Took Zap's advice...

[Woody Stover]

...and got it before it laid around for too long! :cheese:

This White Oak had blown late last Summer. The Red Oak here seems to die off more frequently but the White seldom does, so I'm always glad when I can add some to the stacks. It wasn't up off the ground so I thought I'd better grab it ASAP. It was just 19" DBH but was a leggy woods tree. This section, which already has the top trimmed off, is still 66' long.
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Seems to go on forever!
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Anyone know what these darks spots on the trunk are? A dying Sugar Maple I recently cut had this on it as well.
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A few bark pics:
Classic flaky bark.
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Smooth bark section.
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Base of trunk.
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I was able to hand-split all but about six rounds that had crotches; Lightweight Fiskars for the easy-splitting stuff and an 8# maul to bludgeon the stubborn ones into submission. :smirk:
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You can see this wood, lighter in color, at the far end of this stack which is ten pallets long, double-row. Half Pignut, half White Oak. I've got another White Oak trunk, up off the ground and punkwood rotten, in a neighbor's yard. That should finish this stack. It's about three cords now. I've got three bricks under each end of the pallets and they seem really stable...or maybe I'm stacking tighter. This wood is at least three years from being burned...
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[woodsmaster]

That little trailer hauls quite a load.

 

[Woody Stover]

That little trailer hauls quite a load.

Even though I had that load bungeed down, it still nearly spilled when I hit some bumps; I stacked subsequent loads a little lower. :smirk:
Trailer is rated for 1200 lbs. It's the same width as the quad so I can get around in the woods with it pretty easily.

 

[golfandwoodnut]

Woody, looks good. I noticed those same marks on some of my white Oak. I did some quick research and there are beetles and larve and even borers that attack Oak trees. I guess in California they even get a sudden Oak death syndrome.

 

[thewoodlands]

Looks great Woody Stover, I wish we had Oak on our property. It looks like your way ahead on your wood supply, nice job.

zap

 

[Stax]

Way to go Woody. Looks like you definitely know what you're doing. Impressive wood supply.

 

[corey21]

Looks great nice work.

 

[maplewood]

Very nice firewood: even lengths, nice split size, and beautiful stacks.
For the crotch pieces, I place the round crotch up, with the two ring centres pointing up.
I spit off as large of a piece as I can just to the outside of each centre.
If you split to the outside of the centre, it will break away and not be effected by the crooked crotch grain.
Yes, the left over centre piece is an "ugly", but throw it on top of your ranks and it will season with the rest, and burn with the best.
(Now that I've typed all that, I'm sure you handled this expertly, and don't need my advice. Did I mention you have super stacks?)

 

[Woody Stover]

Looks like you definitely know what you're doing.

There are any number of people who might take issue with that statement. :lol:

For the crotch pieces, I place the round crotch up, with the two ring centres pointing up. I spit off as large of a piece as I can just to the outside of each centre.

Yep, I knocked off what I could and the rest went to the power splitter. One thing I like about hand splitting is seeing how accurate a strike I can make when I need to. If you miss on those gnarly ones, you pay the price. :shut:

 

[ScotO]

great score, woody. One of the best woods fer sure! Nice looking stacks, too!!

 

[tfdchief]

Beautiful view!

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Woody, that is some very nice wood in a nice patch of woods and some beautiful wood piles too.

 

[NH_Wood]

Real nice work Woody - great wood there! Dark spots look to be some kind of fungus. Cheers!

 

[BobUrban]

Very nice and lovin the perfect stacks. I have a lot of work to get stacks like some I see on here.

On a good note I have been doing a little "ZAPPING" myself and getting all the dead and blown down I can before the weather shuts me down for the season. At least for that swampy, thorny, poison ivy infested area.

From the cord calculators on here my best guess is I am up to 8+ cord and growing. But my stacks are not as pretty!

 

[tfdchief]

The black spots are Hypoxylon canker, a fungus - http://txforestservice.tamu.edu/main/article.aspx?id=1262

 

[ecocavalier02]

Nice stax. im jealous of all that nice strait wood ya got stacked. the last 3 rows of wood stacked was some knotty crooked, gnarly wood. Makes for ugly stacking and hard to keep from leaning.

 

[Woody Stover]

Thanks, everyone, for your kind comments!

Very nice and lovin the perfect stacks.

Luckily that stack is getting pretty long, so I am further away with the camera to get it all in the pic. The further away you get from my stacks, the straighter they look. :lol:

The black spots are Hypoxylon canker, a fungus - http://txforestservice.tamu.edu/main/article.aspx?id=1262

Thanks for that link, Chief. The trees around here have been stressed by drought and heat, and I certainly could do a better job of managing the woodlot to minimize stress...