A little more seasonable...

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Easy Livin’ 3000

Easy Livin’ 3000

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Finally, a little break from the early deep freeze. Looks like some balmy 40° weather for the next week.

Good opportunity to chew through some more of the giant stash of tulip poplar, with just a dash of oak, birch, and ash, for coaling purposes.
 
ED 3000 said:
Seems I always have an ample supply of odds and ends that I'm trying to get through. Hard to stack!
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Ditto. I've been using up the short pieces, end cuts, oddly shaped or knotted pieces, etc. that don't stack and are piled at the end of the shed. They still burn and I don't believe in wasting anything so it all gets used but my OCD is much happier when the odd pieces are gone and there's nothing left but the neatly cut and stacked rows.
 
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EODMSgt said:
Ditto. I've been using up the short pieces, end cuts, oddly shaped or knotted pieces, etc. that don't stack and are piled at the end of the shed. They still burn and I don't believe in wasting anything so it all gets used but my OCD is much happier when the odd pieces are gone and there's nothing left but the neatly cut and stacked rows.
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I agree with you, waste is bad! Tons of BTUs in the odds and ends.

Seems like 25% of my stash is like this, but it's probably just my imagination, since it's difficult to deal with, more work in every way.

Just have to be patient and creative to store it.
 
Thats what weekends are for! I just got into a partial cord that my son split...he didnt waste anything..lol most all of the uglies from that will be burned this weekend...
 
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Rain and 45 today. Thought about still going out and doing s.ome splitting today. But not worth getting sick over for me. Kevin
 
Kevin Weis said:
Rain and 45 today. Thought about still going out and doing s.ome splitting today. But not worth getting sick over for me. Kevin
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Its been a tough few months out in the east to scrounge for wood, basically its been raining every 4 days most of the time either on a Saturday or Sunday, plus the ground has been less than ideal for working on.
 
kennyp2339 said:
Its been a tough few months out in the east to scrounge for wood, basically its been raining every 4 days most of the time either on a Saturday or Sunday, plus the ground has been less than ideal for working on.
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It's been like that all year here, terrible!
 
ED 3000 said:
It's been like that all year here, terrible!
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Same up here. I took advantage of every (somewhat) dry chance I had to scrounge about three-plus cords of dead & down in October. I would just cut the trees into whatever size was manageable to get them back to the house and kept piling up the logs. After all the rain, we had the early snows of November, so I just finally got done bucking everything into 16" rounds. It was a lot of fun digging out the logs from under three feet of snow with the tractor and then breaking them loose with a sledgehammer (insert sarcasm here). C'est la vie, it goes with the territory.

They had gusts up to 100mph on top of the rock pile and that came right down over us during the night so it will be interesting to see if anything new came crashing down that I can scrounge.
 
I got lucky this fall, we had 2 weeks were it didn't rain on the weekends, I was able to split nearly 4 1/2cords and get it stacked & covered. The past summer like many others, I made a wood pile in the yard, just waiting for the right conditions to pull out the splitter.
 
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kennyp2339 said:
I got lucky this fall, we had 2 weeks were it didn't rain on the weekends, I was able to split nearly 4 1/2cords and get it stacked & covered. The past summer like many others, I made a wood pile in the yard, just waiting for the right conditions to pull out the splitter.
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I still have a pile of rounds. The rains in the northeast were ridiculous this year, if the rain/snow holds off I might get to split over the holidays.
 
Heard today for the mid-atlantic the big freeze will be here the second week of January. Might be a bear as that is the coldest week of winter anyways typically. Most of my future firewood is laying in a floodplain, which has been flooded six times since September. So on top of the mud hole there, the wood is saturated on top of that! Only way to get to it is when the ground freezes. Only happened for a couple days so far. Kevin
 
Kevin Weis said:
Heard today for the mid-atlantic the big freeze will be here the second week of January. Might be a bear as that is the coldest week of winter anyways typically. Most of my future firewood is laying in a floodplain, which has been flooded six times since September. So on top of the mud hole there, the wood is saturated on top of that! Only way to get to it is when the ground freezes. Only happened for a couple days so far. Kevin
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Mud hole doesn't sound great. Good luck getting it done!

We live on the side of a ridge, and only one small spot collects water. While everything is more effort because of the slope, I'm glad there are no mud holes.
 
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