28+28+~20...... Took us about 1hr 15 mins to move both rounds to vertical splitter, break'em down, size'em on the horizontal splitter and stack. We were done by 10:45.
Me too. I've learned several tips and tricks here. I've never measured the difference, just put the fans in once we have about 2 rows in that shed and temporary wall is taken down, we have some boards and plywood to keep first 2 rows straight, then it is removed and stacks continue. That shed holds 9 rows, fans seem to dry it enough that mold isn't a problem. You can feel the air moving through the stacks. Shed on the right is the one we are stacking now When we start with temp wall up 2 1/2 rows done and wall taken down. Air goes thru pretty good.
I’m 8 rows deep too. Three bays wide at 12’. I have had some sapwood on the fir get some mold. Fans may be the trick.
I believe it would help. Looks like there are nice air gaps. Should blow through good. I walked by the end of the shed on a hot day with 4 stacks in there, air coming through felt like a water fan was running, really cool.
That's surprising that you can feel the breeze through four stacks of wood! You grow them big down there!
Here’s the numbers with the fan Jeff. Awesome I saw you doing it in your pictures. Here’s the proof: Into stack 70F dry Bulb 58F wet bulb 53% Relative Humidity Out of stack 62F dry Bulb 58F wet Bulb 95% Relative Humidity Shedding pound after pound of water. 93F in the forecast!
Moved the last of the big logs to the process area. We went to a friend's dad's house , did 3 hrs tractor mowing and cleaned up a big willow oak that had fallen on his house. It had already been removed and piled up.
It didn't, it leaned over on the corner, he had to replace several metal roofing panels and some trim, no structural damage
Been a busy few day off. We started on the load of willow oak we just got, cut up all the short, smaller pieces first, got a big box full The pile of cut offs Got the stove stuffers in the new basket to dry for awhile
Got the big logs on that load from our friend's dad processed. Found a surprise with the saw in the biggest log. Willow oak is different. The stain didn't even go 18" in either direction, like it will in red oak. Those were adjoining pieces. The culprit... Tuesday, all I needed was some soap, looked like I was taking a bath with my clothes on...lol... Wednesday was too bad... Where we started Wednesday morning, needing a full row and piece. Had to get 2 more logs out to finish, after we did all the trailer load Happy to say @ 9:00PM Wednesday night, the big 5 cord shed is FULL of oak. Got this pile of cull wood to sort, shorties/nuggets, big knot pieces for our OWB customer, and fire pit wood. And a nice pile of bark, most of the wood is BBQ quality, no bark. Some would just knock off, some a pass with the splitter. We found flat head voters just under the bark and some had termites under the bark. That took care of them.
Should have been borers...smart phone aint so smart...lol Now we have the calico shed to work on. It will hold almost twice what that shed holds...
Cleaned up, split and stored the shorties this morning. Only had 1 basket full from 5 cords of wood processed, I think 2 rounds went to the 15-16" shed. That will be some great stove stuffers. As I was knocking off some bark, I got some pics of the flat head voters/borers I was talking about.
After that job was done, I finished sorting the last load of hickory/oak we had gotten. Had 3-4 small oak logs in it. Got all the long hickory together. Yep, I should have used scrape blades instead of t-post...hopefully won't be there long, need it CSS...
