I typically don’t hoard much in the summer anymore, but I made an exception for this black birch. It came down a couple days ago in a thunderstorm. The power company hastily sectioned it and pushed the logs off of the roadway. Tonight I had a short sweat-a-thon loading them up. It’s not much, but enough to scratch the itch.
OH YEAH! I little BB is worth a little sweat! Nice to see you hoarding. FHC aint the same unless you are!
Thanks Brad. It definitely felt good to grab a quick load again. I can only watch others have fun for so long before I have to give in to the temptation myself. I can wait for the weather to break before processing this though
Did you jump in the pool? I did 3-4 hours SS in the wood yard this afternoon. Most of the time in the shade even though it was mostly cloudy. Still not a pleasant experience.
Dennis, I agree 100%. Still seeing primo wood available on MP but it’s just too sultry outside. Current dew point is 72. I came in drenched from harvesting my garden and mowing (on a rider). Looks like a relatively easy get Eric. I’d love to ad some BB to my stash. It’s a rarity in my neck of the woods though.
So much for waiting on cooler weather. The birch is split, and while I was at it I split a few ash rounds that had been waiting in limbo, along with a couple black locust rounds, and one eastern red cedar.
A couple days ago I scored a few dead/barkless red oak rounds along with the last 4 rounds of birch that I wanted: Splitter trash is accumulating which will add to my kindling hoard: Here are all my small recent scores stacked up as of this morning. It’s mostly black birch, with ash, oak and a little black locust thrown in. About 1/3 cord, maybe a hair more:
I can mostly agree with this. This one particular tree was standing dead for at least 5 years, and fell down this past week. The rounds that I cut felt pretty dry. If I absolutely had to I’d burn them later on this upcoming winter.
