Sunny morning, 30°, slight wind, good day to split wood The round I was looking for. The Last one ! : Hooked up the splitter, putting it in the shop, will change engine oil & put in cold storage for a while.
Will get pictures of the stack tomorrow. Was almost dark whenI finished up. 8 cord stacked & a pile of uglies.
Pretty good pile of uglies half of them would probably be in my stacks, but would be pre stacked as per stove dimensions before loading
Hah The stack wouldn't be very high, hard to stack bananas. LOL Lots of punky centers in the pile too. I had lots similar to yours, twisted, knotty , weird shapes. Be good fire pit stuff, when possible , I did split them smaller. Should dry fairly fast.
Like the last picture with the footprints in sand... Stacks look wonderful as always, bet your glad to be finished for another year...
Nice feeling to have on finding the last round, at least for now. Next season there will be another one to find. Question: do you find working almost exclusively with birch to be mundane? Almost routine? The reason I ask is I know that different kinds of hardwoods here will present different kinds of cutting and splitting situations, shuck makes the work more of a challenge. Not sure I worded that right, maybe you see where I'm coming from.
Heheh, reminds me of one of the Murphy's Laws - you always find something in the last place you look for it. Always, great pictures Dave. Ya had to go through the entire pile to find THAT round!
Its the normal for u with those purdy stacks. I like the little cushion u made for the splitter. Always good to be comfy and not break your back...
Hey Bogy...good feeling till next time, no? As far as finding the right round, congratulations. Too bad you didn't find that one when you started working...
MN throw plenty of variety in the growth pattern of the trees to keep me on my toes. I past over several trees, I try to get ones with solid good centers. Sometimes I choose wrong. When I get, what I call a perfect tree, it's a good feeling adding straight, solid splits to the stack. Birch is the best BTU wood we have, there is variety in type, size & growth patterns. The challenge of getting them from the cutting area to the stack helps too. It's not just drive to a stack of logs & cut wood.
Already starting. I think I have a problem. If the weather holds, I could go get one more load Like a True Hoarder "I Never have enough wood"
Seems many people think I just magically have a truck filled with wood. "I'd like to order 6 cords, can you have there here in an hr"
Took me a month to get 8 cord CSS 2 cord per week, Folks would freeze & be waiting for years if they ordered from me.
Last winter before the snow got too deep I was out cutting up a monster hard maple and the 3 or 4 8-10" box elders at a friends place. Hauled a lot of it here and stacked all the rounds on my front sidewalk..................prolly 1.5 cord or so..............the other 1/2-3/4 cord laid buried in the snow for 8 weeks until I got back there to get them and finish cutting up that maple. Wound up with almost 2 full cords CSS from there. Then during the winter, between snows I'd split those rounds I had gotten from there.......................sometimes in below 0 temps with my Fiskars X-25.................and just made a pile in my front yard. Gosh wood splits easy when it's all frozen!!!! Anyhow; I wound up with a pile of wood in front yard about 8 feet high and about 18 feet in diameter at the base. There were several layer of snowfall compressed in there though. It took a long time for that pile to totally thaw in the Spring before I finally got all the wood moved and stacked in the "backyard"!!! Be thankful you're doing it now without deep snow around!!
All your pic.s are so impressive. All those neat stacks of BTU's I don't know why, but in my mind, all I can see are those stacks under 8 feet of snow in the winter. Yet, last winter, you seemed to have less snow than we did. I know you don't get much real daylight. We get down to about 8.5 hrs on the shortest days. When it gets dark, it only takes 15 to 20 minutes.
We're down to 8 hour of sun now & going fast. (in my signature, click "daylight" ) Solar noon we get a sun angle of 13 degrees, low angle , not much heat Snow/rain shadow from the mountains helps at my location . Some years, lot of snow , some years it blows away. Was 15°f last night , Sunny day & up to 21° now. Gonna go get some pics, look at the stack on the sunny side & decide something for the uglies.
