Digging into the 12 cord pile for 2013-2015 seasons.
Yellow birch, maple, elm.
Some big pieces we're setting aside: a friend is going to loan us a splitter! First time we'll use one in at least 5 years!
(Big pieces for me is about 20" diameter. I'm letting the splitter on the property only because it's gnarly yellow birch.)
But the easy ones we're splitting and stacking now. Haven't broken out the wedges yet.
Just starting out:
Now we're about 3.5 cord stacked, another cord laying about:
And one more view, from the far right:
The stacks are about 35' long, 5' high, 16" pieces.
We'll have this done in a few more weeks. We're just going at it a few hours at a time. After this, we'll finish harvesting 5 more cord of softwood from my own property (you can see the start of my 6 acres in the background of the last pic). We burn about 14 cord / winter. Half hard wood, half soft wood. The soft wood is a mix of poplar, fir, pine and white birch, in that order. We can let the softwood dry for one summer, and it will be down to 20%. All our wood goes into the basement in the fall, on an in-floor heated slab.
I've already got a cord of softwood in a little pallet shed I build last year (it's full now):
And another 1.5 cord is stored next to my 7 cord of hardwood I've already got for the 2012/203 season, just around the corner from the area where all these pics above are from:
Yeah, that's a lot of wood!!
(I'm not much of a poser like Quads, but you can see the yellow handle of my maul in the centre of the last photo, and just catch a glimpse of it leaning by the trailer wheel in pic 3. The 45 horsepower 4WD 5440 Belarus is my 4-wheeler!)
Yellow birch, maple, elm.
Some big pieces we're setting aside: a friend is going to loan us a splitter! First time we'll use one in at least 5 years!
(Big pieces for me is about 20" diameter. I'm letting the splitter on the property only because it's gnarly yellow birch.)
But the easy ones we're splitting and stacking now. Haven't broken out the wedges yet.
Just starting out:
Now we're about 3.5 cord stacked, another cord laying about:
And one more view, from the far right:
The stacks are about 35' long, 5' high, 16" pieces.
We'll have this done in a few more weeks. We're just going at it a few hours at a time. After this, we'll finish harvesting 5 more cord of softwood from my own property (you can see the start of my 6 acres in the background of the last pic). We burn about 14 cord / winter. Half hard wood, half soft wood. The soft wood is a mix of poplar, fir, pine and white birch, in that order. We can let the softwood dry for one summer, and it will be down to 20%. All our wood goes into the basement in the fall, on an in-floor heated slab.
I've already got a cord of softwood in a little pallet shed I build last year (it's full now):
And another 1.5 cord is stored next to my 7 cord of hardwood I've already got for the 2012/203 season, just around the corner from the area where all these pics above are from:
Yeah, that's a lot of wood!!
(I'm not much of a poser like Quads, but you can see the yellow handle of my maul in the centre of the last photo, and just catch a glimpse of it leaning by the trailer wheel in pic 3. The 45 horsepower 4WD 5440 Belarus is my 4-wheeler!)
Is that for heating other buildings as well as your home?
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