If you hurt like a bus ran you over on Monday. All good though. Busted hump on an Ash and Red Oak. Ash went down in Irene, Red was bucked last Feb. but could not get to it for lack of solid ground. On and off over the last 2 weeks I spit the rounds and finally had frozen ground over the weekend to bring in the truck and trailer. 2 loads of Ash and 1 of Red Oak in the pics. Have 1 1/2 of Oak and 1/2 of Ash yet to gather. First time I have had the ability to load a truck bed and trailer together. Figuring the combined load is 1 1/3 cord (short bed full size p'up and 54x100 inch trailer). All loaded and unloaded by hand. Thus the soreness. I have run out of room on the existing stack setup; hitting the property line. The Ash is piled near the consumption end of the stacks. I am going to start new stacks with an 15 foot gap to the existing stacks. Hoping this will allow room for the truck to bring future loads in. Have a couple cord of Hickory bucked to bring in soon. Need frozen ground there too.
How do you know if it was a good weekend?
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PapaDave
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SUCH a nice feeling, eh?!
I'm waiting for the snow to melt to get to a couple trees in the side yard that are laying on the ground.
I'm waiting for the snow to melt to get to a couple trees in the side yard that are laying on the ground.
lookin good MWN.....I'm sore from a late evening jaunt up in the woods to cut up a big white oak that has been eluding me all season. Took advantage of the two inches of snow we got on Saturday night and took the snowmobile and sleigh up and got it out of there. It is stacked in my basement and keeping my house warm as we speak. But I, too, am sore from the job! around one and a half face cord.
Blue Vomit
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thewoodlands
Minister of Fire
mywaynow said:
Nice work mywaynow, you have a nice mixture of wood in your stacks. Looks like mother nature will bring in some rain for Thursday & Friday up here, should make things a mess.
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Looks like 27 for a low overnight. If rain is coming, I am going to get the last 2 loads out in the morning. The Hickory will have to wait for the next front. Most of the wood in the stacks is equal parts red oak and ash, lots of cherry and walnut, dribbs/drabbs of locust, hickory, dogwood, pear and osage. We are littered with oak and ash is this area, and allot of it is very old, large growth.
bogydave
Minister of Fire
Nice pile of wood. The red oak has good color for a drab day 
Now cold enough to cut wood, strange winter.
We are getting rain here today too.
Now cold enough to cut wood, strange winter.
We are getting rain here today too.
mayhem
Minister of Fire
Did that myself over the weekend. Split up about a pickup's worth. Then I loaded it into the pickup and drove it over to my basement doors to stack it and start it drying. Then I did it again.
Anybody happen to have a split picture of red oak? I think i have about a cord of the stuff but haven't taken a pic of it yet
mywaynow said:
What i have is a dark maroon on in the center with an almost white stripe on both sides. Hope it is decent stuff because I have some split and some left to do.
mayhem
Minister of Fire
RORY12553 said:
I still have a few (literal) tons of the stuff to split so I'll try to grab you a photo. It has a very distinctive odor, almost like dog doo when its fresh.
If it doesn't stink its not red oak.
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