EODMSgt I have ash, maple, yellow birch, tulip poplar basically everything BUT oak. I find most of my lower parts of stack get most degraded, I assume it was from weeds that grow up and keep bottom row wet even with mowing etc.. my humidity is being 2 miles from lakes is always high
Humidity can be high here as well. Part of my property is naturally swampy due to a spring that runs through it (the state doesn't consider it wetlands however the deed does note that the lot is a 'green' area and is supposedly considered non-buildable). I'm also only a few minutes walk from the Saco River (not as much humidity from a fast mover compared to a lake but still adds to the relative area humidity).
I understand...we live 1/2 hour-ish from Ravenna Ohio...with has the Ravenna Arsenal, which supposedly was put there specifically (among other reasons) due to prevalent low clouds. Ravenna Arsenal - Clio
EODMSgt yes I have a swamp also, during drought I brush hog it; Bota is not a WeldrDave pavement princess, but I buried it so deep in swamp needed bucket to back out.. lots of natural springs in da swamp because no rain in months and in 5 foot of mud which then fills up with high nutrients black swamp water.. If no drought ya leave swamp alone until there is… a prolonged dry spell Also learned the hard way
For what it is worth, I'm a big fan of direct sun for drying firewood, but don't have the property to get all my stacks there. For quick drying standing dead oak which is what I burn a lot of, direct sun is the ticket, CSS in March, burn it in January, but agree with others,if you are on the 3 year plan, oak will dry well in the shade.
Here's an older stack that you might have seen but being unsure, I posted it now so you can see it. It is not the largest one I've ever had but decent. No problem drying it like this. This one even got sun.
Same, my property has a heavy canopy of tree cover, limiting sun exposure to maybe an hour or two a day late in the evening. Time and air are my only friends.
Came across this old Norse skidding winch today and I remembered your post. There are some places in the state that deal with logging companies, but I've run into the same thing where most equipment retailers have no clue. And I don't know of anyone else that has a tractor-mounted skidding winch around me (outside of actual logging companies and their full-blown skidders). I see a lot more up for sale over in Maine.
Seems that mud season has shown up about a month early this year and we went from full winter to muck in less than a week. Temps dropped for a couple days so took advantage of the ground being (mostly) frozen to do a little bit of splitting. Too soft to get the tractor out back so had to break these frozen oak rounds out with a sledge hammer, peavey, shovel, and pickaroon. Got one trailer full for the stacks and another with uglies, pieces, and shorts for the bins. Chipping away at the rounds I have left before I start tackling all the piles of logs. I'll say it again, glad to have the hydraulic lift on the splitter...those oak rounds aren't getting any lighter. Will hopefully get this stacked tomorrow and cover everything up (again) due to potential incoming snow (dusting tonight, more tomorrow night, and possibly 1-11 inches Sunday into Monday).
Just doing a bit of dreaming today since Mother Nature isn't cooperating and it's snowing again. Because of the caterpillar apocalypse, I have plenty of timber that needs to come down on my own property, and I will probably be able to get some from a friend's property as well. More than enough to keep me going for quite a while. But if I was still scrounging, I would love to have the Wallenstein trailer (below). With a winch on the front of the truck and the loader trailer, scrounging would go to a whole new level. Obviously the price is ridiculous (for just scrounging), but fun to think about on a snowy Sunday. I've seen the homemade trailer setups people have done to winch logs onto dump or utility trailers, and I had thought about doing that years ago. But this trailer is sweet.
I like it.. here we can rent the picker on like a log truck trailer! IIRC you need minimum of 1 ton dually to rent. For less then $1,000 a weekend So before purchase rent one first as purchase price of pic is $22,000 One rented here stronger lift and more carrying weight.
