What can make a wood pile tip over?

Of course there are many reasons but here is one.



Yes, that is some fresh digging. There are 2 other holes on the other side of the wood stack. I forgot to go back there and set a trap today. We actually found 2 holes last winter when Pallet Pete came and we loaded some of this well seasoned ash onto his truck. I still had not got around to picking up the saplings that we had the wood stacked on because at the time they were frozen in. I will be using them when I start stacking this year's wood.

On the first picture below you can see some of our wood stacks. The second picture below was taken showing one of our food plots that is behind the one wood pile (the one with the woodchuck hole). The food plots are worked but not yet planted.

nate379 said:

What is a food plot? A garden?

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Yes, we do it mainly for the deer. I'll be planting some corn yet this week and then will plant some buckwheat sometime in the next 2 weeks. In August we usually plant oats or an oat/rye mixture. I might plant some wheat this fall and then seed it next spring to clover. That would cut down on the amount of work we have to do.

nate379 said:

Not in the woods?

I guess this doesn't make sense to me. You plant a bunch of deer food just to be able to shoot a deer instead of actually hunting?

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Nate, your question says that you really do not understand this at all. No, we do not plant a bunch of deer food just to be able to shoot a deer. There certainly is no problem at all shooting a deer without food plots and if I want a deer I could go out behind the house most any time and have a deer within an hour.

TimJ said:

Nice bit of work Backwoods..........looks nice.I never realized that Michigan was that sandy

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Michigan varies a lot. For example, when I grew up about 6 or 7 miles from where we now live, we farmed all clay ground. Yet most of the ground in our area varies from loam to sand. It also seems as one goes north there is more and more sand. That is one reason so much of Michigan is forested.

Applesister said:

My next door neighbor eats woodchuck. Thats how he became friends with my father. My dad was impressed by that. So...woodchucks in the garden makes good eating? Although Dennis didnt really say he was harvesting woodchuck. I read somewhere in mythology that man should only hunt animals that are omnivors. The meat from carnivors being tainted. It was actually a book on Owls. In ancient times they were feared.
According to Stan, woodchuck meat is pretty tasty.

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No. We do not eat the woodchucks or coon or possom etc. Woodchucks in farm land is a bad mix as are the coon. For many years the price of fur has been down and very few hunt the fur bearing animals. And the problem, especially with coon is that they don't have just one baby at a time. They multiply fast. It is not uncommon for many farmers to get 50 or more coon and woodchucks annually. They are so thick they are a pest.

My Oslo heats my home said:

Ever find that the wood pile drying helps force the splits to lean one way enough to nearly fall the row? My rows are nearly 6' tall and out of 9 racks 2 or 3 will lean pretty bad.

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No. But then we stack only to 4 1/2' most of the time. I do stack up to 8 feet in the barn while getting the winter's wood inside. No problems tipping over yet.