We have one 4 x 4 rack open so we put in two loads of firewood in, it's a combo of soft maple,sugar maple and some yellow birch with the third picture what's left under the tarp. We have some American Hop-hornbeam (Ironwood) to the right under cover but we'll save that for next year, we had planned on burning that this year.
Looks like heat! Lots of yellow birch in the woods over here, though I haven't been privy to any in a few years. Burns pretty hot and is more resistant to falling to rot than white birch, as I recall.
We like the heat it throws too, I still have some damaged yellow birch that needs felling. I haven't had much if any white birch but I think you're correct.
Very nice! How much have you used so far this winter? We have burned WAY more than we thought we’d need this year.
Shoulder Season Wood - 1.24 cord or 2 face The Main Section we draw from - 1.86 cord or 6 face with four face left The Section we draw from on the Northside - we'll burn 0.62 of a cord or 2 face but won't be done burning that until the end of the third week of February. We burned 0.31 of a cord or 1 face of dead elm We also will finish burning 0.31 of a cord or 1 face of Oak before the end of February. So by the end of February we'll have burned 12 f/c. Because we burned or will burn a bunch of our better wood, we should be around the same totals compared to some of our colder years. We still have 2 f/c of shoulder season wood along with another 2 f/c of dead elm,pine,hemlock and some cherry mixed in that's been seasoning for two years but want to save for next year. I don't have how many bags of pellets we have burned but the previous two years we burned 46 & 48, this year should be in the mid 50's or low 60's.
Finally got a huge (to my standards) maple cut up this weekend. It was hung up in another tree after being blown over sometime in its lifetime and was posing a threat to our barn when we had the area cleared. Got an 18" bar on my chainsaw and the rounds towards the bottom were closer to 22-24" so I had to come at it from both sides. These suckers were HEAVY! I could only fit 3 per bucket load with my Kubota. I usually hand split my firewood, but will be renting one soon to get these guys split up.
Nice rounds! Good choice renting a splitter. Hit those things with an ax or maul, and they just bounce back at you. I'm splitting some smaller year old maple rounds with wedges, and they very tough, but at least not oozing sap anymore.
We put in another two loads today before the rains hit tomorrow in the p.m., we have some nice beech in this f/c we'll be burning. Tomorrow I'll be dropping the covers down so they cover more of the face of the wood on the stacks we'll be burning from for the rest of the year.
We had some wood left in a certain area we were taking from so we put that in which will open that area up for stacking, it was one load so with this weather we'll be set for wood for a good amount of days.
We have a wood rack open inside so we'll bring in another two loads tomorrow. The long range forecast looks good so we might be done having to burn any pellets, I'm not sure that last time we burned the pellet stove but there's one bag in it so we'll burn that just so we won't have to take it out of the hopper for the summer.
Yes, it was windy today in the wrong direction so we might get going tomorrow or the latest would be Wednesday. I don't look forward to all the limbing up of the pines.
Timberlake, I Don't think you'll have any problem hand splitting those maple rounds as long as the tree has been dead for awhile.
