So I found a woodworker out in the country who is going to make something out of the giant honey locust Burl I posted about two weeks back Met his father and he was kind enough to show me his wood shed. By my own rough estimate, a 54 cord solid locust block. My wife standing in front of it for scale. Gorgeous piece of cutting, stacking and seasoning. The 10 year plan.
That's sweet! It kind of makes me feel lazy with my 15-16 cord though. There's plenty of hard work in that shed!!
Yeah, he is doing it for me and I'm going to pay him, so I will send along some pics some day, but likely not for a year or more
He has an an inside furnace with a pretty good sized box, so he said he could burn what's there. I laughed when he said he burns 5 cords a year
I paced it off, so I wouldn't claim it is exact. But that shed was 36 ft wide, 24 feet deep, and stacked an average of 8 feet high. Higher than that in front but slope to roof. So I got 36 x 24 x 8 = 6912 cubic feet / 128 = 54 cords, less I guess whatever is missing from that first row.
I stand corrected! I could not tell the depth of the shed from the pic and am used to seeing sheds that are not as deep as this one. For crumps sake, that shed is larger than my cottage! Indeed, it is a sight to behold and what a nice feeling it must create when you stand back and look at it!!
Yep, that looks just like my 4 year plan. I wonder what the dry time would be on the wood in the middle of that shed? I'm guessing pretty slow, but is also looks like he's far enough ahead to not worry about it I guess. Just the fact that it's all locust is impressive. At 23 million BTU per cord, he's got about 1,242,000,000 BTU in that shed....that's trillion boys and girls.
Crazy thing is he told me he started accumulating 10 years ago when he retired, and the far back wood is from that same year. He said he wasn't worried because it was locust and out of the weather, that it would all keep. He has a small dump truck, and stacks up to head high from the ground, then backs the truck against the pile and he stands in the bed to stack it into the rafters of the shed. When I grow up, I wanna be like him.
