Chris: First of all, I just wanted to let you know that as a Catholic Christian guy, I have been praying for your recovery! Secondly. . .even though where I live, things are quite different from how you describe ( No one in my area of South eastern Pennsylvania would have any idea what a face cord is), I greatly appreciate how you are allowing for different experiences of everything, from the nomenclature of firewood management measuring devices, etc., I really like how you are accepting of the regional differences. One thing that is not debatable is your commitment to PPE. As a medical provider for almost forty years, I have seen the results of not using proper PPE. Thank you for the service you provide to the firewood community!
I really like these fireside chats!! They show how we do our jobs either safely or not!! Lots of knowledge is shared during these chats. Thanks Chris!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Great video ! I use those zip strips on my saw . Way better than sticks or any other contraption for marking. I stack my wood on pallets and put roofing tin on top . I live in a wetlands with mostly trees . I have lots of small chunks and odd pieces and I will do the pallets enclosure like you do for them. Also liked your safety talk . I’m going to look into the leg protection and one key is never be in a hurry when sawing wood . Thanks
I dont have a firewood business. I live in a suburban environment in new zealand. I just love the firewood info because i recently bought my first house and it has a wood stove. chopped a lot of trees down when i first bought the property and now im heating with them. Currently burning pine. Pine is very popular in nz. We mostly have pine, macrocarpa and gum to burn. Most other wood is native and it is frowned upon to fell native trees in nz. Keep up the interesting work 👍
Great fireside information from you Chris. Hope you are getting better quicker so you can get back in the woodyard and do what you love doing. Take care.
Your Channel is the best on TH-cam bar none! My opinion! I switched to the pallet system and it's tons faster and it dries just fine. Come on People? Keep posting.
Nice video Chris! A good break from your usual routine (which I love by the way). I’ve learned so much from your channel as a newbie heating my home with wood. Thanks!
Great Video Chris: I hope your feeling better. I just got back from your neck of the woods. I was looking at some logging equipment in Northern WI and the UP.
Great video Chris! I liked what you said about the safety equipment. The cost of that equipment is the cheapest insurance policy you can buy for the equipment you are running!!
Northern Minnesota we can get cut and split delivered 5 cords for $1000 $200 a cord. I buy 5 cords in 8’ rounds and buck it and split, stack myself for $600 and I like it. It’s nothing but lakes and woods around us. And we only heat with wood. Great Q&A Thanks for all this channel gives. Stay safe out there.
@@InTheWoodyard yes it is, when you live in the woods like we do, it’s very cheap. And supply and demand is not hard to come by up here. Therefore the cheap prices.
Chris, sorry you have been feeling so bad. Hope you feel better soon. I built a small bin that is 8'X10' on the edge of a field. It is doing a good job of drying. I will have to empty it this winter because it is at the edge of the trees. If leaves fall into it, they will fill the cracks and hold moisture. I am going to cover it before fall. Where yours set is ideal.. I am impressed at how fast it dries.
A 20in bar doesn't give a 40in double-cut. Some brands measure to the bar nuts, some measure to the front of the engine crankcase. Then add the bucking spikes. Your 20-inch bar could be a 17in cut, 34in double-cut.
Nice talk Chris. I’m guessing you made this video before you really knew why you were sick. Hopefully your recovery is going well. Basic firewood 101 -just about everything anyone needs to know about producing, selling, buying firewood. Age has a lot to do with hearing loss. 70 something years ago, parents weren’t worried about hearing loss. I use hearing aids to communicate and an app on my phone to link them. Times have changed for the better on this issue. Outdoors around noisy equipment my hearing aids are not used obviously and hearing protection is always used now. 2 cylinder John Deere tractors, shotguns, rifles, motorcycles and playing in a 1960’s rock band when I was young, ignorant and invincible caused a lot of hearing loss. GNI
@@InTheWoodyard My sight has been pretty much fully restored after cataract surgery in both eyes recently. I can see very well now but wear sunglasses in bright sunlight and safety glasses doing any type of dusty work. The surgery was something I would highly recommend to anyone with cataracts.
