I have posted content from this company before. I really like how they show the inside works here.
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We have been milling lumber and cutting fire wood. Once the mill broke yesterday we switched to cutting firewood waiting for parts to get here. The two pillow block bearings came apart that hold one of the drive wheels. They have run a lot of hours.
This log barely fit through the mill.
This pic is to show the stack of 2x8’s that came out of that one big log.
Firewood.
This is probably the wrong thread. But while they were cutting firewood i have been installing siding that we milled last week. I am installing it green ( the logs have been sitting for a year) I will put the board over the gaps once it all dries out.
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The one stack is 2x8 red oak and the other is 1x6/8/10 white oak. Most of this will get used for trailer decking and dump truck side boards. Probably several other projects as well.
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I am still whittling on the cottonwood that partially dropped in my front yard.
My daughter and son in law helped yesterday. But I still have a ways to go.
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Even though I enjoy wood supply stuff, a steady diet of it for last week is wearing me down
About 2 more days should finish the firewood, then I have a 20+ yd3 pile of wet leaves and limbs to burn
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What’s that saying again? Something about a strong back, but a weak mind.
Some Sunday excersize. With age I may vote for cutting and splitting on the spot - right after felling. This 24" wide 17’ long lead-birch log is pretty much the limit for manual loading.
Stopped by the chunker to process the thin stuff before unloading.
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Wow, for a birch that is a big bad @#$%. Keeps you warm for a loooong time. At least busy 
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As a young man I used to sell firewood for a living, employed a few friends and stayed in great shape doing it. The old timer in town (ironically his name is Wayne) who owned Wayne’s saw shop in Buckley Washington was retired out of the woods many years before I was born and when I told him what I was up to one time while in his shop buying sawgas mix he advised me to buck into rounds on sight everything I cut. Roll it out to the road by the truck and split in half. This half moon shape would allow the least air gap space when stacked in the bed of a pickup resulting in the most wood hauled out each trip. We could haul a full chord 4x4x8 in the canopy covered bed of my long wheelbase S10 pickup doing wheelies half way home with very light steering 
when we got home each half round would hit the ground and be split into smaller wedges and stack straight into the wood ricks to dry. Made for a very smooth operation for a few teenagers to run, cut 2-3 chords a day and the old timers taught me the easiest way to move it with the least wear and tear on your body
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He is still in buisness I think Wayne is close to 80 years old now and if there is a strange saw or obsolete part you couldn’t find anywhere, it is in one of those storage containers on the right. Each one has probably 1000 antique saws inside, a treasure trove of the Pacific northwest logging culture, he also is a annual sponser of the Buckley logshow and demming logshow here in Washington. He also looks after and contributes to the foothills historical logging collection in town, I’ll get some pictures of the gear they have there next time I’m up in town. I’m very excited to drive my woodgas truck up there soon and see his reaction to it
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Hello Jo, beautiful birch, it’s a shame for the firewood, great wood for interior furniture or cladding.
Otherwise, they say, for you who have a tractor and a trailer, or, a good tool can do half the work 
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How can you HAND load a log that large?
It must weigh North of 1000 lbs! Ramps, parbuckle rigging, come along?
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In Venezuela we have an expression: “I did it pushing worms out the escape pipe” meaning a very big efort almost to exhaustion. 
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Impossible. I couldn’t even move one end an inch on the ground, even with a lever. I cut two sturdy poles and leaned them towards the trailer and rolled the logs up with the help of a strap and a piece of pipe as a hand cranked winsh.
I agree, but I’m pretty much finished building things and there’s not much demand for birch lumber here.
But - firewood logs vill be buried in snow in my back yard until spring. I can still change my mind and mill some of them.
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Ha, with this fuel I could cross Europe, and in the style of Jacob, visit me and Kristjan 
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Tone, Kristijan and I actually talked about it resently - that we live only 50 bags of chunks apart (2000km)
I believe 50 bags would be possible with a covered trailer, but you would have to chunk another 50 for me to get back home
To meet an early flowery spring in Slovenia would be wonderful. My main concern would be forign police though. From what I heard they are not as lenient down south.
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For home you get rocket fuel, as Kristjan says, charcoal and wood chips, as well as homemade sausages and wine, and for biscuits you would turn past Kamil
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It still amazing on the 7000 miles , 11265.4 k
Trip that Jakob made around the USA you could travel through a number of countries in other parts of the world. We have some large states, Canada has even larger provinces in their country.
Bob
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Looking to map of Europe and I am sure that best way from Sweden to Slovenia goes through our heart of Europe 
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You know you are a real woodgaser when you measure distances in bags of wood 
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It’s settled then 
You may be right. Melnik seems to even be right in our path. Biscuits for the road would be nice
Also, makes trans-atlantic miles/km conversions easier for everyone
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