Can we make FIREWOOD out of NASTY CRAP COTTON WOOD?
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- #firewood This pile of cottonwood logs has been staring at us for almost a full year and now it is time to rid ourselves of this nasty crap! It will be use for boiler wood by a friend who will burn any kind of wood. In exchange he lets us use his dump trailer. It is a great trade for all of us! It is time to make big wood small, lets get splitting!
I've always thought that Bert could fly the space station...it looks like the apple didn't fall far from the tree! Nice job Gavin 👍
My thoughts exactly! Thanks!
Morning all
Hello!
You can, but why wood ( pun intended!!) you?!!!!. Other than the skunkwood your hummin along quite well with the group in the woodyard
Yup, all wood burns!
I see Bert as Rodin's "Thinker". Table, debris catchers, the way he uses the support table to lower the last piece into splitter. He's a very astute young man. Thumbs up Bert.
He is a machinist so yup, he is a great designer of working stuff!
Cottonwood👎🏻 That crap was nasty! See ya tomorrow 👍🏻👍🏻GNI
Yup, nasty crap!
Gavin is getting quite the practical education working with all of you in the wood yard this summer.
Yup, he sure is!
Well at least you were able to get rid of the Cottonwood. I agree, nasty crap!
Yup, but it does burn!
Great job Gavin!! Bert did great with the totes for cleanup!! Fantastic crew!!!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Thanks! You too!
Gavin has really caught on the the processor! Way to go!
yup!
Those catch pans under the processor are great. You know Bert is your hero. 😝👍
Yup!
Grampa told me that in the old days the women liked a little dry cottonwood for baking during the hot summer because it burned pretty hot and went out quick so not to heat up the house too much. Wood burning cook stoves in those days!
That makes a lot of sense!
Chris nice to see you wearing the Iron & Oak Sawmill shirt. We lost a good wood hound when we lost Chuck. Keep up the good work bud. See you at Bunyan.
Thanks 👍
Lol that cotton wood may sprout from the saw dust. Lol. If there is ever an event. Roaches and cotton wood will be left lol.
Probably so!
Man Chris! You have gone from a one man band to a full orchestra! You guys may s great team! Have always been impressed with Bert, but Gavin can do it all! Nice job by all!
Love the channel!❤
Yup, all good guys!
Like what y'all did with the IBC totes. Have a great day be safe.
thanks!
All I can say is even though the wood was crap, ALL OF YOU HAVE YOUR SHIT TOGETHER..
Wish I could be there, but family first.
Bert looks like you are fine.
Yup, they are good guys!
Good job Gavin grown to be the new operator for EASTONMADE 22MB 😊
Yup!
Maybe some redloctite on those splitter bolts that keep working loose Chris. Cheers from Haumoana N Z
Yup! Good idea!
Good morning all!
Good morning!
We have a lot of cotton wood along the Little Missouri River where I live. We rarely ever cut or split it "green" there is enough dead and dry stuff. However, you must cut and split a lot of that rather quickly after it dies or it becomes punky and rotten. (in a year or to, but dead standing lasts longer)
Yup, it is not great firewood but it does burn.
Forgot the lift legs on elevator. Enables the elevator to be pulled sideways. Noticed you used that at big bin.
Yup, it works great!
You have put together a great team in your woodyard 😊
I think so too! Thanks!
Good day Chris and the whole In The Woodyard team working together to complete a task outstanding! Great Job Gavin the next level of pro cheers guys Brad . 👌🏻🔥🇨🇦
Thanks 👍
Chris you have a great crew around you. Looks like y'all are splitting in the rain 🌧️🌧️
Yup, yup rain happens, it's lightning that we run from.
Good morning Chris!!😀😀
Gavin is really doing well at running the processor!!😀👍👍
And clean up is a real breeze now with the catch basins.
Take care my friends!!😀😀💚💚
Logger Al
Good morning! Yup, the crew is doing great!
Gavin is a natural! Great job Gavin!
Yup!