Great Chat Chris, and I think you sounded perked up more as the video went on. 👍 I think you said it was Lyme again, and we all hope youbare feeling better!
Really nice chill by the fire🔥 video Chris, definitely wouldn't mind watching these type of videos in the future!! Get well soon Chris and have a great thrusday morning..
Yup, most of north America is face cords. The east coast is full cord or fraction of and some parts of the USA and Canada use ric, rank, row, truckload, bush cord. So I can see why it is confusing... but each region has it's own words and terms and saying for lots of things. But many people do not get to far from home and don't know that it is not like "back home" everywhere.
Great video. I know what you mean about being under the weather. I've been having breathing trouble the passed few days. But that's ok. Thanks for sharing the info
Good day Chris ! 100% correct on everything you have said. I could not of said it better. Love to see these sit down videos where u take time and relax enjoy the fire. Get well soon my friend cheers 🍻 🔥🇨🇦
Chris, the proof that you are doing things the right way is that your customers are happy. You are keeping current customers and gaining new customers. If your wood wasn't dry enough, the right amount or the right size, you would be out of business. Keep up the good work.
There’s no bar debate when you know how to be prepared lol I have multiple saws, 20” 25” and 32”. The 20” works awesome for ripping cuz my back doesn’t like her anymore, 25 is also perfect for me and just picked up another saw for it (400), and sometimes when you get into a 20+ log it’s nice to let your opened up 500 scream on a 32, or at least it makes you smile 😉 what I would like to know is, what is the area size you use for your current wood yard? I’m in the middle of sorting out a power line easement and if they will let me gate off an abandoned road to see how much room I have and how easy my trucking access is
I have two quarter acre lots seperated by a low use road and the lots have an old road running through that too, the side I want to use is abandoned but due to a power line running along the outside edge of the lot I have to get easement permission to gate it off cuz I can’t trust people to not try to steal the wood. The road would make great access for offloading mule trains and I can push out into bins, and if I get a dumper I can follow the tree services in “the city of trees” I live in. Iv always been oldschool cut a cord a day by truck but we get lots of getting snowed out in the mountains
I totally agree with the safety gear, after 45 years of running a saw wearing chaps they paid for themselves this past winter. I watched a video the other day where the guy was wearing shorts and sneakers. He put on his chaps and glasses, hearing protection and went to work. 🤦🏽♂️
Excellent fireside chat and good info. Here in Pennsylvania it's usually a cord or a half-cord you buy. Hope you are feeling better, keep popping the meds..... But what do you call a foot-long sandwich is Wisconsin?
Holz Hausen is a way to stack firewood, they start out stacking in a circle and tossing wood into the center. Your way is basically the same but you're using the pallets to hold the wood. Smarter not harder!
I tried this method because it looks awesome. The wood on the outer edge seasoned real nice, but all the wood in the center "core" of the pile didn't, and it developed mold 👎👎. I even had the center pile on pallets damnit haha
Hi Chris, sorry to see you're still crook. I've cut a lot of wood in the winter and you are bang on,it does continue to dry throughout. Provided you don't get months of rain. A few good hard frosts sure help suck that moisture out too! Get well mate. Cheers from HB NZ
Your dad is a lucky man. I’m sure he’s fed up having to listened to you for his entire life. At least with his hearing loss, he has some peaceful moments in his older years. Boy can you talk up a storm!!
Everything required to produce and deliver firewood costs about the same all over the country. I sell all my firewood in Nashville and the surrounding cities. Hardly anyone owns a truck, trailer, chainsaw or splitter in that area. Out in my area everybody has a truck and chainsaw. I bag two to three times more per "RICK" by driving 60-80 miles and typically deliver three to four ricks per trip. Nice bank for a little extra driving.
Do you think 5 mil plastic wrapped around your woodshed during summer months would bake your wood and speed up dry time in the sunny, hot, summer months and kill any possible bugs in your firewood?
