I really do have too much wood (really)

[mobetter]

The missus and I sold off all of our toyz and decided we would buy us a place out in da sticks.

We found our little piece of heaven down a .4 mile lane behind a 10 acre woods.

Soon after the move the Emerald Ash borer was found in these parts, since about 5-10% of the trees are White Ash, I have some of the best firewood on the hoof (so to speak)

My problem is;

I can't stand to use all of them nice logs for firewood.

I do drop some and cut the tops and not so straight ones up to burn, but there are Sooooo many!

I need to get some hauled up to me Pole barn (75x45) uninsulated steel sided and erect some kin o' 'Man Cave'

Not to rub it in, but most are 14-24" DBH and limbless for 20-25 feet!

I have an old Country Comfort smoke Dragon in there that is worthless basically (soffit vents and ridge vents)

Gonna use a bunch o' them logs to enclose an area 'bout 20x30 big enough to work on a car/truck and be able to run everyone out with that old CC (close to 6 cube firebox)

Think It will have a mezz atop to store all me chainsaws and mopar booty!

 

[Jags]

You gonna make lumber or use logs?

(Thanks for reminding me that my Challenger door panels are still above my shop.)

 

[mobetter]

Logs!

And it has the most awesome natural edge ever seen (by me)?

 

[Jags]

Pics will be required.

 

[mobetter]

Yup we've been here 9 years.

And I've had this plan fer the last 4 er 5,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

So don't be holding your breath for pics eh?

Here's the shed;

 

[Jags]

Nice shed.

 

[mobetter]

Thanks!

Yup been busy getting my pond dug, stocked, landscaping the place (had more grass in the driveway then the lawn)

Can't believe someone put all this up,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,then just walked away???????????

Guess we've been blessed!

 

[Beer Belly]

HOLY CRAP !.....thats a Shed ? (nice), can't imagine what the house looks like

 

[mobetter]

Nothing extraordinary,

The missus and I made a deal, she gets the House I get the Shed.

she shares , and I let her keep all her bins o' stuff out there.


I tell everyone, I live in a $130,000 house on a MILLION DOLLAR property!

Wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[mobetter]

Not bad fer a couple High School drop-outs eh?

 

[firefighterjake]

Very nice . . . and nothing wrong with that house either.

 

[mobetter]

Thanks Jake,

We learned what hard work was all about all through life.

I would NOT recommend doing it the way we did.

But we were getting older, and figured if'n we didn't take the plunge it was never going to happen.

Shoot I don't need a lake cottage, or condo on the beach!

 

[Beer Belly]

Nothing extraordinary,

The missus and I made a deal, she gets the House I get the Shed.

she shares , and I let her keep all her bins o' stuff out there.


I tell everyone, I live in a $130,000 house on a MILLION DOLLAR property!

Wouldn't have it any other way.


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man o man o man....that is a beautiful place you right there

 

[mobetter]

We were there at the right time, guess it was meant to be eh?

The only way we were in the position to take the plunge was we flipped an old classic home we spent years restoring,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,on the cheap.

Think I've lost all the pics of that place.

It was very cool though.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Mobetter, you stated you have lots of trees but we too had lots of trees. I can tell you that those trees will still last for many years. We started cutting in 2002 and have not stopped yet. Still many to go but only a couple have fell so far and one of those was from a terrible wind storm we had that uprooted some oaks right by it. Ash is one of the longest keeping woods you will find but of course the best way is to cut and stack it off the ground; even if in log form.

Nice place and congratulations to you and your wife.

 

[Michael Golden]

You have really nice grass, and one of the nicest gravel drives I've seen! Lol

 

[BobUrban]

Go back and read what Dennis wrote. Here in Michigan we got the ash bug a few years ahead of you and my findings match that of Dennis. If they are not unsafe in location just leave the dead standing for momma nature to fell for you and continue to clean up after her as she works. My guess(and experience) is that you will have trouble keeping up - even if you only take the easy stuff. Good news is that downed ash can lay on the forest floor in the upper Midwest for a few years without effecting it's quality with regard to firewood.

 

[mobetter]

Thanks,

Yup it's a woodchuckers dream situation, but I'm always thinkin' outside the box eh?

I will have plenty to burn, but just can not even think about using them fine straight ones fer firewood!

Guess da guyz in da 'woodshed' think that be blasphemy eh?

I thought about a way to debark logs many years back, guess Mother Nature has done it fo' me!

 

[BobUrban]

BTW - Most of mine has the bark held on by Poison Ivy vines - ARGGG!! I go out in the winter with an axe and cut as many as I can so that in a year or two when they come down much of the devil weed is dead. Helps but is not fool proof - me being the "fool"

 

[mobetter]

Bunch of the ones here too,

Boy was it pretty and red in the fall though,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,until you have to hatchet it off eh?

 

[BobUrban]

Stuff is remarkably resilient - I cut a big chunk out instead of just slicing it in 1/2 - especially on those huge vines. Not sure it is better but it makes me feel better.

 

[Jags]

I like to cut the vines just to listen to them scream​

 

[mobetter]

Them dudes have some tenacity,

Yes we had a wind storm come threw year ago last June (duratio?)

It took the tops outa a bunch of them dead standing ones on the N.E. edge of da woods.

I cleaned them tops up last Spring, those vines were NASTY!

 

[mobetter]

You have really nice grass, and one of the nicest gravel drives I've seen! Lol

Yup!

It is a never ending job!

They all came here in the back o' me old Dodge, the pit is just two or three miles from where I work.

.4 miles to the road, did it all with a square shovel and a grain scoop!

( lets me drink my beer without the missus hollerin' at me)

 

[eclecticcottage]

But we were getting older, and figured if'n we didn't take the plunge it was never going to happen.

Shoot I don't need a lake cottage, or condo on the beach!

Sounds so very familiar...except...we went with the lake cottage. We've got neighbors that could buy and sell us many times over, but our cottage was less than 100K, lol.

I am jealous of your "shed".