I know we have plenty of summer left but being back from summer vacation for over a week now we are starting to turn our attention towards back to school with that comes thoughts of fall. So it gave me the urge to swing the maul and axe a little bit through some pine rounds I had, even as crazy hot as it was yesterday. Had a quick question about mud splatter on the bottom row or two of my splits. Most of the racks are set directly on the dirt with no ground cover so there is a lot of splatter occurring when it rains. While not ideal wanted to ask if this was a problem and worth remeding. Also I see some of the splits grew a fuzzy beard......LOL!
Nice work ReelFaster , I have a paint scraper I carry in the back of our four wheeler when we start putting in wood. We have plenty of big ole pines around the house where the wood is so if we have pine needles under the cover on the wood, I scrape them off before putting them inside, that might work for scraping off dirt/mud.
Nice jag of wood and excellent splitting gear! Here in the NW we get the dirt splatter on the outside stacks also. I just take a stiff broom to them before moving the wood to the woodshed. Also get bits of fungus now and then on the ends of splits mostly on Maple, Cherry or other deciduous woods.
Thanks fellas for the input. I think that's exactly what I'll do metalcuttr before I move into the wood shed for burning.
Can you rake the wood "crumbs" from processing next to the stacks? Any gravel/pepples/small rocks to put down? Big box stores will discount opened/damaged bags of landscape rocks if you ask. This will lessen the dirt exposure thus splatter. I have a short handle stiff bristle hand broom nearby. Most of my stacks are in wooded areas so lots of leaves on the ground.
