Massive cherry firewood production!
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2022
- In the yard with the Eastonmade ULTRA getting to work on my pile of Cherry wood for Firewood! 🪵
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I think I have watched all of your video's I love your channel . watching old vids can't get enough
Thanks Luke, I appreciate it!
Coffee drank, buttons poked, another good one Chris! Lovin that Cherry!👍🏻👍🏻GNI
Thanks for the pokes!
Should have saw that. Spoken like a true firewood fanatic ;-)
Thanks for watching Peter!
I don't see enough cherry to even set aside. When I do get it I make sure a good family gets it as I consider it a treat and a surprise for them.
It is really nice wood!
Love the Sonny Longreth. 🎸
Thanks for watching!!!
I have a cord of cherry from 2 weeks ago. Green logs, split right away and stacked in a holzhausen just for fun. To try it out.
It's checked and looks super dry already, it was 40% approx day of splitting, I took a few larger chunks, split in half and moisture metered it, today... and it was at 25% in 2 weeks dry time! It really does dry fast!
Might be dry enough by December for selling!
Gotta get that cash! 💪
As always great videos
I timed my wood splitter cycle. It's 26 seconds all the way down and back cycle time. Single wedge. I need to upgrade. You're making 16 pieces of wood in time it takes me to make 1 split lol. I made a pile about that size today too. Took me 7 hrs. Not 2 hrs 45 mins. You're in beast mode!
Yup, get a faster splitter, speed makes a HUGE difference in production.
G’morning Chris. Awesome episode today on the “Chris does work” show. Youngest daughter said that you sped it up just for her, I told her that you do.
GoodNightIrene
Thanks Corey, yup she is correct, all the videos are just for the girls to watch!
Chris I try and barely get done 1/3 of cord in a 2hr session- but watching you makes me feel lazy and slow!!! Your an animal!! good to see that cherry getting done!!Thank you for all the massive content to watch!! You are an major inspiration to all of us wannabee's
You can do it, just keep moving!
Now that it is cold, people think they will freeze to death and are buying firewood again! Stacked a bunch of cherry, now stacking up the oak that I split with the new splitter. Holy bejeezus! The 12-way wedge makes a big mess when processing old oak. Loads of kindling but the wood is split so fast. The cherry logs I have are 17-28%. Won't take long to finish drying.
Yup, the cherry will dry fast!
It was so awesome to finally have the opportunity for meeting The Legend himself, Kenny and Tony yesterday at the logging show! Thanks for making the journey and hope you all will come back again!
I can't think of a single Cherry in my area that is under 24" in diameter with most being closer to 36" and up. They grow extremely fast and nobody like them better then Ants and Grubs! I always try to wait until spring to drop Cherries just because I don't want the wood getting to over dry by the next burning season...You have alot of nice wood hidden in this back corner of the Woodyard!👍
Wayne, thanks for the tip on the landscape Timbers. On another note, Is there such a thing as “too dry” when talking about seasoned firewood?
@@judge058 You are welcome...
I believe there is personally. If too dry the wood just burns to fast even with good damping on stoves. I tend to mix cherry with other hardwoods, as it is great for lighting fires and warmers days when alot of heat isn't needed.
Must be some amazing soil all the cherry start growing at 24" and just get bigger.😝
Ha! Good one!!!
Moisture does slow down the burn but also requires more BTUs to be lost in gases not burning and going up the flew.
Watching Chris in the Wood Yard is like mom’s apple pie… best to get it fresh and hot, but still awesome to enjoy whenever you have time later on. My customers love cherry for campfires and the ambiance and aroma in their fireplaces too. Good luck in the woods too Chris.🦌🦌🦌
Yup, cherry is good stuff!! Thanks!
Glad you are getting all your cherry cut up that has been their a long time now weed eat are upur drainage and knock down some of those tall weeds and make it look much better.
Yup, it needed to get done!
Chris, I noticed that a lot of the channels that I subscribed to I wasn’t getting my notifications . Mike from out doors with the Morgan’s had mention that a couple of his subscribers mention that to him. I didn’t pay any mind to it but for the past two weeks I slowly noticed that I was unsubscribed from some of my channels… yours being one of them. You may want to make your followers aware.
Regards
It can happen to anyone at any time, youtube is a fickle mistress, you never know what she will do! Thanks for the heads up and for watching!!
I have some massive cherry on my property. Any of that bigger stuff though I imagine would go to a mill before sold for firewood though. I have some that are 30-40 inch diameter. That isn't all of them but I have a dozen or so like that in the woods. There is tons of cherry here. Basically all my trees are cherry, ash, beech, maple, and ironwood. There is some others but that is what the majority of the trees are on my property. I cut some cherry recently that was from blow downs a year or so ago that I cut into about 10 foot sections and skid them out of the woods with my ATV. I skid them out and pile them up and leave them and its almost always like you have there. When you cut and split it, its fine ready to burn usually bark falling off.
Yup, that is another reason I like cherry!
Where I'm from in Massachusetts, Cherry grows real big and windy. It's interesting to see that the same species grows differently in different places
Yes it does vary from state to state!
