Thanks Woodsnwoods, I don't have the most firewood we've ever had or compared to many on the board but we're happy with it. I put up a face cord of Ash today and still have another tree down which should give us another face cord, that will give us 60 face cord of hardwood stacked going into the fall. I've never felled alot of healthy trees but since EAB will kill the Ash, why not take them before they're dead.
Today I finished off the stack from yesterday with some Ash from up top and then stacked another face cord of Ash which also came from up top. Picture 0404 is some Ash from up top, 0405 is the stack I started yesterday and finished today, the rest of the pictures are the next face cord I stacked and some pictures coming down from up top. I have one more Ash down on the backhill that should give us another face for a total of 12 in this area, since I started cutting Ash we have 26 face cord, we heat from the basement so I'm hoping it will give us enough heat that the upstairs will be toasty, if not we have the Pellet Stove in the opposite corner, this past heating season we burned 53 bags.
I'm hoping either this fall or from wind damage I can put up another 10 face before the white stuff hits the ground, that will give us 70. This summer if I'm in the woods, I'll be working on getting another face cord of damaged Ironwood. That tractor must be coming in soon.
That sounds great, the weather up here will be nice, how about in your area? We expect a thread to be started!
I think mid 70’s, no rain. Certainly an improvement from the last 7 months. Thread to be started for sure
This was the last Ash I had felled on the backhill, I took two loads of the bigger rounds underneath a Pine tree for some shade when I split the rounds. I'll get the stacking area ready (one face cord) and then start splitting this week. I still have more rounds in the gully. The other pictures are of a sundog, it had better color than what the picture shows.
I split the Ash rounds that I brought out of gully yesterday, it gave us another face cord for a total of 12 face cord of Ash in that area. With the Beech,Ironwood,Maple and Cherry stacked out front, that was another 6 face cord for a total of 18 this spring. I still have some rounds of Ash in the gully so I'll get those before the end of May. Since I've been cutting Ash, we have 26 face cord up. The wife ask me today if I could start on bucking up some of the Pine logs from the garage clearing, there goes my break.
That's a lot of wood there. You have some very nice stacks too. It's easy to stack in our sheds, lot harder with a single row...good job, brother
