American Hophornbeam

[thewoodlands]

I decided to move some American Hophornbeam that has been stacked for around three years. I finish off the stack hopefully tomorrow.

Picture 1420 is after I started to stack, 1421 & 22 is the area the American Hophornbeam came from which will hold the American Hophornbeam in picture 1423.

Once the American Hophornbeam is moved from picture 1423, that area will become our shoulder season stacking area which will hold two years worth. I don't like moving wood from one spot to another but we have about five years (maybe more) worth of shoulder season wood so I like keeping it in its own area.

I didn't take a picture of the area I was stacking (pic 1420) after I was done so I get one tomorrow.

http://forestry.ohiodnr.gov/hophornbeam

 

[Ctwoodtick]

Pure heat come winter.

 

[thewoodlands]

Pure heat come winter.

We had a third of a cord of American Hophornbeam ready for this past winter but we burned the only Oak we had scrounged in 2012. We'll mix the American Hophornbeam in with our Sugar Maple and Beech which should give us plenty of heat.

 

[thewoodlands]

In picture 1424 is the American Hophornbeam that I stacked yesterday, in picture 1425 I finished the stack today.

In picture 1426, I'm getting set to split the rounds I moved out of our shoulder season stacking area (picture 1429) the rest of the pictures are from moving the rounds and the splitting I did. The trailer still has some smaller rounds I won't split so I'm hoping for around a third of a cord but I'm thinking we'll be short.

 

[thewoodlands]

I stacked what we had left after I split it yesterday so we have another 0.31 of a cord of American Hophornbeam, that will give us a total of 1.24 cords.

In the second picture we have room for 0.62 of a cord so I'll fill that with some Cherry that has been stacked in the woods, it will get better wind and sun so it will be ready by fall.

 

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When I was checking our property, I finally made my way up in the area of some dead American Hophornbeam. 1 is the smaller and 2 is bigger but has some shrooms growing off it but we still should get some good wood from it.

Picture 1490 is another small American Hophornbeam.