Hello . I work in firewood industry around 2 years in Sweden. After pres/split wood moves with conveyor to steel gaskets (same as you have )1cub.m. Wood allways clean , drying fast coz ari circulates from all sides . Easy to move/flip/count and stack up to 4 floors by tractor . In our nordic climat you have to be very effective with drying , because we have only few dry and warm weeks in a year. WIsh you all the best with your buisness i love and respect all ppl who do honest work!
Wood doesnt dry below the freezing..... And i dry forewood in my garage without wind.... You need HEAT. The higher the heat, the fadte the evaporation. With heat, moisture rises out of the woodshed. But you cabt dry wood at freezing temps, leave it as long as you want, it won't happen
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I totally agree with you about making piles instead of stacking, Chris. I've enjoyed seeing how you've evolved your operation in the past few years. Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work!
Being that I burn wood to supplement heat in my house, I stack mine. The important thing is the wood being off the ground. If stacked or left in a pile, the pieces on the ground will never dry. In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the drying season is short. Air, sun, and wind; dry wood. Moving wood in the winter to where the boiler is, is a lot easier in winter if stacked. Having access to the wood in deep snow is easier when stacked than digging through a pile covered in two feet of snow that is frozen to the ground and the frozen together. A pile may dry faster in an arid climate, but in other places, stacking works. It is an art no doubt, stacking wood tight to stacking it loose for air flow. Tighter allows more wood in an area, stacking loose allows less wood. And then, to cover or not to cover? I use 6 mil sheeting just on the top of a rack. Easy to push the snow off of the stack as the snow slides off easy. Keep warm, keep burning!
Your not selling bulk firewood, your suppose to keep your firewood in order for your convenience, as a firewood supplier I’m producing quantities and stacking firewood isn’t feasible…that’s you and every homeowner burner’s job.
Great information. Back in 1996 during Fran I collected 3 cords of wood from all the trees that fell over. I did not have a fireplace or a woodstove, I just saw a great deal, for free of firewood. The next year I bought a woodstove in November (1997), BlackBart2; which I still have, and have continued to use ever since! I even moved and carried my woodstove with me. I usually buy 2 cords of wood a year and buy early to give the wood about 6 additional months to dry out more. My stove is running right now 😀: outside it is 41 F - inside is 82. I like firewood. What can I say. I Live in Raleigh NC.
I started a small wood business mainly selling to locals in my community. I must say I be learned soooo much from your channel. My son hears your voice and says “Is that the wood guy?” Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Appreciate you!! 🪵
Customer service will always be the way to get and keep customers. I think its unique how you can keep up with all your inventory and especially how you move so much. Keep chucking!
Thanks chris im startng building my bins,i watched for a year and made sure it dryed and didn't mold,and i love how they look, i hate stacking so im moving towards this
had an old guy that had been burning wood for a few decades tell us the difference in stacking vs piling is nothing in volume. ive stacked a truck bed vs piling and i could not tell a difference. im glad to hear this being reinforced from another reliable source. ill continue to not stack. thanks.
No, it does not have to be stacked, loose wood takes up 25% more volume for the same amount of wood. If you put a full cord into a trailer hundreds of times you will learn that it is always the same amount each time as far as volume (level) in the trailer. That is what I learned the hard way...to much extra work.
I split a half full cord for a neighbour, She wanted it split small for the fireplace. So I split it all small and stacked it to show her it was a full half cord. I threw it into my 8 foot pick up box and I could hardly get the half cord in without it falling off the sides. For myself, I know I can get about 3/4 of a full cord in my truck if I stack it. If its just thrown in, its about 1/3 of a cord. I've proved that by stacking it to measure it after I get it home.
You're full of bs, bro. There's a massive difference. I haven't used my furnace in 12 years. In fact, I don't even know if it works! I process almost 4 cords a year and have been doing so for almost 17 years. I don't know how you stack, but I'll bet my entire property deed. You're dead wrong... There's a massive difference!
