This person's woodyard nirvana...kinda....sorta

Just took a closer look. I agree, not oak.

However, I have a big woodyard that's inclusive. There's a place for it. All are welcome!

 

Yup, i agree for the most part.

Believe it or not I'm thinking your storage area might be bigger than mine. At least for my general cordage wood.

 

About 10cord of rack space, not including an overflow area.

 

Ya got me thinking and I had to figure it out. My main area has 18.5 cords worth of standard racks plus 3.5 of nuggets, shorts etc. bins. (those are filled) Maybe 5-6 that are empty or require moving some splits to fill. A couple of those are partly filled with specialty (oak heartwood & hickory) woods aready.

Next door I can store 12 cords of bundle wood, a cord of nuggets plus 1.5 cords of whatever I need to stack there.
Right now its at roughly 50 % capacity. Nuggets are full. Need to construct another one cord nugget bin for there. Have a mound of then piling up on some plastic pallets with more to be moved.

 

With a morning campfire, the bin where pieces of oak bark was stored, is now ready to be refilled with wood chunks.



Mostly solid red oak, with a few pieces of ash.

The bin to the right, is also full of chunks. I'll be dipping into that, this shoulder season

 

Very nice, making room

 

It's compost tending season!!

I put this here because my compost is on a 3-yr plan.


All new kitchen scraps, yard clippings, and leaves go in the right bin.

After a year, the contents of right bin gets shoveled into the smaller bin to its left.

After another year, the middle bin's contents are shoveled into the 2 trash barrels to the left.

After a 3rd year, the trash barrel compost gets emptied to continue the rotation

Here's the final product.




Using the wheel barrow, I move the compost to the the yard, in areas looking like they need help.


Then raked out as a top dressing.


There's rain forecasted for Sunday. I'll re-rake, as needed. Might even toss in some grass seed.

I used a basic metal rake inverted, tines up. As I push/pull the compost the rake works like a leaky hoe.(pausing for digestion), like a leaky hoe leaving compost behind through the tines. Works for me.

Then it's back to shovel middle bin into final "bin".




The front barrel is half full, needing to be emptied. Some will go around rhubarb plants and some to my BIL.

I know compost can be had in a much sooner timeframe, but I'm not into weekly turning of the pile. The 3yr plan works for me.

 

Nice looking compost. Do you throw any wood yard scrap in there or are those for mud control?

We used to compost (sort of still do) in bins but her daughter moved and couldn't use it anymore so it sits in the two garbage pails I was filling. I should sift it. Scraps from the kitchen now get tossed into the woods and returned to the Earth as my late mother used to say.

 

Very little wood product goes in, intentionally.

However, I do now have an excess of ash bark. As it breaks down, I can see some of it getting put in.