I see your mawl has lots of duct tape . Cut it off and use the head as a wedge. You will thank me later, Soft taps. Unless you like/need the work out.
Lets See Your Wood Piles
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It burns fine. Not especially long or hot but it is very easy to split and there is plenty of it near my house.
I couldnt help but notice your bobcat 7753 light bar, I like it. Did you simply wire it to the existing front light plug and let the factory relay and light switch handle the power to the lightbar? Or did you wire in an aftermarket wiring harness/relay for the power?
ArtBaldoni
Member
The OEM switch was trashed, so I just picked up a switched hot and put a couple toggle switches with inline fuse holders in for the front and rear lights. They are LED and the amperage draw is minimal, no need for relays.
Ok, thanks. I know the front and rear lights are both run off factory relays. If you used the wiring for the trashed switch then the factory relay is providing the power. I just noticed the light bar was pretty big, I assume it lights up like crazy.
Total newbie to splitting wood and running wood fireplace inserts. I had to cut down a sugar maple to eliminate shade on our newly-installed solar panels. The result is approximately a cord or so of hand-split logs (there's more not shown). The rack is 16' long by 4' tall and about 1' off the ground. Should be ready by next season. I'm going to add another parallel "row" to this and top both with a framed tarp cover.
mpaul
Burning Hunk
Double row stack with each log split to 20”. Shorties/uglies divide the two rows. Just over 4 cords.
mpaul
Burning Hunk
This is my covered storage empty and full. Each bay holds about a cord each. 
End of September I had 47 face cords ready to go. Sorry for a double pic.
Caw
Minister of Fire
This man is an artist. Wood literally everywhere and nice and neat. I love it.
Investmentdude
Member
Photo from a couple weeks ago. The covered area is 8x15. Holds 4 cords pretty easy
Montanalocal
Minister of Fire
Prof
Minister of Fire
I love seeing these pics, though I must admit that I am too lazy to take a pic of my own. What you would see was 8 holz hausens, roughly 3 yrs worth of wood and about a half of a year's supply in a wood shed. What I love about these pics is that some people sourced some wood and brought it to their place to heat their house and maybe cook their food at a later date. This gives me some faith that we have not abandoned our history that allowed us to stay warm and eat during the cold months. Well done!
Here's a few of my piles. The longest pile about 60' long with the most snow on top is mostly Green Ash I was able to get from the river bottom by dragging out the trees to the field to process. When the ground is froze before it snows makes it possible to get my Bobcat in to do the dirty work. The stacked wood is red oak. I have a few more piles stashed around the woods also. I figure I'm about 8-10 years ahead on firewood. Too much snow right now to keep up the processing but when I get bored. I'll plow a path thru the woods and cut some standing dead oak I marked this past fall. Also, all of the wood you see was split with an ax despite having a wood splitter. I find an ax way faster when splitting red oak and ash.
Wood1Dennis
Burning Hunk
Thank you! I found a picture of it on Facebook and thought the same thing. Genius! Now just need to buy more totes. I have 2 of them I keep in rotation. The other is still half full of “chunks and ugly cuts” I need to finish burning
mpaul
Burning Hunk
Echo Parking Lot
Member
~ seven cords pictured. this year’s supply is hidden behind the round houses.
Woodsplitter67
Minister of Fire
Heres what I got.. 3 different sheds and one thats completely open half is for wood the other half is for the bobcat 2 splitters and a quad
Plus there is where im at with splitting
Plus there is where im at with splitting
Vg3200p
Minister of Fire
Vg3200p
Minister of Fire
Bout 1/3 of the way through my dry storage. Probably will have about 2 to 3 cords left in there at the end of the season. Got a maybe 3 or 4 cord pile that's not getting more added. Starting on lining our connecting driveway cause that's not really used besides storing dad's camper.
