I know you guys never get tired of firewood pics... I've been ignoring this maple; I thought was probably pretty rotted, judging from the top limbs. Now that some if the bushes thinned out around it, it was looking pretty juicy... Decided to sink the saw into her and see if there was anything good in there . Turns out most of the trunk was still solid, end even a little bit from north of the crotch. Got a pretty heavy trailer load out of it. Did a bit more stacking on the holzi too. Heres a glimpse of my OCD stacking habits. I sort the pieces as I load them onto the trailer.
That's good that you sunk your saw into it. Nice load you got out of it. The HH is looking good. Nice work
Good score Down maple usually gets punky pretty quick, you got it just in time ! Nice stacking plan, Keep us posted with the progress
There wasnt much left in the tops of it, which is why I wrote it off before. The trunk was pretty well hidden by some undergrowth, and I hadn't noticed how much was suspended off the ground. This all came from the "middle" portion of the trunk; everything else was hollow or covered in mushrooms and got left in the woods.
How well does that circular stack method work for you? My wife saw that method shown in the little booklet that came with her GransFors ax. Since she is lead stacking engineer, she wants to try that method.
Wish my GF liked to stack! It seems to be going pretty well. I doubt if it will improve seasoning times, as some have claimed, but I don't need it to. I won't need this for at least 3 years. I'm doing it more for looks - if it's gotta sit on my lawn for 3 years, I want it to look pretty. Keeping the stacks level seems to be the challenge with it. Because of the way the splits all point toward the center, the "inside" of the ring wants to be "taller" than the outside. Other people deal with this by laying splits around the "outside" of the ring every so often, crosswise to the rest of them, to bring everything back to level. I'm trying to avoid doing that, for aesthetic reasons - I think it's a "cleaner" look. So far, a few strategically placed "uglies", and curvy branch pieces are doing the trick for me; hence the reason I sort everything as I load it onto the trailer. If you're going for looks too, I'd make it on the large side - mine is 10' diameter. I think this helps the outer ring of splits "stack nicer", as the angle they need to form isn't as "severe". At that size, I can fit 1 cord per every 1.5' of height, and the "roof" will be another cord. So I should be able to get an entire winter's worth of wood in there, minus shoulder season. 2.5-3 cords of barkless black locust, topped off with a cord of black cherry. Should be some delicious stove chow in a few years!
