Its now March! How does the woodpile look?

I hear she's a Michigan fan.

 

Just took some measurements, just under 2 1/2 cords. Less than I thought.

 

FIFY

 

This is what I managed to add to my stash....mostly all between the middle of December and middle of January this winter. My nephew helped between xmas and new years. We then added to the pile a couple weeks later, as we got the pile out to the stump at the bottom left of the photo.....which was his goal.



I started splitting in early Feb. I'm almost 10 cord into it and I have lots more to go.

Even after selling 15 cord last winter, I'll be back up to well over 70 cords once I'm done splitting/stacking that pile.

As far as what I've burned this winter........9,700lbs to date. Convert to the volume of species of your choice. Comes out to be ~2.7 cords of red oak.

This year so far compared to past years:

 

Relatively mild winter here in NC, no snow either. Burned up all my jenk wood to make room for some better stuff. Got the processing area cleaned up including all my stubbies. Need about four good size pickup truck loads and I'll be all done for this year. Trying to get it all done before the oppressive NC heat and humidity arrives.

 

I concur. I've burnt a lot of fir, pine and box elder. There's a good amount of ash that I burnt as well, but outside of a few days, it was only lower BTU wood.

 

Right? We've got plenty to go around.

 

It was a good winter to clean up around the wood yard. Burned 2 ibc totes of chunklies, about a 1/2 cord of pretty punky stuff, all of my lumber scraps, and about a cord of good splits. Normally burn between 4 and 5 cords. My 3 year plan turned into a six year plan if these types of winters become normal. Will still process as much as possible this spring and fall. Money in the bank!

 

Burned about 2.5 cords this winter but it was 95% cherry and elm. Took an inventory today and I have 9 cords currently css. I probably have another 7-9 on the ground in logs waiting to be processed

 

Thats what I always say. Im close to being far enough ahead where Im considering cutting a cord or two to standard 16" pieces and throwing it on facebook marketplace

 

Way too much junk wood leftover this year. Not going to have any bins to store what I make this year.

 

What kind of bins do you use? I’m thinking about coming up with some kind of bin/ rack system to reduce handling firewood multiple times for our OWB.

 

Normal winter we burn 6 cords with the highest with the new stove at 7. This year is looking like we'll end up at 5 ish.

The old airtight would go through 15 cord a year.

 

I did 13 cord 1 year; slept in living / stove room on couch got cold .. fill stove

 

Actually the old stove was easy loading. It ran for 8 hours holding the pipe temp at 500. It had a HUGE firebox and could stuff it full. But it was a stinky, chimney clogging, smoke dragon of a stove. Cutting wood for it was a CHORE... I was always behind...

The new stove kicks out more heat when on high burn and heats the house as well on less than half the wood, but the trade-off is that I have to visit the stove more often to keep it in the high burn stage as opposed to lower temp coals. I work from home so I'm able to manage it pretty well and keep the whole house toasty for the wife without the furnace kicking on very much. The wood stove probably does 80% or better of the heating. The furnace blower that's on low all the time moves the heat around the house pretty well.

 

I take the bladder out of the IBC totes and put them on a pallet. As I make firewood to sell, all the uglies, crotches, partial rot, super short cutoff cookies get tossed in the bin. Once full, I use the tractor to move them under cover in a triple length carport where they stay until I use the wood.

 

If I had a loader that could handle it (like I suspect you do) I would do this >Idea for Ibc Totes< except for I think I'd pull the bladder/liner up higher in the cage, (for more overall height/capacity) and I'd leave the top on it, so it's kind of its own mini woodshed.

 

We normally burn around 4 to 5 cord. Worst year we ran through 7. I put about five cord into the second bay, haven’t measured what’s left. Here’s a before and after.

 

I use the cages for short or hard to get species I don't get much of. All of that is for sale.