Cherry Firewood Processing...Full Small Scale Production

追加: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]A major production run of mini cherry firewood is about to begin. I've got a whole bunch of cherry ready to go. Well, not exactly ready. We're going to test out the assembly line or the manufacturing line here in a second.

[00:00:18]I'll show you what I have and I'll show you one thing that I always talk about when it comes to round wood. So, I had a couple logs sitting for a while now of cherry. So, I've got all the the cakes cut up. They are extremely dry. Uh I'm going to check the moisture on them once we start splitting. But here's what I talk about. When round wood sits and it starts to rot from the inside out.

[00:00:45]Right there, we got a little rot happening on the inside of a few of these. I'm not sure. These I have not yet cracked open. And that is because I'm going to try to uh split crack them in half as I go. So, some of these are ready. I'll have a few staged here and then those will end up getting split and then put right into the kinlet. They'll fall into the basket. And by the end of it all, this table down here is just going to be heaping full of mini cherry firewood. Now, it's probably going to be a little bit too much for me to keep up with this all on my own. So, I'm going to have an extra set of hands helping me out.

[00:02:13]Okay.

[00:02:15]There you go.

[00:02:28]Hey, hey, hey.

[00:03:50]Heat. Heat.

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[00:05:45]So, my supply of cherry was a little low. Not any longer.

[00:05:50]I have got a mountain of cherry splits back there. Mini cherry splits. Just look at the pile of mini splits. And it goes, it's deep, too. It goes way back there. Man, that is a lot of mini firewood.

[00:06:12]So, what I'm going to do now with this stuff is I will probably put this into one of those barrel bags, and I'm going to rig something up over here where I can hang the bag or have it somehow so I can have it open on the end here. here.

[00:06:27]And then I can just take the pieces after I sort out the debris and the pieces that don't pass quality control.

[00:06:36]I'll separate those things out and then throw all the good pieces into the bag and be able to haul the bag over to the greenhouse. This stuff, I don't have my moisture meter out here, but this stuff uh it was pretty dry. So, I probably could actually take this and go right into the kiln. I could probably load up two baskets for the kiln and then put the rest in a bag. We'll have to see.

[00:06:59]Uh, and I didn't even have room to put those two baskets up there. So, there's two full baskets still on the ground with all of that up there on the sorting table. Uh, this didn't work out too bad with two people. Obviously, a lot less running back and forth. Um, I'm just not sure about this setup down here. I've I've kind of realized that it might actually be better to have this turned and like over here so that I can just walk around the edge of it, run the splits through because I got to go all the way down and around back over to there.

[00:07:41]It'd be nice if that was over here, but not everything can work out to be perfect. Yeah. I don't know. I might have to see if if having this thing uh almost facing like this at a 90° angle because everything on the sorting table, you know, it doesn't matter which way the sorting table is oriented. Like the sorting table, this can be right here and it'd be just as easy to pick the pieces off. So, it'd be like standing right here, taking these pieces, and then putting them in this way, right here. And these pieces, these are still left over. Um, a few of them were a little snarly.

[00:08:28]Uh, got a big knot right there. So, these I'll probably just quick slice down with the hatchet. Little knot right there.

[00:08:39]So, a little bit more to go, a little bit more to add onto that massive pile.

[00:08:44]Now, I still have another big log of cherry that's not as old. It was actually freshly cut down and still has the bark on. So, that I'll probably be running here in the next few weeks. I've got the boxelder to do and I've got another new species coming in soon to the woodyard. So, stay tuned for that.

[00:09:07]It was definitely a nice little run this afternoon. I'm not sure the total run time. Uh there was a lot a lot of rounds to split, send through, toss up there.

[00:09:19]Definitely was a help having Amanda out here to just kind of keep the flow going. We had a couple uh couple times where things had to shut down just when you get, you know, some some of those snarly cherry does tend to have some snarly knots in it sometimes and like pieces like this would get turned, stop the knife. So, I had a few times that I had to shut down, but not for long.

[00:09:45]Otherwise, it was pretty much just continuous flow, which is what I like.

[00:09:52]And now I think I'm restocked up on cherry. So that'll do it. We'll see you guys tomorrow night on the Back 40 Friday Night Live live live stream at 8:00 PM Central.