Hello everyone! I'm new here to the forum and wanted to make a post to introduce myself. My name is Jeremy and I'm from south Louisiana. I've always been a firebug but only recently have I been in a spot where I could source, store, and burn a larger amount of firewood. Now being that it's Louisiana I don't burn for heat but for pleasure. Our house has a nice wood burning fireplace (usually use when we have company and it's cold outside, which my sweet southern sensibilities define as anything below 60 degrees haha!) but my favorite is burning on the back patio in the firepit with a good bourbon and some tunes. So anywho, here's my story of starting to become a firewood hoarder (and addict according to my wife heh): Our property has lots of trees and when we moved here in Oct 2020 I had a tree service cut 19 trees in the yard (many were smaller but almost half were good sized) buuuut since it was still hot as balls here I wasn't thinking about firewood at the time nor did I know much about what type of trees were being cut. All of them had to go for one reason or another but I asked the tree service to dump the trunks and branches in the back of my property down a steep gully to save money on disposal. Fast forward a couple months and we're settled in the new house and I'm itching to burn some wood. That's when I realized that more than a few oaks, including a couple red oaks, were in the debris pile down in the gully. Big beautiful oak logs 6-8 feet long and anywhere from 12-30 inches in diameter were staring up at me and I was kicking myself because it was going to be a bear to get those things lifted out and cut. Half of them were buried under junk wood that I didn't want to burn, magnolia and sweet gum (sweet gum...OMG what an awful splitting tree, wish I would have known before I cut some dozen rounds to split). Now after a a couple trips to the hardware store to get some chains, winch, and a 16 inch bar for my trusty little echo cs-310 (it's not the size of your bar boys, it's how you use it!) I got to work getting the logs out. I'll spend a couple hours after work retrieving logs and then splitting them on the weekends. I split by hand and will probably continue to do so since it gives me a work out and I enjoy it. Though you folks have made me want to buy a new Fiskars X27 but I'll probably wait until my Kobalt splitting axe gives up the ghost. so far it's been doing swell and I can't complain, what little problems I get with splitting is due more to user error rather than the axe. So now I'm stacking up wood for next season and trying to learn more about how to do that well, what burns good and not good (looking at you, Poplar!) and just enjoying this new hobby. Attaching a couple of pictures of my setup and storage. Cheers!
Welcome Jeremy Anthon to this site. Got any pics of your set up to get the logs out of your back ditch? Any pics of your firepit and fireplace in action? Inquiring minds want to know
Welcome to the club Jeremy!!! Looks like a nice setup you have there! Those little 4 wheel carts are super handy to have around.
Hey Jeremy welcome to the forum. Like the pictures. Nice and neat stacks under cover. I would say your off to a good start on your new hoarding adventure. Way to go.
Oh man yeah that’s a sweet covered spot with light for nighttime firewood activity in the sweaty south.
Welcome to the club. I was born in Baton Rouge, grew up in New Orleans. It's a bit warmer down there than my current home in WA! But campfires are good just about anywhere.
for the inquiring minds... fireplace: fire pit: Winch and chains for fishing logs: other logs in the gully: my splitters and saw: my shop:
Welcome to FHC. We like pics so just by that your going to fit on real well. Nice yard, fireplace and fire pit.
the barn is something like 24'x36' but has a second story loft as well. yeah, i really love that thing, can totally lose myself in there just piddling
Welcome to the FHC Jeremy Anthon you said you only been there 5 months; in 5 more years it will be packed full
Welcome to the forum Jeremy Anthon. Looking at the pictures of your yard reminds me of a visit I had near you. It was actually just over the border in Mississippi as a friend, who lives near Baton Rouge has a hunting cabin north of where he lives. I was happy to do a little deer hunting down there. That looks like it must have been hard and slow work getting the logs out with a come-a-long!
