Heading out for a little vacation with my Bride for our anniversary late next week and I have a plate full until then. May try to get out by end of Sept or first weekend of Oct. Second weekend of Oct. is early muzzleloader here. I sure hope I don't run out of wood, only have 22 cord.
The heap of red oak is pretty much stacked. Stacked about a cord worth today and have a garden cart full to still stack. Hopefully I'll be able to stack a little more tomorrow. Here are some lousy cell pictures. 24' row Heaping cart that still needs stacking. My daughter "helped" a little, she loves to pose.
When I'm moving the wood 500' I gotta make it count. It's a 17 cubic foot cart, it has handled the abuse amazingly well to this point. I was worried with it being a poly cart during the winter but it has handled splits being thrown in it just fine.
Great pic of your daughter! Is she giving your work a thumbs up approval? Make sure you get that poplar top covered pretty quick. That stuff rots fast!
Rdust, have you considered putting the splits directly into your cart as you split? - Will save you on handling the wood one time. - Saves on a lot of bending over picking wood off the ground. You might find the different positions between splitting & stacking to be like having frequent breaks as you work. - While it may seem to take longer, I bet with less amount you would be handling the wood, the over all time it takes will be surprising less. - By stacking as you split, the stacking job isn't near as intimidating. I am blessed to have a tractor with a loader so when at home, the splits go directly onto a crate or a modified pallet. This really makes it faster in the long run. When you have a helper to take the splits off the splitter it is even better.
I usually split off the trailer and into the cart for smaller amounts. For larger amounts I don't use it much as it "seems" slower. By the time I can get free time, get the splitter out, and get a splitting routine going I don't like to stop to stack.
My normal routine is to split right into a trailer as well, because the stacking area is somewhere else. I hate the idea of bending over and picking up all those rounds to put 'em in the trailer. I can understand wanting to get the whole batch split though. It'll start drying better if you do that, even sitting in a pile on the ground, as long as it doesn't sit too long. When you have limited time available, you do what's needed. I still have a small pile of Oak on the trailer to get stacked, and an even smaller pile of Maple and another of Poplar on the ground needing to be stacked. Just the way it worked out this time.
I usually like to stack a small trailer load at a time too. This year I had to make a compromise if I was going to use my large trailer under a work table with the splitter on it. So, I split all of the rounds into a pile... which I'll have to handle again to get them stacked. Oh well... s'all gooder. The trailer is now available, if I need it, to haul the JD to the cabin.
Impressive amount of wood and stacks for sure Rdust! Look's like your getting close to the point of pizzing off the neighbors and that's always a sign of a good hoarder.
rdust, my wife just looked at the picture of your daughter. She said, "He can't have a daughter that big yet!" Oh, how time does fly. I like that load in the cart too. Sweet. You didn't even have it strapped in.
It sure does fly! Judy should get a kick out of this one of the little man. It's a slow go when I have it stacked that high. I've built a pretty good system of stacking it over the years. Occasionally I'll lose one or two off the top on a bump but more times than not it works out ok. That was just a touch under a 1/3 cord when I stacked it today. Not bad for a 17 cubic foot cart!
Thankfully I only have the one neighbor that is anywhere near me but they're pretty close to the trailer dump off/splitting area. I think they've pretty much learned to live with it at this point, they've never even mentioned anything about it. I try to keep things somewhat neat on my part but it does get pretty messy on occasion. At least it's firewood and I'm not an "antique" hoarder.
