Wont do that again - Cutting Firewood and Fall Chores
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2018
- Working on fall task such as getting firewood put up and harvesting our popcorn out of the garden.
Share a few mistakes and tips on how I stack my firewood.
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Another enjoyable video about life in farmland. Nice you helping your old neighbor. Your a good man! Enjoy and be safe. .
Had to get the whole family out of the house so you could keep your firewood edge on me eh? Lol looking good bro!
lol, Over the next couple months I am really going to be getting to work. :)
Thats the best time to cut wood! Between 7:40 and 3:30 Monday through Friday! Ha Ha
Bridging the gap between rows is a great idea. A couple of branches seems to stabilize the rows a great deal.
I'll definitely do that from now on.
Bless you! The way life is suppose to be, life long friends! Working together to accomplish a task.
A great soothing video for my cold Sunday evening in front of the wood stove.
good day to you Eric & Family !! thanks for sharing your adventures and update on & off the farm 🏡🏗️🛠️
Awesome channel bro, good on you helping the older folk.
Looks like really satisfying work. Must warm you physically and mentally when you are mesmerized by the fire in the dead of winter.
Only my 2nd season of burning wood so I learn more and more by each video I watch. I love your channel also watch outdoors with the Morgan's all the time. The long stick method will do great for me, all of my land is fairly hilly. Also wonderful family you have.
Awesome channel, we have so many fallen trees here from hurricane Michael, people are begging others to come get it. I live in NC, so much hugh red oak, white oak and pine trees. Love your channel. God bless
Sounds like the wood piles will be happy! :) Thanks for the kind words!
For those who don’t know the entire corn wrapped in the shuck is called an ear. The kernels of corn grow on the cob. So when you pull an ear of corn,
you peel back the shuck and you have the kernels. The kernels are attached to the cob. The hairy looking stuff at the tip of the ear of corn before you pull the shuck back is called the silk.
Ash, one of the best in my opinion. Great video, you have a great outlook on life! God Bless you!
Great videos !
Been cutting firewood for awhile & like your positive approach to life & getting out and having a go ,great work .
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Thankyou Greg Australia.👍
We work with neighbors on our firewood too. It is a lot of fun and good for both parties. Our kids are a bit older than yours so last season they helped with splitting and stacking. Very satisfying. Love the video, thanks (from New Zealand).
It's great to see your progression even from a little while ago, your videography is getting better and is very entertaining. Thanks for sharing
Enjoyed as always. One of the handiest additions I have made to my operation is a quantity of plastic pallets. Ideal for stacking wood off the ground. They don't rot, break, or otherwise become a liability. Best from Georgia, Snakedriver.
I think the birds probably knew the good corn to pick at as well ;) Bless your heart, working together with your neighbor, a benefit to the both of you I'm sure - and we need more of that in this world don't we! Good video as always - you do such a good job choosing the music to go along with the filming.
best channel on you tube! Life in Farmland!
Great job man I'm watching an learning a lot! Thank you.
Nice vid! That ash was too good to burn.... all our logs to the the mill first and then all scraps go for heating! We are busy too prepping for the winter... we are due east of you! LOL!!! Thanks!
Awesome! Love your videos 👍👍
Playing catch up Eric so I apologize for commenting back to back. Ash is my dads favorite wood to burn. TFS. God Bless ~Lisa
That’s a nice looking ash!
Great Video! I have an Outdoor WoodBroiler that we heat our home with and I have the same can for ash! I keep it right next to the boiler! Has worked great!
Love your videos. Hubby is out now cutting some firewood over at the neighbors (thanks to Hurricane Michael). Another neighbor had nine huge red oaks fall. He'll be able to use a lot of that with his portable sawmill. I could see you purchasing one in the future with all the wood you cut (a side business, perhaps?). We found ours on craigslist a few years ago. Hubby talked to his dad (who lives north central MN) and heard it was 12 degrees and had some snow a couple weeks ago...yikes! We had our first frost this morning here in NC. Keep up the great work Eric!
