Quads, you sell that stack of wood for $25? Their selling it for $60-$70 here in Ohio. Crazy If i ever start buying wood I’m coming to buy some off of you
Quads, you sell that stack of wood for $25? Their selling it for $60-$70 here in Ohio. Crazy If i ever start buying wood I’m coming to buy some off of you
What is that, about half a face? $25 x 6 = $150 a cord.
i see an awful lot of wood piles uncovered around here,been tempted to try drying a stack without covering, but the woodworking side of me tells me to cover the top. seems like whenever its burn season its also met with about a week of rain to kick it off, then it freezes. i have great respect for how others prepare wood fuel and appreciate reading and seeing pictures of it. pete
$25. It’s 1/2 face cord or 1/6 full cord. I don’t sell large quantities, the majority of my customers are campers and fireplace burners. I give away more than I sell, to friends and family. I’d be happy to sell you a little, but Wisconsin has a law now that you can’t transport firewood farther than 50 miles from where it was cut. I live farther than 50 miles from any of the borders!
I don’t cover my woodpiles, but I do keep a month’s worth on the porch and a day’s worth in the house by the stove. Freshly rained on wood never goes directly into the stove.
Wow! That is quite a pile of wood to work up. Very impressive!
I took a couple of shots of my scroungings for this season…Oak, Elm, Cherry, Silver Maple, Box Elder…Anything really I don’t discriminate. if it’s wood and drys out I will burn it.
I stack one long row on pallets (currently 128 feet) in an East-West line so the sun hits it all from the South. I move a weeks worth from stack to garage with a tractor front scoop bucket. I don’t cover it except for a 8’ tarp length on the next weeks wood. Any snow or ice usually melts off in the garage prior to burning.
Love to see those seasoned piles.
I can’t believe I used to sometimes burn wood less than 3 months after splitting.
My only saving grace was that it was stored in a heated basement, and it continued to dry until it was burned.
I’m 1.5+ years ahead now, and hope to be 2.5 by next year.
I haven’t started giving it away yet - it would kill my dad, who helps me out a lot.
Happy burning.
Very nice olpotosi! I know a guy that lives over by the Necedah Refuge that lines his firewood up like that too. His runs all along his property line like a fence. Looks cool.
Maplewood, keep getting farther ahead and pretty soon you will be giving it away! Ha ha! If I hang onto everything I have, I am about 5+ years ahead. By selling and giving away, I usually end up burning 3+ year old wood myself. It’s getting harder to keep track of though. I’ve got wood stacked all over.
$25. It’s 1/2 face cord or 1/6 full cord. I don’t sell large quantities, the majority of my customers are campers and fireplace burners. I give away more than I sell, to friends and family. I’d be happy to sell you a little, but Wisconsin has a law now that you can’t transport firewood farther than 50 miles from where it was cut. I live farther than 50 miles from any of the borders!
I don’t cover my woodpiles, but I do keep a month’s worth on the porch and a day’s worth in the house by the stove. Freshly rained on wood never goes directly into the stove.
Quads I have really enjoyed this thread… Very interesting!!!
It’s very interesting to know you split it all by hand!
My grandfather and great-g-father never covered their wood stacks.. (I’m not saying your that old)
I have never tried to leave my wood uncovered, but I should because my grand parents did it that way,and it worked for them. Now I see (you) do it that way also, and it brings back memories to see yours.. I’m getting ready to cut more wood for 2011/12 season, and I will leave it uncovered… I don’t have 500+ acres like you, but I do have 17+ acres to have wood here and there.
I’m not a newbie, I’m 42 and I’ve worked on firewood since I was a young boy, helping my Father and grandparents… I have always enjoyed working on firewood, and it feels good to have a supply of seasoned wood to burn in the winter.
I take my tractor, ATV, trailer, saws etc.. etc.. and go out in the woods and stay all day gathering wood.. I don’t find a lot of trees on the ground, so I have to drop some.. I think I seen a picture of you cutting up a nice tree on the ground, that didn’t have any bark ? .. Those are the nice ones!!! (IMHO)
Thanks for your interesting post Billster, and for not saying I’m old!
