Hey guys I got a question for you. I came across a nice white oak score a few weeks back. I never do any splitting in winter, I usually wait til spring but I got a new fiskars for xmas and wanted to go to town. Well I got it all split and thrown in a pile to be stacked but we got about 12 inches of snow over the weekend and it's buried. Now it's supposed to rain tommorow and be 48. Needless to say it's gonna be sitting there for a while. I've never let wood sit like this. I always css and get a top cover on it asap. You guys know how anal I am. It's been a while but I'm sure you remember how OCD I am. Christ I wanna run a torpedo heater on it to dry it out and stack it. And I'm dead serious! Someone tell me I'm nuts and this is perfectly fine. Lol!
Your nuts and its perfectly fine Really. Keep splitting. Winter loves a active Fiskars. Great time to do it.
To reiterate........Your nuts and its perfectly fine. Especially if you're a couple years ahead. However, you could give stacking it a shot when that 48 hits. Or, the torpedo.
Most people who reply to your post will probably be thinking, ''why didn't i think of that, sounds like a perfectly good idea to me".
I'm like the OP. I like to css asap. Usually its done within a day or two. I had a bad storm go thru this summer now I have more wood laying around than I'll ever use. Most will rot in the woods. Offends my Scotish, Irish German heritage. Op, gotta learn to relax, its hard but it can be done. Maybe I should start a firewood hoarding support group.
Oak takes a long long time to rot. And rot is a biological process that slows way down in cold temperatures. By the time the snow melts off it in the spring, it will be just fine.
Boy that fiskars pops those frozen rounds open so easy and slices them up like a knife through butter. What a great tool. I really enjoyed hand splitting which I thought I never would want no parts of.
You're correct about that. I just split a round that has been sitting on the ground for at least 6 years. Punk on the outside couple of inches but solid in the middle..
It will be fine and you're NUTS......but we all are or we wouldn't be in this group...... That white oak will be perfectly fine. Stack it when the rain melts the snow. It will start drying. White oak is very rot resistant.
While it will be fine, I would probably shovel half to most of the snow off so the warm temps and rain clean off the rest of the ice and snow... then I would get it stacked once the snow had finished melting... gonna take care of a few places around the yard this morning that I want to be clear of snow by the time this quick warm up is done. (One area is the trailer that is currently frozen to the ground so I can move it and get it up on blocks) If it wasn’t going warm up, I wouldn’t bother with clearing the snow...
I'd probably forget about it until spring. Then stack it as you normally do. And let us not forget, spring is not that far away.
I don’t know anything about your nuts but stack it when you can, just don’t leave wood on the ground. Put some pallets down first.
I like to hand split the frozen wood in the winter way easier thn in the summer. I also never stack my wood I don't care to handle it 20 or 30 times from the woods to the furnace (inside). If your going to run the heater to melt the snow off the wood what are you saving in home heating cost since you have to factor in the snow melting cost. Just use that heat in the house and let mother nature melt the snow. No one will see the pile of wood under the snow any way. Could just be a snow covered pile of dirt. And yes your just plain certafible nuts. Al