@@cw6136 ok, from someone thats hauled dump truck loads of fire wood the difference is so minimal its way not worth the headache and, youd have to puzzle piece it in like a tessellation, so yea you can waste all that time for 10 extra sticks of fire wood per chord. idk what your idea of "massive" is but my time savings is way more "massive" and ill put both of my property deeds on that!
Lots of theories. Here in the mountains in Australia I don’t stack wood either. Just for my use I cut it in the bush , usually a standing dead tree with now bark left on it. Then I throw it on the ute, dump it on the ground at the wood heap, no cover or shed. Then I split a wheelbarrow load with an axe or block buster and park it up on the porch undercover once it’s split. It’s dry inside until it is split. Our wood is hardwood usually Ironbark or box, it burns really hot , even if it’s wet.
@@InTheWoodyard - - Broke the front window on my box topper thing about three years ago stacking wood into the box of my 8-foot bed Silverado (piece of crap truck - don't ever buy one). I never replaced the window. Oddly enough, it seems to stay dry. By the way, here in lower Michigan a face cord is 18" logs stacked 4'x8' so I can get a whole face cord in the back of my 8-foot truck if I stack it when I pick it up at my source. He charges me $45 for one face cord but I have to go get it. Is that a lot? You didn't say what you charge for firewood delivered. Cheers and thanks for the info. I stack my wood next to the house on pallets and cover with a tarp to keep rain and snow off it. Seems to be OK.
@@q7winq7 If you can go get a face cord for $45, respectfully, you're seller is a sucker! Should be double that, and nobody's making much even at that price. As for a face cord being 4x8x18inches, that doesn't make sense. It's 16 inches. Seems to me that if people in your area do that, somebody screwed up eons ago, nobody caught onto it and people kept copying it, lol. 4x8x16inches is exactly one face cord, one-third of 1 cord. Cheers!
@@mydogdidit - - - - First, my supplier isn't selling firewood as a business, so who cares if he just wanted to get rid of it. Second, I'm sure he didn't give a fig if the wood is 16" or 18." Third, I'm sure he doesn't give a fig how big a face cord is. His sign said "this wood for sale for $45." Respectfully, if you're selling wood for a living, maybe try another career. The best way to fight inflation is not to pay high prices for ANYTHING. @$90 a face cord, heating is cheaper burning propane. God bless suckers for helping control inflation. Cheers.
Good evening Chris, Couldn't agree more about stacking. I've just done a moisture test on some mixed hardwood that's in a loose bin and not one piece I tested was above 15%. Dry and ready to burn.!!👍
So I got a good laugh. Right after you said you don't stack wood, we get a tour and there is a bunch of stacked wood in totes. Lol. I agree with the piles though. As always great video.
HI Chris. Minimize wood handling. Good topic. You have a wood processor that splits the wood onto a conveyor that dumps it into a stack/bin. Just need to manually fed the logs into the processor/splitter. Then the manual effort required to load the wood from the pile into the trailer/truck and unload it at the customer residence. Still labour intensive. Maybe Kenny has the better solution (aside from stacking), have the customer pick up the order. No loading or unloading as customer does the physical work. Understood that not all customers have the facilities to pick-up their own wood. Maybe those tote bins are a better idea. From the conveyor, into the bin, the bin later loaded onto the trailer/truck and dumped at the destination. Virtually no manual handling, I'm guessing. Great videos. A pleasure to watch! 🍁
Great video. I do just my home firewood for heating and I hate it, cant imagine doing that much!! I do touch my wood WAY too many times. After watching this, I may just make a bin like yours up by my log pile and just pile it in there to keep it off of the ground until its moved to the woodshed which holds close to 2 seasons of wood so has plenty of time to finish drying before its burned!