Shorter wood works better in these smokeless fire pits. At least 1in shorter than the narrowest dimensions of the "squircle" pits like yours will help it go smokeless very fast. My East Oak is 13in, need a maximum of 12in wood. It goes smokeless almost right away.
Take good care of yourself Chris. I can't diagnose from here, BUTT your symptoms do mock Lyme. Blood test is simple. Nice chat. Stacking: I do it for our wood stoves and cause I love ( love O.C.D. ) the look of the oh so neat stacks that I can observe and often snort before and after using for the winter. It is said that Maine has two seasons: 11 months of winter, and 1 month poor sledding. Ain't that bad but close. The wood will dry in winter; lower humidity. You take care. JMNSHO
When ppl say stacked wood is the best that means stacked in 3 rows, lifted from ground and covered on top dries faster. That kind of wood dries 20-30% faster vs just trown in a pile. Both methods are fine and you save huge amount of work with not stacking but for example you lose a day of drying time after a rain. Also those bottom pallets sink a little bit and if you don't lift them up you lose airflow but you gain some with vertical ones. Its pro and cons for both methods: if you have 3 cords and tiny storage=stack, if you have a 1000 and open field = bins, anything in between flip a coin.
I have been cutting splitting stacking and selling about 200 full cords a year for decades now. Loose wood on pallets in the open dries WAY faster than any other method I had tried. I know 3 FULL time firewood producers that produce 3-6 semi truck loads a week and they never stack wood..it is stored in huge piled cones for several months and sold. Never stacked. So are they wrong too??
@@InTheWoodyard No Chris they are not wrong, piles are not wrong, stacking is not wrong, your bins are not wrong, totes is not wrong. Those 3 full time firewood producers do that cos it saves WORK HOURS - they don't do it cos it is FASTEST drying method. Yours way is also doing same and is the best way to do it for a 200 cords. It is just that big bin of yours stacked in 3 rows would dry a little bit faster. If you still want to claim that not covered wood in the middle of your pile down at the bottom would dry faster vs any piece stacked in 3 rows and covered who am I to stop you, you do you.
The Average sick man would be laid up in bed, but you ain’t average!! 😉😂 I’ve heard you cover these topics before and I enjoy your advice and information EVERY time! Appreciate ya!! Get to feeling better!!
My brother in law gets upset when we call it pop. He's from a different part of the state of New Yorkifornia. He says, "It's soda, pop is a sound." 😂 - Tim
As usual this got cinda long.. Take the isolated community with gobs of wood. add a power rate thats half the national average of 0.14 cents. And you have my experience. . The lack of freezing weather and wind, with mild temps definitely affects drying. You dont have a open air roof over the wood. and a air gap underneath, your definitely going up in water content. With the near 100% humidity and regular dew point hits all winter. . It definitely encourages going to a heat pump as its sub $50 a month. After the installation cost of usually 12 to 18k and actually have a warranty by the installation company. That cost does stop some people, but theres no shortage of wood around. . So locally for the most part, its people just getting by selling wood, at absolutely rock bottom prices. And i can not justifie competing with that. . The only way to make it is get the wood in to the more populated areas, where the power rate is around the national average. And of course charge accordingly for the 60 something mile drive. . I believe for all of Oregon Washington and Idaho the highest power rate is 0.160 And the overall average of the 3 states is mabe $0.110 . I believe Washington still has one very small power district. that was at $0.035-ish the last time i looked it up. [[EDIT]] ((I looked it up, $0.027 is the lowest rate in Washington state))
New construction in WA cannot install fire burning appliance as primary source of heat (only secondary). Fewer and fewer people burn with wood now days, around here anyway. It’s a shame with how efficient stoves can be.
@InTheWoodyard there is a push for part of Oregon to transfer to Idaho state. . Last time anything like it happened was when, West Virginia was created.
Chris: First of all, I just wanted to let you know that as a Catholic Christian guy, I have been praying for your recovery!
