Finally had some time to stack more oak and cedar into the shed. That sure fills up fast i need more sheds and here I thought i had such a nice big wood shed. Looked big when it was empty. Saved some real uglys too. Also downloaded the pics i took of the bugs that are reducing the wood to saw dust. This oak was alive in January this year when we felled it. How can i possible get to a 3 year plan when the buggers eat it all in less than a year?
I bet Oak and Cedar goes well together. To me it looks like it didnt dry well, as you can see on the right bit, Beech gets that way if you have it layin outside for too long. It will attract some of those little beasties. I cut an Elm last year, it was allready Dead for a while - i split it and gave it another year, no bugs and no worms were seen. I burned the last bits a few days ago -they had worms. I guess it was close to rotting allready in some parts so they were inside of it having a party.
You will learn like others have to pay little attention to the bugs. They will eat a little but not that much. The wood will still be fine.
Although, the faster it dries, the less the bugs eat, and splitting it will make it dry faster... The size that you have stacked in the shed is a size I would at least split in half.
Most of them are under 5" in diameter. My stove is a north/south feeder with 2 sq ft fire box. I was hoping to use those for over night burning. Just smashed a finger pretty badly, a big round fell on it. No more firewood today.
Oh, oh, ice it up! It feels good after a little while. Do you have ice at the cabin? I hand split, and I like to get the oak pretty small, but it's different if you're using a splitter.
Yeah got it iced and wrapped. Still throbbing a bit. I get over it I can't hand split unless it's for kindling. My back won't let me swing an ax anymore, that's why we finally bought an electric splitter. I was told cigars work real well in my kind of stove. We'll see when I finally get burning.
