wood stack is back "up to snuff"!!

Had the last week off, didn't spend much time on the forums as we did some traveling with the kids to Watkins Glen and Ithaca, NY this week, and had a wonderful time.....rest of the week I busted azz and did a TON of splitting and stacking, with my little helpers right by my side. My 8yr old daughter did a TON of hard work for me, I was very proud of her!

Finishing up the last cord, my daughter posed for a picture for me.....the entire end of this stack will be part of 2015/16 and into 2016/17 wood.....around a cord of red maple, three cord of beech and three cord of white/red/pin oak mixed. Good stuff for sure! I still have around 2 cord of beech/white oak to stack yet, in another stack I'll be putting up on the right-of-way next to my property. With the upcoming trees we have to do yet this summer and fall, I should be right around 30-32 cord by winter.....a full 4 years ahead!!



Got the entire stack covered up, too. I like to cover it up the first week of August, so it's good and dry come fall (especially on the end that I'll be burning come fall/winter). I usually just cover up the wood that I will be burning in the following season, but I had enough roofing to do the entire stack so what the hay!




Pic of the entire stack......almost 65 feet long, around 12ft wide (for 33 feet) 9 feet wide for the other 32 feet. Almost 5 foot tall.......

clemsonfor said:

Nice was wondering were you have been Scotty! Some of those splits in the pic of your girl are huge!! Not being a full 3 yrs a head I have not gone to monster splits yet

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Those big splits are the red maple, Clem. I won't be burning them for three years, plenty of time for them to dry out good.....

Notice that all of the oak (to my daughter's left) is split relatively uniformly into 4x4"-5x5" splits for the most part. You know how that oak seasons really slow! I make 'em a little smaller to help 'em season good.

clemsonfor said:

And oak is about 80% of what I get.

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nothing wrong with that at all! Lately, we've been getting a chitload of pine on these tree removals we do.....I'll be milling most of that for boards to build the woodshed down the road. Going to quote a guy on a MASSIVE willow tree tomorrow....I'm kinda hoping he says no.....
I do have a taker for the wood (OWB guy), he's never burned willow before......he's gonna hate me after he burns this chit!!

clemsonfor said:

Only seen a few willows as ornamental. Never seen one to cut?

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This one is around 80' tall, over 6 feet thick at the base.......nasty!! gonna be a TON of wood in this big mama!

lukem said:

For a "tree guy" you sure do cut to nice consistent lengths with square cuts.

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Lol....one of my pet peeves about most "tree guys". I've seen lots of those guys cut their rounds to 10" or smaller.......WTF is that!!

clemsonfor said:

They cut to 10"s so its lighter to load if their hand loading.

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Yeah, I know......it just pizzes me off when they do that!

Thanks for the compliments fellas.......
If you would have told me 3 years ago that I'd be sitting on 4 years' worth of firewood at this point, I'd have called you crazy! But, being that we heat exclusively with wood, its a great feeling to be that far ahead! No worries about wood seasoning that way!