Firewood thread!!! Let's see what you got!!!!

[RCBS]

Nothing but white oaks falling over in my woods lately.

 

[Boomhower]

Nothing but white oaks falling over in my woods lately.

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Ill trade you some pecan.

 

[Wolverine]

Nothing but white oaks falling over in my woods lately.

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That’s a pretty decent problem to have! I love everything about white oak except the mess it leaves with bark and sap wood.

 

[RCBS]

Ill trade you some pecan.

I think the shipping might kill the deal. Would love to burn some peekan!

 

[RCBS]

That’s a pretty decent problem to have! I love everything about white oak except the mess it leaves with bark and sap wood.

Both the trees laying there thankfully have not yet really started to go punky. The last one I got has junk sapwood.

 

[jblnut]

Dropped a couple more big oaks at church. This one had a nasty crack up the side so we wrapped a strap around it to help prevent it from splitting before it was down.


Couple more oaks and a little ash that was in the way. The white oak up close was almost completely rotten all the way through. Definitely time to take that one down.


2 17’ white oak and 3 9’ red oak saw logs in the back and firewood load 1 of 3 f the day in the front wagon.


I’m gonna have to get busy bucking this stuff up !!


I cut a few of the stumps off flush with the ground. There is an easy day of firewood in this one chunk alone !!

 

[bradb123]

First off Happy New Year's Day to everyone. We got some more firewood cut from this property this morning. It's always easy working with my coworkers with all the equipment they have. They just kept cutting down trees and dragged them over for me to cut. Unfortunately the dump truck broke after the first load. Probably cut up 6-7 loads this morning. I used my scarr 543xp, my XS 550xpg and my XS 400c.

 

[Boomhower]

Dropped a couple more big oaks at church. This one had a nasty crack up the side so we wrapped a strap around it to help prevent it from splitting before it was down.
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Couple more oaks and a little ash that was in the way. The white oak up close was almost completely rotten all the way through. Definitely time to take that one down.
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2 17’ white oak and 3 9’ red oak saw logs in the back and firewood load 1 of 3 f the day in the front wagon.
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I’m gonna have to get busy bucking this stuff up !!
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I cut a few of the stumps off flush with the ground. There is an easy day of firewood in this one chunk alone !!
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Ive done that before to keep split trees from barber chairing. Thats a lot of good oak.

Happy new year everyone.

 

[jcarlberg]

Couple of days’ worth of splitting birch with the kids:

 

[jblnut]

Couple of days’ worth of splitting birch with the kids:

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How come you have some of it stacked all crossways and the rest in rows ?

 

[jcarlberg]

How come you have some of it stacked all crossways and the rest in rows ?

Good catch. Just how we are distinguishing wood that is a little drier & ready to sell sooner.

 

[jblnut]

Good catch. Just how we are distinguishing wood that is a little drier & ready to sell sooner.

Thanks for the reply ! I’m trying to find the balance between touching the wood as few times as possible and drying speed so it made me wonder what the reason was. Makes total sense.

So far it’s between building 40+ pallet racking racks, buying 120ish IBC totes or piling it up on concrete I don’t have somewhere. Leaning toward the racks or totes and/or a combination of the racks/totes to create walls on the edge of concrete pad with a pile in the center. The ideas change daily so we’ll see what happens

 

[I saw a lot]

I like totes.

 

[jblnut]

I like totes.

As do I. I worry they will get destroyed over time while moving them about with my skiddy. I have a couple dozen now and they seem to be doing okay but some are taking damage to the metal feet between the bottom of the tote and the bottom ring on the tote that touches the ground.

I’m thinking of filling totes with wood and lining them along my 12’ wide concrete strip. When we still had dairy cattle this 12x200’ pad had an ag-bag on it that was filled with corn silage. We got sick of playing in the mud in the spring so we poured concrete for one of the 6 bags to be on concrete to keep it out of the mud. It worked great !! Best part is that it’s long been paid for and mostly sitting empty so storing firewood would be a great thing to do with it. Downside is that it’s 2 miles from my stove …..


I’ve stored wood on it in the past but I could keep waaaaaay more on it if I had totes lining the sides. Rough math says 200’ of totes will be roughly 100 totes or 33ish cord (which seems like a lot) and the 12x200 area in between will hold about the same if loose piled averaging 3-4’ high. That’s way more area than I actually need. I may need to get some more totes !!

 

[Hoser]

Try to find totes like these. I believe they’re old mail sorting cages? But they’ll take way more abuse and the whole front is hinged halfway.
Fold down flat and stackable.

 

[I saw a lot]

Most of our totes are beat up pretty bad, but still functional. I don't have a way to move them here. I am putting them up on cinder blocks for extra air flow and seem to be holding up fine. I need to recount but think I have close to 20 here in town and have access to more as needed.

 

[Wilhelm]

Got a few cords of red oak split. I need to burn some wood to have room.
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Lovely pup!

Couple of days’ worth of splitting birch with the kids:

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I had some birch firewood, a uprooted 24" base OD tree worth.
It burns freaking HOT with very little smoke.

Makes for excellent kindling!

 

[Wilhelm]

I emptied my "crap firewood box" a couple weeks ago and today began stacking split turkey oak into it.
I have no plans of clearing brush or the likes this year that would make the "box" convenient for un-stackable crap firewood.

 

[jcarlberg]

Thanks for the reply ! I’m trying to find the balance between touching the wood as few times as possible and drying speed so it made me wonder what the reason was. Makes total sense.

So far it’s between building 40+ pallet racking racks, buying 120ish IBC totes or piling it up on concrete I don’t have somewhere. Leaning toward the racks or totes and/or a combination of the racks/totes to create walls on the edge of concrete pad with a pile in the center. The ideas change daily so we’ll see what happens

Chris the "In The Woodyard" guy from Youtube swears by just piling it loose (he uses bins made from pallets, no covering the wood or anything). I can't get away with that as I am in a residential area and my wife already hates that we have wood stacked everywhere, even though it's pretty neatly piled. Touching the wood as few times as possible is smart. I have not been at this very long (less than a year) so still trying to feel my way through the best process. Luckily, having kids to help out means that I can get away with being somewhat inefficient! We are handling this wood too many times but making small improvements as we learn.

 

[Johnmn]

Chris the "In The Woodyard" guy from Youtube swears by just piling it loose (he uses bins made from pallets, no covering the wood or anything). I can't get away with that as I am in a residential area and my wife already hates that we have wood stacked everywhere, even though it's pretty neatly piled. Touching the wood as few times as possible is smart. I have not been at this very long (less than a year) so still trying to feel my way through the best process. Luckily, having kids to help out means that I can get away with being somewhat inefficient! We are handling this wood too many times but making small improvements as we learn.

I have tried the loose piles in my area and while the wood does dry eventually, stacked covered rows dry significantly faster and more even but I think you can get different results depending on your area.