G’morning Chris ! My youngest misses you “working really fast” while stacking. I have a boundary fence of full cords on 2 sides of my 1.5 acre. Thanks for ‘splaining. GoodNightIrene
I've previously watched your channel with great interest. My thoughts: 1. You must be in incredible shape with all the work you do! 2. A dump trailer would eliminate one more handling upon delivery, although you probably have considered this...and it would save time. 3. BRAVO for the wonderful job you do addressing customer service. I'm fortunate to cut hardwood trees from my 40-acre woods. I only cut/split about 5 (full) cords for my own use each year. I'm able to keep it very clean. Your thoughts on not stacking have given me pause to consider dumping it in piles on a gravel base I already have. Thank you for your clarity in presentations and wisdom from experience.
A man can appreciate a fine woodstack ge has made all by himself. There is something grand about well stacked neat fuel reserves. Its good to have one or two set up. The rest can be piled 😬
I used to not stack, I'd just pile into big cones but straight onto the ground. Seemed to cost me more wood that I figured at the time. Now I split straight into IBC totes. I was stacking into them until I got a big enough number of totes to just let it pile into them. Mostly burning myself. For the sell of wood, I just dump 4 totes ad a full cord into my trailer out of the totes instead of 3 stacked. I know I'm letting more wood go than if it's stacked, but I'd rather process wood then stack wood. I like the cutting and splitting and not so much the stacking. As for me I just bring a couple totes to the house and use straight out of the tote to heat with.
I found on the beach the same polar fleece sweater as you're wearing. I wear it all the time. I also have woodlands I cut and sell fire wood. I agree completely
Nice video Chris. Happy that your wood corrals are working out. I really don't have enough space to do that. Years ago a used car guy near here used to make huge hay stack size piles on a concrete slab behind his shop. Always had half a dozen or so used pickup trucks for sale and 3 or 4 pickup box trailers. He sold wood in the high rent districts of Omaha (70 mile drive). Used an old grain elevator with a big old Kohler motor on it. He kept 3 or 4 local kids busy cutting, splitting and making the piles. GNI
My wife makes me stack on the fence line to block the view of the neighbors backyard and his nasty little noisy dogs. I’m currently cutting, splitting and stacking a new wall because I sold the last one. 😉
You have the perfect conditions for piles, sun from morning to night and plenty of wind. My first time getting wood delivered I got muddy bottom of the pile wood, I was not a happy customer and actually texted him to take it back and that’s when I started cutting and splitting my own wood now I have total control over my wood.
Thing is if you have to buy the wood you might as well just buy gas or oil or wood pellets, wood pellets are under half the cost of buying split and cut fire wood 🤷♂️ and you don’t have to handle the stuff 10 times
@@chrisbrunette9495 as crazy as it sounds I really enjoy cutting and splitting my own wood, as far as a pellet stove they are a lot easier to use but I love the look of logs burning and the smell, I get a lot of “free” wood on Facebook marketplace just my time and effort.
I learned how to build my bins out of pallets by watching your channel... I learned how to use zip ties to measure my rounds by watching your channel... and now you tell me not to stack?!?! I learned by watching you, Chris! I learned by watching you!!! 😂 (not sure if you'll get the reference) but, lol either way 😁👍
An interesting experiment would be for you to stack a facecord and put the same thrown in loose and mark the area and do moisture checks throughout the season.
Here in Maine it was always cords usually several. "Full cord" is used only to stress to the seller that we do indeed want FULL cords this time! And those sellers are often given a nickname, "Short Cord Jones" or whoever. Less often half cords and rarely 1/4 cords are bought and sold. In recent years some people are starting to say face cord/third cord, maybe because that amount fits somewhat into a UBC tote. I'm good at math so I don't care what quantities are used as long as I get full measure. By the way, I've been storing my firewood in pallet bins the last 2-3 years.
