Cold weather needed to haul wood

same problem here moving from log pile to shed.

Lawn's torn up but luckily I found a few weather windows to get it all done before Christmas

I'm done for the season but it's gotta be annoying because 35-40 deg is ideal for making firewood

The wood processing has been no problem easy to get to and where most of my wood is at is a good work area. The only problem is hauling the ten truck loads of wood back to it I have to go through the yard and I’m just not willing to destroy the yard. I have a big area at the end of my driveway where it has been sitting for about a month and a half, where my old truck used to be parked so it’s not taking up very much space. I just want to use the tractor and get it moved but soon enough I guess.

I need the ground to freeze, snow just insulates.
With average snowfall of 83" my thumb is rarely itchy.
This year is crazy.


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50 degrees tomorrow here in Southern WI and rain ... here we go again! I guess I should try to look on the bright side - probably just a small fire in the morning and that's it for the day. An easy day on the woodpile!

That’s what it has been for our stoves lately. I figure it is not worth trying to keep the stoves going all day with the weather being this warm and trying to dial the stoves back. Seems more members here a talking about creosote buildup on the caps and even in the chimneys, with all this rain everyone’s wood seems not a dry, and with it not being real cold hard to burn hot all the time.

Winter is returning to the mid-atlantic this weekend. Snow and in the 20's supposedly on tap, we'll see. May not have to smolder so much from here on out. Hopefully the ground freezes before the snow comes if not will still be mud underneath and no gathering.

I hope your right Kevin Weis, but weather next week shows a warm up again, but maybe it will change.

Here there calling for average next week which is low 40's day 20's night

I have only had a few days this year so far that I have needed to burn the stove hot. I am a little worried myself about the creosote build up too. I am sure there have been tons of discussions about these on here somewhere, but Im on this thread so I will just ask quick... how do people feel about the creosote burn logs? Ive used 1 and stove was super hot and over next few days I did see quit a bit of creosote on the ground.

walhondingnashua said:

I have only had a few days this year so far that I have needed to burn the stove hot. I am a little worried myself about the creosote build up too. I am sure there have been tons of discussions about these on here somewhere, but Im on this thread so I will just ask quick... how do people feel about the creosote burn logs? Ive used 1 and stove was super hot and over next few days I did see quit a bit of creosote on the ground.

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Go with a smaller load but let it burn hot for a while. Hopefully it won't roast you out of the house but will still keep things clean. Also I've found its better to let the fire go out, and then when the house cools off start a fresh hot one. More work to build another fire but less creosote risk.

Looks like I will have a window of this Saturday AM of frozen ground at my neighbors to scrounge up a half cord or so before the snow that night.

We finally got our first real snow in south east ohio, and I need a freeze badly. I have 8 or 9 cord cut and split just sitting in my woods that I cant get out. Too steep and muddy for the tractor, or my deuce. It was like that every time I thought it was almost dry enough to try it would just rain again.

Looks like I got my wish of freezing cold temps for this weekend, yesterday it didn't get above 28, today same, tonight a low of 10. Snowstorm predicted about 150 miles south of my location, this will keep the cold filtering in the whole weekend. Time to saddle up and stark yanking trees out of the woods

It seems we are all thinking the same we received very little snow, but with it being about 20 - 25 degrees these last couple of days and not warming up this weekend I’m sure we will all have some good pics of the stuff we did. I plan on moving as much wood as I can with the tractor and running the labs all weekend. I’m with Zac R on the fires, until a couple of days ago that is how I have been burning this winter. It seemed like I was using a lot more kindling and matches, but wasn’t worth keeping a fire going 24/7. walhondingnashua I agree I’m sure there will be plenty of posts about more creosote buildup this winter with as wet a year we had and these warm winter temps. Hope everyone keeps an eye on the chimney flue and caps and has no problems.

Got about a half cord mulberry css today with the ground frozen. Snowing now so that's probably it for a while.

Finally stopped raining and got cold enough here to process and move some wood with the lawn tractor. Have a mixed bag of rounds that I probably should have gotten to sooner since some of it has started to go south but didn't really have any room to stack it.

Got into about two rounds and a few sticks that are punked but most seems to still be solid and will keep but keeping it dry by top covering is probably a must. Also have some recent scrounge of locust, hard and soft maple, oak and a little cherry.

Cut and carried some wood yesterday but the ground is still not frozen enough for the tractor, plus it keeps going into the low 30’s here during the day it’s 35 now with the sun out. On a positive note I ran the dogs all day Friday and Saturday. My younger lab I think has a small Diesel engine as a heart, I threw his tennis ball for three four hours both days and dog just runs, ended up being a couple good days.

My wood gathering didn't happen either, Friday morning around 6am we got banged of for a structure fire, spent the 1st half of the day hustling firehose around, I was feeling kind of dead yesterday and today I had plans to help a friend with moving some furniture around.

kennyp2339 said:

today I had plans to help a friend with moving some furniture around.

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i feel for ya, hope he had the requisite payment of beer on hand, moving furniture builds up a powerful thirst!

edyit said:

i feel for ya, hope he had the requisite payment of beer on hand, moving furniture builds up a powerful thirst!

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This is going to hurt some viewers but... its no alcohol January for me.

kennyp2339 said:

This is going to hurt some viewers but... its no alcohol January for me.

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Gasp!

More splitting today for me. These rounds were cut and stacked top covered on pallets a couple years ago. The squirrels nested in between them and brought in leaves and other litter and the tarp got trashed during several storms so little bit of a mess.

Though some got soft, the hickory is tough to split by hand as always. I don't remember having any maple but there's some very tight grained, white wood that looks and feels like soft maple. Except for the rounds that have heels it splits pretty easy. Small amount of locust too that's as clean as the day I stacked it, stuff just won't rot.

Then there's a strange splitting species in there that likes to shatter and split in concentric circles along the growth rings. It's stringy and getting it into usable wedges etc isn't all that easy. Think I ID'ed it somewhere along the way but can't remember. The leaves I attributed to it were single/toothed and the heart wood is pink sometimes almost purple. Doesn't feel like it's going to be outstanding firewood but not bad either.

The frost should go deeper this coming week. The highs won’t go above zero according to the forecast For this weekend. More like normal or a bit colder than average I guess.

Finally some tractor weather!