Been staying busy out in the yard. From picking up ibc totes and building pallet racks, working down the log pile from my free marketplace and tree service loads, and cutting where I can on my property. Most of where my best ash is down is completely flooded right now, just doing what I can until I can get back there, probably be some time this summer when it dries up. Changed my wagon hitch from a pin style to a ball receiver so I can leave the drawbar on the tractor for moving the splitter around too. Rainy day the other day did some garage clean up, put some hangers on the wall for the saws, trimmer and backpack blower. Still have a ton more to do.
That's how you do it, one cord at a time... pretty soon you'll be over 3 years, and gaining steam...seems to be an epidemic around here...
You sure have got a lot done. Love the wood stacks and totes. How many cords will you have when the three year plan is reached?
We went through 3 this past year, im going to be upgrading stoves and possibly doing a furnace add on in the house as well. Shooting for 12 cord on hand by the end of summer.
Never thought of that, nice set up. I have a 3 point on the back and its easier to leave the draw bar on most of the time
I got on the w rong end of a favor and agreed to pick up a down "oak" tree just no brush. He wanted to cut it up, I told him I would, but I requested long logs if he did so i could resize it myself. Was in the area picking up our other lawn mower out of storage and it was right next door. Turned out to be a maple, silver maybe? And he already cut it into odd sized pieces. I took what I could get on the truck and the rest of the trailer. Resized everything I could to 16" today and ended up with a ton of 14" and small chunks. Split and stacked most of the load.
Did a nice job "editing" them. Looks like silver to me. That just drives me insane when its all the wrong length. I will flat out refuse a score if like that. If some are correct and most longer I'll take it. Depends on the qaility of wood too.
Yea it was a h Yea, I went on the basis it was oak and im always down for more of that, real disappointed it was cut way down. More of a favor to him not me and I was already in the area. But same I will turn down random sized wood too for the most part, I hate resizing.
I've dealt with red and sugar but not a ton of silver, whats the chances of this being ready to burn this coming season or is it better for 27/28?
Silver dries pretty fast. Put in a nice sunny spot and you can use in the Fall. I have a face cord or so of it CSS in front of my bundle wood shad that will get used in the Fall.
If it can get direct sun, and a good breeze, it'll probably be ok for the upcoming year...otherwise I'd plan it for the following year
My storage area is an old powerline access that they moved the power lines out of last year, just about the only spot on my place I get full sun and wind most of the day.
