Well this was my first year splitting wood with the quads........Had the two-way splitter hooked up to one quad and my yard trailer to the other.
This made moving the splitter alot easier than before, and don't need to worry about the single swing down leg on the front ,just left it on the hitch ,much more stable.

Now I need to find a quad that can pile it and stack it......LOL...LOL..
.........................Caper.................... .......

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: caperinmuskokaSNIP

Now I need to find a quad that can pile it and stack it......LOL...LOL..

.........................Caper.................... .......</end quote></div>Wife and girlfriend? LOL!!! Glad you got the wood done!!

 

talking about firewood is a depressing thought knowing winter is coming.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

 

Caper, we do the same thing. Hook up the ATP to the splitter and the trailer to the X2. 22-25 cord though???? Come on, now. Most of us here weren't born yesterday. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] Before bad knees and back, I could maybe do 3 cord a day with a hydraulic splitter. You MUST be a fisherman too! LOL

 

For the uninitiated, a cord of wood is 128 cubic feet of wood. A stack 4x4x8 is a cord or 2x4x16. 25 cord of wood would be 3200 cubic feet. A 1500 square foot house would be 1/4 full of wood. I suppose it is possible, but I would only try it if I was only working the splitter and had someone feeding logs, another stacking... I don't know. Sounds optimistic to me...

 

Unless he meant face cord.

 

dam right! 22 cords is alot of wood!

 

My Dad does about 50-55 cord a year for the house and the shop. The house also has oil heat, but he tries not to use it. The house is about 4000 square feet with all the floors and the shop is big enough for 3 tri-axle dumptrucks with room to work around them, so it's pretty big. Thats where most of the wood goes!!! I am so glad I live in town with gas heat. All I have to do for work is get off the couch and turn the thermostat up [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

face cord not Bush cord.....LOL..........Full front truck load........Without the pup trailer.......................................If you know what I mean.............Two winters of burning for me.................I burn about 12 face cord per year.......My face cord here would be 16" wide X 4 feet high X8 feet long..............I will add some pics in my profile of the pile , I can take some pics tomorrow........................................

My wife was running the Two-way controls and me handling the chuncks......and my buddy from work showed up most of the day Sunday so he was taking the split wood away while I turn the chuncks or pick up another block..........Caper.......

 

Okay, folks. So, this is what it all means. Caper split about 7-8 cord of wood in a weekend. Now, THAT is more believable! Thanks for the information. I love using the quads for the toting work and dragging around my splitter. It shaves a few days of back pain off. When I was a kid, about 15 years old, my father had a truck deliver a 10 cord truck of log length (about 30') wood that was taken off the truck using a cherry picker. Well my father had a Homelite XL with a 12" blade and a 2 cubic inch engine. That saw was the worst example of a chainsaw I ever used. It took about 3 times as long as with a good saw. I then split it with a maul. (went from wood, to fiberglass, to a steel wedge welded to a steel handle. Monster Maul. I still haven't broken it) And lastly, I moved it with a wheelbarrow and stacked it myself. I did two truckloads in a couple years. This is why I have a hydraulic splitter, 2 Stihl chainsaws with 16" bars and 3+ cubic inch engines, and quads to pull it around. Oh yes, and 2 sons to help out. Life is better now. When I entered High School I was 180 pounds of sheer fat. When I did the work and left High School I was 250 pounds of fat and muscle. I used to knock around the football players in gym class for fun. I never lost the fat. Just added the muscle. Tree work is the best excercise I have ever seen for adding muscle.