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Todd

Minister of Fire
Nov 19, 2005
10,323
NW Wisconsin
Courtesy of my city recycle area. Found these nice rounds just laying there for the taking. I've also scored a bunch of Black Locust and Other Maples from the city this year. image.jpg
 
Nice score!! Those are Some good size rounds. I'm almost done splitting and stacking 4 cords worth of 2-3' diameter silver maple a tree company dropped off to me. It seems to split better after it sits for a couple weeks. Glad to know its good shoulder season wood. I won't be burning it this year but should be wood for 2014-15 and 2015-16. Should I worry about it setting too long or will it be ok for a couple years?

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You are a "Mini fork lift" to get those rounds in you r truck :)

Nice score, but a heavy one ;)

I'd have to split them in place
 
Courtesy of my city recycle area. Found these nice rounds just laying there for the taking.
Very nice! :cool: Those are some big, clean rounds. I've been stacking some Silver, too, and have a few more loads to get on the latest score. I burned a lot of soft Maple last season, more than a third of total cordage used. It worked out well, by itself or mixed, so I'm getting more whenever I can.
 
Nice score!! Those are Some good size rounds. I'm almost done splitting and stacking 4 cords worth of 2-3' diameter silver maple a tree company dropped off to me. It seems to split better after it sits for a couple weeks. Glad to know its good shoulder season wood. I won't be burning it this year but should be wood for 2014-15 and 2015-16. Should I worry about it setting too long or will it be ok for a couple years?


There is no way I'd let that stuff sit around more than 25 years.
 
Nice load of rounds Todd. I hauled some just like that Saturday. A couple were bigger than that......I took the tractor ramp along and rolled them up on the truck.
 
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They were a little heavy, usually I have my trailer and can roll those big rounds right up into it but thought if I went back home for the trailer someone else might snag it.

I burn a lot of soft maple, it mixes great with Oak and other harder woods. These rounds will sit all summer and be split this fall then moved to the shed in Spring and sit for 2 years before it sees the stoves.
 
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They were a little heavy, usually I have my trailer and can roll those big rounds right up into it but thought if I went back home for the trailer someone else might snag it.

I burn a lot of soft maple, it mixes great with Oak and other harder woods. These rounds will sit all summer and be split this fall then moved to the shed in Spring and sit for 2 years before it sees the stoves.
Scrounging like that is definitely not a girl thing.
Todd do you use that tapatalk phone App? or just your phone?
 
I got mine delivered to me for free, or I would have had to figure something out for sure! I couldn't even maneuver those pieces onto the splitter so I took a sledge and wedge and halved or quartered them just to be able to split them. It actually didn't take too long to do.
 
Nice score :) should have been easy getting them loaded, with the truck on it's side ;)
 
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