Good news is that a few years ago I got real busy and split and stacked 3+ years worth of oak, locust, and ash.
Bad news is that all that wood was cut and split for my Englander NC-13
Then last year I built myself a small, super-insulated, house which meant I needed to downsize my stove to a17-VL. Which also meant that a lot of the wood I'd processed is too big for the stove.
So the last week or so has found me going through all my stacks of wood, tossing them into 3 piles. One pile for too long, one pile for ok length but too fat, and one pile for just right. The too long pile gets restacked and burned in the NC-13 in the shed. The too fat pile gets split into 2 or 3 smaller pieces and restacked. And the just right pile gets restacked with no extra work.
The splitting is ok, nothing much more satisfying than whacking away with the splitting axe. But man do I ever hate stacking wood. It's even worse when the pieces are split so small, that's a lot of pieces of wood to handle!
At least I'm almost done. After tomorrow I'll have a little under 2 cords stacked under the covered patio. Hoping that will be enough to get me through the winter.
Alan
Bad news is that all that wood was cut and split for my Englander NC-13
Then last year I built myself a small, super-insulated, house which meant I needed to downsize my stove to a17-VL. Which also meant that a lot of the wood I'd processed is too big for the stove.
So the last week or so has found me going through all my stacks of wood, tossing them into 3 piles. One pile for too long, one pile for ok length but too fat, and one pile for just right. The too long pile gets restacked and burned in the NC-13 in the shed. The too fat pile gets split into 2 or 3 smaller pieces and restacked. And the just right pile gets restacked with no extra work.
The splitting is ok, nothing much more satisfying than whacking away with the splitting axe. But man do I ever hate stacking wood. It's even worse when the pieces are split so small, that's a lot of pieces of wood to handle!
At least I'm almost done. After tomorrow I'll have a little under 2 cords stacked under the covered patio. Hoping that will be enough to get me through the winter.
Alan