So nice to see young folk working and enjoying it. Well Dun!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is exactly what our country needs the older guys teaching our kids responsibility. I hung around with mostly older guys who really taught me more than school. They taught me how to use my brain and hands and my life worked out well without a college degree!
Yup, hands on is great learning.
That nasty stuff splits like sweet gum
Yup, it sometimes kinda mashes!
Young Gav is havin a ball!! Outstanding simplicity on the cleanup trays.... They work !
Yup! Thanks!
Nice job woodyard crew. Buddy trade (barter) is a good practice that keeps the record off the books. Gavin is a quick learn machine operator for both the processor, tractor and camera. Teach him well, offer advice if he asks for it, otherwise get the heck out of the way. GNI
Yup, we have a good crew!
Cotton wood look 👀 like poison ☠️ to split Gavin . 😮
Yup, it is nasty crap!
Gavin is really rock'n it on the equipment. Great job! It also looks like he's grown a foot from the first time he was on a video. Dave
Yes and yes!
Good Morning Chris what a good Team and Gavin very good on the machine all the machine(ty Ron
Yup, thanks Ron!
You guys are running your operation like a well oiled machine. Great team work.
Yup, thanks!
Awesome vid today Chris! 🔥💯👍. Great to see the elevator working good for yas at the new bin! Enjoyed the processor action too! Really enjoyed this one! Ps - sorry about that confusing comment last evening, that was meant for another channel I watch and it somehow ended up on your channel, my apologies Chris, we’ll see you tomorrow! Andrew from NB :)
Awesome thank you!
Good morning it looks like the only advantage the processor offered is that big ram . We have very few cotton wood trees, so I don’t mess with them. The crew makes things happen very well. Keep on cutting
Good morning! Yup, power and speed.
Well oiled machines you guy's are
Thanks!
I think you found yourself an operator! I hate splitting cotton wood the processor is the way to go!
Had to do a good cleanup to get rid of the smell.
yup, it is nasty crap!
yup
Apple didn’t fall far from the tree, the kids good 👍
Yup!
With the equipment and layout of your facility one to three workers seems very uniformly efficient you have done a great job in building/designing and equiping your operation so that it's effcient thru at least a 300% staffing level. Lots of large industrial plants only wish for such flexibility. Congratulations are in order! Ray Stormont
Thanks Ray!
Ive been selling bundled cottonwood to campgrounds for a little over 20 years now. Popular and cotton they love it. Burns for a couple hours and its about out. Just gotta keep it out of the rain it will soak up water. Im guessing i got 60 to 80 cords of it laying here for ya when your bored Chris.. lol
Yup, it burns!
Good morning
Morning James!
Chris, we know you can even take Elm and make it look nice pretty. Cottonwood, other than its innermost beauty smell, will look just as great..😁👍
Yup, it all burns!
Tha ram is amazingly strong and well suited for this processor. It does'nt slow down perceptively even when engaging the largest of rounds. Ray Stormont
40 tons will do that!
Well done Gavin
Yup, he is a good kid!
G’morning Chris. Cottonwood sucks !! Hate it. Nice work. GoodNightIrene
Yup, but it does burn!
Good video Chris as always. Eventually you should just add a gas engine like a 5hp on the conveyor, then heck with the generator. One less thing to put away after use.
Great point! maybe!
Did you try some Loctite on the bolts this time or just crank em down tighter???
Rain or Shine...The show must go on!!👍👍
No lock tight yet, good idea though Wayne! Thanks!
Good day guys😊
Morning!
I have a Timberwolf splitter and it has one of those plates on both sides of the ram. I have to tighten them after every hard use.
As long as it keep going!
Cotton woods not that bad. When you got it and pine to chose from. It heated my house for lots years. Only restart my fire when clean ashes out.
Yup, all wood burns!
Built my wood bin yesterday and it works great but the .017 gauge fencing wire broke a few times after hitting it with a few pieces of heavier wood and one thing I learned is to add the wire cross lengths as you go and not put it all together because the wood bounces off all the wires. I went (due to space constraints) 4 pallets wide and 5 deep but I figure I can get roughly 7-8 cords in it. Today is "Bert Tray" day. Slowly but surely my yard is getting cleaned up.
