My wood pile for 2010-2011 and 2011-2012... I hope. (with pictures)

[Archer39]

I have about 9 cords stacked and am out of room for split stacks. I have an area where i plan on stock piling rounds for the third year supply. In the stacks there is a mix of red oak, soft and hard maple, black gum, walnut, Ash, a little sassafras and some other stuff i could not identify. I don't know how much wood i will go though next year. this year i started (first year) in the middle of December and had my last fire 2 nights ago. I burned about 3.5 cords of poplar, cherry, red oak (was not nearly as dry as it should have been) and little bit of walnut. I am thinking i will go though about 4 cords next year but i am not really sure.

 

[Got Wood]

Only on this forum can one safely say "I really enjoy looking at another man's wood"

Nice stacks!

 

[Uper]

Impressive work!

 

[Henz]

yup, nice job for sure. Doesthat big treeprovide alot of shade??? Be interestign how it dries out. that fence will bloc kalot of air movement. How did you like that splitter?

 

[Archer39]

yup, nice job for sure. Doesthat big treeprovide alot of shade??? Be interestign how it dries out. that fence will bloc kalot of air movement. How did you like that splitter?

yea its it not the most ideal location but it the only one i have. Most of the wood has been split since January so i hope if if stay ahead enough it should be dry. The splitter does its job. its nothing like the timberwolf we had on the farm but it sure makes dealing with large round a bit easier.

 

[Henz]

there you go! Yeah, just curious to know what your drytime would be and if you figured you would need an extra 6 months or something. Everyone has an opioning on this site regardign dry time but to me its all individual..I ahve an ideal spot to stack wood, gets alot of sun and nice breezes and I ahvent found anything that isnt dry enough to effecienty burn with a 6-8 month time..

 

[wsorg]

Nice stacks!

 

[webie]

yup, nice job for sure. Doesthat big treeprovide alot of shade??? Be interestign how it dries out. that fence will bloc kalot of air movement. How did you like that splitter?

yea its it not the most ideal location but it the only one i have. Most of the wood has been split since January so i hope if if stay ahead enough it should be dry. The splitter does its job. its nothing like the timberwolf we had on the farm but it sure makes dealing with large round a bit easier.

Yep tuff to beat a timberwolf for spitting splits . Nice wood supply .

 

[firefighterjake]

Loving that wood.

 

[rdust]

Great looking stacks of wood!

 

[SmokinPiney]

yup, nice job for sure. Doesthat big treeprovide alot of shade??? Be interestign how it dries out. that fence will bloc kalot of air movement. How did you like that splitter?

yea its it not the most ideal location but it the only one i have. Most of the wood has been split since January so i hope if if stay ahead enough it should be dry. The splitter does its job. its nothing like the timberwolf we had on the farm but it sure makes dealing with large round a bit easier.

Does your splitters wedge stop about 3" short of the plate? My buddy let me borrow his this week and the darn thing stops before the round is fully split. I end up pryin em apart or flippin over and splittin again.

Oh and ya gotta love that naturally debarked oak. I see ya have lots of that.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Archer, that was a lot of work and you can be proud. I doubt the shade will slow the drying process a lot. We've stacked in the shade many times. The fence will slow it some but again, it should do fine. You might want to bypass that red oak though and save it for 2 or 3 years before burning. Then you will really appreciate that oak.



SmokinPiney, that sounds like a nightmare if that ram won't go all the way down. I'd thing there is something very wrong there as I can not imagine a splitter designed that way. If it can't be fixed, I'd surely make a block to raise the log and make the ram go all the way down. It would be difficult doing that in the horizontal mode (any splitting in horizontal is difficult) but vertically it should work except you will have to lift each log that 3". Not extreme work, but still work that should not have to be done.

 

[Country Lady]

yup, nice job for sure. Doesthat big treeprovide alot of shade??? Be interestign how it dries out. that fence will bloc kalot of air movement. How did you like that splitter?

yea its it not the most ideal location but it the only one i have. Most of the wood has been split since January so i hope if if stay ahead enough it should be dry. The splitter does its job. its nothing like the timberwolf we had on the farm but it sure makes dealing with large round a bit easier.

