Work Done 2025

[punky chunks]

I got my third and final truckload of wood today from a field by my work. It is a giant red oak which blew down last fall. I've been eyeing it all winter. Finally ran into the owner a week ago.
This last load (cutting from the top) brought me to where three large branches converge, and it is supported here, and then fifty feet away to the rootball. The cut I would have to make is not scary on normal sized wood, but is here. The trunk is several feet off the ground. If I get the trunk on the ground, it is easily 2 years of wood, possibly 3. I would have to build another shed. Sometimes an axe is safer than a saw.

 

[Wisco Shepherd]

Dropped an elm and an oak in the parents front yard. Easy trailer acess and neighbors bobcat for hauling limbs and brush made this one a cinch.

 

[NickW]

Just refilled the inside wood rack for the last time here at home. Should still be 1/2-3/4 full yet on Friday for the new owners. Friday I need to remember to change my location and other info.

 

[Dieselhead]

I moved a little more wood to the porch from a small 3/4 cord stack I have to relocate for a project this summer anyways. It’s mostly hickory, red and white oak and possibly some maple mixed in. I brought over about 30 splits maybe it will be the last for the season, maybe not!

 

[thewoodlands]

We put in a small load of ash & maple today. After putting in firewood, I cleaned off the sander and parts of the tractor, the sander was wiped down after cleaning it, next is greasing it.

 

[Turbo89]

I moved a little more wood to the porch from a small 3/4 cord stack I have to relocate for a project this summer anyways. It’s mostly hickory, red and white oak and possibly some maple mixed in. I brought over about 30 splits maybe it will be the last for the season, maybe not!


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Nice slabs, i need to improve my splitting game!

 

[Dieselhead]

Nice slabs, i need to improve my splitting game!

Thanks! That’s my favorite shape to split, if I could split all of it that way I wood. (Pun)

Sometimes due to species or size of the round I’m working with it doesn’t always come out as planned, but it’s all BTU’s in the end.

 

[thewoodlands]

I finally bucked up the top of a White Pine mother nature took care of the last wind event. I moved it over to a splitting area with the tractor, once I get the area the top was in cleaned up more, the rest will be felled.

 

[thewoodlands]

The worst part of today was picking up branches that were on the trails. The winds did take down part of a small beech so I bucked that up with a pine that has been down. I'll need to fell the rest of the beech and the pine that are still standing, the beech did come home with me.

 

[Turbo89]

Doing some spring cleaning, cutting up some wood I had stack a few months ago.

What does everyone think these bigger rounda are? They smelled pretty good almost cedar like, but not cedar. Hickory?

 

[vatmark]

Had to unstack this rack. It was ready to fall over. Guess that's what happens when you live in the mountains and have no flat ground and buy a cheap wood rack. We took all the wood off and got it all rejiggered. It is a 12 foot rack so we added 2 green metal fence posts to have smaller sections and provide some stability. The picture doesn't even make it look as bad as it was.

 

[Dieselhead]

I was offered some 8’ lengths of red oak 4x4 and 6x6 that had been sitting mostly under tarp for several years. I’m looking forward to sharing pics in the 27-28 “what is in your stove” thread showing a solid cube of this and see how long I can get on the king with no air space between pieces. 😬 I approximate a bit over half a cord in the pile.

 

[thewoodlands]

We put in a very small load of firewood this morning, after that I washed two vehicles today.

 

[Wisco Shepherd]

Not as much firewood related but I had a brush mower on rent so I ended up clearing 3-4 acres of nastiness from my place as well as a neighboring 2.5 acres that we will have access to for grazing. The neighbors like to turkey hunt and like the vegetation a bit lower so the sheep will be up to the task now.

 

[heavy hammer]

I keep thinking winter is over but we are going from 70's today to 30's with wind and rain snow mix for a day or to. Figured I'll burn up everything in the garage before winter is finally over. I'm ready for spring and warm temps.