Impressive work JRHAWK9 ! That’s a lot of firewood to have on hand to not be selling much. I’d just keep an eye on it and make sure you’re selling before you lose any of it to nature. I’m a one man operation myself but unlike you, I sell most of what I cut. I estimate that I currently have about 55 cord on hand, but it is in round form so we’ll see how much that equates to once it is all split and stacked. I cut during the winter months as well. This year, I started a little later (middle of November) and plan to be done Cutting next week. Awesome that you found a use for the wood that was down on your property. It’s definitely a lifestyle that I don’t see going back from. My first year burning in my home was winter of 2009, and I’ve enjoyed every year since. Keep up the good work
We have about 18-20 cord stacked. Another 2.5-3 to split, and a heap tp bring home this week. I am using my brother's diesel to pull a dump trailer. I am getting ~2 loads tomorrow and another 2-3 loads on saturday. I'm figuring 2.5-3 cord per load. I would like to be 10 years ahead by fall, and at the current rate it won't take long.
Right, I wish I had all that hardwood. My pile would like a wood mill if I had firewood until I was 75, but it would be awesome.
I'd be lying if I said it was not a concern of mine. I'm more concerned about the stuff lower in the stacks, as if the stacks have any lean to them the bottoms will get wet when it rains. I do have decent air gaps between all my rows though (those rows which are not leaning that is). I have about 9" between rows stacked on the same pallet and I started to place my pallets rows 2' apart about the same time I started doubling up on my pallets. So I have a <2' walking path (the splits overhang the pallets a bit between the rows) between those rows. The stacking on double pallets helped get the wood that much further off the ground too. It seemed with just a single pallet, the pallet would sink into the ground some over time leaving the bottom wood to be pretty close to ground level. Any leaf buildup over time would not let air get to that bottom area. Hoping with double pallets, if the bottom pallet sinks some I'll still have a full pallet above ground level. I'd love to have a giant wood shed to house it all, but I'm not building a shed for something that is supposed to be saving me $$$ in the end. LOL I need to constantly remind myself of this. I don't burn wood to create even more stuff to spend $$$ on.
Do it...doesn't have to cost all that much...many here have built some very nice "pallet sheds" Here's some... Pallet buildings No...most of us don't, but, most of the "toys" we buy also don't depreciate very fast (if much at all) so go for it...besides, what else would you "waste it" on?!
Who says one has to spend it at all? Seriously though, there are only two spots I would have the room for one. One is where the wood is now...in the middle of the woods and where the two patio doors look over into the woods. I don't think their would be a chance in hell the other half would approve of that. The other spot would be in the front yard somewhere between the house and road. It's fully wooded so we'd have to cut down a bunch of trees. Would be an eyesore as well sitting in front of the house or in front of the garage in plain view from the road.
Same here, I love the exercise and just being out in the woods (although I could do without the traffic noise). Keeps me busy, keeps me young, and it's awesome heat in the winter time. Unfortunately I don't have much land to peruse through, but if I did I'd be doing the same as you, wondering and looking for blow overs or dead trees to take down. I do it now on my spec of land, after each wind storm I take a walk out back see if anything blew over.
We'll finish this heating season with just over 47 face cord of hardwood in our inventory, my spring cutting which should start this week should give us another 12 face cord of hardwood. I also have just under 8 face cord of shoulder season wood stacked, before fall I'll have a total of 12 up and then I can start on more hardwood if I want. We haven't had many wind events in the spring & summer so we're due, that could add to the total.
I finished splitting/stacking my winter's haul today. 11.3 cord this year. Splitter runtime of 9 hours. Started with 6.8 on the hour meter, ended with 15.8. 1 1/4 cord an hour. With my slower Speeco, I was doing 0.8-0.9 cord an hour....exact same process.
It's done at a 1/4 cord at time. I basically split till my trailer's full, then shut the splitter off to stack.
