Split, stacked, and now for some summer! (pics)

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Young Defiant

Young Defiant

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Dec 18, 2010
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The Buck, Pa
I posted a month or two ago my stacks and all the wood I hoped to have split and stacked by May. Well, I had a little more time to work on it than I thought I would and I finished on Saturday. With this beautiful weather we've had, this is the earliest I've ever been done in the spring. I stacked two more rows on my large pile, and made my second pile four rows deep. Now I can rest my wood duties until the fall. These are before and after pics. Feels good to be done!!! IMG_2192.JPGIMG_3160.JPG IMG_2196.JPGIMG_3159.JPG
 
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excellent work, you got plenty of wood to last you quite a while. your stacks are perfect, you should be proud of your work!
 
Wow! Looks great and real nice work stacking - you are a pro! Congrats on getting it done before the heat and bugs hit! Cheers!
 
That is awesome. Stacking them uncovered in the middle of a field will really get them dry fast.

I tried to stack my wood once in that fashion, and the piles fell over because the wood contracted when it dried and the pile shrunk and therefore became unstable and collapsed. I hope that does not happen to you!! Restacking is a pain. I switched to landscape timber (2 on end for 16 ft length) on the ground, with steel snow fence posts at the ends.

Carpniels
 
That's nice work, right there! :cool:
 
A thing of beauty :)
Hope you don't have withdrawals not having any wood to process LOL.
Good job
Great pictures
 
Nice work, you have a great spot to season your wood, should season pretty quick, or as quick as wood can season.
 
Nice work. Is that a christmas tree farm behind the wood ?
 
carpniels said:
That is awesome. Stacking them uncovered in the middle of a field will really get them dry fast.

I tried to stack my wood once in that fashion, and the piles fell over because the wood contracted when it dried and the pile shrunk and therefore became unstable and collapsed. I hope that does not happen to you!! Restacking is a pain. I switched to landscape timber (2 on end for 16 ft length) on the ground, with steel snow fence posts at the ends.

Carpniels
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Funny you mentioned that. At first I didn't know how much shrinkage I would get out of a 12 ft row in a sngle season. It would be fair to say that a 5ft high stack would probably lose at least 4-6 inches over 18 mos after I started to mark the rows as a small experiment.
 
@TFDChief I believe the box must be for compost, because after seeing those stacks I would guess "uglies" are not allowed on the property. :)
 
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How many cords there?
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Gotta be around eight cords I would think. What kind of wood? New stuff looks like it could be Cherry...
 
Sa-weet. You should be very proud of your work.

My bet is that you are going to be handling wood before fall hits. That or your gonna start getting the shakes and nervous sweating. Just a hunch.
 
Yeah, that is a compost bin for our garden. I do keep uglies, but I stack them in and you can't notice them. All the new stacks are made up mostly of cherry, hickory, and ash. Sadly no oak in the new stacks this year.
 
Definately looks good.

Living in the forest with minimal clearing, our stacks will never be so nice and tidy. But I kind of like the way they wander from tree to tree and rise and fall with the terrain.
 
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That looks great. Nice place to work too. What are you gonna do with all the free time this summer?
 
Beautiful place to stack the wood and a very nice job of stacking.

As for shrinkage, our 4 1/2' stacks tend to lose 6" in the first summer so yours should be near that figure.
 
Young Defiant said:
Yeah, that is a compost bin for our garden. I do keep uglies, but I stack them in and you can't notice them. All the new stacks are made up mostly of cherry, hickory, and ash. Sadly no oak in the new stacks this year.
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Cherry, hickory and ash. Don't be sad you don't have any oak. That's all good wood.
 
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