I've had this red oak stacked on the side of my driveway for over a month. It was a nice morning to split it and truck it to the stacking area. Then the sun came out. In the words of Navin Johnson's family - "The Lord loves a workin' man! Wishing everyone a great weekend.
And after I got the oak stacked I got right into the river birch that was dumped out back week before last.
Howdy Brad. My thoughts: Stringy, did not split as easily as I thought it would (but no problem with the splitter), splits from larger logs are heavy (which I attribute to water), bark very messy on the smaller logs with all that curly, peeling stuff, did not notice any aroma. We'll see how it burns in a year.
I cut and split the main trunk today. Heavy, heavy, heavy! And when that splitter ram went in water oozed out the cut surface like a sponge being squeezed. Got it all done.
Yes i remember it being heavy and the maul just sinking into it when i tried to section the bigguns for loading. Funny as i did a delivery today and there was one piece of it that worked its way into this stack. Yours should be good for next Fall's SS.
