Finally started splitting some sugar maple then about a third of a load of beech from the wood I cut in the winter. I just have that back rack to fill then it's time to make another stacking area.
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Intheswamp said:Nice stock of wood there, Zap! Now...what are you doing on the internet...you've got wood to split
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Kenster said:Zap, for what year are those stacks designated? How long will it take you to burn the wood in those stacks?
smokinjay said:AWESOME pics.
rottiman said:Zap, 1st class as usual.
zapny said:smokinjay said:AWESOME pics.
Smokin thanks, how is the meat coming along and will you have enough?
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Kenster said:Zap, sorry... I forgot to ask the first time.... how many cords would you say you have stacked and how many years ahead are you?
Hope that's not too personal. In Texas, asking how many head of cattle a man has is like asking how much money he has in the bank. So you don't ask.
I'm fascinated by the large supplies some people have. I don't burn more than a cord and a half a year and I'm excited that I'm getting close to five cords on hand, though at least three cords needs to be split. I'm hoping to get at least four years ahead this year. Then I can just add a cord or two each year.
I was doing reallly good with fresh wood but was afraid I wasn't going to have a good supply for the coming winter. I recently scored at least half a cord of water oak that came down in a storm a few years ago. It was all broken up and dumped on a creek bank. It's dried really nice with no sign of punk or rot.
I split a couple of rounds Thursday, a 12-14 incher and one about five or six inches. They measured 12 to 18% MC pretty much throughout. That'll work for this winter. I already had about half a cord from the tops of another water oak that came down last fall, plus a pin oak that fell last fall that I cut up into 8 inch lengths and split small. It's been in the front line of our unrelentingly strong, hot dry wind we've been having for months. I think I'm good for this winter.
Kenster said:We haven't turned on the heaters in three years but we heat only with electricity, not oil. Pretty expensive, though.
zapny said:rottiman said:Zap, 1st class as usual.
Thanks rottiman, how is the beast in your avatar doing. We actually have had a nice day with some wind, very little rain and what I think they call the SUN!
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wannabegreener said:Zap,
Those piles look great. I'm trying to get a couple of years ahead but having 20 cords would be awesome. It must feel great to have all of that work done. I' think it's great that you have only had to take what nature gave you. Keep up the awesome work.
wannabegreener said:Zapny,
The rain is certainly slowing down. Thursday was ok, Friday better, and it just sprinkled a little this morning.
Sent you a pm.
Thanks
Woody Stover said:Zap, are you putting the T-posts at the end of the landscape timbers? If so, what's the reasoning? It would make the stacks less likely to fall, I'd think...
SolarAndWood said:What's up with the t posts Zap? I thought you had gone old school?
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