The logs on the ground were from the felling of the 9 ash trees this spring, the stuff I bucked up this afternoon gave us another 79 - 82 rounds and that doesn't include the rounds in picture 9589. I should be splitting and stacking this before Monday.
I don't think that we've burned much ash since most of the trees are healthy but since EAB is in our county, we'll burn it. Our favorite is beech so I'll be looking for some not so healthy beech for the stacks.
All the wood (ash) was from my spring felling, the first three pictures are from wood I split earlier this spring and the rest are from the rounds I split today. I'll finish this stack Saturday which is two face cord, if the ash rounds in the gully give us another face cord, this area will hold 12 face. Before I start the fall felling of more ash, I should have a total 58 to 60 face cord in the firewood inventory. I'm hoping to get another 10 face cord from the ash I fell this fall. We also have close to 12 face cord of shoulder season wood stack, white pine.
Thanks T.Jeff Veal , I'm happy with what we have but I see one area open that will hold 12 face and another smaller area that will hold 3 or 4 face. I'll definitely get the smaller area filled and the 12 face area will depend on mother nature.
I hadn't planned on doing much today so I didn't take the camera. I did move a bunch of chit wood to the outside fireplace with the 4540, three loads. After the above was done, I decided that the gully in the back would finally get cleaned up on the east end so I can run the rhino with the trailer or splitter the whole length, done. After I cleaned it up, I took the rest of the ash rounds out in the trailer to the splitter, with all the rounds we have, I'm thinking we'll get another face cord for a total of 12 stacked in that area. I'll get some pictures tomorrow.
This is the ash I had left from the spring cutting, we have a single face cord in the front & back and five stacks that hold two face cord each for a total of 12. Pictures 9601 & 02 are the back gully where I cleaned up some dead cherry yesterday so we can enter it from the east ot the west and run the whole length until the mess near the big ole maple. The temp isn't that bad (76) with a breeze.
Thanks T.Jeff Veal , I have part of another stacking area with three face cord that's open which holds 17 so I'll start on that this week. I have some yellow birch,ash and some beech I can stack.
You've been pretty busy thewoodlands Looks like you have an ample supply. I'm sure it's been mentioned, but how much do you end up burning per year?
I think 12 face was the lowest amount we ever burned with 14 face on a cold winter, that's all hardwood. We also burn six face of pine for shoulder season wood along with some pellets. We heat from the basement so we burn more than if we had the wood stove upstairs.
Nice, you have quite a bit left as well. You're on your way to the 5 year plan. We've been fairly consistent with 3 full cord so far, but still have a few more home improvements on our agenda.
The stacking areas for hardwood, we have one that holds eight face, the second holds twelve, the third holds 10, the four holds 17, the fifth will hold another 10 and the six has 12 face of ash in it. About four years ago two, area number five had 14 face in it and area 6 held 17 face but I decided to allow more room between stacks so we have don't have the wood we use to. The shoulder season area holds two years worth, 12 face.
I just like them all filled, mother nature will determine how many years we have. Last year winter went into summer, I didn't think the cold would leave.