Good stuff, keep at it!
Good morning Chris and the gang, sorry I don't remember all the names. You guys work like a well oiled machine. It would be fun to join the crew, just for a short shift. Lol.
Thanks 👍
Cottonwood makes the best campfire wood
It does burn, but best????
I've watched three other repurposed elevator vids,
So far yours does the best job.
Best width, best length, still relatively manuverable .
The only minor advantage that
the brand new ,shiny dedicated split firewood elevators might posess is tha some of them move themselves , some have a drive teain to relocate them around the storage area or un to the barn.
But
They are all five times the price.
Cost prohibitive for the small time wooders
Yup, you are correct!
Young man a great worker. Undistracted worker at his age.
Put lock washers on those bolts that keep coming lose.
Yup. Or maybe some locktight!
Did you say that that cottonwood was stinky. Because I got 4 cords of mixed wood delivered last February. There was this one log I cut up that smelled bad. I wish I knew what it was. It was spindley with twisted bark on it and raised up. It also had a few vines wrapped around it. The only thing I can think of is swamp maple mabe. I'm guessing. Maybe you might know or somebody else?
If it smelt like horse crap, it was probably cottonwood.
It definitely did smell like horse 🐎 dung. But I'm not sure. This bark was similar to that one video you had cutting up cottonwood. But also I have about 10 trees mixed in my wooded plot. These cottonwoods actually drop some chunks of cotton. But the bark is smooth and milky just like I read and saw before somewhere on the net. But I think they may be called aspens to. The biggest one is about 40 feet high and about about 18 inches wide. Theres about 20 of them all around the same area. Their tall with various diameters . But it seems like there's a bunch of small ones all around the big ones this year. I guess they decided to have a bunch of kids all the sudden. There is this cute flying squirrel that's living in a birdhouse about 6 feet up on a cherry 🍒 tree. One day I opened up the hinged door of the birdhouse and all these sticks and cotton fell out along with the flying squirrel. He was running around in circles making me laugh. He went up the tree and I was able to get a good picture. That's how I know. All right I'm talking to much and keep on Cutting wood. From Phil
Rain or shine the wood gets split into pieces for cones ❤😊😮
Yup!
Add a good backpack blower to the arsenal.
If you send me one, I would have one! Ha! It is on the list!
Good job Gavin! I have a young man named Gavin (he's 14) who helps me build cabins on my channel. We're in Illinois not to far!
Yup, he is a good worker!
👍👍👍
Thanks!!!
i'm getting alot of tree trimmers wood cut in 28" or 30" lengths i need a machine to reduce this wood to 20" or 16" lengths for my wood splitter, that i can load with my tractor. but dont know where or who to see about a machine
Maybe try a chain saw???
14:22 & 14:28 God bless you!
Thanks!
Hey Chris put some locktite on the bolts wil hold it nice and tite with the vibration
Yup!
Good Morning Woodhounds!!(-:
Morning!
Does running Cotton Wood through the processor make less noise as compared to other species of wood?
Maybe so, it is loaded with water.
Many hands make for short work! 😃
You got that right!
Great crew! GNI
Yup, good guys!
So what are you doing with the cotton wood ??
It was explained in the video. It is going to a guy with a boiler that will burn anything.
@@InTheWoodyard oh must of missed that part sorry.
Do you have much call for cottonwood from customers? Just curious in case you ever got a big hug load of it again
Actually "dry" seasoned solid cotton wood burns well, it takes more 'cause it burns FAST.......it splits easier too. (similar to pine) but the smoke smell is somewhat unpleasant even when it is dry...
yes, it does burn fast!
So it burns fast and it stinks. Other than that...
That cottonwood burn like it smells and splits?
It burns fast.
If'n you're not careful, you'll have a whole team of operators.
Yup, all the big kids like to play!
If you can get a line of people wanting to pay you $15.00 an hour to run the MB 22 processor,
I don't see many safety issues if they stay in the seat.
