Wood Porn

A couple. The big pile came out to be four cords measured after seasoning. 48 feet long, twice, 16" splits, stacked about 60" high off the pallets so the stacks were right at 48" tall when the moisture content got under 20%. Split and stacked winter of 13/14, seasoned summer of 2014, in my shed now.

The other is a piece of fiddle back walnut I bought from goby walnut dot com (no affiliation) in the last month or so. I am going to make some knife and tool handles from it and send part of it off to be made into pistol grips. Entire piece is 3" thick end to end, about 36" long, 3" wide at the thin end and about 5" wide at the thick end. Cost me about $50 plus shipping, really good curl end to end on both sides. I also shop some at turkish walnut dot net (again, no affiliation). I have never actually bought from them, shipping from Istanbul is shockingly high, but they have some beautiful stuff.

Couple of shots. My current stack, sitting roughly about 2/3rd of a cord. Not a lot, but I've done it all myself and split by hand.





Also, a cool shot I took while splitting at the MIL's house this summer. It's royalty there: Hydro splitter, Ford tractor.

Yes I am......

I'm not sure this qualifies for this thread, but I'm pretty excited about getting after this fallen tree which is on my neighbor's land, about 75 feet from our shared property line. Although, I am curious for people's opinions on the condition of the wood. It's a pretty large red oak that came down in the derecho a few years ago, and then it was cut into 18-20" sections (about 15 of them or so), each one being about 36" across. Anyway, I can see that the center of each one is starting to show some shrinking and cracking -- how long do I have before the wood isn't worth splitting for firewood? I've split about 2 and half of these beasts, and it's really fun, hard work, but I don't know that I'll be able to get to all of it in the next few weeks. I suppose I can keep on going through the winter.

Also, how long should I expect it to take to dry out sufficiently in order to start using it in my fireplace?

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Two socks, you got some mighty fine wood there. Absent commentary from others who live closer to red oak trees then I do I would say you got a little tme left. Personally I would break each round open once, just get them split in half once and the expect to have all winter to get the half-rounds down to stove size so they can start seasoning next spring.

How soon is freeze up for you?

Thanks, Poindexter. I'm in Virginia, so a hard freeze isn't too likely, unless we have the dreaded polar vortex again, where we had a few sub-zero days in a row last year.

I'll just keep at it -- the trick is getting the 11-year-old boy out to assist. He'd much rather watch TV.

Poindexter said:

Two socks, you got some mighty fine wood there. Absent commentary from others who live closer to red oak trees then I do I would say you got a little tme left. Personally I would break each round open once, just get them split in half once and the expect to have all winter to get the half-rounds down to stove size so they can start seasoning next spring.

How soon is freeze up for you?

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Big pile of rounds i cut in the past month waiting to be split. Ash & birch mostly.
2018supply.



2016 & 2017s supply. About 10 cord in the 2 piles



4 cord behind the house ready to burn as emergency back up to the
4 cord in the basement. No more running out of wood again in January for me.


and some nice kiln dry kindling i got from my friend that gets me 10ft pallets.

WiscWoody said:

Jeepers thanks... Looking at all of that porn I seem to have made a mess of myself!! Happens every time!!

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Got sawdust all over yourself, huh?

Here is a pic I always admire:


and here is this years shed:

Been a slight bit busy.

Clearing my lot for the house.

Hears my current system. Wood totes 2 high and 2 deep. Dingo to move them. Pat

That's impressive Pat!!

Time to bump this one up.

Rossco said:

Earlier this year.

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Rosco, I'm curious why you stack and store all those rounds. Why not just go ahead and split them before stacking them in the shed?

Roundgunner said:

This is my processing area right now. I have been CSS everything I can for a year now. I haven't figured how many cord I have done yet but I'm not going to be in the shape I was last year ever again. The bucket on the Kubota is full of sawdust for the bottom of the baby's slide. One days worth. Sorry about the cell phone pix in the dark but that was all I had with me.






I have a lot of oak and some cherry & ash still laying on the ground. I hope to have 30 cord CSS before I light the first fire, Probably not going to happen but I have to have goals.

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If this thread is "wood porn," then these pics right here is triple X, XXX!
The top one is clearly a wood orgy.

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Seeing this is a reassuring feeling with winter nipping at our nose....

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Nice ...plus a fine pooch strategically placed.

Kenster said:

Rosco, I'm curious why you stack and store all those rounds. Why not just go ahead and split them before stacking them in the shed?

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All the rounds are gathered alone so I don't split them in the bush. More just dump them on my property then split at pleasure. The reason I stack them is to make use of the space. Sometimes, depending on patch, I will do 3 load in a day.

If I have help then we usually split them out in the bush.

You will notice three rounds stacked far left, I will randomly grab a bunch and split them. You know, split some rounds, relax, have a beer, split more, etc.

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I hope you don't run the saw like that... that chain is LOOSE!

One man-power log skid.