Secondly. . .even though where I live, things are quite different from how you describe ( No one in my area of South eastern Pennsylvania would have any idea what a face cord is), I greatly appreciate how you are allowing for different experiences of everything, from the nomenclature of firewood management measuring devices, etc., I really like how you are accepting of the regional differences.
One thing that is not debatable is your commitment to PPE.
As a medical provider for almost forty years, I have seen the results of not using proper PPE. Thank you for the service you provide to the firewood community!
Thanks for watching and for the kind words!
I really like these fireside chats!! They show how we do our jobs either safely or not!! Lots of knowledge is shared during these chats. Thanks Chris!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Thanks!
100% agree love these
The Fireside chat is a classic from way back. Hope you are feeling better Chris
Thanks!
Great video ! I use those zip strips on my saw . Way better than sticks or any other contraption for marking. I stack my wood on pallets and put roofing tin on top . I live in a wetlands with mostly trees . I have lots of small chunks and odd pieces and I will do the pallets enclosure like you do for them. Also liked your safety talk . I’m going to look into the leg protection and one key is never be in a hurry when sawing wood . Thanks
Thanks a bunch...YES chaps are cheap compared to a 120 stitches witch is the average chain saw cut!
Great video!! Especially when you say "pine is fine"
It sure is! Thanks!
I dont have a firewood business. I live in a suburban environment in new zealand. I just love the firewood info because i recently bought my first house and it has a wood stove. chopped a lot of trees down when i first bought the property and now im heating with them. Currently burning pine. Pine is very popular in nz. We mostly have pine, macrocarpa and gum to burn. Most other wood is native and it is frowned upon to fell native trees in nz. Keep up the interesting work 👍
Thanks so much for watching from so far away, I look better from a distance!
Chris you are such a positive wealth of great knowledge and experience. I’ve learned and applied so much from you; thanks!
I appreciate that! Thanks for watching!
Great video. Loving the explanations. Fireside chat. Hope to see more of this .!!!!!!! 🦾🧬☀️
Thanks I will do more in the future!
Great fireside information from you Chris. Hope you are getting better quicker so you can get back in the woodyard and do what you love doing. Take care.
Thanks, much better now...That's the plan!
Nice fire & backyard hope you get well soon 😊
Thanks!
Hope you get better soon, Chris! Thanks for sharing all this information with us, it's always appreciated!
Thanks... I am much better now!
Good wisdom. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I’ve been MIA on watching your videos. Summer is go time for me over here. 🇺🇸👍🏼
Welcome back!
Great topics like always!!!
Glad you like them!
My wife loves the look of the wood stack in the backyard. Keeps the weight off me and teaches the kids how to work. Win, win, win
Yes, I agree, it does look good...no doubt ...and the kids working ....big win!
Your Channel is the best on TH-cam bar none! My opinion! I switched to the pallet system and it's tons faster and it dries just fine. Come on People? Keep posting.
Yup, it does dry well as long as the sun and wind can hit it!
All good topics today, Chris. Glad you are outside Getting fresh air.
Thanks Sir Daniel...much better now!
Nice video Chris! A good break from your usual routine (which I love by the way). I’ve learned so much from your channel as a newbie heating my home with wood. Thanks!
I appreciate that! Thanks!
Awesome fire!!!
Thanks!
Excellent video Chris! Great way to start my day! Hot coffee and In The Woodyard!
Thanks!
Nicely done. Thank You.
Thanks for watching!
Nice fireside chat Chris and glad you are on the mend!
Yes, thanks Mr. Bill!
Thanks for the fireside chat Chris. Enjoyed sitting around your smoke free fire.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great Video Chris: I hope your feeling better. I just got back from your neck of the woods. I was looking at some logging equipment in Northern WI and the UP.
Nice! Thanks much better now!
Great talk! Glad you’re feeling better👍👍
Yup, thanks!
Goddamn you are a good guy!
Respect and thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Great video Chris! I liked what you said about the safety equipment. The cost of that equipment is the cheapest insurance policy you can buy for the equipment you are running!!
Yup, thanks!
This was a nice change of pace, good video.
Glad you liked it!