I can’t say that I work on firewood everyday, but most days when it’s nice to be in the woods. I don’t mind it when it’s hot or cold, but I don’t like the humid weather. My hands get too sweaty and the maul handle gets slippery. Otherwise, as long as nobody is out there hunting (I don’t hunt anymore but I don’t want to disturb those that do), and I’m not milking the cows, I’m usually out somewhere making firewood. We have a lot of trees that were killed by oak wilt. I wait until they tip over after their roots rot off and I cut them up. By then the bark is long gone. I never fell a tree, unless I need to for some reason. The ones that fall by themselves keep me busy. In the meantime, the woodpeckers and other critters like the standing dead trees.
Ha ha, no, I don’t think I will write a book, but thanks for the compliment. There are many that disagree. Don’t do it just because it works for me, but as long as you say you’re not a newbie to heating with wood and know what you’re getting into, give the uncovered wood method a try if you want. I see the picture you posted in the 2009 woodpiles thread and if I had a nice lean-to like that, I sure wouldn’t fill it up with pieces of dead trees, but that’s just me.
Thanks for your interesting post Billster, and for not saying I’m old!
I can’t say that I work on firewood everyday, but most days when it’s nice to be in the woods. I don’t mind it when it’s hot or cold, but I don’t like the humid weather. My hands get too sweaty and the maul handle gets slippery. Otherwise, as long as nobody is out there hunting (I don’t hunt anymore but I don’t want to disturb those that do), and I’m not milking the cows, I’m usually out somewhere making firewood. We have a lot of trees that were killed by oak wilt. I wait until they tip over after their roots rot off and I cut them up. By then the bark is long gone. I never fell a tree, unless I need to for some reason. The ones that fall by themselves keep me busy. In the meantime, the woodpeckers and other critters like the standing dead trees.
Ha ha, no, I don’t think I will write a book, but thanks for the compliment. There are many that disagree. Don’t do it just because it works for me, but as long as you say you’re not a newbie to heating with wood and know what you’re getting into, give the uncovered wood method a try if you want. I see the picture you posted in the 2009 woodpiles thread and if I had a nice lean-to like that, I sure wouldn’t fill it up with pieces of dead trees, but that’s just me.
Humid weather is the only time I don’t like to work on firewood.
Hunting season is in right now, and stays in from Sep. to Jan… I do a lot of hunting, and this weekend
is black-powder season… when I go deer hunting I always carry a chainsaw on my ATV, and I have went out
in the mountains before to deer hunt, But, get out there and find a nice oak tree on the ground and instead of
hunting that day, I would cut up the tree and come back and haul it out.
I mentioned in my other post about my grandparents not covering their stacks, and then I found this thread.. I know it worked for them and I should try it because that’s how my family done it also, and it works for you.. I’m sure there is other people that don’t cover their stacks.
And you wouldn’t fill up my shed with dead trees. Ha Ha, the wood that I’ve seen you cut up is nice wood, and I like the one that you found that had no bark.. That’s great/dead wood .. I wish I could find wood like that!
Quads you are one hell of a neat guy, I humbly respect and admire your work ethic. The country needs more men like you, awesome pictures of your wood piles too!!
We have so many deer seasons nowadays that I can’t even keep track of them. There’s bow seasons, 3 or 4 gun deer seasons in addition to the traditional one, and then two turkey seasons every year. There is a gun season, doe only, going on right now. I used to enjoy hunting, but most of the people that I hunted with grew old and are gone now. I know what you mean about cutting wood during hunting season, many times I did that myself. Or picked corn.
The tree with no bark; that’s almost every tree I cut. They have been standing dead for 5-10 years already when I cut them. The only time I cut a tree with bark still on it is when a storm knocks one down.
I have been thinking about buying a new saw someday. I bought two Stihl 026 saws from a neighbor several years ago for $50. One of them quit running last year and needs work, the other is getting slow and tired.
I have heard good things about beech, but I have never seen a beech tree, to my recollection.
Quads you are one hell of a neat guy, I humbly respect and admire your work ethic. The country needs more men like you, awesome pictures of your wood piles too!!
Aw shucks! Thanks, but I’m just doing what I need to do and trying to enjoy some of it along the way. No big deal.
Quads- first of all what a stack of wood. My wife thinks I’m strange when I slow down to look at folks woodpiles but I might have to take a road trip to show her yours.
It sounds like you really enjoy splitting wood-I started splitting wood by hand about 2 yrs ago when the power line co took down a big oak in my yard and I have to say it’s very satisfying to do; there’s just something about it I can’t quite explain. Plus I figure it’s good exercise.
if it’s wood and drys out I will burn it.
