In picture 1424 is the American Hophornbeam that I stacked yesterday, in picture 1425 I finished the stack today. In picture 1426, I'm getting set to split the rounds I moved out of our shoulder season stacking area (picture 1429) the rest of the pictures are from moving the rounds and the splitting I did. The trailer still has some smaller rounds I won't split so I'm hoping for around a third of a cord but I'm thinking we'll be short. I did this yesterday.
I stacked what we had left after I split it yesterday so we have another 0.31 of a cord of American Hophornbeam, that will give us a total of 1.24 cords. In the second picture we have room for 0.62 of a cord so I'll fill that with some Cherry that has been stacked in the woods, it will get better wind and sun so it will be ready by fall.
Those are some precise amounts to fill! Careful you don't get carried away and have extra. Did I miss somethin' lol I have been away for a bit!
Our two face cord equal 0.62 cord so when I use to give a total of what we had in inventory it was always done by the cord not face. Except for the pine we took down late winter and early spring I haven't cut much hardwood in the past two years, we had two deaths in our family so there were more important matters. By this fall we should be back to 4 plus years of hardwood in inventory with about 5 - 6 years of shoulder season wood already in logs or rounds.
How does that hornbeam split? I’ve cut some and it seemed pretty hard! Never had the pleasure to split though is it sort of straight grained?
Yeah, it's pretty straight grained and it splits easy J. Dirt . Now, most of the ironwood I get is "1 splitters", at most and I keep every piece of premium stuff like that down to about 2" in diameter. Nice work thewoodlands ! I've got some more big stuff, and some small ironwood to take down at the wood lot yet. I'm just waiting for the morels to start popping up before I spend more time in the woods.
That stuff is the gold standard around here. There's just not enough of it and it doesn't get very big before it dies.
Thanks Horkn , the majority of it was damaged by one of the ice storms we had about three years ago. If I remember the area I cut the last stuff from, it has more damaged A.H., the last windstorm brought down some big pines across a secondary trail so I'll need to open that up before getting anymore.
American Hophornbeam /Ironwood is an understory tree. Like Dogwood they can live a long time they just don't get terribly big typically.
Zap, I surely wish we had as much ironwood as you have there. I do have a couple that need cutting and will probably get those next winter.
Our lot is loaded with it so it's nice that I can just take the damaged trees, most of our damage from the windstorms this year have been the Hemlock and Pine. We need rain really bad so I'm hoping the forecast for Friday night stays the same, earlier they had about 0.84 inches of rain at night. Some person burning garbage torched up 68 acres in Edwards, just plain stupid especially when you have a burn ban on. It's southwest of us by about 45 minutes, the fire crews did a nice job. Wildfire caused by burning garbage scorches 68 acres in Edwards; 56 firefighters, forest rangers respond | NorthCountryNow
I had a bad sinus night so my start was real late today which only had me cleaning out the ashes from the outside fireplace with the Mahindra 4540 using the bucket and shovel. I then got a few bucket loads of better dirt for the top of the septic that we had pumped last year (do it every 3 years) I'll rake that out better tomorrow and then seed it just before the rains.
