I had some wood delivered today. I thought they would be hauling all logs from a different site and I got a few loads of rounds with the logs. Oak and Maple. There’s a couple Buttermilk size oak logs.
Looks like some good stuff. Gonna keep you busy for a while. Has your source of wood from work dried up Jim?
You weren't the only one. Every year when the weather turns cool we hear saws. Yesterday was no exception. Some folks have to hurry every fall to get their winter supply cut. Later they cuss because the wood doesn't burn very well and it is even hard to get a fire going. Then they usually begin talking and asking questions about new stoves...
That's a nice load of wood!! This welcomed cooler weather has me itching. I have a nice load of cherry and red maple that needs to be processed. Think I am going to have to break down and buy some hydraulics I am tired of borrowing my cousins or my brother in laws. Am being selfish, stubborn and impatient. When I want to use I want to use it.........besides I feel awkward constantly asking to borrowing it....
Every piece of oak I resplit this past 7 weeks was a nice reminder why I’m putting the effort in now for when the house is going to actually need the wood in 3 years. to just feel the moisture in it, makes me wonder how most folks do it with fresh split wood
Pretty much how my dad did it as I was growing up. We used to sweep the chimney very frequently and I remember shoveling lots of creosote from the bottom. That was my job because it was down in a small space.
Sounds like my brother. He will start cutting firewood the day before he needs it, and gets a new wood stove every 10 years or less.
My oak was initially cut and split in January 2024. This stuff was boiler sized. I split it down again pretty much the same the Chris from In The Woodyard does. it got ran through a processor and then I resplit. the lowest moisture reading I saw was still 38%. And most was over the limit of my cheapy tester from menards.
That WAS me, back in about 2008 or so...the poor results were what made me go online to research what was wrong with my stove...
At my previous house my neighbor would go out in the afternoon to cut the nights wood off the log pile by the back door. They piled it by the wood stove to dry. The house burned a couple years after I had moved away.
For clarification that’s a poplar on the ground. The Poplar clipped the top off the cherry on the way down. No I won’t be taking the poplar logs only the cherry. No wind sunny day and the Poplar fell.