Nice video. Fireside chats is a nice touch.
Hope you feel better soon.
Thanks!
Northern Minnesota we can get cut and split delivered 5 cords for $1000
$200 a cord.
I buy 5 cords in 8’ rounds and buck it and split, stack myself for $600 and I like it.
It’s nothing but lakes and woods around us.
And we only heat with wood.
Great Q&A
Thanks for all this channel gives. Stay safe out there.
Thanks so much for watching...$200 a full cord is cheap!
@@InTheWoodyard yes it is, when you live in the woods like we do, it’s very cheap. And supply and demand is not hard to come by up here. Therefore the cheap prices.
Chris, sorry you have been feeling so bad. Hope you feel better soon. I built a small bin that is 8'X10' on the edge of a field. It is doing a good job of drying. I will have to empty it this winter because it is at the edge of the trees. If leaves fall into it, they will fill the cracks and hold moisture. I am going to cover it before fall. Where yours set is ideal.. I am impressed at how fast it dries.
Sounds great, yours will be good too. You are right about the leaves and moisture!
Nice chat & fire ….keep feeling better!
Thank you, I will!
Cool ! That you feel better
Thanks, yes much better...THANKS!
Heal up boss.
Great discussion.
Much appreciated
Please get well soon Chris. I like seeing you in the wood yard. Thanks
Thank you, I much better now!
Great talk Chris, I think you got stronger the longer you talked.
I had not talked much that day until then!
Good morning Chris!!😀😀
I really enjoyed the chat!!😀😀
Take care my friend!!😀😀💚💚
Logger Al
Thanks a bunch my good man!
A 20in bar doesn't give a 40in double-cut. Some brands measure to the bar nuts, some measure to the front of the engine crankcase. Then add the bucking spikes. Your 20-inch bar could be a 17in cut, 34in double-cut.
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Good vid…once that fire pit got hot that smoke did stop swirling around
Thanks, yes it takes a while for it to get going well.
Nice talk Chris. I’m guessing you made this video before you really knew why you were sick. Hopefully your recovery is going well. Basic firewood 101 -just about everything anyone needs to know about producing, selling, buying firewood. Age has a lot to do with hearing loss. 70 something years ago, parents weren’t worried about hearing loss. I use hearing aids to communicate and an app on my phone to link them. Times have changed for the better on this issue. Outdoors around noisy equipment my hearing aids are not used obviously and hearing protection is always used now. 2 cylinder John Deere tractors, shotguns, rifles, motorcycles and playing in a 1960’s rock band when I was young, ignorant and invincible caused a lot of hearing loss. GNI
Yes, a lot of use are just like you. Hearing is similar to sight ...once you loose it it is gone and very hard to get any back.
@@InTheWoodyard My sight has been pretty much fully restored after cataract surgery in both eyes recently. I can see very well now but wear sunglasses in bright sunlight and safety glasses doing any type of dusty work. The surgery was something I would highly recommend to anyone with cataracts.
Great fireside chat today Chris, I hope you get better soon we have work to do. Keep on cutting
Yup, better now, thanks!
Chris another excellent video 👍😮😊❤
Thanks for watching!
Enjoyed the chat!
Thanks !!
Great Chat Chris, and I think you sounded perked up more as the video went on. 👍
I think you said it was Lyme again, and we all hope youbare feeling better!
Yup, I am much better now! Thanks!
Really nice chill by the fire🔥 video Chris, definitely wouldn't mind watching these type of videos in the future!! Get well soon Chris and have a great thrusday morning..
I will do some more it the future...maybe once a month or so. I get a lot of questions that would be good to share with everyone.
@InTheWoodyard sounds good looking forward to it..
Love the chats, here in CT we say face cords
Yup, most of north America is face cords. The east coast is full cord or fraction of and some parts of the USA and Canada use ric, rank, row, truckload, bush cord. So I can see why it is confusing... but each region has it's own words and terms and saying for lots of things. But many people do not get to far from home and don't know that it is not like "back home" everywhere.
