I think I am done with the CSS game for next year already. Thanks to the incredibly mild winter(no big storms, very little snow, and very warm temps) And a timely score of oak and Ash which i just finished stacking, I won't have any wood splitter fun till 2019. As a suburbs dweller, I can t keep stacking....so four cords and change is my maximum. I finished the winter with well over half of my stash untouched. Going to be really snobbish about wood hoarding during the summer!
Heh, you're done for the year, meanwhile I'm 3 1/2 years behind on a 3 yr plan. Looks like you get to spend your summer
Glad to hear I'm not the only one! I'm begrudgingly taking oak I come across and just piling it out of the way. Need to focus on the quicker seasoning stuff first!
Well...if'n you get to jonesing to do any css'ing, let me know. The guest room is most always vacant. Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
Same here. I dug into next years stash and am trying to replace it with some quick drying hardwood, but keep coming up with pesky oak. Next year may be heavy on the pine.
Asplundh has been cutting a fair amount of maple and ash near me. One house has two already down, and two huge ash marked to be cut. The for sale sign out front is gonna make that easy pickens me thinks! Need to find 2-3 more like that and I'll be moving on to 19-20
Silver maple, ash and pine will all season in a summer, assuming you have a decent place to stack. We need a thread for all the dumb stacking we see, eh? No, between your big pine trees unsplit is not a good location, sir!
damm, I'm just getting started. Surely you could expropriate some square footage that is being under-utilized in the yard someplace ?
Giant oak rounds.....seasoned! My plan for this year is to make a single stack directly behind the fence line in front of my house. It.runs across the front, then up my driveway. By my estimation, that will be 4.5 cords in a single row 4' high. It will get the most sun and wind that way.
While I obviously understand the need and desire for some quicker seasoning wood, I'm finding it hard to be sympathetic to the "over-abundance" of Oak that you are suffering. My biggest issue is that even if I planted oaks now, I wouldn't be able to really harvest and burn much until the year 2050, if I'm even around then. But then again, if I'm not still around, there's a good chance I won't want or need any additional heat.
Lol! In this instance at least there wasn't anything else I could have been hoarding, but I've definitely been guilty of driving by easy grab roadside oak on my way to fill the truck with ash that was down a small embankment and needed to be bucked and lugged up to the truck.
Prettysure I have enough for my 3 year plan...however...I can't seem to stop thi jin about droppin the next tree...go figure?
Yeah, I let my stove go cold today. Nearly 60°. That said, I've got an acre, and I've got trees to cut. I'm not at the three year plan yet. So that works, as long as I keep on hoarding. I think I'm at around 2 years at the moment. This big dead elm that's been taunting me will be about a half a years worth of wood on its own. That had to come down before it gets too warm. Maybe next Saturday? Frozen ground in the am will be my friend. I'll drop it into the farmers field to make it easy.
Same here. I can’t just let it lay in my “burb”. Today, I just finished rack one of 3 that will hold nearly 2 cord each and only one rack will be visible to the neighbors so if I can cram it all in I can get in almost 6 cord in the 3 racks. That’s a big if tho. I burn a little under 4 Cord per year if I burn 24/7 during the cold months and that estimated since I have never heated soley with wood until this year. Nice work tho!
Nice racks and racket!!! Based on this winter, I burned probably around a cord and 1/3-1/2. Its a bit tough figuring it out since some of the wood wasn’t stacked to a cord measured. But now when I think about it, I had a really clean 1/2 cord of alder. That is it was just very largely alder stacked on 8 foot long 4x4’s at about 14-18 inches per split that was burned really nicely between November up to Xmas. That stack was about chin level but raised about a foot including the 4x4. Anyways. The more I think about it, I’m still looking good at being at 2 years ahead. 3 may be pushing it but not forgetting that I have miscellaneous sized piles and a pallet box thats 2 pallets long by a pallet wide filled with just about any kind of blockwood.
Seems good to hear. I think you are the only one reporting an incredibly mild winter this year. Most say the opposite. And for sure March has been below normal temperatures so let us hope April will turn things around temperature-wise.
Unless you are out east (prepping for noreaster four) not sure where you are finding a worse than normal winter...it's been crazy warm this year. 60 yesterday, and several days warmer so far back in February. This isn't new here...we have been having warmer Winters for several years, although this years was really a change with no or almost no snow on the ground much of the season. January here could have fooled you into thinking it was March. Friends out west have said much the same. At any rate, best of luck on rebuilding your stacks!
See, I would never post pictures of my stacks...none are up to your level of neatness and log length uniformity. Heck, I have a lot of oak shorties sitting on random out crops of longer splits. Looks great!
