I was able to get in through the field and haul out a nice load of sugar maple from my woods. Each trailer is a solid face cord, if not more. It's a 4x 8 trailer. I got that load split, then headed to my buddys to split some of that red oak that the power company cut last fall. That red oak is 33% moisture now. My buddy will burn that 2 years from now.
The oak's my buddy's wood. I didn't take pics of the splitter he bought from our other friend though. It'd a didier, about 40 yrs old. Still goes fine though.
Nice haul right there man, good looking trailer is it fairly new? I brought home some long dead cut up red oak that was setting in a guy's yard, long time, busted open a 20 inch round and it was 18 percent moisture content in the middle
I'll pass it up every time. Even easy to get oak which I come across often. Im not waiting the forever time it takes to season. To me it's not worth waiting for it when there are other great less time drying wood out there. The latest oak back in the fall I came across was on a clearing job and I just pushed it into the burn pile
Say it ain't so! I get what yer sayin tho, 'rat. But with adequate storage room or solar kiln... It's your call tho, I can't take that away from ya! Guess you stayed warm enough this past winter, 'cos yer still posting!
On a clearing job I don't have the time I take what is the easiest and get as much as I can get. Sometimes that means hauling it home with a dump truck and drag loaded with wood. However don't worry usually there are others who will usually take it. But I know for a fact they don't let it dry very long before it gets burned maybe a summer or at best a year Oak just isn't worth my time. Thought about selling it but people around here think seasoned is 6 months and only want to pay very little for it. They wouldn't know good dry well seasoned wood if it hit them in the head
I'm with you, I can only fit maybe 14-15 cords tops on my property and I've burned 5 cords each of the last two years, I don't need to tie up space with oak when I can get sugar maple, black birch, hickory, ash.
A few years back Inlaws had some loggers that crossed onto their property from neighbors and took some nice trees oak walnut and for some reason cut down a few nice hickeys but didn't take them. Anyways he cleaned up the mess and sold the firewood long story short one older gentleman got all the wood a ww2 vet. My father in law was selling the wood by the truck load you load and take $60 didn't care how much you put on the truck couldn't sell a stick of it. People would see the sign call and that's as far as it went. The older gentleman called they talked a while my father in law sold it to him $50 a load and even delivered and stacked it for him. Said if he was going to give it away it would be to someone who deserved it My father Inlaw took the sign down and sold to that gentleman only for two years delivered and stacked $50 a truck load
Woodrat, around here own for for 300 a cord, if not more. It doesn't matter if it is seasoned on not.
$125 a face cord here. and it isn't oak. Horkn, Some of that sugar looks like it'll be fine for burning this Autumn. Nice haul. I like sugar. Burning some sugar uglies right now. Cut and split last Spring, and below 20% moisture now. And it wasn't bark free, as some of your upper branches are. That tree should dry nice and quickly.
yeah it's dry, I wouldn't want to let this one maple go any longer than burning it next year, at least some parts of the massive one which were loaded last and are on top. The smaller one was about 20” and that was only part of it. The huge one is just starting to get a tiny amount of punk to it, despite it being off the ground. It will all get burned this coming winter.
Horkn, What was the DBH of the massive one? I have about six large maple at the road edge of my property, about 30 feet in, that were left when my grandfather cut the lot about 75 years ago. One has died and is standing, the others are still OK. I have to measure them some day. Two people can stand in front of the trunks. My aunt on the next lot has two massive oaks in the middle of her lot. When my boys were in their teens they joined hands and circled the straighter tree....they got less than half way around it. One of the trees forks really low, and has two massive branches that have grown through each other. I'd take some pictures, if I could only figure out how to make pictures post on this site. I cannot get them to post.