Yeah I like these virtual fireside chats too.
Thanks, I will do it again sometime.
@@InTheWoodyard that's fantastic, thanks!
Great chat. 👍🏻
thanks!
Great video. I know what you mean about being under the weather. I've been having breathing trouble the passed few days. But that's ok. Thanks for sharing the info
Take care and get better I don't want to loose my #1 viewer!
@@InTheWoodyard I'm doing better. I'll be cutting firewood this weekend.
Good day Chris ! 100% correct on everything you have said. I could not of said it better. Love to see these sit down videos where u take time and relax enjoy the fire. Get well soon my friend cheers 🍻 🔥🇨🇦
Glad you enjoyed it! I will do it again sometime!
hey Chris , Great hat
Thanks!!
I hope you already feel better by the time this is posted and we get to see it.
Thanks...much better now!
Sorry your still feeling sick Chris🙏
A large bar is good in a jig to cut logs for timber.
That Abreast job went well.
Yup, thanks!
bless you Chris and get well soon.
Thanks!
I really like these fireside chats too.
Thanks!
Enjoyable Vid ! - Hope You Feel Better Soon
Thanks...yup, much better now!
Chris, your videos have become part of the daily routine ... Please don't die 😆. Feel better wood boss!
I try every day to not die so far I am 22587 and 0! I am shooting for another 14600!
Excellent video Chris get well soon having my coffee have a good day ( Ty Ron
Morning, thanks Ron!
Chris, the proof that you are doing things the right way is that your customers are happy. You are keeping current customers and gaining new customers. If your wood wasn't dry enough, the right amount or the right size, you would be out of business. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, yup.
There’s no bar debate when you know how to be prepared lol I have multiple saws, 20” 25” and 32”. The 20” works awesome for ripping cuz my back doesn’t like her anymore, 25 is also perfect for me and just picked up another saw for it (400), and sometimes when you get into a 20+ log it’s nice to let your opened up 500 scream on a 32, or at least it makes you smile 😉 what I would like to know is, what is the area size you use for your current wood yard? I’m in the middle of sorting out a power line easement and if they will let me gate off an abandoned road to see how much room I have and how easy my trucking access is
Bert would say..."Ya by Ya" I do not know ...maybe an acre??
I have two quarter acre lots seperated by a low use road and the lots have an old road running through that too, the side I want to use is abandoned but due to a power line running along the outside edge of the lot I have to get easement permission to gate it off cuz I can’t trust people to not try to steal the wood. The road would make great access for offloading mule trains and I can push out into bins, and if I get a dumper I can follow the tree services in “the city of trees” I live in. Iv always been oldschool cut a cord a day by truck but we get lots of getting snowed out in the mountains
I totally agree with the safety gear, after 45 years of running a saw wearing chaps they paid for themselves this past winter. I watched a video the other day where the guy was wearing shorts and sneakers. He put on his chaps and glasses, hearing protection and went to work. 🤦🏽♂️
Good try but sneakers????? Nope!
You seem to be feeling better as the video progressed. Hope that you feel better soon!
Yup, I had not talked much that day until then. Doing better now, thanks!
Excellent fireside chat and good info. Here in Pennsylvania it's usually a cord or a half-cord you buy. Hope you are feeling better, keep popping the meds..... But what do you call a foot-long sandwich is Wisconsin?
a Sub or a snack. Thanks!
I think all this sickness has been brought down on you by the Husqvarna God's for buying that sthil. Get well soon.
Haaaaa! Maybe so!
8 outta 10. Take Care Professor.
Thanks, I am happy with that score! Makes you wanting more! 10 of 10 is like EVERYTHING I know!
Get well soon my friend!
Thanks, better now!
My bins are working great the wood i put up this winter is seasoned
Yup, mine too! Cool!
Holz Hausen is a way to stack firewood, they start out stacking in a circle and tossing wood into the center. Your way is basically the same but you're using the pallets to hold the wood. Smarter not harder!