That was fantastic cherry production, that was best I have seen, 3 cords of cherry less then 3 hours very impressive well done,
Thanks so much for watching!!
I too, just LOVE Cherry! I can tell you that if I lived closer to you, I'd be buying a lot more of it from you! Thanks for sharing!
Yup, it is great stuff!
I cannot tell a lie.
I cut, split, and stacked the Cherry Tree!
KEEP PUSHING!!!
Yup, me and George did it!
It's a good one! Go back and watch it. Again. They are all good ones, Chris. Thanks for making this amazing content for us
Glad you like them other Chris!
I wish the cherry only got that bog over here. It's usually 20" or so when they don't want it for the mill
I wish we had bigger cherry! Wanta trade???
I’ll be splitting and yes stacking cherry here today in my livestream
Cool, I like cherry wood!
Nice videography. Great natural lighting gave off great tones. You have to be happy to see the end results. Looks great.
Thanks AM!
Didn’t notice the lighting and tones, was focused on the beard growth that is a sure harbinger of hunting season and cooler temps 😂
A cord an hour, my old slow splitter only does 1/2 cord per hour.
Can’t wait to upgrade to something faster.
Get an Eastonmade Ultra!
@@InTheWoodyard if sales keep up, yes in will.
I am a small time guy, from
What I have seen the ultra is the way to go.
Hi Chris
Thank you for all the great videos and content. My 11-year-old started his firewood business "Mikey's Firewood" last August and loves watching all the videos you put out on youtube. You've taught us a lot about the firewood business. Mikey has a question Do you sell firewood bags and if not yet? Thanks, Mikey/Mark
That is awesome! No, not yet on the bags but some day I will!
Great job Chris 👏 Looking forward to seeing you deliver it next Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks Frank!!
Very nice work! Lots of cherry!!
Yup, it is my favorite wood!
That’s some sweet cherry wood, premium price here in Tennessee, great for bundles too awesome video
Thanks for watching!
Thank god i decided to dtay until today i am done as i said before when you jump atound on every cut as you did today and last week it can and does cause fits
Thanks for watching Harry, I have around 100,000 people watch the videos and everyone likes something different, so I make a wide variety of videos, there are over 850 videos on the channel to watch.
Thats some good bbqwood
Yes it sure is!! Thanks for watching!
Another Great video!! Like the smell of cherry. Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Yup, cherry is great stuff!
Good morning Chris!!😀😀
Hello Al!
In my swamp we have some giant cherry trees! I cut one this year that I needed all of my 28 inch bar!
Wow, that is a biggin'!!!
Cherry has always been my favorite to burn, and you’re right it smells good easy to split. I really like most fruit and nut tree wood, but cherry is number 1. I even like the color of it.
This Cherry is not fruit-bearing, like the orchard variety like Bing or Rainier Cherry-
@@mikehughes2026 What is the difference in wood in flowering cherry vs timber cherry vs fruit cherry other than fruit cherry is grafted to a root stick? Do they burn different or some harder to split? I’m used to burning large very tall cherry trees. Never burned orchard cherry. From what I understand even the very large timber trees also get tiny fruits on them. Just not as suitable for eating.
@@american0002 to me cherry has a citrus smell to it when split.
yup, yes and youbetcha!
Isure is nice wood!
It’s been a while since that splitter does it’s self adjustment going backwards!!
Yup, you got that right!
Also cut an old cherry tree this year, mostly dry by now. Insane. Cut an Oak next to it, also nice. They were old unattended trees.
Yup, cherry dries fast!
Beautiful cherry 🍒 it’s a wonderful firewood! 👌🏻🔥🇨🇦
Yup, I like me my cherry too!
I would split all the chunks that you have going to the cookies advertised smoking wood put in bags
@@tyedyerocks5385 that’s what I have gotten into smoking wood currently Cherry, Hickory and Apple .
I woul never put smoking wood in the cookie pile
Nice dry cherry. Get alot here in Illinois,but never enough.
Yup, more is always better!
Would like to get my hands on some cherry
Right now I have about 6 full cords of it...and I deliver!
Hello everyone
Hello Sir Stanley!
There is one important thing that caused that cherry to dry. Bark. No bark allowed it dry quicker. If it was with the bark it would not be ready over the same time. The bark holds in moisture and stores moisture from rain. Good old working video hood job!
Thanks Stan!
Oak and hickory is, I think, 5800 Btu's per pound, wild cherry is only 5800 calories per pound. Thot maybe you didn't know that! Gotta say also, that adjustable wedge is SO fast. It keeps up with you every time, no matter what you're splitting!! Bet it would keep up with you, all day, even at hyper speed. And it's so versatile! Splits stuff into 2 or more pieces on demand! Yep, the banjo started, you took off at hyper, and that wedge was ahead of you the whole time, just sitting there waitin', ready for the next piece! You must be as proud as a new aunt! Or Tony, with a new tool!
Yup, she works great! Thanks for watching!
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Thanks!!
