You got a lot done, Mike. Looks very nice. Landscape timbers work ok. Just not treated as good as 2x lumber.
I've been working to raise all my racks to keep them out of the dirt. All my cinder block racks, that use the timbers, are inches above the ground. They'll outlast me, I think.
The byproduct of noodling some knotty black birch, are noodles, of course. I've raked up noodles in the past and put them in the compost bin. This time, I used them as a cover layer on a woodland path that accesses the side street. There's a bit of a slope to the path. Looking back up the hill. Gratuitous wood stack picture. I expect to generate some more noodles and will continue to apply to the path.
....and, the work continues over here. These two racks were recently leveled and put on short blocks to keep the feet from pushing into the dirt, and allows a bit more air under the stack. The main woodyard is to my back as I took the pictures. Split, move, stack. Repeat as necessary. I'm in no hurry.
I've been plugging away also, lots of white and red oak as well as a nice cache of locust has gone into the stacks this spring. Ive.got a few decent sized red oaks to take down in the coming weeks which will easily finish filling up what I used last winter (4.5 cord). The little "Ho-Tang" (Honda-powered Mustang) has been a great help this year! Just processed up a standing dead barkless ash tree that we took down last week and it's already split into 2x2's for use in the pizza oven!
I've taken advantage of the cooler, drier air mass to finish off 2 of my 3 empty woodracks. This is the red oak from a recent scrounge. Building inventory There's still more to process. I've been picking through the inventory. Alot of what's left needs to be cut to length or has knots needing to be noodled.
Definitely looking good. Nice to see racks filling up again. Stumpy and I have our shed nearly full for next year'....maybe a cord left to fill in. I haven't the time to scrounge at all this year....nice to see you at it.
Time to make lemonade. I moved some ash to the deck before I discovered the fall over. Figuring the fallen oak wanted to be picked, some of it made the deck trip. I took advantage of available time and cool air to do the 1st loading on the deck. The oak has been under cover since 11/20. Being exposed to the sun will do it wonders. I did the best I could short of restacking the entire rack of oak. Tough to see with the filtered sunlight messing with the sunlight. Lots of chunks in that stack. I'll get them moved to one of my chunkhausens.
That stinks about the toppling. Will you top cover the deck stack? And yes the sun does wonders stacks. I, like you, have limited sunlight hitting them although my most recent stacks get some decent exposure.
Oh yeah. Deck rack gets covered. I like to give newly stacked wood a sun bath. It'll get covered later this afternoon and uncovered in the morning.
Thanks. Don't look too close. There's some sad looking ash splits towards the right side. The stuff was loaded with ants, when processed last year. If the wood split, I figured it'd be fine shoulder wood. It'll probably burn fast and hot. I'll just not load the stove up with it.
How many days' wood is typically on the rack? Nice to have is close like that too. Topples are never nice, but its a blessing to be able to move some up rather than restacking the whole schmeer!
The rack is a face cord. I top it off every few days. We go through ~9 -10 face cords each heating season. So on average, I'd guess the rack holds around 3 weeks of wood, +/-.
I got 4 of these racks made out of recycled BIP 2 at 17’ feet long (full cord ish) 2 at about 7 when I find more free BIP I will make more