I tried this method because it looks awesome. The wood on the outer edge seasoned real nice, but all the wood in the center "core" of the pile didn't, and it developed mold 👎👎. I even had the center pile on pallets damnit haha
They look cool and save space but way more work and touching of the wood.
interesting!
Get Well soon!
Thanks, much better now, meds are working well!
Rule #1, It was 108* today, if the wood is pilled, it will dry!
Yup, heat is good.
I hop your feeling better
Yup, much better now, thanks!
Hi Chris, sorry to see you're still crook. I've cut a lot of wood in the winter and you are bang on,it does continue to dry throughout. Provided you don't get months of rain. A few good hard frosts sure help suck that moisture out too! Get well mate. Cheers from HB NZ
Thanks, I am much better now!
G’morning Chris. 1st, nice Brooks. I have the same pair. B, nice chatting, good points. D. Sweet action with the chair sitting.
GoodNightIrene
Morning! Thanks, I rate your comment a missing C!
Haaaa. 1,B,D
Nice chat around the backyard conflagration.
Hope you are feeling better.
One question have you broke your truck window?
Not yet but I am planing on breaking it just for a video!
Your dad is a lucky man. I’m sure he’s fed up having to listened to you for his entire life. At least with his hearing loss, he has some peaceful moments in his older years. Boy can you talk up a storm!!
He talks way more than me, I am the quiet on in the family so......
Everything required to produce and deliver firewood costs about the same all over the country. I sell all my firewood in Nashville and the surrounding cities. Hardly anyone owns a truck, trailer, chainsaw or splitter in that area. Out in my area everybody has a truck and chainsaw. I bag two to three times more per "RICK" by driving 60-80 miles and typically deliver three to four ricks per trip. Nice bank for a little extra driving.
That is awesome...go to the customers!
Do you think 5 mil plastic wrapped around your woodshed during summer months would bake your wood and speed up dry time in the sunny, hot, summer months and kill any possible bugs in your firewood?
NOOOOOOO! Wood needs air flow cover only the top.
Shorter wood works better in these smokeless fire pits. At least 1in shorter than the narrowest dimensions of the "squircle" pits like yours will help it go smokeless very fast. My East Oak is 13in, need a maximum of 12in wood. It goes smokeless almost right away.
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Take good care of yourself Chris. I can't diagnose from here, BUTT your symptoms do mock Lyme. Blood test is simple. Nice chat. Stacking: I do it for our wood stoves and cause I love ( love O.C.D. ) the look of the oh so neat stacks that I can observe and often snort before and after using for the winter. It is said that Maine has two seasons: 11 months of winter, and 1 month poor sledding. Ain't that bad but close. The wood will dry in winter; lower humidity. You take care. JMNSHO
Thanks!
I don't understand why people think stacking wood is better for drying than just piling it up in those bins. When stacked ot is tighter together...
Habit, looks, space, OCD, measuring. Yup stacked tight slows the process of drying..the looser the better.
Nice chat
Thanks!
When ppl say stacked wood is the best that means stacked in 3 rows, lifted from ground and covered on top dries faster. That kind of wood dries 20-30% faster vs just trown in a pile. Both methods are fine and you save huge amount of work with not stacking but for example you lose a day of drying time after a rain. Also those bottom pallets sink a little bit and if you don't lift them up you lose airflow but you gain some with vertical ones. Its pro and cons for both methods: if you have 3 cords and tiny storage=stack, if you have a 1000 and open field = bins, anything in between flip a coin.
I have been cutting splitting stacking and selling about 200 full cords a year for decades now. Loose wood on pallets in the open dries WAY faster than any other method I had tried. I know 3 FULL time firewood producers that produce 3-6 semi truck loads a week and they never stack wood..it is stored in huge piled cones for several months and sold. Never stacked. So are they wrong too??
