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

[Wolverine]

Been cutting nothing but EAB killed ash for the last two years. Currently, here are two of my log piles from the last six months or so....
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Last spring I hauled a whole bunch of these out of the woods .......
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.......which yielded several piles that looked like this one.....
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.....which ended up making about 80 or so of these with a bunch still in a pile.
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Nice!

 

[Pincher]

Railroad is taking down a few trees along our property. Looked like fire wood to me.

Brothers tractor.

 

[N8TE]

Railroad is taking down a few trees along our property. Looked like fire wood to me.
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Brothers tractor.

Nice...no cutting around our place for another month or two, we're still tits deep in snow

 

[M2theB]

Littler pile, Spruce. I’ve avoided the soft wood but was recently convinced it’s good to mix in, especially in the shoulder months.
So followed that up with some White Pine.

 

[I saw a lot]

Spent a couple of hours at my best friend/firewood partner Lefty's today. No splitting but moving some around. Stuff in the ring will be sold next winter along with the 2 racks we filled.
You will see very nice stacks of un-split wood, this all belongs to @Wood Doctor (Edwin). He is starting to use Lefty's place after his big theft last year. He is really putting us to shame.

 

[I saw a lot]

A few more pictures.

 

[I saw a lot]

Pulled the rest of our dry wood out of our sell ring, maybe a large pickup load, so we can now work on filling the sell ring up for next season. Also worked with @Wood Doctor to split and load his truck with some that he has cut to length.

 

[Wolverine]

Helped Dad stack the rest of the wood today. Took him another load of box elder.

 

[Wolverine]

Then went for a little ride.

 

[Wood Doctor]

Pulled the rest of our dry wood out of our sell ring, maybe a large pickup load, so we can now work on filling the sell ring up for next season. Also worked with @Wood Doctor to split and load his truck with some that he has cut to length.

I cut and stacked 12 truckloads of rounds during February, most waiting to be split -- mulberry, ash, red elm, hackberry, oak, Bradford pear, and cottonwood. That's quite a mixture, and that's what's fun about hardwoods.

I noticed that some of the elm that I thought was red elm turned out to be a hybrid cross between American and red elm. That's mostly of what's inside the truck in the Pic and what I am stacking today. We were able to split it, but it was a bit snarly and stringy. Regardless, it will dry nicely and make good heat next fall. More of that hybrid elm is on the way, even if red elm splits cleaner when green.

All my saws ran almost flawlessly -- Husky 350, 353, and 257. I kept the rest in reserve. About all I had to do was change out a fuel filter in the 350. The 257 was used mostly for noodle cutting big rounds in half to save my back when loading onto the tailgate.

 

[RalphK]

Wood doctor, how does that Bradford pear burn.?

 

[Wood Doctor]

Wood doctor, how does that Bradford pear burn.?

When dry, very good -- about the same as mulberry but fewer sparks. I love the stuff, but it's hard to find. It also smokes meat very good in the BBQ.

 

[RalphK]

Thanks, took down an old one in the backyard, although I usually burn Almond wood which is super.

 

[CrystalRiver1]

Helped Dad stack the rest of the wood today. Took him another load of box elder.
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A man after my own heart...I spend as much time as possible with my Pops.

 

[M2theB]

Kid are off for the next two weeks, anyway.
Pulled the back panels off the shed today so they got something to do.

 

[Wood Doctor]

Say guys, remember that hybrid elm that I mentioned above in post #1790? I split a half truckload of it last week, and it was no longer stringy. Beautiful stuff -- not quite as dense as red elm but it split just as easily. I've never encountered it before. The tree was huge with thin bark, at least 50 years old, and much easier to split than any American elm that I have dealt with before.

Anyway, I do not question success. Instead, I look forward to the forthcoming fall burn.

 

[<DoB>]

I'm back at it now that the ice and snow have melted

 

[I saw a lot]

Wood fairy made a few stops yesterday.
Load 1

 

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Load 2. Hoist could not lift the bed so had to throw some off first. His wife is an animal.

 

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Load 3