I've been drawing from these racks. Drawing them down equally. After refilling my deck rack from here, I decided to consolidate the 2 into 1. That's the screenhouse you can see there. Both stacks were cribb'd. I'm not in any rush to get that one refilled. I'm thinking of relocating to a different area. Maybe use it to no longer have wood stacked between two trees. The trees are a dead ash and a red maple that has seem better days.
Always a work in progress Mike. After seeing your storage area in person i give you a lot of credit for getting that much wood in there.
Thanks! Always trying to improve. Also, time to clear out the leaves that get in there. That area gets alot of runoff from the screenhouse roof. Even though top covered, some bottom wood was overripe. It's difficult to clear leaves outta, which holds moisture against the wood. I know it can be better.
Here's the area that has dead trees. Ash on the right, red maple to the left. That was a double row. It's the shoulder wood I've been burning. The maple is shedding bark. The ash is of a size to be respected. Behind the row, along the property line. The blue plastic dead center is that area. Double red maple to the right of the red line. Ash to the left of the red line The base of the red maple. The 3rd trunk is years in the past. I'd like to see how 2 racks, perpendicular to the rock wall, will look. We'll see.
That looks like a cord or so, more hopefully . . . . Are they both in places where a clear drop can be had? SCA
The maples should be an easy drop. The ash has a lean. It's tall enough to reach the side street if allowed to follow the lean. Rope and felling wedges will be needed.
I decided it was time to thin out some EWP. Less competition for hardwoods. I didn't think to take any before pictures when I started 2 days ago This is an area that's parallel to the side street. Looking to the right. And the left. My woodyard in the distance I took out ~20 trees, the trunks were about the thickness of your arm. Pine branches piled up to be dealt with later. Time to move the thin trunks. The pines are on the left. To the right is campfire wood stood up. While the saw and operator were functioning without issue, I decided to drop the 2 dying red maples. One fell where I wanted The other fell where it wanted. No harm done. I was able to start bucking with it up in the air, and finish the cuts once on the ground. View from the deck. Brush all piled up, rounds stacked. That's Elm in the back...aging. I'll save the ones with center rot, as is. It's fun to place one vertically on a bed of campfire coals. It fires up like a blow torch. The star was my 435 and a sharp chain. I'll decide about taking the stump down further. Not sure. If I do, I'll use my gifted 350 and 18" bar. I'll see if I find if it gets in the way. Time for a Aleve and shower...in that order.
Nice Mike! It was nice this morning till the clouds drew in. It still is nice out for February though. I take it you hang on to the pine for shoulder season?
The pine will most likely end up in a campfire. Given their size, some pieces might end up as 4ft uprights in my cinder block racks. Perfect morning for wooding!
It was. I hope to get out in a bit to move some of the influx of pine around . . . .before bringing too much more in. Looks good out there!
