Stacked the rest of the ash, and hauled a bunch of black locust.

[Shawn Curry]

Had a pretty productive long weekend. Finished stacking the rest of the ash I was working on - 10 pallets full in the back of the garage, with room for 8 more. Plan is to fill those with black locust.



So I hauled and bucked the better part of four 14-15" avg BL trees that were down. Still a couple more trailer loads left to get.



This sawbuck is becoming the key to my workflow. I'll buck the tree into 2, 3, and 4 packs out in the woods. Once I have the logs up on the trailer, turning them into rounds is a piece of cake.

 

[Rossco]

Those piles look real neat.

You must be a stackin A-Hole like me

 

[NordicSplitter]

Ever think of keeping some of those rounds un-split for all nighters? One of those would go an easy 6-8 hours by itself on a good bed of coals....

 

[Pennsyltucky Chris]

That's a good looking processing area. And the stacks are real pretty like. That's my idea of fine art.

 

[Soundchasm]

Great work! Looks like you used a chalkline!!

 

[Shawn Curry]

Ever think of keeping some of those rounds un-split for all nighters? One of those would go an easy 6-8 hours by itself on a good bed of coals....

Those are all the ones I selected for splitting. I do like having some larger splits for all nighters. I like using them in my cross stacks as well. A lot of these wouldn't fit in the stove though! I'm sure ill still end up with quite a few big splits by the time I get though all this.

Thanks for the compliments guys. It's nice to show off all the hard work, and get something other than funny looks - "you think you got enough yet?" Neva!

 

[JTRock]

Yea that is awesome. I look at that and I see cozy and comfort for years to come

 

[Hickorynut]

Nice work, shawn curry. Two questions, how do you like your echo saw (love my cs600p) and do you get much doughy centers or rot in your locust. It is bad around here. With the locust on my place you usually only get about 1/2 the tree worth the wood. This is with older trees, say 18" diameter and up.

 

[Shawn Curry]

Nice work, shawn curry. Two questions, how do you like your echo saw (love my cs600p) and do you get much doughy centers or rot in your locust. It is bad around here. With the locust on my place you usually only get about 1/2 the tree worth the wood. This is with older trees, say 18" diameter and up.

My Echo has been running great for me. I've cut tons of wood with it. I just wish I had a longer bar sometimes, but so far it's always got the job done, just might take a little longer.

Most of this BL was solid. One of biggest ones, probably 18", I found by tripping over it in the tall grass at the edge of the woods. Looks like it may have fallen across the road at some point, and the town just pushed it back onto the property. That one was the most decayed. When I got down to the base of it, a few of the rounds were sort of "pre-split", and a little slimy. The wood was sort of separating along the growth rings and coming apart in wafers.

A lot of that ash came from a massive tree at my neighbor's house that blew over this spring. Now *that* thing was rotted out. There was about a 10-15' carpenter anthill in the base of it, and a good 2/3 of the wood in those rounds was gone. Here's a pic of the log I saved from it. This came from about 15' up the tree, and I counted 83 rings on it, so I'm guessing the tree was over 100 years old.

 

[Andy S.]

Great work! I'd love to be able to handle splits that size. My processing time goes up because I'd have to split them all in half. I looked for specs on your stove and couldn't find anything. What size is the Odette firebox?

 

[Shawn Curry]

Great work! I'd love to be able to handle splits that size. My processing time goes up because I'd have to split them all in half. I looked for specs on your stove and couldn't find anything. What size is the Odette firebox?

It's an older Canadian model stove. It's got a good size firebox to it though, I can fit 18" splits the short way and almost 24" the long way. Here is a pic from one morning last year when we lost power, and I cooked breakfast on it:

 

[NordicSplitter]

Keep going..Absolutely brutal Winter in store for us here in WNY. Lake Effect will be real bad until she freezes over...

 

[Shawn Curry]

Keep going..Absolutely brutal Winter in store for us here in WNY. Lake Effect will be real bad until she freezes over...

I've been cutting and splitting almost nonstop since April. I won't be running out of wood this year. I hoping to be able to sit on the ash and BL for at least a couple years, but I'll dip into some of the ash if I need to. Some of the smaller splits I tested were already in the low 20's. I have somewhere around 3.5 cords of softer stuff that's all ready to go - sub 20's.

 

[NordicSplitter]

I've been cutting and splitting almost nonstop since April. I won't be running out of wood this year. I hoping to be able to sit on the ash and BL for at least a couple years, but I'll dip into some of the ash if I need to. Some of the smaller splits I tested were already in the low 20's. I have somewhere around 3.5 cords of softer stuff that's all ready to go - sub 20's.

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Fabulous...I'm sitting on about 40+ face cords with about 26 or so ready to go! Hard work but its worth it....

 

[Shawn Curry]

Fabulous...I'm sitting on about 40+ face cords with about 26 or so ready to go! Hard work but its worth it....

Pays off in more ways than one... Not only will I have a big fat zero for the heating bill, I've also lost almost 50lbs! Down to 204 from 250+ about 2 years ago.

 

[jaychino415]

My Echo has been running great for me. I've cut tons of wood with it. I just wish I had a longer bar sometimes, but so far it's always got the job done, just might take a little longer.

Most of this BL was solid. One of biggest ones, probably 18", I found by tripping over it in the tall grass at the edge of the woods. Looks like it may have fallen across the road at some point, and the town just pushed it back onto the property. That one was the most decayed. When I got down to the base of it, a few of the rounds were sort of "pre-split", and a little slimy. The wood was sort of separating along the growth rings and coming apart in wafers.

A lot of that ash came from a massive tree at my neighbor's house that blew over this spring. Now *that* thing was rotted out. There was about a 10-15' carpenter anthill in the base of it, and a good 2/3 of the wood in those rounds was gone. Here's a pic of the log I saved from it. This came from about 15' up the tree, and I counted 83 rings on it, so I'm guessing the tree was over 100 years old.

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Now, that is a huge log!