Oaks are some of the longer seasoning time woods. The sooner the better. The smaller you make splits, the quicker it'll get to burning MC.
If you decide to wait, as The Wood Wolverine recommends, get them on their sides instead of cut ends against the ground.
Those rounds in the photos are the two loads we brought home. At the couples house, I cut it and roll it about 10 feet right onto the trailer. I've probably have another 4 to 6 trailer loads to bring home. Feeling like I do I couldn't ask for a better setup.
There's a partial buck cut on that round on the left. Maybe someone hit metal there and moved on. Heck of a score, I'd be on it like flies on stink.
Great score! Step 1 get it home.. so it’s not hijacked Step 2 get it bucked Step 3 get it split and stacked wait 2 years and you’ll have great heat you might need to replace a chain or 2 start with your oldest most worn chain
Yes, I want to get back and get more loads home, but it's on a hill side and the owner says just a little rain makes it slicker than snot. We had some short heavy rain down pours today so I have to wait. It's killing me to leave it set. But the chief of the fire district I used to work for bought property about a mile away from us and is clearing some 2 to 3 year standing dead trees out of his woods, he doesn't burn wood so as he cuts the trees down and puts it in a pile for us. We brought home the first load of ash this afternoon, rain wasn't a problem as it's a pretty flat grass covered area. My wife and I just about had those earlier rounds split, but that's ok, can't pass up these kind of opportunities when they come.
The wife and I felt particularly energetic yesterday morning, so we went and cut and loaded some more of those oak rounds. The temperature rose pretty quick so we got the one load and headed home, 85 degrees just too hot for me with the three cancers going on.
These next few pictures are from 3 MASSIVE Silver Maples less than a block from my house. And the bark Across the other street is 2 more MASSIVE Silver Maples #3 And the bark again And here's the leaves......kinda suspect
The smaller rounds that are stacked in rows are maple and some ash. The big rounds laying everywhere are oak. They were just cut down a month ago and the leaves were still laying everywhere.
It's not as bad as it looks, it was sitting a little low in the back, but it has a 2" leveling lift on the front, makes it look worse than what it is. The Jeep actually does a pretty good job. It has the trailer tow package with 3.73 gears and I upgraded the brakes with drilled and slotted rotors. I would love to have a pickup but the prices are crazy high for 200,000 miles and rusted frames around here.
