The wife and I finished filling the woodshed with 4+ cords of well seasoned oak and hickory. Very satisfying, very tired. Bring on the cold.
DONE!
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Backwoods Savage
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Next years is mostly done - I have some splitting to do on a dead elm that I cut up last fall and a few big mulberry trees to cut out of a draw, but the mulberry will season very quickly.
Backwoods Savage
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Now you're talking! I hope that dead elm splits nice for you. We too wait until it is dead before cutting it. In fact, we wait until the bark falls off and then it splits good and burns much better.
I'm sure the elm will be a bearcat to split, but we took the tree down to put in a driveway, and I hate wasting wood. Truthfully, if not for the difficult splitting, elm is one of my favorite woods to burn. The "stringy" nature of the splits makes it easy to start a fire, and it puts off plenty of heat for all but a handfull of the coldest days, plus it seasons much quicker than the oak that we usually use.
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Backwoods Savage
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I will let my wife do lots of things but stacking wood is not one of them. She is terrible at it, so I'll just do my own stacking.
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