Not Wheelhorse Related...... YET.

[MWR 321]

Getting in a little Beech firewood.  Not Wheelhorse related, now.  But the Wheelhorse part will be when I hook the trailer to the Wheelhorse and haul the wood to the pile.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PggJSU4GSiI

[stevasaurus 23,281]

You are having way too much fun.  Great video.

[953 nut 60,104]

If Beech Log Rolling is added to the 2020 Summer Olympic Games you could be the team captain!     

[KC9KAS 4,744]

Did you count the logs as you rolled them down the hill so you know you found them all?

Loved the one that hit a tree and split into multiple pieces!

[ztnoo 2,300]

Beech trees are becoming more and more rare throughout the US.

Excellent firewood and easy to split.

They rot from the inside out, that's why at least 95% of them that are actually cut down rather than collapse from structural weakness, are hollow.

Beech trees may go the way the elm and chestnut trees, both once extremely prolific and widespread species throughout the eastern half of the US.

[953 nut 60,104]

When we cleared our building site I moved the house back 50' to save a beautiful Beech, it is a fairly young tree so it should last longer than me.

[DennisThornton 4,771]

4 minutes ago, 953 nut said:

When we cleared our building site I moved the house back 50' to save a beautiful Beech, it is a fairly young tree so it should last longer than me.

Beeches are under attack.  You may very well be around when it won't sprout new leaves...  Sad to say for the Beech, but glad to say about you!

[MWR 321]

The mountain side behind our house is covered with beech trees.  Big'ens, little'ens and all other sizes.  I wanted to cut some of the huge ones so the smaller ones could get some sunlight.  Like it was said, these old trees are hollow and have little or no value for lumber.  But they make real good firewood.  Just gotta keep them dry, because they do rot fast.

 

Here's a picture of how I stacked my last run of beech firewood.  And over 95% of it was still dry when I burned it this winter.  And this was my first try at this type of wood stack.

20 hours ago, KC9KAS said:

Did you count the logs as you rolled them down the hill so you know you found them all?

Loved the one that hit a tree and split into multiple pieces!

 

When I get a chance, I'll post a close up picture of the busted piece.  It looked like a bomb had gone off inside it.

Edited April 20, 2016 by MWR

[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,362]

I have never seen firewood stacked that way. It does let all the water run off. Very interesting.

[stevasaurus 23,281]

Right, I have never seen wood stacked like that before either.  How about a time lapse video of building a stack like that?? 

[MWR 321]

1 hour ago, elcamino/wheelhorse said:

I have never seen firewood stacked that way. It does let all the water run off. Very interesting.

I think it is called a Holtz Hausen.  What I liked about it was that I could stack all the knotty wood, the small pieces and the short pieces, etc. in the middle.  When I try to put these in a straight stack, they tend to make it fall over.  This stack is steady, it doesn't fall over.

4 minutes ago, stevasaurus said:

Right, I have never seen wood stacked like that before either.  How about a time lapse video of building a stack like that?? 

 

I plan on stacking all this wood in that matter, so I may video it.  Like I said, I stack the firewood with the  "good"  shapes in the outer circle and pile the odd shaped wood in the middle.  I guess the key is the top of the stack.  Evidently it works like an old wood shingle roof.

[MWR 321]

 

Here is a picture from back in the winter, after I had burned off some of the wood.  That little stuff in the center would have been very difficult to stack and keep stacked. 

 

I did cap a tarp over the stack after I took the top off it.  I didn't think it would shed water properly.  I guess a true frontiersman would have restacked a watershedding top on each time he got in wood.  May have to turn in my true frontiersman's card.

 

Of course, none of this seemed to worry Louie the Dog.

 

[MWR 321]

Here I am, getting ready to fire up the old Go-devil.   And no, I don't have any pictures of the Go-devil in action.

 

And no, I have never worked for the county road dept.

 

 

 

 

Edited April 20, 2016 by MWR

[MWR 321]

On 4/19/2016 at 7:44 PM, KC9KAS said:

Did you count the logs as you rolled them down the hill so you know you found them all?

Loved the one that hit a tree and split into multiple pieces!

Perhaps this is the hit you were thinking about.

 

 

The piece in the red circle was about 20 feet below the next closest piece. 

 

Truly a herroundous crash.

 

 

Edited April 21, 2016 by MWR

[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,362]

MWR , what is a Go-devil?

[MWR 321]

11 hours ago, elcamino/wheelhorse said:

MWR , what is a Go-devil?

 

Ooops.  I guess it is an old Appalachian term for a Wood Maul.

 

And by the way, Saturday is my day to get outside weather permitting.  And so, I hope I can get some video of the GT-14 in action and make this thread Wheelhorse Tractor related.  Hopefully early next week.

Edited April 22, 2016 by MWR