Great video Eric. I myself have done that before.
Oof, I've done that too, Eric -- stack, move, split, and restack the same pile. If only those piles could move themselves -- haha!
We go through about 3-cords a year. I agree, try not to move it more then necessary. We store split stove ready wood on pallets and change out the pallets every once and a while. We stack it three rounds deep and do what you you recommend using long small branches to help secure the rows. I put back plastic over the top. It degrades in the sun but lasts several years and keeps rain and snow off the piles.
I transfer a winter's worth of cordwood to a shed near the house so I don't have to clear snow off the piles. So do end up moving wood a couple of times.
Nice you help your neighbor. Our neighbor has a 4-wheeler and helps move our wood. Be interesting to see how many more years I'll be able to harvest wood. When we built our house did not think about living in it when we get old and decrepit. Our sole source of heat is cordwood.
Have two smallish galvi garbage cans for wood ash. Transfer hot ash to the can in the basement to let it cool. Have a larger can outside. We use ash the same as you, spread it on ice spots on the driveway and spread it around as fertilizer. I learned my lesson the hard way about dealing with hot ash. Years ago dumped hot ash on our compost pile and ended up setting it on fire and burning down the bins.
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Great video and thank you for showing us what you do. You have a gift for explaining on how to do farm stuff.
:) Thanks for the kind words.
I used to use the same trick, putting a longer stick/branch from one row to the other to stabilize them both. Works very well.
When I worked in British Columbia in forestry years ago, there was a story of a local faller who was cutting for the morning then took a break around lunch. He sat down to eat a sandwich At the base of a windfall tree he had cut up earlier in the morning, hoping to take shelter from the falling snow.
At the end of the day, when he didn't show up at the truck, the other cutters went to look for him.
They found his hard hat and saw but couldn't find him for a long time. Finally, he was discovered under the root wad of the tree he had sat under for shelter. The root wad and stump had fallen back into place after he had realeased the weight of the tree earlier. He was dead from the tree he sat under.
Don't know if it's true or not but I could see it happening.
Great video, cool to see you cut into that Ash tree. I cut one up a week or two ago, though for a different outcome. ;)
Thanks for pointing out the thing with the corn! I want to try that! Also thrilled to know what "heirloom" means! Subscribed! Doi!
I love ash as well
Need to bring wood heat Wednesday back please!
Absolutely fantastic photography!!! This fat, red faced, gimpy, white haired, wood burning, old man from Nebraska enjoys and appreciates your videos and your life standards. Stay blest and safe. 👍
😁 ha thanks for watching! You made my day
That log picker upper you have is cool. Is that the log jack you were using a couple videos ago
Those are perfect size round’s. Where I’m at it’s black oak 20”-30” rounds
well your not alone..ive done that
We all have done that. I have to unstack, split and re-stack a section because I was trying to get the downed tree cuttings in a protected area before a T-storm hit HARD. Won't do that extra work again either !!!
Hey! I have one of those stickers.
Ash is my favorite wood also. I'm hoping you do a video on processing that popcorn.Does it need to dry more before trying to pop it. Did it come out O.K.?
All my stacks up to 4 feet seem to do fine freestanding, when they get up to 5 or 6 feet, about half of them start to look like the hat on the cat in the Dr. Seuss book after a year or so!
Small trick w a 1 way.... after a half pass ( at most) on initial split flip and turn piece. 4 pieces w a pass and a quarter beats 2. Saves time....
Sorry to hear that you made double work, but it is getting done. The wood piles are looking good. Thanks for sharing
Thanks Ken! You guys get any snow yet?
Nothing yet, calling for some Monday night but should not stick around long. Our leaves are really turning fast this year. I feel winter coming fast though.
They are saying it will be a mild winter this year but sure does not feel like. Stay warm!
