Yep, that's a lot of crotches. Figured I'd be blocking every piece that the splitter would shred. I love when the splitter wedge goes in about 2-3" and that's all it takes.
We cleaned up a tree for a neighbor that he had dropped. Got a dump trailer almost full of The Wood Wolverine favorite species... We dumped it at the end of the oak piles, gonna let the GA sun bake it this summer...then split it...
I was just starting to see that my stacks have less elm in them. That's mostly because I've been hoarding ash and Honey Locust. Also because I'm ahead and not needing pre dried dead standing elm. I ran across a nice piece of elm the last fire I had in my wood stove, and it had awesome orange ghost flames. Ash really doesn't ghost flame like elm or cherry does. I've been burning a lot of ash.
There was a noodlefest today. Not because my splitter couldn’t handle it, but because I was having so much fun running my muffler-modded Echo CS-400 that I haven’t touched in 9 months. Plenty of fire starter material for next year Lots of chunks/uglies/shorts that came out of this score. The “good wood” is stacked temporarily and haphazardly nearby. I’m doing a little rearranging in that area of the wood yard before the heat sets in.
I’m wrapping up this thread with a parting shot of the truckload of bark I’m going to make disappear tomorrow. The bugs and creepy crawlies in the forest can have it
I have too much junk for the firepit as it is, and the woods next door already have 3 heaping piles of branches, cut saplings, and leaves. Short of digging a hole and burying the stuff, I just want this gone.
I'd burn cactus if that was all that were around. That said, american elm is way down to bottom of desired wood along with the heavenly tree, below punky oak. I will burn slippery provided it's been standing dead until barkless. Boxelder, sass, silver maple, aspen, sycamore all just taking up space where good firewood could be growing.
