Did you replace what you burnt this year yet?

I burned a nearly 5 cord last year. To date I have 6 cord c/s/s and have another 2 cord waiting to be split. Every nice day we had this winter, I was scrounging, cutting, etc.

I have a white oak to cut that is down on a friends property. We limbed it and it is just waiting to be bucked and loaded.

I am doing alright, but my ambition this year is to get ahead. With the IS coming, I hope my wood usage will decrease to about 4 cord.

About 5 cord of what I have is very dry, some of it has been split and stacked since last March, some if it read mid 20's with the moisture meter when I stacked it last month. I think I will be ok for this winter and better for next.

So the work continues.

Got the wood It's just not split yet, burned almost 3 cord, 100 percent wood heat

Just got in the hardwoods yesterday, no snow could go anywhere cut and stacked 5 big maple blow downs and a ash, woke up this morning to a blizzard, I want some global warming back!

I'm around 11 cord c/s/s and I burned 4+ this past season. Got another cord to split yet and still scrounging. Got a load of ash from a blow down on the job I'm on this past Sunday. 2-3 more loads there easy just gotta drag it out of the woods next time I'm near it in the excavator I'm running

Used 4 cords, replaced it with 10!

I need to cut about 14 cords, split and stack about 8 myself. I just cut and split the first 1/3 cord today. Guess I'll be out there again this summer. I do have about 3 cords cut, that I haven't split yet, and a few more cords of scrounge in the works....

byQ said:

rottonwood cottonwood, unpopular poplar, and that's me weeping willow.

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Did you get any 'not pining for' Pine, or knot? Hope you get that Elm.

It's cut and split. Just need to stack. I HATE STACKING!!

I'm working' on it.....

Went behind my SILs' today and found a rich vein of dead Mulberry, Dogwood and White Ash. The Mulberry and Dogwood could go in the stove today. Gotta be a couple of cords, at least. All I gotta do is buck it and haul it up for them to split and stack. I feel good about finally making some headway, after getting nothing done all winter.

DTrain said:

Used 4 cords, replaced it with 10!

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I'm in the same boat. I burned 10. Cut 5 myself with the snowmobile. Got 14 in 8' lengths via the logger. Only about 3 cords of that split so far. Mud season project.

JP

To the normal person driving by my house they might think, gee you have a ton of wood why are you cutting and splitting more wood all the time? Well, I'm not normal. Check hearth forums for the rest of the nuts. I don't feel
Comfortable without 10 or 15 cords lining my property lines.

Paulywalnut said:

To the normal person driving by my house they might think, gee you have a ton of wood why are you cutting and splitting more wood all the time? Well, I'm not normal. Check hearth forums for the rest of the nuts. I don't feel
Comfortable without 10 or 15 cords lining my property lines.

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Well, normal people don't think about wood until September or October, even though they may have run out this winter. They don't understand why I was cutting so much when I had 15 cords after this winter. Gotta get back up to at least 20 so I can be 4 years ahead. Now that I've done that, I'm going to TRY to put the saw up for a few months and take a break. We'll see how that goes....

Woody Stover said:

I need to cut about 14 cords, split and stack about 8 myself. I just cut and split the first 1/3 cord today. Guess I'll be out there again this summer. I do have about 3 cords cut, that I haven't split yet, and a few more cords of scrounge in the works....
Did you get any 'not pining for' Pine, or knot? Hope you get that Elm.

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Nah, Lodgepole pine is my favorite wood to get here in Southern Idaho. It is sacred - my go-to wood. I get to drive up into the mountains seeing wildlife like deer and moose (sometimes). Next I get to fell a 30' to 70' tree (what fun!). I try to land the tree where planned, and figure out how to keep it from getting hung up in other trees as it falls.

The wood is standing dry & dead - so rounds are manageable to move around. There is no drying time required (except for maybe a round or 2 at the base of tree). The rounds aren't too big either, and they split with ease, and have few branches. The BTU rating is around 20. And it is for burning in a masonry heater where hot fast burns are to your advantage (the fire's heat is absorbed into masonry and after fast fire the damper is closed). I'm grateful to have such an 'easy-getting-wood' situation - so I do bow to the Lodgepole Pine (and Doug Fir) Gods.

Just finished on Saturday!

I have enough on the ground waiting to replace what i burned this winter. Then i am going to be on the hunt for more. I have 14 dead ash trees in my back yard but they have to be topped because of where they are vs power lines and the house so i am sure that is where my next load of wood is going to come from for the 2016-2017 season but i don't want to pay the bill to get them on the ground.

We're trying to replace what we burned but when you burn more in one season than the last two combined it's a bit tough

JA600L said:

Have you burnt a lot of ash? Has it done well for you?

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That is pretty much all i have burned for the last 3 years. I have some silver maple in there too that i will burn this next winter. Ash does really well for me it seems to dry quick does not smoke a lot. I can't really say about burn times because i have not run much oak or anything better.

Best part it is free and there is a ton of it around due to all the ash bore i would guess we are going to be burning it for another 4-6 years.

I still have quite a bit of work to do. All the wood is lined up, just need the time to do the work. I'm about 1/3 replenished now. Plenty ready for next two years, but have to get back to three years out.

Here's what I have so far. It's currently raining out so I quick snapped a photo from the deck. The pile of oak you see is about 5.5' tall and roughly 20' x 15'. I then have two larger oaks (35" and 32" in diameter measured about 4' up) quartered laying to the right and left of the pile. This is in addition to the 16 or so cord I have split/stacked, of which 12 of it is fully seasoned ready to burn. I will also be getting the wood from 10-12 Black Locust trees the neighbor is cutting down.

I'm not done burning it yet, let alone moving to the replacing stage.

It's snowing outside as I type this, for cripes sakes...

Burned just under 4. so far I have 2 stacked , have 5 chopped, and 2 more needing to be cut and chopped.