Awesome vid that day Chris! Always enjoy the sit, chat an listen vids! I’ve seen the light as you have… from watching your channel for over a year now an all the others I follow, I’ve learned and absolute ton of everything firewood!!!!🔥 an not stacking is one thing lol, although I will stack when need to though 💯👍. Thanks for everything Chris, I really appreciate all your great content!! See you soon! Andrew from NB :)
Yes, I get it . A lot of extra work. I would do the same if I were a supplier. Cut, split and stack my own wood by April, 4-5 bush cord in Eastern Ontario and stack it two rows wide and four feet high on pallets. The advantage of stacking is that in autumn I can cover it in lumber tarps. Interesting video. BTW, you need a dump trailer, haha.
Yup, for you own wood it is fine to stack it especially if you want it neat and and have limited space. We do have 4 dump trailers, you might want to watch a few other videos here, there are 1300 waiting for you!
Great channel, thanks for all the hard work creating these videos. I've learnt a lot. As regards bins, it wouldnt work here in the Uk because we have a mild maritime climate. Continuous rain and little sun especially in the winter. Even with stacking on pallets there's often mould growth in the base. I'm envious of those blue sky Wisconson winters. ☹ Cheers Sid
same here in Western Washington state, it is cold and wet for months in the winter, moldy wood is a real problem. Lots of firewood companies around here kiln dry their wood since the drying season is too short otherwise.
We do over 100 full cord a yr an stack it all because it’s faster for us than piling it . Conveyor drops it into a dump trailer an we stack from the dump trailer onto half cord movable pallets so instead of chucking wood into the bin an then chucking it back into the truck at delivery time we just stack it onto our pallets and instead chucking into the truck we just dump the half cord pallet into the trailer an grab another pallet . By my math that’s one less touch an twice as fast . Having a miles of flat ground an fields gives ya plenty of wind an sun up here in Maine it’s hills an trees an wood piled up like that would get very moldy unless it was like you out in open fields . We all do what works best for our situation .
Good talk Chris. I’m with you on the stacking! If I had more space to store our splits they would not be stacked. My arms and shoulders would thank me🤣 see ya again Tomorrow 👍🏻👍🏻GNI
I looked at the gloves you used and picked up a pair. Awesome gloves. Keeps my hands warm in cold conditions. Sturdy on the outside and soft on the inside.
Baby steps towards no stacking!👍 Now that you know the bins work awesome!Have you put any thought into what type of materials you should be gathering to build new ones with yet? These bins are an eyesore (imo)and will soon rot away. IDK if you have ever been in a confinement hog barn? But they have these concrete floor panels with slots in them, so pee and poo can fall through. If you could find some of these cheap. They would make a really nice floor and then build a permanent fence around the bin. I am just thinking outloud again for moving forward toward the future with a more permanent but not permanent structures!🤠
The pallets have worked great and you made use of materials you already had. I guess my comment is on thoughts of maybe doing something different in the future as these need replaced. Ideas on materials that won't break the bank but last longer than ankle breaking pallets!
Hey guys i read lot comments on the wood unstacked, some i agree on some i dont agree on. Wet wood don't burn worth crap in wood burner, Sounds like hissing cockroach, i pulled some my wood out back rack and must got damp with rain and wind blowing through pallets stood up locked together and roof is made of pallets with shingles on top covering it. Front is covered with 2- tarps side by side across with bungee cords for wind flex, i work my wood every day, So i can heat my house it's better than High gas bill
Props to you for hand loading and unloading! The firewood business fascinates me but here in the UK its very different. The usual measure.is a builders bag, which people call a tonne bag, but only holds 800kg of sand.. so 3-400kg of wood. Very odd. Facecord makes much more sense!
Wait a second! You build this channel touching wood…always a new question. Was wondering the same thing about the bins drying. Thanks for a great answer! John
The reason wood is sold in cords or ricks is so there a standard to go buy. To many sellers sell you a pile or bin of wood and cheat you on the amount you are getting.
If you did some research you would find that what people call different measurements of wood varies a lot around the world and region. Bush cords, ranks, face cords, rows, riks, cubic meters are common around the USA Canada and the rest of the world. ....1/3 of a cord is the same as a rik, facecord and rank. A bush cord is the same as a full cord. The vast majority of the world does not use cords at all. You are free to use what you want as long as your customers know what the are getting.