Nice flashback @1:45 . Small corn but huge harvest! Did the chickens enjoy them? I know the feeling @4:45 ! I find myself standing and staring at my space trying to figure out where the Logs, Splits, stacks should go and what I need to do next and where to throw the new splits so it doesn't interfere with where the new stacks will go.
Interesting technique @7:22 I have to try that. You need a 4 way wedge on that splitter, will cut your time in half with those nice unknotted logs.
You should get a "Husking Peg" there are different styles but would save your fingers.
Great video brother. I have been using the branch brace method to support all the firewood now since I started stacking earlier this year. And if I do recall correctly I saw it first on one of your previous videos. Oh in other news I killed the Poulan. Not sure how but the chain brake handle melted right above the bar. I guess this is a good excuse to tell momma I need a Stihl! Ha Ha. Thanks for sharing Eric! Have a great week!
I have a 42cc poulan pro as my "little" saw. Can't seem to kill it... When the big stuff needs cutting, I take out the stihl 441 cm... Night and day difference... And a price tag that would buy 12 of the Poulan's... But that's somewhat expected when going from a $100 saw to a $1200 saw.
Jason I just used my buddy’s MS 261. That thing zipped right through a 20” diameter Osage with ease. I think next month I will get a 441 with a 28” bar. I will get my Poulan back into the fight. It’s cheap and small but I will say it works great.
Lol I got a buddy that wants to cut together....he sells firewood, and burns for himself. I fell 25 trees for him and cut up five so he wouldn't get hurt, all in one day, he hauled. The rest are worry free to cut up. he want me to keep coming out. in this story , I'm the one that's 25 years older and have to get more wood elsewhere for myself. what a deal. lol
i love ash wood,rare to see oak here this area .bird island mn. how many years burn do all your piles give you. love your videos,love the wood heat !! nothing like it.
we usually keep a three year supply on hand. That way we know the wood is dry when it comes tie to use and takes the pressure off each year getting it put up. If you can get a head it is so worth it! Thanks for watching!
Ive been using the large garbage can for about 9 years now, storing my Ashes. Usually fill it full over one winter. 5 bushcords of wood will fit into one can, when turned into Ash. Pretty crazy.
Love it! 👍 You ever have problems with it getting covered in a snow drift?
No, I have it sitting under an over-hang protected from the weather.
good video! where do you get fat lighter? have done any videos on harvesting stumps, or trunks and whittling it down? i have quite a bit to do but all by hand...
Eric if you have a lot of ash trees you may be able to split and clean-up some of the ash for axe handles, or picaroon handles, hammer handles etc we have lots of maple and oak trees and some ash but are more rare, Pa was quick to set aside the lengths of ash for axe handles. We used to have a peddler come around selling ash handles but he was old I think he has passed to firewood heaven. If you have access to the ash you may be able to earn some extra cash making ash tool handles.Yes I agree handling firewood is a bummer, I started with a truck and old saws it was what was available or affordable, but here is something for you to dream toward. I now have a 4WD Kubota 50 HP tractor with quick connect bucket and I can connect pallet forks at front bucket location, this has made firewood much less work, I have steel framed boxes mounted to a plastic pallets and I can move the boxes out to where I cut the wood, split the wood and place it in the pallet boxes, from there the full boxes can be carried with tractor to dry I use a rocky beach or power line areas are open to full sun, and then I can take the pallets and put them in my basement I have a set of double doors in the basement and can open the doors and set the pallet in on the basement concrete floor, from that location it is about 12 feet to the wood stove. So I cut and split my wood, pile it in the pallet box, take the pallet box to dry, then I take the pallet box inside to burn in wood stove, I only handle the wood to put it in the pallet box and once again to put the wood in the stove, as I get older my back Thanks me for taking advantage of lifting tools. As you get older you may inherit some tools and you may have more liquid assets with age, but you cannot buy young n spry that is of days of old, Happy Trails.
