New member here. Thought I'd share some of my future firewood piles. These are 2 of my piles of logs ready for cutting to length, splitting and stacking. they are 8 x 8 x about 6ft tall. These will most likely sit for 2 years outside before that happens. I 5 more piles somewhat smaller located scattered about in the woods. I also have tops from many trees laying around in the woods. We had a severe storm go thru in Aug. and it dropped alot of trees. Most of the nicer stuff is going to go for lumber. Usually I cut, spit and stack the stuff under cover right away but because of a storm that went thru this summer I have tons of firewood laying down in the woods. Most will rot before it gets burned. here is a picture of the wood piles. picture of one of the piles of tops from one White Oak laying in the woods yet.
Looks like a good set up for making firewood whenever you get to it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
If you get it off the ground, even if its on disposable saplings, it will last longer than most of us. You probably know that already but I just, as a 20 cord hoarder, had to do my part to save even 1 piece of farwood. Man, that's some beautiful wood you have stacked; nice work!
Welcome Soggy Logs , thats a heckuva jump start-Just so you know, we like pics, (check) dogs and beer-we also like spending your money on accoutrements to further your addiction, er, I meant hoard...You clearly have tools to make that stack of logs so you’re ahead of the game-and your woodshed looks as big as a house-Dont be shy, lots of great folks here eager to lend advice or a hand...Nice to meet you
Welcome Soggy Logs ... Looks like you got a nice pile to work with... and some to get out of the woods....
That must have been quite a storm! I'm glad you were able to sell some for lumber. Any way you could sell some for firewood? Or is there a local glut now? I like your stategy of cribbing the logs!
The pile on the left has 4 x 4 's under it. The pile on the right has 2 popple or aspen logs under it. I don't burn popple. I have enough "good" wood that I can be picky. I thought about selling some firewood but I don't know if its worth the effort. A cord goes for about $200-250 around here. I've got enough projects to keep me busy as it is.
If you like pictures here are some of the woods after the storm damage. large white oak uprooted and pushed to the ground. root ball from a pair of sugar maples, that root ball is about 8ft tall from the ground level. A nice Maple that was broken off about 20-30 ft up. Lots of trees like this. I have an area that is or I should say was mostly large popple (aspen) about 80% of them are now down. There is one area that the logs are piled 6-8 layers high, about 6 ft tall of so. It looks like Giants where play a game of pickup sticks.
Welcome to the forum Soggy Logs That must have been one whale of as storm! I can imagine what it is like getting the wood out of that mess but looks like you are doing very well at it. I do have to admit this is the first time I've seen cribbing on log lengths. Hope that works out good for you.
Nice logs, storms can make a mess. When Hurricane Erma came through the south in Sept '17, it was rough. We wound up working on a property in Feb and March '18. We cleaned up at least 25-30 trees. Had and oak and tulip poplar at least 24" dia uprooted. my hunny is 5' tall. Looks like the tree monster is gonna get her. part of the 24" oak