I burn about 6 to 7 cords a year, all of which I cut myself. It has been very tempting to pile it up without neatly stacking it, but when I have done that, I always overestimate how much wood I have on hand. One year, I thought I had about 8 cords, when I actually had about 5.5 !!!
Really enjoyable video. I'm in North East Scotland, I don't bother stacking wood either. To season it gets thrown on a pallet and left to the elements. Prior to using, it goes undercover in an open type outbuilding we have. Not sure if I saw them in the background of your video but we have similar/same. IBC cages we call them, not sure if terminology is the same? Easy to come by here either free or cheap, great way to store wood after you pull out the plastic container 👍🏻
Skidder Kev's yard has several large concrete confinement bins covered by canopies. His is a large scale operation. I suppose the high upfront cost is recovered pretty quickly considering running down pallets and putting them together into bins. There's plusses and cons to both ways or anyway depending on the volume of wood, equipment, costs, efficiency etc. As the saying goes "Whatever works".
No it does not. I have loaded thousands of stacked and measured cords of firewood over the last 55 years and found that it always fills my trailers the same ....every time so why do I need to stack it if it fills my trailers the same every time. I was slow to get this fact after being told for years by full time professional firewood producers for years that they NEVER touch there firewood....ever... and always know how much wood fits their trailers so........
It is kinda hard to imagine exactly how hard you work. I calculate at least ten hours a year. Unbelievable!!! And you would not do it if it did not sell. More power to you.
Nothing wrong with stacking wood. Ive lived in the mountains of north Georgia for 60 years. Family has for over 150 years. The only folks that dont stack are lazy folk. Keeps would off the ground. Keeps bugs out of it, looks better. Might as well tell folks they shouldnt clean there home, dont make your bed or dont bother putting your tools up. Having a neat and tidy woodyard is like having a neat and tidy work shop. It just makes sense. What other folks do is what they do but as for me and my house, we will stack wood. Just my opinion.
Good for you! but here are the facts...yes it looks nice and neat and it saves space and you know exactly how much you have. BUT... loose wood on pallets off the ground has 25% more space to allow for air flow, requires a lot less work and dries MUCH faster. I have been producing about 200 full cords a year and have been doing so for about 50 years now. All major firewood producers pile (not stack) split wood into cones that are about 30' high and it dries great without touching the wood...ever. One producer I personally know sells 3-5 semi-truck loads a week years round and never stacks wood. He has 60 full time employees so is he wrong and lazy???
If your dealing with that amount of volume and selling, it makes sense. If your burning wood for home and hearth don't have piles in your yard it just looks bad. As far as statistics go where does that number 25 come from?? Who did the study and how many years did it cover?? Were talking opinions here thats all. Ive got mine and you have yours. Thats all. I'd still have a drink with ya and talk fishing and if you need help building a fence or a barn ill be there for ya. Im just not gonna throw wood in piles in my yard. Nor will I tell others to. Title of your video. Just struck me wrong. I apologize if I offended.
If you are only cutting 20 cords a year stacking looks awesome. When you are processing over 100 cords per year to sell, you want it dry fast and it’s an ungodly amount of work for nothing. Been there done that.
i used to do a fair amount of gettting, cutting and burning for myself and i would always kind of stack pile my firewood in the shape of a teepee with the wood on end and the whole thing sat on crushed stone. it dried and cured good that way with the heat of the summer and shed the rain good enough and when winter hit i would throw a tarp over it and then had a container pallet in the garage to keep a supply handy. i would go through 4 or 5 chords with a wood stove to supplement the oil fired boiler in the house. i always worked the wood up by hand with my saws, maul, axe and hatchet. i got most of my wood from the power company where i worked and i also bought grapple loads a couple times. i don't burn anymore because i'm retired and too old to keep up with it and my wife doesn't like it too much. the wood would warm you 3 times, once when you cut it, again when you split it and again when you burn it.
