Yellow Birch

You can see the top of this Yellow Birch which was damaged by the ice storm, if the weather permits I'll grab this before Sunday.

Once the snow melts I should be working in this general area for a couple of months if not longer on all the wind/ice damaged trees.

 

Looks like some good firewood !! Be careful out there .

 

Yup. Slow and steady during the slippery time woods. Some good BTUs for you and the Mrs. in the future.

 

I cut one up for firewood two years ago and found it all rotted in the stack this Winter. The bigger pieces that I split were a little better. Noticed Still had a bit of wintergreen smell on one that I tossed in the stove.

Have much better luck with grey birch and I have a bunch of 'em that bent to the ground in a bad snow storm a year ago. Never bent back up.

 

Birch is notorious for rotting almost instantly if it isn't allowed to dry and kept dry. Was that yellow fully protected from any rain/snow from and well off the ground?

 

I never cover any wood until the year we're going to burn it, I'll check the Yellow Birch I cut last year this weekend.

I will get some tarps so I can cover what Yellow Birch we have.

Thanks

 

I hope ours is ok, I'll find out soon.

 

HoneyFuzz, yes it has some good BTU's. That area gets full sun so with all the melting/rain we've had the snow should be down about 4-5 inches from what's in the picture.

Gasifier, I always pack down my escape routes before cutting in the snow, the tree has a natural forward lean so things should be fine.

 

No shortage of work to do in Zaps backyard

 

All my wood has to be well off the ground because termites .
Top covered but driving rain would get at it.
Yellow must be as bad as white for rotting, I don't even bother cutting white any more.
I only had the one tree.

 

We had a nice winter for snowmobiling (short but nice) but I'm ready for some work in the woods.

It's time to build that wood inventory back up.

 

Yup. I hear that!

 

Every raft we built as kids had to be pulled onto shore as far as possible when we were done for the day because if you didn't within a week or two we'd have to raft barefoot.
Every wooden hull we had had to stay in the water or the chink would fall out.

 

You paint your house trim to protect it from the humidity swelling and contracting due to wood being hygroscopic ( as are many textiles ) resultantly damaging the wood.

 

I did check some yellow birch splits that are stacked on the north side of the house, they looked fine.