Hey guys. I'm new here and I don't know how I didn't find out about this place until now! Below is a picture of our last load of wood that I'm bringing in for this fall. I ran into a great deal with a older gal that burns wood and has a bunch of standing dead elm and ash but doesn't like to cut her own. So the deal was straight 50/50 of everything I cut. I was to just leave her half in the woods in rough stacks and she'd come buy and grab them at her leisure. I didn't have to split her share either so I hauled mine home in the round and I'm splitting them in the yard. I'll grab pictures of my new wood storage racks that I built this year as well but my goal was to reduce the handling as much as possible. There's a good deal of knowledge on here so I guess I'd better get reading! It thought I had it figured out after css'ing for the past 25 years and burning on my own for the last 20 but I've been proven wrong.
It's fairly dry. Even after all these years I don't have a moisture meter! I usually go by the end cracking and the "sound". I tested out the stuff I css'd 6 weeks ago in the shop stove and it burned really well. I'm guessing the mc was down in the 25-30% range. To be fair the stacks are on 3 sided individual pallet racks that get full sun all day and usually a decent breeze as well. That combined with the fact that it's been dryer than a popcorn fart around here for the past 2 months and it makes for good wood drying weather. I do however have a prototype wood drier I made out of an old patio door that I keep full as well. After reading the Solar Kiln thread though, I've got some modifications to make!
Welcome to the club! Those look like some sturdy stake sides! Sounds like a pretty good deal you got there. Looking forward to more pics of your stacks and setup!
I'm just to the southwest of the Minneapolis, in the Jordan area but out in the country (they wouldn't let me live in town I'm afraid!)
Thanks for the compliments (everyone!) I figured I might as well build them sturdy from the get-go rather than redo them later. I had the expanded metal pieces in "inventory" just waiting to be used. They were parts of an outdoor garden center display before, 8' long and right around 20" tall. I do need to come up with a better way to hold them together, toward the center, but for now a few cheap ratchet straps do the trick!
Well then Sam... Welcome to Sam's Club. After a while, you'll prolly feel like your comin' home every time you log on...
Me too Sure is a good wood hauler. Except I need some taillight cages or something, last time I was tossing splits in the bed I took out the passenger side cover
