I just got a tri-axle load delivered at the end of my driveway. If it wasn't winter I would cut it up out there and haul it to the latest wood cube location, which, unfortunately is inaccessable for the rest of the winter. I'm thinking I will drag the rounds back to the garage area with the lawn tractor and process (split) them and stack them temporarily on the drive. What do you think?
Processing where the mess isn't a big issue or some relatively easy clean up area that can wait till Spring. Pictures will cause a less messy work area LOL Wood Type? Quantity?
Tough call if you don't want the neighbors complaining with the work being done out in the open. Where I'm at, I've had (and evidently, so did the PO) log loads delivered about 80-100' up the drive and that's where they got processed..........for 2 years. Twice. I'm a bit out in the boonies, so no matter. In the spring and summer, I pushed the whole mess into a berm of sorts, where it's still composting. I may use some in the garden next year.
(darn tablet keyboard, on laptop now) I don't have enough room out at the log pile to pile up too many rounds. So I could move them down closer to the garage and pile them up there, or split them and temporaily stack the splits. Or split them and toss them in a pile on the snow, etc. I've piled rounds before and don't like it. I guess I'm just talking through it. Any way I do it, there'll be extra work compared to doing it warmer weather, but if I'm not doing anything else, I guess it'd give me a head start. ach, whatever.
Too ma rounds? You better be careful to not tick "yo ma" off. LOL Is that like the guys who are always telling Yo Mama jokes? I remember one I heard a while ago. Yo Momma so fat, when she heard it was chili outside, she came out with a bowl and a spoon!
Just make sure they won't interfere with snow removal. You don't want any scraps getting caught in a blower etc.
Best time to process is when there are no bugs or heat. One thing that can slow you down is the snow. Must be careful, can get slippery. Always use the brake on the saw. But as far as making a mess. You can clean that whole mess up in the spring in one short part of a day. A good rake and some elbow grease and it is gone in no time. Right into the cart behind the mower or wheel barrow and then into the burn pit, garden, compost, or wherever you put it. Cut it up and split it right where it is. Then move it and stack it when convenient.
Sounds like you are contemplating splitting your wood now and re-handling it come spring vs. waiting till spring comes to touch it and still hauling it across your yard. I would have had the log load delivered right next to where it was going to stacked. Process it right there. No sense of hauling it about your yard.
Having wood that needed CSS anywhere by the house would drive me nuts all winter. I'd CSS it some how some way. Sled to where it's stacked. Something. Better than any TV show, well maybe not the " super bowl ". But that's just me. I handle firewood 14 + times from tree to ashes, Fun exercise & outdoor work Got pictures ?
I travel a lot for work so I do what I need to do no matter the temperature. I won't work outside in a down pour but will saw in a light rain.
I need firewood for next winter, so I plan to be working on it today. I will be splitting firewood in the woods and stacking it there. This means I will have to move it in the spring, but the extra couple of months of seasoning, even winter seasoning, will be worth the extra effort. If I didn't need the wood until fall of 2015, I wouldn't be so eager to hurry up and work inefficiently; I might wait until spring. Of course waiting until spring might mean I wouldn't get the wood split until summer, or fall, or .... So, my response to you is if you need the wood next winter, get out and split it now. If you are farther ahead, then it isn't urgent to split the wood now. I am splitting Red Maple and Black Cherry, which I think will be acceptably seasoned by next winter.
Well, I cut enough rounds so that I started tripping. I thought I'd try splitting some horizontally, (oooo), but it turns out that the carb bowl gasket is leaking, again, so that's something else to do.
What makes the cube spot inaccessible? I'd wait for the ground to freeze and skid the logs there if you have access to a tractor.
