My Meager Firewood process

[shybuck]

I heat with the wood I buck and split from my woods. My BX and FEL do the heavy lifting for me. I would like to have a grapple some day but for now bringin home what I cut serves my purpose. A few years ago I bought a kinetic splitter after a big oak blew down and crushed my hydraulic one, bent the thing in half. With a two second cycle the splitting is fast. No more waiting for hydraulics to finish the round. Started out with 2 Stihls then a Husky and now I carry around the lightest 50cc Echo. I never cut with out chaps, chainsaw helmet and gloves, and I stop cutting when I'm tired. Then I stack out in the field, let it sit in the sun and wind. I don't bother covering my wood,
the west wind blows down and up my hill constantly airing the stacks out.

 

[Survivor]

I don't want to leave all those branches and tops out in the woods. I pile them all up in big piles and burn then in the winter.

Besides I can't run a saw anymore anyway after forty years loggging. Cancer and heart failure. I have to beg and trade for that stuff.

 

[RCW]

I don't want to leave all those branches and tops out in the woods. I pile them all up in big piles and burn then in the winter.

Besides I can't run a saw anymore anyway after forty years loggging. Cancer and heart failure. I have to beg and trade for that stuff.

If it's any consolation, those limbs/tops, etc. do leave nutrients and wildlife cover in the woods.

To take all of them away makes for a nice "park-like" appearance, but sometimes that isn't the best thing for the woods.

Tops and brush are a good wildlife habitat (deer, rabbits, birds), and shelter new tree regeneration.

As a 40-year logger, you know a logging jog doesn't always look great to some folks.

Really, within 2-5 years, the woods can start to really thrive after a logging job.

Depends on the type of forest and ecosystem.