Here in northern Maine my friend processes fire wood year round and very busy. He can barely keep up with orders. Owns 3 trucks that hold 3 cord each. Loads his trucks straight from the processor on conveyor belt. Does 6 loads a day. $325 cord. Very busy crew.
As someone who burns the product you sell, I know the wood buried under several layers has no sun or wind to aid in its drying. I believe the concept of seasoned wood is over rated. Firewood needs a period of time to dry out or age its cambium, but it also needs to be in a place to dry out. Away from sun and wind will drastically slow its drying. I have burned wood which was seasoned for 2+ years, and it just dripped a lot of water before it finally started to burn. Firewood needs to be dry to properly burn, and it won't dry if it is covered under several layers exposed to the elements.
No, he does not, I am a big boy now and I fold and put away my clothes in a dresser and I hang my clothes in a closet to just like my mommy taught me about 60 years ago. Like I told you in my other comment I produce hundreds of cords of wood every year... for decades now...and to stack it all would take thousands of hours...I used to stack it all. I have a lot of old videos on my channel (1300) showing and demonstrating how to do it easy and fast but it would be a waste of time and effort for me to do it any more. I grew up just like other professional firewood producers. A friend of mine produces 3-5 semi truck loads every day and he never touches one piece of wood and neither does any of his 60 employees. So.....
@@InTheWoodyard are you actually trying to tell me that you didn't understand my comment was a tongue-in-cheek attempt at humor? As if I thought that you handled your clothing the same way as commercial firewood? You must be a really sharp one. And a great sense of humor!!
I stack my wood above ground 8 feet deep by 12 feet wide by 4 to 5 feet high gives me over 3 cords , I’m good for the next two years, if I just threw it in a pile I wouldn’t know how much I had because there would be many voids in the pile as there always is when we just throw it in a pile!! You deal in a higher volume than I do so I wouldn’t stack it either if I’m just selling it off anyway!!!!
I do the same thing no stacking, I’ve also loaded enough stacked cords and single face cords that o know what it looks like in my dump trailer. I’ve stopped hand unloading all deliveries. 1. It’s clean 2. I dont have big equipment to move wood around. Slowing reworking my plan for this new year. I’ve upgraded to bigger better truck for hauling and I’m now looking to move locations to better facilitate to storing and processing of the wood. If I can I’d love to get the commercial splitter and conveyor to help fix my bottle neck of production speed. And I’ve narrowed it down to the bagged wood, mobile splitting once I get a commercial splitter and full trailer loads only.
Thanks Chris for sharing the lessons you learn along the way. Very useful information on being more productive even though I’ve been cutting firewood for over 25 years. Especially now that we have a boiler heating 8 buildings, wow more work! We gotta cut 30 cord a year just to keep up!
If you haven't actually experienced cutting down timber in the fall, skidding, waiting until spring to haul it out, cutting to 16" lengths, splitting and stacking and then hauling it again. You will appreciate "piles". Stacking into cords is for the people at home.
absolutely agree! I put my firewood in wire bin made of rebar wire 5 ft tall 5 ft diameter. Dries just fine. I also have goats , so stacks of wood don't stay stacked. Also allow me to use wood that wouldn't stack very well.
Awesome only thing that I would suggest from experience is a piece of plywood over the back window. As a bodyshop owner and back window breaker they are pricey and a pain to replace😊
Now that was a Wisconsin backside! lol. I like to be creative , I've done the Holzhausen method and it's just for me personally as I have the time but it is an effective drying method and looks cool. But I do leave it in piles for a few years before I do that, then I have racks inside my porch for ready to burn pieces.
Nice video would be fun to compare our operations sometimes I have a small firewood business I’ve been doing for over 20 years everything you’ve saying makes sense
Cool stuff. I see you are wearing your favorite gloves! Subscribed yesterday so I don't know your setup yet. Great cheap and effective setup. I'm hoping to build a disk screener so I can scoop and load snow filled wood without loading by hand. -Wouldn't work to use a skid steer to scoop off of pallet floors like your drying stacks though. Also we have none of your varieties here in Northern Alberta, I don't even know what the differences are between those varieties. Here it's only poplar, spruce/pine, birch or tamarack (Russian larch).
