Man down scrounge!

[jatoxico]

Asplundh was doing tree work for our local (ptooh) utility. They took most of what they cut but I got 5 nice rounds of oak. Used the peavey to fish them out of the vines. Thought at first it was white but once I opened it looks like red.

Anyway have not been in the back for awhile due to the weather. So what do I see when I get back there...stack down. I suspect the squirrels, pretty sure I heard them laughing.

 

[gzecc]

Also frost heave and maybe stacked too high.

 

[jatoxico]

Also frost heave and maybe stacked too high.

No it was the squirrels, dirty beggars.

Truth be told fill was recently added to that ground and leveled so its still soft. Probably settled/heaved.

 

[farmboy05]

Time for some squirrel stew

 

[CenterTree]

 

[Soundchasm]

I'll come get those unbalanced splits so they can't be knocked down again!! We'll show those squirrels who's boss.

 

[jatoxico]

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That's him!

 

[jillybeansisme]

Why would you make stew when you could just rotisserie them?

 

[Paulywalnut]

I had one 16 ft. stack go down. Frozen heaving got it leaning, and a deer jumping over it and back legs hitting it did it in.
It fell like a stone wall.

 

[jatoxico]

Got out there and re-stacked the row that went down. Then stacked the oak I got from that little score. Fifty degrees out there today. Feels good but ground is mushy. Hopefully every thing stays upright.

 

[jillybeansisme]

Maybe next time you could dig a 6" trench as wide as the stacks and line it with gravel and cinderblocks to help stabilize it before you stack wood on it? I don't know if it would work, but it's a thought. Then each time a stack of firewood is used up, you could "fix' it's spot before reloading it and eventually you'd have a lot of beds for wood.

 

[jatoxico]

Maybe next time you could dig a 6" trench as wide as the stacks and line it with gravel and cinderblocks to help stabilize it before you stack wood on it? I don't know if it would work, but it's a thought. Then each time a stack of firewood is used up, you could "fix' it's spot before reloading it and eventually you'd have a lot of beds for wood.

Yeah I'm sure there's lot's of things I could do but on the other hand it took me 20 min to re-stack. Sometimes as the wood dries it shifts and stacks fall. So as they say, "shift happens".