Time to get busy!

[lobsta1]

The entire pile is about 20' long. In the very rear of the stack is cherry & ash. The high part of the stack is from 3 maples my neighbors had taken down that were between 30" & 44" diameter. As reference, the roof line of the shed is about 9' high. From where the fence pole forward is some 18" > 36" diameter oak logs I cut up yesterday that the city dropped off for me. Started splitting that today & I have never came across so much "shredded wheat" from oak before. The entire tree has a major radial twist to it. To try and get useable wood instead of kindling, I ended up taking the large chunks that split off & turning them on their side & lining up the grain with the blade & splitting them that way.
Al

 

[Cluttermagnet]

Dang! Nice woodpile. Guessing 20x7x5, I get ~5.5 cords. Please let us know what you net from that. BTW how do you get so much in so little space? My piles of rounds end up being 'suburban sprawl'.

 

[wsorg]

Wow! That will definitely keep you busy!

 

[Wood Duck]

Start swingin that maul 30 minutes a day and the pile will be gone before the 4th of July, plus you'll be in better shape.

 

[LLigetfa]

Start swingin that maul 30 minutes a day and the pile will be gone before the 4th of July, plus you'll be in better shape.

Forget the maul if you want to beat the heat. Go for the hydraulics and git 'er done, then go hang out at the air-conditioned mall. Being in shape is over-rated anyway. You'll get enough exercise using the splitter.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Very nice pile of wood! Yes, it is a lot of work but it is satisfying work. But get it split asap so it can dry. Let us know how much you get from that stack if possible.

 

[wood spliter]

Great pile. Looks like a wood shed next to it also.

 

[lobsta1]

Finished splitting the oak today. Actually I finished shredding it. I have a small stove so I usually mix up the size of the rounds. Some of the oak rounds were only cut to about 12". The tree had grown in such a spiral (even though the trunk looked straight) that when I split the 12", the chunks that wound off were almost 18". Not only the limbs but the entire trunk was like that. I ended up with an incredible amount of small chunks that either broke or were sheared off. On a lot of the pieces, the ends were so far out of alignment that I had to lay the pieces down to line the grain up with the blade & then split that way. In retrospect I should have just noodled everything. I would have ended up with more useable pieces of wood that could even be stacked. I ended up with about 3/4 of a cord that took me about 8 hours of splitting time. I probably could have noodled everything in about 1 1/2 hours.
Al

 

[hareball]

I can see the twist in the bark. Even the 12" rounds look scary!

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Sounds like you had your hands full with that bunch. I hate noodling...

 

[hareball]

Last time I had to noodle red maple and white pine I filled 2 hefty bags and sold them to the pet store...Made myself $5 a bag!