Nice little haul. Its always cool to see the spalting/ambrosia pattern on red maple when you slice it open.
The hickory is split and ready to be stacked. Not a heck of a lot but enough to mix in throughout the mild winters we’ve been getting. Yesterday’s red maple and dead red oak rounds: There’s still the white/red oak and sugar maple from this thread to be split and stacked:
LOL my wife yesterday actually said to me NO MORE WOOD! What this means in practical terms is no more wood until I get what's staged up split and stacked out of the way. My yard is a disaster area I started on the beech this morning, split almost half of it and got to building a Holzhausen. I'll keep chipping away at the beech tomorrow until about noon. After that, it's supposed to rain through Thursday.
I fixed it a few days ago. Some of this beech is relatively straight grained, and some of it is… a beech. No way I could hand split it all.
If I had to go back to hand splitting I’d have to be so much more picky on what I bring home. Nothing but knot-free straight grained oak, no crotch sections, etc. I don’t mind doing a little noodling here and there but I don’t like creating heaping piles of noodles with every score. Come to think of it, if I went back to hand splitting, there’s no way I could be much more than a casual burner. I don’t think I could maintain a 3+ year plan splitting everything by hand. Too time consuming and too labor intensive.
Same here. I find multiple cords of wood at a time, and I get worn out just getting it home. There is no way I could split it all by hand.
Watching dad hand split all our firewood throughout my childhood, I knew hydro’s were a requirement for heating with wood. I know he didn’t really enjoy it. And I didn’t enjoy helping do it.
