Hey guys. A month or so ago I posted a thread about fallen trees in my brother-in-law's farmland, over the Christmas Break (I'm a teacher) I went out with my Dad to check it out and harvest some wood.
It's a nice piece of land right along the river, with easy access from the road (and a short drive across the field). I was pleasantly surprised to see just how much land there is - probably enough free wood for my entire lifetime...
On the first day we just loaded up the following onto my Dad's short-box pickup:
I set up a nice station to split the wood in my back yard... pushing the boundaries of the -20 degree limit for using the splitter, but it seemed to do fine and I wasn't out for too long.
It definitely seemed like a lot more wood than this, but I guess that's the way she goes...
on New Year's Day, I took my 4-year old son and my Dad back out, along with a second truck, and we spent 2-3 hours collecting wood. This was a great day.
As it was colder the next day, and I had a lot more wood to split this time around, I set up a workstation in my garage and then hauled the split wood to the back afterwards.
This is more like it...
Unfortunately I ran out of daylight, and we had a big storm coming the next day, so I did not have time to split all of it. The load from the short-box I just had to stack and will have to split it later on.
A few questions for you guys:
- Does anyone know what type of wood this is? I'm still a rookie at this sort of thing
- Any tips/hints/suggestions? We just purchased this property in September, so I plan on building a proper wood storage unit in the Spring.
It's a nice piece of land right along the river, with easy access from the road (and a short drive across the field). I was pleasantly surprised to see just how much land there is - probably enough free wood for my entire lifetime...
On the first day we just loaded up the following onto my Dad's short-box pickup:
I set up a nice station to split the wood in my back yard... pushing the boundaries of the -20 degree limit for using the splitter, but it seemed to do fine and I wasn't out for too long.
It definitely seemed like a lot more wood than this, but I guess that's the way she goes...
on New Year's Day, I took my 4-year old son and my Dad back out, along with a second truck, and we spent 2-3 hours collecting wood. This was a great day.
As it was colder the next day, and I had a lot more wood to split this time around, I set up a workstation in my garage and then hauled the split wood to the back afterwards.
This is more like it...
Unfortunately I ran out of daylight, and we had a big storm coming the next day, so I did not have time to split all of it. The load from the short-box I just had to stack and will have to split it later on.
A few questions for you guys:
- Does anyone know what type of wood this is? I'm still a rookie at this sort of thing
- Any tips/hints/suggestions? We just purchased this property in September, so I plan on building a proper wood storage unit in the Spring.
