Ok it's that time of the year again....... to show wood piles/stacks!!

8 cords at 150 a pop puts me at 1200 bucks so I guess that more than covers the saw and splitter, accessories and expenses. So everything now is just money in the pocket or savings from not running the lame central heat. (At least that's how I rationalize it all to myself )

Here's my stacks, first 2 are the "wood shed" under the deck 6 stacks roughly 14ft long by 6"avg. Mostly split in Jan/Feb of this year with about 1 cord left from last winter.

Second pics are the more of the Jan logs that's getting stacked for next winter. Still have about 1.3 cords not stacked that I'm trading with my neighbour. It's Jan logs that I split around Mar/Apr and we're trading since he doesn't have enuf for the winter. We just rec'd another log load to buck/split between now and Xmas, that we went halfs on, which means I'll have the 1.3 cords plus anothe ~4 cords split to stack before Xmas. I also plan on getting another Log load in Jan which should give me another 8 cords for the winter beyond. I really want ot me 2+ yrs ahead, and expect to go thru 3-4 cords per year.

Well, I was impressed with myself until I saw your stacks! not surprised though. This is one cord, as exactly measured as I could handle.

7 cords of oak in the shed and about 7 more in the logs.

This pile is mostly black birch and red or black oak. It's 5' tall and 35' long with 16"-18" long splits. The last pic is me bringing the kids on a wheel barrow ride. I'm about half way with clearing the land we plan to build on. Maybe less if you consider the white pine. I'm planning on giving most of that to a friend who has a mill.

Very imposing structure there Needshave.

mtcates - wow thats a nice shed!

Needshave - can you say Great Wall of China... Couple of turrets and you got yourself a fortress.

I could put some tree stands up on the ends that are supporting the stack for turrets. This was the only way I could come up with that would keep the wood single row and get some sun. The forest is mature and lets in very little light. Behind this stack is somebody else's property. They have cleared out most of the mature timber. Currently the stack gets sun from sunrise to about noon.

if nothing else, it is one good looking privacy fence.

View out the front door


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Other side







The mess under the deck

Diesel73,
Do I really see handles on your very square splits?

well its not exactly splits, but it is what I burn..Pellets 22 tons
kind of a wood pile
seems alot neater to me and I never have to get up at night
to load the stove

Yes you do.....those blocks are all scrap from where I work. Bundles of raw material come in chocked with those blocks. Most of the truck drivers don't want them so I collect what they leave behind.

Wow. Now that's a scroungers dream! And I bet it's dry hardwood, right?

Hardwood, yes.
Dry, not usually....I have to let is season a year.

Wow that is too bad for the trees what do the scientists say about this? Bug infestation I guess. What will happen to the forest!

Was going to ask exactly same and these 4x4s burn good safe??????

What are the handles made out of? Do you burn 'em or take them off?

They bun really well once seasoned.
The handles are just strips of plastic stapled to the wood.....I cut them off. Staples are too hard to get out so I have stapley ashes.

We finally got a few years worth ahead. We now have about nine and a half cords and use about four a year. Next project is to get a wood shed built to store it all properly.

Here's my 2yr old 5 cords and 1 year old 4 cord.

Nice, be glad when I get there last year didnt know what seasoned wood was. Just waiting on someone post lives near me with that much I now have plenty stacked oak needs time will trade or purchace. Only offer Iv had was someone in Alaska.

Oh by the way here is one little pile that I cut split stacked Memorial day weekend all Oak. I have stacks like this all over the place. From 5 months to 1 month old. So any of you good old boys want to trade help a fellow hearth.comer get through his 22 nd year or burning 1st with new EPA stove and discovery of all you psycos.

LOL from Front Royal Va.

Cpt.

I would do it if you were closer...ric here. :-/

I absolutely hate all of you. I have first-year wood stove syndrome... otherwise known as "Well people sell firewood, right? RIGHT?"

~Rose