Oh yea I know oaks drying time well haha. Thankfully both were dead standing so I have a small jump start on the drying process(not much) got 4 cord 20% or lower of red oak and beech so I got some time on these oaks. They should yield a decent amount of wood.Great score...They may take a years or so too season up for you....Still..awesome..
Yea she's amazing glad I could get her into the whole wood heating process. She loves to run the stove but hasn't gotten into the cutting and splitting, gotta start somewhere rigt?! Yea I haven't ever burned chestnut. I'm excitedYou got a great wife there. My wifes back is real bad so I work solo and the kids are too young to help yet. I cut up about 4 cord of chestnut oak this year and am burning some 2.5 year stuff now. It is among some of my favorite woods in that it coals up but does not hold a bed of coals like hickory or locust. In the real cold stuff I do not have time to let the coals burn down. It is in my top 3 favorites including black birch and cherry.
Haha that's great. It's good excercise and better enjoying the outdoors rather than sitting on a couch all day getting her out in the cold is tough but I bundle her up and make sure she's warm, once she's out there she has fun. And I'd imagine you oaks may have gotten some oak wilt, it'll knock oak trees out In a summer, that's what I beleive got mine. Hopefully me taking them down saves the rest of my oaks!Those are my three favorites as well, black birch, Chestnut oak and Black cherry. And I have apple , pear, plum and peach to pick from as well.
My chestnut oaks were dead standing, dont know what got them yet. I had my BIL cut a live one last year though.
I love the look and smell of that wood. Found a stool at a craftshow once made out of Chestnut oak but I couldnt afford it. I regret it.
I dont know what to offer in the name of advise to get the wife into wood processing. I dont really know what my issue is. I bully my sisters husband into it and he hates it.
Those are my three favorites as well, black birch, Chestnut oak and Black cherry. And I have apple , pear, plum and peach to pick from as well.
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