everyone got their wood put up?

It was rotting from the inside out - and looked quite green and healthy by the leaves until the day it fell.... our backyard is a totally new place now.
It will likely supply us with enough good red oak to burn for a good part of the season.
I need to buy a moisture meter to make sure what I'm bringing in to burn is dry enough - I have a smoke nazi for a nieghbor and she's all in a tizzy now since I got several loads of elm from another nieghbor who had 5 trees taken down - I really wish people would stop trying to control other people.

Regardless - thanks for the clarification and the picture.

10 cords ready to go. need to decided how i am going to cover the pile now....think of one of these (http://www.pointonepremiums.com/) old billboard tarps (14x48ft) putting some grommets in it to tie it down and put it over the wood.

Stew

fossil said:

As you can see, there's some good firewood in this split that was up off the ground, but there's still some of the really spongy "punky" stuff left on it. This piece of wood's goin' directly into one of my stoves this coming season...there's still some fuel here. Rick

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If I'm burning punky wood, do I need to add extra ferrets?

cruzer - those look like really nice tarps, but I wonder if they can be cut to size without fraying?

I estimate I could probably get at least 3 very useful sizes out of one of those 14x48 billboards - since my storage area is not that big.

Am I correct that for optimal drying you want to cover the top - but not both sides of the wood pile to allow airflow?

What is optimal spacing between rows of stacked splits?

We are pretty tight on space - our "dog run" which the dog turned out to hate and tear up my garage door over - has turned into our wood storage area - it's about 12 x 30ft and I need to preserve a walkway through that about 4ft wide. So - we end up with 6ft tall stacks lined up in 30ft rows. This year we already have two rows of wood stacked that will have to wait until next year - as they were trees just taken down in July - I want to put in another couple rows of dryer splits I can burn this year - but I don't want to stack them too close to prevent airflow between them....

Is 6" of space enough?

those tarps look like a good idea. i am also interested to see if they can be cut.

Jay777 said:

fossil said:

As you can see, there's some good firewood in this split that was up off the ground, but there's still some of the really spongy "punky" stuff left on it. This piece of wood's goin' directly into one of my stoves this coming season...there's still some fuel here. Rick

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If I'm burning punky wood, do I need to add extra ferrets?

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Maybe. If you get the ferrets with the score marks on them, they're easy to cut into pieces. Rick

Kevin Thats a nice looking buck you got there. Where in CT do you hunt?

Greg H

Just finished stacking yesterday afternoon. Have a little under 4 cords of well seasoned oak which will be more than enough for our application. Still have some trees to drop on my property as well as a family member's. But that can be worked up at my leasure since it will go towards next years wood.

Just need to clean my chimney and chimney cap and I'll be ready to go.

Almost done. I put up one cord yesterday with help from the death splitter. That makes a single 8 cord stack on pallets, double 18" row, 4' tall, and over 85 feet long. It is starting to look silly it is so long and I sure hope it doesn't try and fall over.

I used 7 cords of low btu wood last year and will use less this year due to energy improvements. I will have prepared between 12 and 14 cords after I split up and stack the last couple of heaps from my craigslist score. Still have 3 cords of wood from last year.

It is nice to split and stack when the temps are in the 80s. The wood just sits there and crackles as it dries.