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Got Wood

Minister of Fire
Oct 22, 2008
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Dutchess Cty, NY
I spent time today splitting up the last of the rounds I had scrounged and took my annual year end inventory of my Woodland. I am up to 21.5 (full) cords stacked and approx 3-4 cords piled up. I took a few pictures to share.....enjoy
 

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Wow :bug: its like a mans playground, or maze. Nice work. Gotta love that security.
 
Are you related to zap? Lol..... Great wood pics! :)
 
Got Wood, you can be proud of your work.
 
Very impressive
 
Looks shady back there, have any problem with wood rotting in the pacific northeast! with all this rain we have had in 2010?
 
Awesome work - that is a lot of wood and it sure feels good when you can get that far ahead! Are you planning to sell some, or hoard the treasure? Cheers!
 
ColdNH said:
Looks shady back there, have any problem with wood rotting in the pacific northeast! with all this rain we have had in 2010?

New York here... and it is a shady spot. I would prefer to have a sunny area for stacking but dont, so you roll with what you got. I am fortunate to have the space - actually the land where the stacks are belongs to my neighbor in the back - I have his blessing to stack there. No problem with wood rotting. Most are top covered with metal from a 4' above the ground pool that I helped a friend take down. The 4' width is perfect size as I stack on pallets. Now that the inventory has increased I am searching for more good cover material - for now I rotate, leaving the new stacks uncovered.

NH - no plans to sell any. To me the value of being ahead and having a "rainy day" stash is worth more than what I could get to sell some. I did sell a cord last winter, right before xmas, to a friend who had moved into a new house and had not had time to get his wood. He knew he couldnt buy seasoned wood so asked if I wanted to sell a cord. To his credit, he did get his wood for this winter in time to season.... I was wondering if he would be back again this year but he didnt have to.... which I was glad about. I liked helping him out but didnt want to get into a regular routine.
 
Got Wood said:
ColdNH said:
Looks shady back there, have any problem with wood rotting in the pacific northeast! with all this rain we have had in 2010?

New York here... and it is a shady spot. I would prefer to have a sunny area for stacking but dont, so you roll with what you got. I am fortunate to have the space - actually the land where the stacks are belongs to my neighbor in the back - I have his blessing to stack there. No problem with wood rotting. Most are top covered with metal from a 4' above the ground pool that I helped a friend take down. The 4' width is perfect size as I stack on pallets. Now that the inventory has increased I am searching for more good cover material - for now I rotate, leaving the new stacks uncovered.

NH - no plans to sell any. To me the value of being ahead and having a "rainy day" stash is worth more than what I could get to sell some. I did sell a cord last winter, right before xmas, to a friend who had moved into a new house and had not had time to get his wood. He knew he couldnt buy seasoned wood so asked if I wanted to sell a cord. To his credit, he did get his wood for this winter in time to season.... I was wondering if he would be back again this year but he didnt have to.... which I was glad about. I liked helping him out but didnt want to get into a regular routine.

I hear you Got Wood - I'm keep toying with selling some (I'm at about 20 cord now, not including this years wood in the barn), but I just don't think I can do it - like you said - being ahead feels really good. But......I do keep thinking about selling 4 cord to buy grapple loads of 8 cord. I only want to do this to avoid having to scrounge - not that I mind scrounging, I actually like it, but I don't like the wear and tear on my vehicle - I have an 06 Tacoma and it's obviously not make for hauling loads of wood - makes for a lot of trips. Cheers!
 
Got Wood said:
ColdNH said:
Looks shady back there, have any problem with wood rotting in the pacific northeast! with all this rain we have had in 2010?

New York here... and it is a shady spot. I would prefer to have a sunny area for stacking but dont, so you roll with what you got. I am fortunate to have the space - actually the land where the stacks are belongs to my neighbor in the back - I have his blessing to stack there. No problem with wood rotting. Most are top covered with metal from a 4' above the ground pool that I helped a friend take down. The 4' width is perfect size as I stack on pallets. Now that the inventory has increased I am searching for more good cover material - for now I rotate, leaving the new stacks uncovered.

NH - no plans to sell any. To me the value of being ahead and having a "rainy day" stash is worth more than what I could get to sell some. I did sell a cord last winter, right before xmas, to a friend who had moved into a new house and had not had time to get his wood. He knew he couldnt buy seasoned wood so asked if I wanted to sell a cord. To his credit, he did get his wood for this winter in time to season.... I was wondering if he would be back again this year but he didnt have to.... which I was glad about. I liked helping him out but didnt want to get into a regular routine.

I've stacked wood in shady spots many times. As long as it gets some wind you'll be fine.
 
Plenty of good looking wood! Looks like alot of work invested. Enjoy the heat!
 
Nobody's yet mentioned the best part of maintaining inventory like that- it's not taxable.
 
Wow thats pretty amazing someone could get lost and not be found for years in there! Very nice ;-)

Happy New Years
Pete
 
Nice work G.W.
 
g-wood- that is a very impressive bit of wood! just stay on the good side of your neighbor. couldn't even imagine having to relocate those piles! lol> art
 
Nice . . . very nice . . . gotta love wood that is all split and stacked and seasoning away.

Gotta ask though . . . second photo down on the right . . . I see holz mietes and regular stacks . . . but what type of stack is this?
 
firefighterjake said:
Nice . . . very nice . . . gotta love wood that is all split and stacked and seasoning away.

Gotta ask though . . . second photo down on the right . . . I see holz mietes and regular stacks . . . but what type of stack is this?

I believe you are asking about a pile of unstacked splits. Looks a little odd because when I was splitting - vertically of course - and tossing the splits to the pile I ended up having to be careful on space so I could maneuver around the area. The pile actually wraps around a couple of stacks on pallets. Temporary until I either lay out some more stacks or free up space from usage (the HH or HM.... is due to meet its flaming death this heating season and I think I will use the "pile" to build a new one....just to keep some character in Woodland). My normal stacks are rows of pallets, between 3-5 pallets long.
 
Got Wood said:
firefighterjake said:
Nice . . . very nice . . . gotta love wood that is all split and stacked and seasoning away.

Gotta ask though . . . second photo down on the right . . . I see holz mietes and regular stacks . . . but what type of stack is this?

I believe you are asking about a pile of unstacked splits. Looks a little odd because when I was splitting - vertically of course - and tossing the splits to the pile I ended up having to be careful on space so I could maneuver around the area. The pile actually wraps around a couple of stacks on pallets. Temporary until I either lay out some more stacks or free up space from usage (the HH or HM.... is due to meet its flaming death this heating season and I think I will use the "pile" to build a new one....just to keep some character in Woodland). My normal stacks are rows of pallets, between 3-5 pallets long.

Ah . . . and here I thought it was a new stacking method. ;)
 
nice wood stacks ,good to be set for a while ,you know if you had a fireview you wouldn't need all that wood, on hand,, ;-P
 
zim said:
nice wood stacks ,good to be set for a while ,you know if you had a fireview you wouldn't need all that wood, on hand,, ;-P

The FPX is a hungry beast. Sometimes I think it would be great to have a BK or other type stove that ran on a low cal diet but then I wouldnt have enough space for the low turn over of the wood supply....and I would have to slow down on the wood processing and that aint gonna happen any time soon!. LOL
 
yah me to i lile to get as much done as i can when i can,mansfield is heating 1500 sf up on a ranch doing a good job ,but yah gotta feed it twice in 24 hours,,,,
 
it looks like you also have a very convenent set up if your taking your wood close to where you are processing it.i some times travel 10 miles to cut it ,some times in my back yard.go where you gota go ..cut on wood man :cheese:
 
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