 birds with one rock, Thinking it should makes some dam fine pizza's as well MMMMMMMMMMMMMM, Stay Safe Well and Blessed You All Dear Friends Love from Oz Garry and Family
As always, good advice for the spiritual and temporal side of life. I took a screen shot of the wood shed to build my own at the cabin. I’m sure we’re cousins somewhere back a few centuries.
Hi from Chicago, I saw you only grabbing two sticks of wood when you're stacking. I think that's a good idea. I need to stop grabbing a full arms load. thumbs up
Must be nice to be stacking uniform sized pieces of wood. My firewood has knots and stuff that make stacking more of an art.Hey, knots burn good for heat.
I envy you with that woodshed. I have to stack most of my wood outside and cover the stacks with loose sheets of old corrugated iron. I have a small open two bay shed that holds about six cubic metres.
You just helped me out . Gave me a good idea for stacking my firewood ! Unfortunately some of my wood has mold on it ! I will just burn those ones outside in the fire pit !
Thanks Billy Ray good video. I just got about a cord of oak today. In another state for winter got here with no wood so i am a little behind. Catching up though...
I don’t have a wood stove yet or a wood shed, but I stack wood for my fire pit. And that’s one problem I always have, it eventually leans over and she tumbled lol I stack mine right on the ground between a couple old stumps, so perhaps I need a better foundation to start er off with
I do mine the same, with one exception, every now and then, i'll stash a little split pitch pieces of pitch in with the wood, so that way if i need some pitch when i go out to get wood, its in the pile ready to go.
oh that s funny I literally just passed one ,, it said ,, no kiddin,,, ''how to splitt wood '' properly'' and it is a complete joke , I mean bordering on a laugh
A space for a mouse good advice if you've gone to the trouble of splitting it why pack it in tight. Also you know what eats mice, snakes I can remember since I was a little tacker that you all ways hat to be careful for snakes around the wood pile ... And the shearing shed and the hay shed and the chook pen come to think of it they were bloody everywhere ha ha thanks again buckin
I been lookin for a good pair of romeos and yours looked killer... high enough to keep a few stray chips out...and fast on and off..I'm using your she'd as a schematic for my own
you no chance ,, I truely am a old growth fir man , thjere is more to just the burn for me, its about the whole journey , from stump to dump workin with fir is quite enjoyable and it just so happens that fir throws the perfect amount of btu's for me as well , arbutus is nice in a real cold snap
mATT DONT NO HOW i MISSED THIS , SORRY PAL iF THERE IS NO MOISTURE IN THE WOOD YOU WILL HAVE NO PROBLEMS WHEN YA TURN ER DOWN AT NIGHT .. THAY USAULLY WHEN SOOTE BUILDS ,, CHEERS, THX
Have to ask you buckin, you ever run a echo Timberwolf if you haven't you've got to. I'm a big stihl and Husqvarna man but it's my new favorite saw. It's light and so balanced I top trees with it with a 24 inch bar all day long and don't even notice it. And power-wise pound for pound there's nothing that will touch it I don't think I've got stihls & Husqvarna all around it power-wise I mean it'll go through twice to Wood that 441 Magnum Stihl will cuz I tried them out both of 24-inch bars in New chains the ms310 as the same size saw and it's no comparison it's like driving a Ranger compared to driving a full-size Ford you got to try one out
My feeling about heating your home with wood. First I really like the "warmth". Second,even if you do not have to pay for the raw product there is a substantial cost to heating with wood. Let's say you do have to "pay" for the product (even if it is just a permit) then the cost for crude oil based fuel for the equipment (including trucks) then the actual equipment and maintenance. Then there is your time. Even though you are not cutting yourself a check do you realize how many hours you are putting into this task? These hours have to be payed for somehow,someway. I do think that many times it boils down to "well if I want to live in this location I must bear the cost associated with heating by wood as there is no alternative", just do not fool yourself into believing that it is a low cost method of heating your home.
Im a carpenter during summer fall and spring. Dont work in the winter so I cut wood. It doesnt cost me anythinh and keeps me fit and busy. Depends how you view your time for me I love heating with wood and having low electricity bills during the winter while I dont work is great.
Hey Buckin - what are your vertical posts/trees resting on? Are they right on the ground or do you have them on pilings of some sort? Thx for the vids!
I don't want to live where you can't cut wood out your back door. I don't want to live in a country where a grouse is considered big game. Hey Buckin, couldja show us the properway to stack firewood? Ha Ha!
it looks to me you burn a lot of pine and iam sure you have no issues. iam in the thumb of Michigan and people here don't want anything to do with burning pine. I really don't burn it either but after watching this iam not going to pass any pine up as long as it's seasoned well it should give me no issues. All we burn up here is Ash, oak and maple
Douglas fir still a soft wood full of pitch I don't care how long you dry it what is your real firewood Rock maple good old Curly Yellow Birch Beach cherry let me see you split that stuff like you do that softwood s*** and you'd burn about a quarter of the wood
a nice little stack of wood you have there , I hope you got paid for all that wood , to me that is the best part of being a tree guy . arborist . cutter / pick up / clean up guy / . thanks for sharing t.c. be safe , have fun bcoz life is short
I was talking about the tree's you cut down & got to clean up & keep the wood .................so you got paid right ? or do you cut tree;s for free if so I need some done
THATS WHAT I WAS SAYING IN THE VERY 1ST POST BUT SOME REASON YOU READ / TOOK IT A DIFFERENT WAY , BUT THATS O.K. SOMETIMES HARD TO SAY OR COMPREHEND WHAT WE READ ON THE INTERWEB
Ha ha. I'm a big un-fan of the word proper. I catch myself using it once in a while, but I think if it was eliminated from the language about 90% the world would be a better place. Never and always also raise red flags for me. They have more of a place, but they are way overused and often the more vociferous and adamant users of them are the less informed repeating some kind of boyscout rule they read that has exceptions. Again, I catch myself wanting to use them, but I find that most of the time if I examine what I'm saying closely, they aren't justified and I'm just talking out my ass. I have notes sketched out for a video rant on that very subject because someone needs to say it. All of those types of words close doors instead of opening them and keep us thinking in boxes rather than contextually. I don't have to leave space between my wood stacks generally, but my weather is vastly different than yours. Context is king. The biggest mistake I see people make stacking wood is just being sloppy in general. Once you have a pile fall over, you learn that it's a skill like everything else and requires a certain amount of attention for good results. In my zone the wood is so twisty and limby that you really have to pay attention when stacking.