We have a wood ministry at church. An 85 acre campus has lots of trees and some donated wood from others. We split and stack in a large shed. People who need it can take for free to heat their homes. We also have some guys that can deliver if they have no way to pick up.
IBC totes make it a LOT easier to store, move, dispense, measure and deliver. The last time you touch the wood is when you place it neatly into the IBC tote and the rest is done on a flatbed truck or trailer and it's like the old milk delivery route, pick up the empty tote and replenish with a full tote.
Here in NZ the standard measurement is a "thrown cord", namely a loosely thrown volume of cut wood. Often it's sold by the cubic meter but it's still all measured loose thrown/piled.
Grew up on a farm, Midwest also. My father got into the wood business after his retirement, of course I helped. My comment: What a lot of physical labor - he lived to age ninety-three.
for over 40 years I have been chopping/ splitting wood etc,I would go with my father in-law, RIP. who was a Forrester(part time) and fell a tree (he was given trees ,a perk of the job,,and I spent many a back breaking weekend helping him fell,cutting and then splitting the oak, ash, birch and sometimes a pine (pine I always found was good to get the wood burner started)one thing to this day he taught me is chop/split the wood as soon as possible,same day if you can,and leave it for a year uncovered in these round metal cages..THEN stack it under the covered area(our covered are was basically a big car port)6-8 months later you have a 15 to 20 percent moisture,perfect oven wood
My dad has 32 Chords. 24 chords stacked on 2x6 pallets with 6-8 inch gaps between each row outside. The rest is stacked in the woodshed which is more like a barn shed. He burns about a full wheel barrow a day berween October- late March. He also srives loads out to my moms little old lady friends. I think he works harder in retirement.
I have my own little variation on this. I run a small sawmill and end up with a lot of slab wood coming off it. I stack directly into my basement as I cut it. I keep an oscillating fan blowing on the pile year round as I fill the basement. A dehumidifier is always running in the basement to remove the moisture as the fan pushes air over the pile. By the time winter comes round I have a dry pile of wood and I've saved a huge amount of time and handling!
@@InTheWoodyard it works well for me because I tend to fill my storage area slowly from spring to fall. May not work as well for someone fills their space all at once.
Stacking on pallets can be tricky. Sometimes they rot and dump the stack. Safer, easier to stack for the end user. You part in the supply chain is not the same. As long as you, the customer are happy and on the same page it is good.
2 cords per fall/winter was always stacked in my rack for decades. Oak dries out in 6 months, lighter hardwood in 4, whether you stack it or throw it in a pile. When you need the space you have for other things besides firewood, stacking is the way to go. If I handle it twice or 6 times doesn't matter.
We get 10 face cords a year for the wood stove (secondary heating source for the house), and I can say after we stack the wood in the wood shed I have a few wheel barrels of waist leftover. I will now start to ask how they load the wood, as the way you do it is perfect from the customer.
Yup, I get a lot of customers from guys who load wood with skid steers and buckets...many wheelbarrows full of dirt, bark, rocks, dirt , branches, debris.....
i just recently saw the light. I love the look of the stacked IBC but my tractor cant lift a full ibc of oak so i loose toss it in and its lighter. about 15% less i think. and saved me time on the stack. The Log Hog
Great! I notice you unloading logs one at a time at a client's. I put mine in my Land Rover on and over wrapped in a plastic trap and when some of it has been unloaded I just pull the tarp which is really slippery and out they all come - 10 second! Great if it is raining too!
I agree with just throwing in the logs in the truck. Hauling it down from the mtn after cutting and loading is enough work for me. I split it at home. My 8’ bed (that never has to be made btw) with 2’ sides AND plywood rear door above the tailgate, fits plenty for a day
