Mike, how much wood is in those 3 trees? I'm heading for Columbia CT for a tree down in a yard today. Came down in the Sunday rain and wind. Pics to follow. God does provide. One job going to a local widow, this one to me.
That's awesome! Looking forward to pics as things progress. My job today is the top of a tree snapped off, and doing something with the spar. Hoping it's NOT ELM!
It wasn't rainy and the ground was firm enough to move wood to the house. Doing so, I emptied a rack of a red maple, ash, and apple. It was the last rack of a score from a few years ago. My next score? Hopefully! I raked around it before starting to fill it with EAB killed ash that was stacked in a temp spot. I moved about half a rack. I'll get the rest moved tomorrow. I had an incredible amount of bug debris/frass from that wood mix. I brushed it off before bringing to the house. Alot of it stuck to damp leaves. Tomorrow, the leaves will find their way into the compost pile. It's nice to finally have a decent day outside. I don't enjoy yard work/wooding when it's rainy.
There's some sloppy weather coming this week. So, I reloaded the deck rack ahead of any precipitation. Some nice dry RO I was nearing the end of a rack in the woodyard. So I walked around to decide where I was going to draw from. All RO. About 2 cord of well seasoned RO. Another couple of cords dated in 2020. Always puts a smile on my face.
There I was... moving wood from the woodyard to the deck.... when lo and behold I come across some forgotten BL, about a dozen pieces. So I moved them to be with some other BL that I've kept track of. It doesn't look like much, but I only burn BL when overnight temps <20⁰. Those nights have been few and far between this heating season. I'm blessed with cords of red oak, so no complaints. I have about another 2 dozen pieces of BL that these will find themselves stacked with.
I think I burned maybe 3-4 pieces of BL this year, and only because they were on the rack under my deck left over from last year. I was burning oak during most of the cold snaps, and now that I'm having 1 fire a day and only sporadically, I'm still burning oak. It's the most versatile species to burn IMO, good for the frigid temperatures and a small oak fire is perfect during shoulder season too.
Nice day for another chapter of my R I.P. - Rack Improvement Process. Having empty racks affords one the opportunity for changes. That empty rack had ash on it which kept us warm. So I moved it to the right and raked up a few years with of leaves Area is all cleaned up and ready to be used. Over to right is a metal tube rack that is to be moved one rack to the left. The empty rack is viewable to the left. The move is underway. I don't remember stacking acorns. I did rustle up a field mouse that quickly disappeared. Back to moving. Done moving. Including my highly sophisticated tracking system. As with each rack, I try to have barked edges facing the weather. Newly emptied metal rack moved. It still needs to go through leveling with footer bricks under each end and middle. Footers prevent the feet from punching into the dirt. Cleaned up the area where the metal rack was. New landscape timbers will be used with cinder blocks for new rack That other metal rack on tight, is temporary. It also needs to be leveled with footers. I started with 5 poorly spaced racks and ended up space for 6.
Nice work Mike. I'm liking those galvanized "brackets" at the bottom. Adds some serious beef. An extra rack is a great thing. Go get more woooooood!
