Hi everyone,
Started hauling in wood to the barn late last week from my outside stacks. I have about 4.5 cord of ash (another 0.5 cord of cherry and white birch) which was bucked and split last January. Resplitting some big splits is yielding about 20% moisture, so I think I'm good to go. Anyway - the majority of the ash splits are absolutely covered in very fine sawdust, and the splits have thousands of very small holes exiting the bark (look like little ant hills from the excavation and sawdust pile around the hole). Of course, as you get deeper in the stack, the fine wood dust get thicker and thicker - I'm spending A LOT of extra time banging the splits and wiping down the wood dust before stacking in the barn - figure it's better to get the splits clean now, rather than deal with the mess in the house/barn later. So....any of you have similar issues? I'm not worried about the little buggers getting into the barn or house - they are long gone - I first notice the holes in ~ May - I think as soon as the trees were cut, they lost their access to water/food from the active cambium, and drilled out to find a better home. Anywho, anyone know what that heck caused this - what a PITA! Cheers!
Started hauling in wood to the barn late last week from my outside stacks. I have about 4.5 cord of ash (another 0.5 cord of cherry and white birch) which was bucked and split last January. Resplitting some big splits is yielding about 20% moisture, so I think I'm good to go. Anyway - the majority of the ash splits are absolutely covered in very fine sawdust, and the splits have thousands of very small holes exiting the bark (look like little ant hills from the excavation and sawdust pile around the hole). Of course, as you get deeper in the stack, the fine wood dust get thicker and thicker - I'm spending A LOT of extra time banging the splits and wiping down the wood dust before stacking in the barn - figure it's better to get the splits clean now, rather than deal with the mess in the house/barn later. So....any of you have similar issues? I'm not worried about the little buggers getting into the barn or house - they are long gone - I first notice the holes in ~ May - I think as soon as the trees were cut, they lost their access to water/food from the active cambium, and drilled out to find a better home. Anywho, anyone know what that heck caused this - what a PITA! Cheers!