Is there anything that they can push ,pull or yank that might damage the machine or people?
Yup, it is a big powerful machine, with lots pf moving parts.
I hope you have figured out what that young man’s favorite gum is!!
Ha!!!
Cottonwood can't be all that bad. You used to cut a bunch of it and funneled it through the old woodyard.
Yup, it burns!
🤘
Thanks!
What a great team u all are
Thanks!
Young fella is good at running the machines.
That wood is nasty. Is it soft wood ? Sorta looks like Chestnut wood we have here.
Any way, have a great day. I gotta get to splitting.
Heavy barked wet green stringy wood that dries out with very little BTU's below Popple/Poplar/Aspen with a putrid smell that comes back again when being burned, about the only good things about it is it can usually be had for free because no one wants it and it does burn.
EXACTLY!
It burns fast not a lot of heat, but easy to get.
@@InTheWoodyard 👍🏻
Cottonwood is one of the softest hardwoods. It's ashy and burns fast, but when it's free and it's all you have, it'll keep a house warm in winter.
At the moment i have to cut 60 cords of cottonwood 😅 but i don't have a processor 😢
That is a bunch!
Is he bleeding?
No its just a shirt and its says I'm fine on the front.
Nope, just a fake shirt.
I thought Burt got stabbed or shot or something. It looks like his side is bleeding 24:00
Just a flesh wound!` No, it is a fake shirt.
If someone delivered Cottonwood in Enumclaw there would be a problem
It is going to a guy with a boiler that will burn anything and it is free for him in exchange for his trailer use.
I guess it is hard to argue with that
Out here we burn:
Alder,maple,Doug Fir,Spruce. The best is Madrona but that only grows near saltwater and can be hard to get
if it is dry wood and it burns it is firewood
EXACTLY!
All in all cottonwood is a mess, when the bark comes off, that is a BIG mess!!!!
yes it sure is!
I know you have plenty of rope you can have it on all 4 sides.
Yup! Thanks for the rope David!
That cotton wood reminds me of Poplar, that's not the best either🤔
Yup, it is a member of the poplar family.
@@InTheWoodyard that'll be why it's nasty then 🤣
That cotten wood is nasty we call it leave it where you found it
Yup, but in some areas, it is all they have.
What's going on with Burt's shirt? Is it fake or did he cut himself? Looks like he was stabbed in the kidney
just a flesh wound! Ha! No, it is a fake.
Is that a blood stain on Bert's shirt?
He obviously couldn't even get the day off after a near miss gut shot!😢
Nope, just a flesh wound! Ha!
it is fake.
@@InTheWoodyard 🤣🤣
I would have given all that cottonwood to burt for his Woodburner. Waste of time and gas to sell it!!!
It’s not being sold, it’s being given to a guy who leaves his trailer at the farm for woodyard use throughout the year.
I wish I could see some big white pine run through the processor. Do you know why?😂
@@brucelaatsch8668because pine is fine. There were a few sticks of pine that went thru with both loads of cotton wood
We did give the wood away to another friend. Bert already has years worth of wood.
yup!
I really don't care for cottonwood. Leaves a tremendous mess of ashes.
Yup, but it does burn!
@@InTheWoodyard yes it does.
Can’t be any worse than red oak. If someone ask specifically for red oak it’s $1000 a cord. 😂
It is way worse than red oak! Red oak is great firewood.
👍🏻👏🪵🚜
Thanks!
You have great operation going on, but placing fresh saw dust around new plants is a recipe for disaster. As the saw dust starts to degrade, it will deplete the soil of nutrients namely nitrogen and could at minimum degrade new plants, at the worst the plants will be starved of nutrients and die . The best thing to do is to compost it first. Find a source for animal manure and mix them together for at least 6 months. This is in response to previous video. You could do this with all of the wood chips and wood waste that has collected in the yard which appears to be substantial.
We did add fertilizer around the plants twice. They are doing fine.
Sawdust as mulch barely impacts soil N. Tilling it in will create nitrogen lockup, but only about 5 lb/acre at an application rate of 2 ton/acre.