It just happens to have a whole ton of wood stacked up around it. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 cords. All hand split, all this year. All cut by me and hauled from my own land. Starting from zero last year.
The covered stuff is poplar, and the uncovered stuff is soft maple. All ready to go for this year.
Behind the garage, my "special reserves". Won't be ready this year, but eventually this will be my top shelf stuff, for the dead of winter. 5.7 cords of ash and black locust.
10 pallets worth of ash on the north end:
8 pallets worth of black locust on the south:
And, just in case I get bored this winter, some more maple and black cherry to work on for next year's stacks. The log is ash, but I'm having that sawn into lumber.
The whole area by the garage is sheltered by some blue spruce and red pine. You hardly even see it from the house; from the road, it completely disappears. More soft maple in this stack, ready to go.
The covered stuff is poplar, and the uncovered stuff is soft maple. All ready to go for this year.
Behind the garage, my "special reserves". Won't be ready this year, but eventually this will be my top shelf stuff, for the dead of winter. 5.7 cords of ash and black locust.
10 pallets worth of ash on the north end:
8 pallets worth of black locust on the south:
And, just in case I get bored this winter, some more maple and black cherry to work on for next year's stacks. The log is ash, but I'm having that sawn into lumber.
The whole area by the garage is sheltered by some blue spruce and red pine. You hardly even see it from the house; from the road, it completely disappears. More soft maple in this stack, ready to go.
I rarely use the wedge anymore. I'm getting a lot better at blasting through the knots - if they're close enough to one end, I can usually get them to split right in half in a couple swings. But if I'm not making any progress, I'll start it with the chainsaw.