Does your splitters wedge stop about 3" short of the plate? My buddy let me borrow his this week and the darn thing stops before the round is fully split. I end up pryin em apart or flippin over and splittin again.

Oh and ya gotta love that naturally debarked oak. I see ya have lots of that.

We rented about 3 splitters before we bought a Craftsman splitter. The rented ones and our Craftsman stop about 3-4 inches short.

 

[Archer39]

yup, nice job for sure. Doesthat big treeprovide alot of shade??? Be interestign how it dries out. that fence will bloc kalot of air movement. How did you like that splitter?

yea its it not the most ideal location but it the only one i have. Most of the wood has been split since January so i hope if if stay ahead enough it should be dry. The splitter does its job. its nothing like the timberwolf we had on the farm but it sure makes dealing with large round a bit easier.

Does your splitters wedge stop about 3" short of the plate? My buddy let me borrow his this week and the darn thing stops before the round is fully split. I end up pryin em apart or flippin over and splittin again.

Oh and ya gotta love that naturally debarked oak. I see ya have lots of that.

it stops about 2 inches short of the plate. I think they designed it this way to prevent fingers and stuff from getting chopped off but i really don't know. It is a pain in stringy stuff but oak maple and ash its no biggy because normally you can pull apart the splits once the wedge is half way in.

 

[Archer39]

Archer, that was a lot of work and you can be proud. I doubt the shade will slow the drying process a lot. We've stacked in the shade many times. The fence will slow it some but again, it should do fine. You might want to bypass that red oak though and save it for 2 or 3 years before burning. Then you will really appreciate that oak.



SmokinPiney, that sounds like a nightmare if that ram won't go all the way down. I'd thing there is something very wrong there as I can not imagine a splitter designed that way. If it can't be fixed, I'd surely make a block to raise the log and make the ram go all the way down. It would be difficult doing that in the horizontal mode (any splitting in horizontal is difficult) but vertically it should work except you will have to lift each log that 3". Not extreme work, but still work that should not have to be done.

the red oak that looks fresh (under the workshop roof) will be for 2011-2012 for sure. The red oak at the end of the pile was cut and split last October and was dead for 4 years before that so i hope it is good to go this coming winter.

Dennis, the wedge on the Speeco/husky spillters have about a 2" piece of steel that extends out in front of the wedge that rides in the log cradle and this makes contact before the wedge with the end plate.

 

[BrotherBart]

That looks great. I see you figured out fast that the Big Boy likes large splits.

 

[Archer39]

That looks great. I see you figured out fast that the Big Boy likes large splits.

it does not take as many to fill it up that way. Do they look to large to you? The largest split are ash, and hard maple.

Everything but the stack of red oak was split with the fiskars so i let the larger account of getting it done quicker.

 

[smokinj]

That looks great. I see you figured out fast that the Big Boy likes large splits.

it does not take as many to fill it up that way. Do they look to large to you? The largest split are ash, and hard maple.

Everything but the stack of red oak was split with the fiskars so i let the larger account of getting it done quicker.

looks great sould be some good btu's there! Nice job

 

[BrotherBart]

Nope. Not too large. I run'er with two or three monsters most of the time.

 

[sksmass]

What are the yellow ropes on some of the stacks for? Are they structural or are they guidelines for stacking them straight?

 

[Archer39]

What are the yellow ropes on some of the stacks for? Are they structural or are they guidelines for stacking them straight?

structural you can say. They are keeping the tops of the t-post stakes from bending out too much.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Lookin' good, neighbor!

 

[Flatbedford]

Very nice! Lots of work there. Lots of heat there too! Do you often find yourself standing out there and just staring at it all?

 

[Archer39]

Very nice! Lots of work there. Lots of heat there too! Do you often find yourself standing out there and just staring at it all?

Yep, and my wife thinks i am crazy!

 

[PapaDave]

Very nice! Lots of work there. Lots of heat there too! Do you often find yourself standing out there and just staring at it all?

That's funny, I walk to the field with one of the dogs at least once a day. While I'm there, I might as well ogle the firewood.