This spring, I finished up my 4 year plan. I cut, split, and stacked 9 cords of wood. Add that to the 6 cords of oak, cherry, and maple I had left after last winter and it got me up to 15 cords css.
I had 2 large white pine trees taken down by a pro. They were too big and and too close to my house for me to drop them myself (you have to know your limits). The crew left 8' logs and hauled and chipped all the branches. So I just had to cut up the logs, split and stack.
Then came the oak trees...
When it comes to white oak (hard as iron), this is about as big as I can handle with my crappy 18" Poulan "Pro".
These smaller ones (~20") are no problem:
This pile is less than 1/3 of the oak split:
Here is another pile of oak in front of the newly stacked pine (2.5 cords of pine - 16"x12'x5'x4 rows):
I had to get more pallets
And then came the cherry...the pro dropped off 2 cords of cherry logs for me. Sweet! Some big suckers, but they cut up way easier than the oak.
This is one row of the 4 rows of cherry all css:
I don't have pix of the rest of the oak and all the oak stacked up, but you get the idea.
So, 2.5 cords of pine, 2 cords of cherry, and 4.5 cords of red and white oak. Busy spring, but the 4 year plan is now done and from now on each spring I will only have to replace what I burn over the winter.
Feels good to be "ahead". Time to take boat out and go fishing all summer!
I had 2 large white pine trees taken down by a pro. They were too big and and too close to my house for me to drop them myself (you have to know your limits). The crew left 8' logs and hauled and chipped all the branches. So I just had to cut up the logs, split and stack.
Then came the oak trees...
When it comes to white oak (hard as iron), this is about as big as I can handle with my crappy 18" Poulan "Pro".
These smaller ones (~20") are no problem:
This pile is less than 1/3 of the oak split:
Here is another pile of oak in front of the newly stacked pine (2.5 cords of pine - 16"x12'x5'x4 rows):
I had to get more pallets
And then came the cherry...the pro dropped off 2 cords of cherry logs for me. Sweet! Some big suckers, but they cut up way easier than the oak.
This is one row of the 4 rows of cherry all css:
I don't have pix of the rest of the oak and all the oak stacked up, but you get the idea.
So, 2.5 cords of pine, 2 cords of cherry, and 4.5 cords of red and white oak. Busy spring, but the 4 year plan is now done and from now on each spring I will only have to replace what I burn over the winter.
Feels good to be "ahead". Time to take boat out and go fishing all summer!
