Osage locust oak and ash. Some maple. I am getting ahead. I want to be the guy saying. You need three year wood. Lol.
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From October until now. Getting ahead
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Lookin' good! 
I need to get out there. I've got wood to be bucked and brought home, wood here that needs to be bucked, then split and stack all that. I'm ahead now, but I want to keep adding to that cushion. I don't want to be out there in the summer trying to find my way around in the woods. That drought year wasn't too bad but last year, with normal rainfall, it was like trying to fight my way through the jungle. Tough to find and get to the wood.
It's been either very cold or too wet so far this fall to get much done....
I need to get out there. I've got wood to be bucked and brought home, wood here that needs to be bucked, then split and stack all that. I'm ahead now, but I want to keep adding to that cushion. I don't want to be out there in the summer trying to find my way around in the woods. That drought year wasn't too bad but last year, with normal rainfall, it was like trying to fight my way through the jungle. Tough to find and get to the wood.
It's been either very cold or too wet so far this fall to get much done....
red oak
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Can't go wrong with those types of wood! I used to celebrate when I was a year ahead, then Hurricane Sandy dropped all kinds of trees around here. Now I'm 4 years ahead, trying to figure out if I should go for 5 or not. It is a sickness!
jatoxico
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Keep up the good work. Just a suggestion try and get some faster drying stuff if you can, cedar pine cherry that you can use next year. The ash and some maple seasons pretty quick (usually, see my recent thread) but the wait time on locust and oak is the killer and it helps if you have some drier stuff to mix in so you can run your stove. I know this how? 
Just a suggestion try and get some faster drying stuff if you can, cedar pine cherry that you can use next year. The ash and some maple seasons pretty quick (usually, see my recent thread) but the wait time on locust and oak is the killer and it helps if you have some drier stuff to mix in so you can run your stove. I know this how?
Good idea! I have found myself in the same position recently. Had red oak, locust, and bois d'arc on hand-tons of red oak, but needed something to burn while waiting for the good stuff to dry. Lucked into some white pine that my dad was going to have hauled off. Lots of folks turn their noses up at the soft stuff, but it can come in handy. Always good to have options.
No bad reason to get ahead. We had an ice storm over the weekend here in mid-Michigan and there is a LOT of wood out there for the "getting". If I did not have so much available right here on the property I would be all over this windfall of storm wood. Instead I just take the Grizz and trailer out back and haul a few loads of ash out of the woods each week all winter long and CSS in the spring in my spare time. I never cut in the summer - to darn hot out for that.
Also - I stack my oak separate from everything else because it takes so long to dry. May want to do this with the osage as well. This way I am not sorting through splits of differentiating moisture levels.
Also - I stack my oak separate from everything else because it takes so long to dry. May want to do this with the osage as well. This way I am not sorting through splits of differentiating moisture levels.
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