This past year I had a large red oak tree come down in a storm (uprooted) taking three small sourwood trees with it. The root ball on one end and the many large tree limbs at the other kept it up off the ground. I had been waiting until I finished burning the wood left in my woodshed where I planned to store this tree and a few weeks ago I moved some of that remaining wood around so I could start refilling the shed. The tree was 20" in diameter five feet up the trunk and when I cut up the rounds I counted over 110 rings, so it had been growing a good long time. My property here in western NC is made up of many ravines and this particular tree fell about 200 yards from the house on the other side of a ravine too steep to navigate. This meant I had to make a trail around the back end of the ravine to get the wood out. In this type of situation I use a sled and hand drag the rounds about 100 yards to a spot where I can get to a wheelbarrow on a trail. Then it's another 100 yards pushing the wheelbarrow to my woodshed where I split and stack the rounds. I ended up getting around 4 cords of wood from the trees and completely filled up my shed. Today was the first really hot day where I did some serious sweating, so I'm really glad to finished for another season.
This a photo of the woodshed taken a few years ago. It holds three rows deep and is thirty two feet long. I burn a bit more than a quarter of the wood each winter.
This a photo of the woodshed taken a few years ago. It holds three rows deep and is thirty two feet long. I burn a bit more than a quarter of the wood each winter.
