Meadow maintenance

My back yard I try to maintain as a typical swedish meadow. That means I remove the hay once or twice per year. When I do that I remove the nutrients from the soil and the tall growing grasses doesn't thrive. Flowers and herbs will like it better.

In a meadow you can remove some trees for firewood. If you remove to much trees the roots will compost and provide the soil with to much nutrients. This winter I will probably remove a little to much because it's a bit to much shadow and it blocks my sunset view.

Anyway I had one dead ash that I removed today


Tomorrow start thinning out this birch grove.

 

Do you have the emerald ash borer?

 

I've never seen firewood stacked so successfully on such a steep slope.

 

look at the picture sideways

 

Here is a copy of your picture. Some good looking firewood.

 

thats a pretty lookin stack looks a bit neater than what i usually get/do

 

No. But it's a sickness that kills our ashes.

 

Thanks!

 

Today I removed two of the birches. One rather big one worth taking for firewood



I guess it was slightly less than a face cord
A customer in my job asked if I could fix a chopping block.

Tomorrow I probably continue with my thinning of my birch grove.

 

Today I had a little time to continue.

7 trees. 3 of them was worth taking for firewood

It's considered absolute best firewood around here in Sweden when birch is around 4 inches in diameter. Easy split and nice to handle.

A little adding to my pile. The lighter coloured firewood on the left is from today.

 

Interesting that you stack all your wood bark down. I always stack, or at least try to stack mine bark up to prevent moisture getting to it, and speed up drying.

 

I belong to the bark down crowd. Than when I'm ready with the stack I top cover it. For this single row stack I am going to use old clay tiles from a roof.

But I do not know what's the best way.

 

You said 7 trees and only 3 for firewood. What is wrong with the others? If they are small why don't you use them for kindling?

 

Yes too small. For kindling I prefer Norwegian sprouse. I have more than enough of that stuff.
My dad has a 5 acre sprouse plantation where I need to remove 3-4 cords yearly for the next 10 years.

 

I had a few hours of. So what's a better way to spend it than cutting some firewood?

49 rounds 12 inches a piece. Maybe you can help me figure it out how high the tree was in feet



Little by little it's adding up. A problem I have with this firewood is that I have no clue what to do with it.

 

12 inches is 30.48 cm
hope this helps ....

 

The hills in Sweden are really steep.

 

Add 10 inches of treetop and 1 inch of stump it's a total of 18 meter or 60 inches. Which is the typical height of trees in Sweden.

 

We are definitely at different parts of the world. If I lived in Australia the stack would probably look like this