All done splitting for another year.

[paul bunion]

Got my load all split up except for a few crotches. I think it is still looking like it will stack up north of 5
cords.

Somewhere near three here in a sort of orderly pile.



And a little more than two here I hope.




Time to start stacking it up neatly in back. At least I can do that in the evening or at night.

Another year and a half worth of heat. Not bad for a few gallons of mix, a little bar oil, some electricity for the splitter and a pair of $3.99 gloves. I have 10 or so crotches that the splitter can't slice through. I'll get to run my saws dry slicing them up.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Good for you Paul, but that somehow does not look like 5 cord there.

Ya, evening work for the stacking will work out nice for you. Then it is time to start on the next batch.

 

[Hills Hoard]

you can sense the pride in the photos...haha...its at that point when i grab a beer and admire the piles...

 

[OldLumberKid]

you can sense the pride in the photos...haha...its at that point when i grab a beer and admire the piles...

It's all good but my modest pile got smaller when I stacked it neatly ... funny how that happens.

 

[bogydave]

Nice pictures.
Looks like a few wood types.
Got the oak separated out?
Is it all this to be for 13/14 burn season wood?

Thinking the 2 pictures combined , 5.15 cords

 

[paul bunion]

Nice pictures.
Looks like a few wood types.
Got the oak separated out?
Is it all this to be for 13/14 burn season wood?

Thinking the 2 pictures combined , 5.15 cords

You are probably very close on the guesstimate. The uphill pile stacked in at 300 cu feet. Neat and square, 3 rows, 68" high and 14 feet long, the third row being incomplete, Discount some for the criss cross stack ends and call it a little more than 2 cords. And that is without the crotchety unsplittable blocks getting noodled. I did sort the wood as I stacked, the ash/cherry in one row and the oak/black birch/beech in the other two. The ash and cherry were rather dry, they seemed to have seen some vertical seasoning, I'm pretty sure it was standing dead. I burn 4-5 rows like this a year and had 4 to begin with, so ash will be prime for burning next March at the earliest, leaving a double row there drying for the year after (or later). I also put about 8" under the pallets, which in my opinion helps the bottom of the stack to dry. The stringers are old pallet rack veritcal posts, with a 4x or 6x under, they work real well.




And I ran into the second of my two suppliers while picking up flowers for Mothers day. He was a bit perturbed in a friendly way that I let someone else dump wood in my yard. But I settled that real quick by telling him he could dump off a load or two of standing dead ash which he said he could do. So I have more wood on the way. With a couple of pickup loads and what I have now I should have no problem stacking up 15 rows and I'll be set for three years.

 

[bogydave]

Looks & sounds great.
More ash will be a good wood to stock up on.
Does your climate dry oak fast, I hear here, it takes 3 years to season well.

That's been my goal to have 3 years worth of wood CSS'd in the wood shed.
& 1 years supply outside seasoning.
Got off track due to back surgery & it took a while to get there. I'm close.

So keep CSS'ing if you have the space.
You never know the future &
"can never have too much firewood "

 

[Blue2ndaries]

Great work and nice looking stacks!

 

[ScotO]

Lookin' good, Paul Bunion!! Lots of good stuff there.
Stacks look nice, neat, and orderly.....
Splits look like about the right size too. Not too small, not too big. Just right.....

 

[PapaDave]

Paul, is that more firewood under the tarp by the lattice fence?
If so, get that tarp covering just the top of the stack. If not, n/m.
First set of pics contrast quite well with the 2nd set.

 

[paul bunion]

Paul, is that more firewood under the tarp by the lattice fence?
If so, get that tarp covering just the top of the stack. If not, n/m.
First set of pics contrast quite well with the 2nd set.

Yes there is more wood under the tarp. It is 3 or 4 years dry and shrank out from under the during the winter. I need to re-adjust.

 

[OldLumberKid]

You are probably very close on the guesstimate. The uphill pile stacked in at 300 cu feet. Neat and square, 3 rows, 68" high and 14 feet long, the third row being incomplete, Discount some for the criss cross stack ends and call it a little more than 2 cords. And that is without the crotchety unsplittable blocks getting noodled. I did sort the wood as I stacked, the ash/cherry in one row and the oak/black birch/beech in the other two. The ash and cherry were rather dry, they seemed to have seen some vertical seasoning, I'm pretty sure it was standing dead. I burn 4-5 rows like this a year and had 4 to begin with, so ash will be prime for burning next March at the earliest, leaving a double row there drying for the year after (or later). I also put about 8" under the pallets, which in my opinion helps the bottom of the stack to dry. The stringers are old pallet rack veritcal posts, with a 4x or 6x under, they work real well.

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now I should have no problem stacking up 15 rows and I'll be set for three years.

Another woody work of art...