@@InTheWoodyard No Chris they are not wrong, piles are not wrong, stacking is not wrong, your bins are not wrong, totes is not wrong. Those 3 full time firewood producers do that cos it saves WORK HOURS - they don't do it cos it is FASTEST drying method. Yours way is also doing same and is the best way to do it for a 200 cords. It is just that big bin of yours stacked in 3 rows would dry a little bit faster. If you still want to claim that not covered wood in the middle of your pile down at the bottom would dry faster vs any piece stacked in 3 rows and covered who am I to stop you, you do you.
Glad to see you're hydrating, and I'm going to assume self medicating. 😉
I am! Ha!
Nice little patio looks like a peaceful place to burn one LOL what comm setup was you talking about? Brand and price ect
It is on a video we did about a month ago. Look up ARBSESSION in Green bay Wisconsin, the sell the Protus helmets with Sena coms.
I wish you get well very soon
I am doing better now...THANKS!
hi there nice chat /get well john
Thanks, I just pretended I was talking to my good friend John!
Smoke follows beauty
Haa!!!
Yup👍🏻👍🏻GNI
Yup!!
Please wood hounds were your PPE. Brother in law is fighting to save his right foot.if things go ok it’s going to be a 6 to 8 week recovery
Yup, nasty cuts for sure! I hope he can save it!
Good chat. Need a few shots of moonshine, that’ll get rid of the croup!
My drink was laced.
@@InTheWoodyard 😂
The Average sick man would be laid up in bed, but you ain’t average!! 😉😂
I’ve heard you cover these topics before and I enjoy your advice and information EVERY time!
Appreciate ya!!
Get to feeling better!!
Thanks my good man.... I never liked average much.
👍👍👍
Thanks!!!
Good Chat Chris, Hope you get well soon my friend 🙏🪵
Thanks!
I could sell face cord firewood for about $70 which isn't worth my labor but I'll cut it all day long to avoid paying a heating bill LOL,
There ya go...then it is worth it and you get some life extending exercise!
I have 75% loss in my right ear and 54% in my left ear
That is a lot! Protect what is left!
I like it.... freeze dried wood 🙄
Yup, close dry on the line out side in the winter...sun/dry air/ wind/ time....
My brother in law gets upset when we call it pop. He's from a different part of the state of New Yorkifornia. He says, "It's soda, pop is a sound." 😂 - Tim
Ha!...that is a good one...so obviously you say POP a lot! Does he cry when you do???...HA!
@@InTheWoodyard I do it just to get him going.
As usual this got cinda long..
Take the isolated community with gobs of wood.
add a power rate thats half the national average of 0.14 cents. And you have my experience.
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The lack of freezing weather and wind, with mild temps definitely affects drying.
You dont have a open air roof over the wood. and a air gap underneath, your definitely going up in water content.
With the near 100% humidity and regular dew point hits all winter.
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It definitely encourages going to a heat pump as its sub $50 a month. After the installation cost of usually 12 to 18k and actually have a warranty by the installation company.
That cost does stop some people, but theres no shortage of wood around.
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So locally for the most part, its people just getting by selling wood, at absolutely rock bottom prices.
And i can not justifie competing with that.
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The only way to make it is get the wood in to the more populated areas, where the power rate is around the national average. And of course charge accordingly for the 60 something mile drive.
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I believe for all of Oregon Washington and Idaho the highest power rate is 0.160
And the overall average of the 3 states is mabe $0.110
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I believe Washington still has one very small power district. that was at $0.035-ish the last time i looked it up.
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((I looked it up, $0.027 is the lowest rate in Washington state))
New construction in WA cannot install fire burning appliance as primary source of heat (only secondary). Fewer and fewer people burn with wood now days, around here anyway. It’s a shame with how efficient stoves can be.
Maybe you need to use a kiln to dry wood???
Sounds kinda un-free maybe it's time to move!
@InTheWoodyard there is a push for part of Oregon to transfer to Idaho state.
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Last time anything like it happened
was when, West Virginia was created.
On the subject of the zip ties, obviously it works, because other wood hounds have copied your method,heck I've even copied it, so there's that lol
and only few cents invested if it does not work, I like the zip tie method.
Yup, easy cheap and it works.
Yup!
Get well Chris
Thanks!