This was so great to read? Thank you for sharing this!
Try treating your gloves with some obenaufs leather preserver. I use it on my boots and gloves. Makes the gloves essentially waterproof and they will last a lot longer.
Great tip, I have seen that stuff but have never used it. I really need to give it a try. Great tip!
Okay newbie here. When you say punkiness, does that mean that part is still okay to use or do you cut it off when you process?
Firewood, the only thing that will warm you up four times.
That's all I been cutting past two weeks is ash still got another week left then I'll be done
I need a chainsaw and some advice on a good one.
What is that stihl you are using? I can't do a super expensive one.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Would like to stay under $400.
Will be only heating with wood.
Thanks.
the ash trees in new york are getting hammered by the emerald ash borer :< what a shame its so easy to split too. i cant believe i have cut, split, and burned an ash tree in side of 6 months. i hope these trees can persevere the ash borer!
Eric. Great video again. Thanks for posting. quick question. Noticed you using a log ox for picking up some wood. If you had a choice of a log ox or a pickaroon, what would you think is a better choice. Thanks again.
I was thinking of my back at that part. Saw the tool and I thought, well maybe with that tool I could do this job...says the old fat man with a bad back.
I made that same stacking mistake and have to move the wood b4 i stack it. Also, i am the wood splitter with axe...
What is the log lifting tool you are using? Looks better for large pieces than a pickeroon. Thanks
Its a Logox. Really a great multi function tool. I have really come to like it and my back likes it even more. ha. Thanks for watching!
I hate doing extra work. Your wood stack is looking a little slimmer than normal. Better rectify that pronto!
How is the insulation in your house? More insulation = less wood/year.
You need to check out "Outdoors with the Morgans" they have a firewood stacking contest, you should enter! He is into making firewood!
what is that tool that you use to pick up the split wood?
It is a Logox. I have really come to love that tool. I did a video on it last winter if you have any interest in learning more about it, ruclips.net/video/1tRMXF4shE4/видео.html
This video should be your entry in the morgans contest ?
I agree, hr should.
Mike sure has some pretty piles. Love watching that tractor hard at work! :)
Eric, anothet great video. You need to enter Outdoors with the Morgan's contest. Do you cover your firewood? I don't, but my neighbor does and he told me my wood will rot because it is not covered. Please clarify. Thanks in advance.
It won't rot as long as it's off the ground. The finished quality seems better and more consistent if it's covered (top only so air can still circulate) from my experience but that isn't always practical. Wasps and small creatures might tend to make a home for themselves now and then under covers but you won't tend to get any fungus or mold around the bark and cambium layer if it's covered. If there is some soft punky areas on the wood, those will absorb moisture and tend to stay quite wet, but they were already rotten to begin with!
Couldn't of said it better. Great answer Digby O'Dell !
@@digbyodell2924 thank you
Please be careful
2nd😊 love ash
lol
Me too it puts out too many BTUs I love it!
Man and I complain about stacking one chord at my boss house that’s crazy man 👍🏽
What size saw were you using?
He's using a Stihl MS290, 56cc
I would've knocked that pile over first then stacked it after I split it.
Me too!
Doug would call that a nugget. Double work stinks.
What is "punky" wood? Is there wood that you shouldn't burn? I'm sure most people know what you're talking about but since all the homesteading videos are a great way to learn, I figure there's no such thing as a stupid question. Trying to learn as much as possible. TIA!
Just wood that has rotted a little, It will burn just fine if you can get it and keep it dry. You often need to take a little more care with it to keep it dry. When it becomes punky it tends to change property and acts like a sponge. soaking up water. So you often need to take a little more care. Keep it covered so if it rains it does not soak up all the water. Since it is not as dense you also get less heat out of it. Great question
Life in Farmland thanks for the reply and information. Makes sense!
if you can get punk wood dry or dry (and keep it dry) it like the author said; whittle it down for starter mixed with fat lighter!
first :D