Last April I helped my wife's uncle take down a 24"DBH red maple that was sickly near his house. I just cut it into rounds and dropped it off between some fields at my inlaws.
I was worried it wouldn't be in very good shape because it had some punk in spots when I cut it and it was just piled up sitting on the ground. Add to that we had an extremely wet June and July for Indiana.
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I split a couple on top if the pile and they were solid. Next I dug some out of the grass on the edges. Split it and it had some spalting, but not too awful.
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A couple of the large rounds I didn't mess with splitting. They were punky in places when I cut it and water was squirting g out of them when I drove a wedge.
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In all I ended up with just shy of 2/3 cord. I tossed maybe 1/3 of a cord into the woods to become dirt. This is next years shoulder wood. I wish I would have got it split sooner, but it just didn't work out.
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I was worried it wouldn't be in very good shape because it had some punk in spots when I cut it and it was just piled up sitting on the ground. Add to that we had an extremely wet June and July for Indiana.
I split a couple on top if the pile and they were solid. Next I dug some out of the grass on the edges. Split it and it had some spalting, but not too awful.
A couple of the large rounds I didn't mess with splitting. They were punky in places when I cut it and water was squirting g out of them when I drove a wedge.
In all I ended up with just shy of 2/3 cord. I tossed maybe 1/3 of a cord into the woods to become dirt. This is next years shoulder wood. I wish I would have got it split sooner, but it just didn't work out.