This has been a weird year for firewood drying. I have some silver maple that was cut green this march, bucked and split within the last 3 weeks, that tested out at 20% inside, 14% outside when I tested some yesterday!!! These were from very large logs, too- 12-14" is the smallest. (they chipped everything smaller) What... How??? It went from too wet (this stuff was JUICY when I split it) to POOF! wood in half a year. I guess it does season in log form, and is just wet when I crack it open. I've noticed changes to the color of the wood, it's hardness, and the smell vs pieces I split this spring. Interesting to know- I can almost wait until I need more to buck and split some, lol.
Most other varieties have dried out much faster than expected, too. I've burned hickory and sugar maple purchased green last November. Ash and Norway maple have been bucked, split, - and burned that night, or within 3 days...
Hope you're having fun at Bunyon! One of these years...
Yup, I was surprised too on the logs drying well in 6 months! Bunyan was awesome!!!!
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Thanks!!!!
I really like cherry for the fireplace for reasons Chris mentioned: nice aroma and an interesting flame. Only downside, and maybe it has to do with the cherry on my property, it tends to pop and shoot embers. Maybe it is too dry at 8-10 percent?
A fire with no pop is boring! I like some sound!
Nearly missed one video....😜
Last pallet not wide enough for 3 piles or quarts
Thanks for watching as always Rick!
Are you cleaned up and ready for delivery season? Review your year and you had quite a few projects this year. Good luck with the delivery and sales.
Yup, deliveries are steady now!
Nice video. A man, a splitter and a camera. A very productive day. GNI
Thanks Larry!
It would be nice to be able work at that high speed. Good morin sir hope you have a good day
It is but It is also tiring!
@@InTheWoodyard yes sir I agree
Great video. And the way you explained about cherry, that's how spruce is for me where I live, however spruce grows up to 24" diameter or more. I sell alot of spruce here. I do have a question though, ok yes you have to stack the wood so it dries evenly and off the ground, but if wood is dry already, how come you don't just make a cage like your cookie bin and just toss it in cage as your splitting? Because it would still be off the ground if tossed on pallets and that cherry is already dry. Just was curious on your opinion on that. Thanks.
Good point Rod! Habit, and I did not know it would be THAT dry! Thanks
Biggest cherry I ever cut was on my property. It took a beating in a bad wind storm. The base was 42 inches. It had 4 main branches that all measured from 20 to 25 inch in diameter. Was a sad day to have to cut it down.
Did you plant some more cherry trees to replace the one you cut?
THAT is a huge cherry tree!
I have a 50" cherry tree on my land right now . Just processed a 30" cherry last summer. I should send some pictures . Have a great day !
You should get it sawmilled into live edge slabs when its time to cut it down. It's worth 40x more as lumber than firewood.
@@Garrett572xpg That's the plan , the 30" was not worth much and was damaged that's why it was made into firewood .
@@Garrett572xpg I use to think that too but that’s if and only if it’s great wood. Cherry may be one of the hardest woods to find without milling issues. Most twist knots go deep and many have rot up the middle. By the time you find those few good ones your margins are out the window and it may as well be firewood. But if your set up for it the margins are set up to make good money in my opinion.
That 22 in log I traded was exactly what he wanted. I hope you’re big tree is solid
Most live seen once over 25” 30” they rot in the middle
Which splitter do have? It does a great job.
Eastonmade Ultra, check out there website!
I see you’ve been getting some of the plastic pallets, how do you like them so far? I’ve been stacking my firewood in rows on landscape Timbers but a few piles have tipped over so I’m thinking of going to the plastic pallets, both for their durability against rot and their stability against tipping over.
Bob...I run my timbers over several times with the tractor the first time they are placed. It smashes them down some in the dirt and has helped with stacks wanting to lean, if one side sinks more then the other as wood weight slowly sinks them.
Brilliant Mr. Tharp, but you knew that!
I actually prefer all oak pallets/skids, but the plastic heavy duty ones work good too.
How likely are you to sell some cherry firewood in the next week or so?
if it is not urgent to get is stacked can you avoid some double handling by selling it from the heap?
Good point!
Mr Chris : What's a good firewood meter to get or does it matter? Are they all the same
They all work, but I like my SBI the best.
Do you have a pile stashed for either pre ordered for or for speacially sized wood?
Yup, some bigger some smaller splits.
How many cords of wood do you think you made with your ultra
The same amount as the number of push ups Chuck Norris can do......all of them!
I do not know, maybe 600-700+???
I have one on order i am replacing my DR kinetic splitter with the ultra
I guess you get more for Cheery wood don’t you cris.
Yup, I do!
OK... I don't do mushrooms or smoke weed, but watching this video the cherry going through the 4 way some of the wood looks like an alligator or crocodile opening its mouth when it goes through on the operator side camera angle. Just saying... I can't be the only one that sees it. That's got to be worth a T-shirt...
Thanks for watching Clyde, no alligators here! Haaaa!
What should be the range to consider the firewood dried and seasoned? 15%?
Less than 20% from what I understand
Anything in the teens is great!
yup!
To slow
okay
I was referring to the "I'm first " people but hit send before I was finished typing on my phone. You hardly qualify as slow
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Thanks TB!!!