Can't see my stacks but you can see the dead ash that was standing in my front yard that I am now burning. This picture was taken at an angle as much of my backyard is not obsucured, yet in this picture it is. Even the dead ash looks like it hung over the far side of my street. Picture is at least 4 years old. Streetview is more recent, as the ash tree is gone. It was also taken on a Monday morning as the trash cans are on the curb.
Here is mine. Last log load was in the very back by the barn and stacks and shed are visible on the left, behind the garage. House is on the right. Not on a PC so your gonna have to deal with entire screenshot.
Ahhhh! I can't play on this thread because Campinspecter has all the wood at our house and my mother's in wood sheds and the roofs look like part of the main buildings.
Here's a pic from last summer at my old house (brown roof). It went from the pine in the front left back to the back yard. I miss my wood fence
Two years ago. Just finishing up the new house. Zoomed in you can see the ice chest in the back of my truckBut there are too many nice Red Oaks (did I just say that) to see the stacks.
Not a stick of firewood on the place, so I'm safe from the goverment until they start sending drones out. Must be spring of 2010. I like it because you can't see a single weed in the gardens. There's upwards of 18 cord c/s/s/s'ed (cut/split/stacked/& scattered) all over the place by now. There's no firewood in the picture, but do I get the prize for most rusted-roofed outbuildings?
The lukem ranch. Woodpiles are on either side of the barn and along the woodline in the back. A little hard to see and have grown quite a bit since this was taken.
Google Earth has a very old view of my place, and the wood is all under my woodshed anyway, but I can show you where the wood would be. Google Earth view. A real view. The woodshed is right at the end of my son's finger.
We live in a sleepy little place called Olalla. Copy these coordinates 49.2574278827, -119.870145165 in to the Google Earth search bar, press the search button and it should take you to the exact spot where my son is standing.
The valley bottom is about 1,700 ft above sea level. We had about 6" of snow on the ground last month, but it melted and there's basically nothing down here in the valley bottom right now. This January has been unusually warm. I think all that arctic air has been getting diverted out East . Mind you last year at this time we had about two feet of snow on the ground in the valley bottom, and it stayed till March. Plenty of snow up on the mountain though. The road going up to where that picture was taken is a favorite trail for the snowmobilers, they only have to go about 500 ft up the road before they hit snow.
Check out their video at the end: And its all gone: Winter storms wipe out firewood supplies For woodstove users, it's harder to keep home fires burning By Jim Hook [email protected] @JimHookPO on Twitter Mike Jones of Gish Logging in Fort Loudon has just a few sticks of firewood in his warehouse. (Jim Hook — Public Opinion) Gish Logging sends packaged firewood to Saudi Arabia. (Jim Hook — Public Opinion) Fort Loudon >> Seasoned firewood is in short supply, just one month into what is turning out to be a harsh winter. "We usually have 100,000 to 300,000 bundles to carryover in a mild winter," said Ernie Gish, co-owner of Gish Logging in Fort Loudon. "We've cleaned house. We don't have a stick." Located five miles north of the wood-scented village of Fort Loudon, Gish Logging is not the typical chainsaw-pickup-truck operation. It's one of the nation's largest suppliers of packaged firewood, 1.2 million packages a year. Gish's kiln-dried Hotsticks are found in convenience, hardware and grocery stores. The company is meeting its contracts, but extra supplies are limited, according to Gish. Air-dried firewood in bulk is all but gone. The company has some less seasoned wood available. "Usually we would be the last company to run short because we inventory so much," he said. "I'm getting calls from all over the country wondering if we have anything to spare." Using wood as the primary heat source for a home in the United States has grown nearly 40 percent since 2004, according to the Department of Energy. Burning wood and wood pellets has become more and more popular in recent years as the prices of traditional heating fuels increase, according to Ron Bunting, owner of Bunting's Fireplace and Stove, Chambersburg. "It's been a steady uptick," Bunting said. "I've seen the largest growth in pellet stoves in the past five years. It was phenomenal in 2013." Wood pellet stoves are easy to install, and the fuel is abundant, he said. About 6 percent of homes in Franklin County are heated mainly with wood, according to the most recent American Community Survey estimates by the Census Bureau. In Fulton County 22 percent are heated with wood. In the more populous counties of Cumberland and York, just 3 percent of homes are heated with wood. More than 3,600 homes in Franklin County burn wood as their primary source of heat. That's more than twice the number who rely on bottled gas. About 45 percent in the county rely on electricity, 25 percent on fuel oil and 19 percent on utility natural gas. Jeff Sheffler, left, and his son, Isaac, fill their outdoor woodstove Thursday in Waynesboro. (Markell DeLoatch — Public Opinion) Wood-burning stoves are generally less efficient than other heat sources, according to the Department of Energy, but the fuel costs less. Customers are burning more wood this season because of the colder temperatures and wind, according to smaller firewood operators. "We have a little bit of seasoned," said third-year operator Sherri Jarrett of Willow Hill. "We're getting low too. It's hard to find. Loggers aren't going out. Vendors haul it to us and we split it." Starting up frozen logging equipment on the mountain can take most of a short winter day. Late summer and fall are the prime seasons for firewood harvesting. "Winter came early for us this year," Bunting said. "It drove people to think about winter early." November had about 17 percent more heating days than a normal November, according to data from Hagerstown, Md., weather observer Greg Keefer. There were fewer than normal heating days in December, and so far, the number of heating days in January is about normal. But the number should soar with forecasted arctic temperatures to the end of the month. "This would be the highest demand year we've seen," Gish said. "2010 was a very good year with those three back-to-back storms." Gish Logging has been packaging firewood 15 years and selling loose firewood since 1984. The company has found a niche in providing wood for what Gish calls "ambiance fires." About 8 percent of U.S. homes supplement their primary heat source by burning wood, according to the Department of Energy. Gish Logging has found its bagged firewood to be popular outside the U.S. Demand has increased from Saudi Arabia where the wood is used for cooking fires and warmth on cool desert nights, according to Gish.
