Wood put up for the summer.......done till fall!

Had the last rounds of pine to split and stack before I leave for a 10 week work trip on the 2nd of June. Had the trailer on the atv - split, tossed the splits on the trailer and moved to the pallets - went pretty quick. The photo of the stacks is missing three other stacks, but this shows the main work of wood I've put up since last October. Comes to 22 stacked pallets and 2 single 8' rows of rounds. Current tally is 52 pallets of wood put up - so getting very close to 5 years ahead. Spent the last 2 weeks dropping a lot of trees at my neighbors - 24 trees dropped so far - about 80% red oak. Won't be able to buck till I return at the end of summer. Still a lot more trees to drop. Will be posting some pics of that work in the next few days - hope to drop about 4 more tomorrow. Feels great to have the last of the rounds on the property done! Cheers!

 

That's a lot of work and those are some really nice stacks!

 

AWESOME !

Great looking stacks !

 

Sweet work nice job.

 

Great to get all that work done! Now enjoy your trip! 10 weeks is a long time! Where are you going?

 

Thanks guys! First 2 weeks will be just south of Ann Arbor moving toward the OH border, then the last 8 weeks will be in northern OH. Yes, it is a long time - hard to be away from the wife and kids. Cheers!

 

Beautiful looking stacks-you do good work!

 

Your stacking skill is Freakish! You might just be an alien from another world ... just a theory of course.

 

Showed the missus your stacks, she was astounded.

 

That's very impressive, I'm not either that far ahead or done yet for this year. The good news is that all my wood was either dead standing before I cut it down ( before sap started flowing) or cut up previously.

I've found some kinds of wood are much easier to stack clean and pretty.

I've got a couple of stacks on single pallets and I don't think that I'll do a single pallet anymore, making 4 cribbed corners for very little "free stacking"

 

True Horkn - cribbing the four corners takes extra time and doesn't leave a lot of space for easier stacking. I've become fairly fast at these - can put one up in probably an hour or so if the wood is right next to me. One thing I do like is the air flow I get around the pallets when I leave a good 3' or so between each stack - they dry super well. Plus, they sit so long, I like how this set up looks . But....after putting up about a cord of single row rounds, and how fast that goes, I've wondered why I don't start doing that instead! Nice that you are getting a lot of dead standing - that is fun wood to work. Cheers!

 

I don't know man, if I were you I'd get back out there and clean up that MESS!!! Those stacks are a catastrophe! Un-even, sloppy, none of them are straight, splits hanging out of the sides......!!!!!


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Ok, seriously: Dude, did you actually use a T square, tape measure and construction chalk string??? How in the HELL did you get those things so fruggin straight?? Holy crap!!


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Very impressive stacks ya got there, I Hope your trip all goes well

 

Ha! Just eyeball them and keep them straight! I've done a few of them.....! Cheers!

 

Thanks - always too long to be away! Cheers!

 

Wow, I'm impressed. Sorry your job is taking you away from your family, and NH during what has to be the best time of the year to be in NH. At least you can Skype and stay in touch.