This person's woodyard nirvana...kinda....sorta

man thats awesome!
a nice bit of work to have bigger results.
Do you have wood in mind to fill the void?

 

Yup - 4 ash trees that need go come down due to EAB.

I need to call a tree service for a quote.

 

That is smart dating the wood of when it was cut and stacked I never thought about that
Like you I do want to put a wood rack on my back deck

 

Having a face cord of splits 2 steps out the door, is super handy. That amount would hold us for 2-3 weeks in the coldest months. Although, I'll refill it every few days.

 

Looks great and it must be nice. Still buried in snow here, and what isn't snow is mud. Pointless to try and get anything done until after mud season other than making note of all the dead trees that need to come down this year.

 

I was able to acquire some Black Birch.
Wood ID, please. Birch of some sort.

Time to make firewood from it.

1st load to a conveniently empty rack.


I've not dealt with much BB. Nice colors. Does BB always look so nice, or is the darker redish wood the product of rot traveling up the tree?




3rd and last load for the day.


I'll cover it and continue filling the rack, as time allows. I'm in no rush. I still hand split. I enjoy the satisfaction of seeing a round end up in several splits.

 

Looks good, Mike. Glad you're still able to hand split.

 

That color is common in BB. Not from rot, just heartwood in older trees. I hope you stopped and sniffed every split! It may become more difficult to split as the end dries and checks. If planning on splitting set them on end to get wet and they should pop easier.

And yes, my wish would be to always have an empty log rack for new fresh splits. Redoing part of main storage where most of my loads go and currently restocking bundle wood stacks here at home.

 

The area is filled with the wintergreen/spearmint scent.

 

At least something smells good over there today, because the B’s and C’s sure don’t.

 

Got that right!

 

Same church, different pew.

Time to make firewood out of some goldilocks BL poles. Other piles are in the background






Pickem up and stack.


I had some other BL that topped off the rack, which is a short 5' rack. I got that rack and one other like it alongside a back road, with a free sign on them.

The pieces sounded like bowling pins as they cascaded down from the redneck sawbuck

 

Yeah those BL smalls are sweet. Nice job on the improvised sawbuck. Great cool day for it too.

 

Gonna have to try this. My sawhorse is broke and I just got a oak tree top. In pieces.

 

The cross poles are some pine trees I thinned out a couple of years ago.

Don't go too thick on them, though. If too thick, the cross-crotch will be too narrow and elevated.

 

'twas a good morning in the woodyard. Time for some cleanup and rack consolidations.

First up was topping off a stack of ash, with ash from a short rack.

Topped off rack




Emptied short rack


Them onto moving a mix of oak and BL to free up an 8' rack.


I pulled the horizontal boards out, cleaned/raked leaves that I could get to. Readied the rack for new firewood


This past week I filled a rack with black birch I scrounged. It's got room for another course or two.




I then cleaned up an area for two more racks. This is an area that had 5 racks in a space for 6. The past couple of years I've moved wood and empty racks around to make better use of the space



The 2 empty racks need to be placed on footings and leveled.


It was such a nice morning, I then split a load of black birch and started filling an empty rack.


I'm done. Have a great Friday!

 

Love the sawbuck, even my no-carpentry-skills brain can build that! Cinder blocks 'n 2x4 runners... tip... sometimes you can find landscape timbers on sale, they are even better, twice as thick. Assuming they sell those where you live.

 

I like the sawbuck idea too.

 

My more recent racks use landscape timbers. And yes, are cheaper than 2x4's, when on sale.

 

I can re;ate with cramming a lot of wood in a small space. Well done Mike.

What do you have on hand for rounds or are you all caught up?