Too much wood in the yard. Need to post photos but that will be later this evening or tomorrow. April 1 came around and I had not one stick of usable firewood in the wood shed. I switched the gas burner on and walked away. I had firewood, but it was either still in log form, frozen solid, or inaccessible. Fast forward to today. I have 5 cords C/S/S in my wood shed #1 (6 cord capacity) for 2015/2016, 99% of which is ash and pine that was all bucked to length and left on the ground last fall. It's already pretty dry and will be ready for September with a dry roof and southern exposure. Have another 4-5 cords of white pine, red pine, ash, silver maple and red maple that are laying on the ground in various stages of processing, that will all go in wood shed #2 (12 cord capacity) for 2016-2017. Thought I was all set but one of my friends has proceeded (with my enthusiastic agreement) to dump another 12-14 cords of mixed hardwoods in tree length in my driveway, and I'm expecting another 5-6 cords over the next couple of weeks. Half of that is black locust. I also have a white oak and hickory down on my phone line (there's another post regarding this fun....) that will yield another 2-3 cords. So I've gone from zero to (optimistically) as much as 33 cords of wood in a month. I have a lot of space and I'm already wondering where to put it all. I think I'll be working on 2018-2019 wood by this fall if my current rate holds up... processing a LOT of wood in a short period of time sure gives you a hard lesson in efficiency, though.
thats alot of wood/ is that true cords or face cords? either way it is still alot of wood and alot of work. great job
Great news, the wood gods have answered your call...in a big way! Make the room and do the work, being ahead is peace of mind
My wife keeps asking me where I'm gonna put the next pile.. In the yard/driveway/trailer/other driveway/new stacking area hun.. I ran out last year and never again!!!
That's a whole lot of wood in a little time. Running out is a good way to lite a fire under your a$$ to never let it happen again. Your wife will get over it, just remind her next January, mine says my wood hoard is my mid life crisis.
How many cords do you burn a winter? 33 cords is a lot of wood. That would last me well beyond 10 years even with me burning more wood that ever in my fireplace this year.
When it rains - it pours. 'slotta wood! (Short for "that's alot of wood!" to any newbies). Good job on sourcing for sure.
As promised some photos. What doesn't go in the wood sheds gets stacked (cribbed) on standard pallets so that I can move them around with the tractor's pallet forks. I can pick up about a ton if I have the appropriate counterweight, but I limit my pallet stacks to about 1/3 to 1/2 cord. Wood Shed #1 (6 cord capacity) - built by me and son #2 as a Scout project. Wood Shed #2 (not finished, 12+ cord capacity, needs some bracing). Tractor and 1/3 cord pallet, mostly pine. Splitter pile (about 2 cords, ash and silver maple, most 16-22" dia.) New deliveries (about 12 cords, best guess), mix of box elder, Norway maple, ash, cherry, black birch and butternut. Locust - about three cords. Much of this will be sawn into lumber or sawn /split into posts. That's a 28" diameter butternut log. I'll probably slab it out. Shame to waste it for firewood.
Jon, good for you! glad to hear you got a 3 year plan working I need some of that good wood karma.. oh feel free to steal a Vermont face cord looks like this 6 feet high 16 feet long 16 to 18 inches wide.. a "face" of a cord..
