Someone getting cases of beer....

Another CL pick up and luckily for me its gonna be cut and noodled. By this amount I'm picking up, it's enough for the years up until my oak is ready to burn. Had a half trailer of this before and its ready for this coming season probably a 1/4. Cord at most. This is half.
Gotta compensate these hard working fellas.

 

Very nice. Good size for handling.

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I had bigger rounds before, still do, they are a bear to split but this is just beautiful wood too!

 

I haveva number of white birch splits put aside to put in the woodstove during the non-burning season. With the glass door, the birch is visible which removes the "black hole" look of the stove

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Gonna try getting this split and stacked but this may be in upwards of 3 cord. Should I rent a splitter? Hearing about how birch rots easy just has me thinking again...

 

I am not sure how much time birch has before rotting becomes a concern I'm sure others will chime in. Wouldn't hurt to get it stacked and off the ground though

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Nice haul! With a healthy tree you should be fine until summer at least. You can always unzip the rounds to make them last longer. CAREFULLY run the BOTTOM of your saw nose down them lengthwise to expose the wood so the bark is no longer completely jacketing the round. This will buy you more time if you're concerned for splitting them before rot.

 

Thanks BigPapi!! I think I got the smaller ones taken care of. It's the elbows that I may need a splitter for. im looking forward to that because I've got some really big pieces that need some help and can get to that all at one time. I went out and got these long pallets so I'm ready for stacking.
The biggest enjoyment is having sources for stuff like that barely 5 mins from my house. That just keeps me thinking about supply
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I get about 6 months before rot starts in my white birch.. silver aND yellow a little better.. yup zip them if you can white birch splits pretty easy by hand... up off ground will buy you some more time... I like birch and red maple drys quick gives ya heat!

 

Thanks for the advice i dont have many big pieces but will have them tomorrow. Hopefully noodled enough to make it easy. I think these guys know that the rounds are sure to rot so they started quartering them as i left.

 

Nice FatBoy.

 

damm say it ain't so... Eric VW get over here!

 

Second load of the day, or night whichever works for you since I just finished and it's 10 PM. Did I mention I'm headed out for more? Yeah with beer in tow. Pics to come. Night folks.

 

Nice haul FatBoy85 I would love to get myself into 3 cords of birch. Make sure you unzip any that you dont plan on splitting. Also be aware that it likely wont be ready for burning next year unless you split them small and give them the best drying conditions available. If it was standing dead and good to go then awesome, finding dry standing birch would be a nice find!

 

Lay those elbow (crotch) pieces on their side on a solid splitting stump and hit em right in the middle of the elbow with the biggest maul you got, makes for ugly splits but it will usually get em split.

 

Thanks Sean! Tree is fresh and not ready to burn Im ok with this. The tree was really looking good, few open spots but otherwise clean.
If this is the way how a 3 year plan works, the oak takes care of that but this stuff is good for the following year. 2018-19 winter and then whatever in the middle.
Am I doing good so far?Finally a good sized haul and just needs to be brought home.

The rate that Im getting the wood, whew, need more pallets. Good thing I'm on spring break, making the best of this opportunity and since they (the Lagers) noodled a LOT of big rounds, I'm much less worried. Should have time to get some of this done. The grain is really pretty though. Heartwood has ridiculous marbling and they cut some cool blocks. Might take some to a friend who turns pens. Other than that the chase to this is my stove, I don't think I could ever have better motivation than that. Clean burning hardwood= sticking it to the power company? Yes Please! Paying off the stove is more and more likely at this point.

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Nice haul! I'm burning 4 year old white birch which was top covered. All rock hard - no rot at all. Same for the smaller top covered rounds which were never split. Keep it from getting wet and you'll be just fine. Cheers!

 

Good haul. Split them open once and top cover the stacks.

 

The stuff ready to burn is fantastic, tried it in my bonfire a few times and its amazingly clean. I can actually stand over the wood smoke and it doesn't even bother my eyes. The bark still never gets old now that ive just included it all as fire starter, I wonder if I need to get rid of some lath that I picked up for kindling. Oh well still works having plenty haha!

Since its so clean burning though you think this would make good charcoal? I've got some uglies I can burn that are ok in size, probably on the large end but at least dry enough. Some did get some rot but its minimal in terms of the rest of the supply, mostly rotted since it was so knotted.

What ya think? I wanna use some of this for bbq this summer, got some metal cans for it.