Moose antlers hung on the wood shed

Movable so I can get to the wood next year.

 

Man I love Moose and elk antlers! It's amazing something can grow that much bone in less than a year!

 

A set would look cool above my stove!

 

I know they taste really good.
The moose meat, not the moose horns.

I'm a member of PETA
People Eat Tasty Animals

 

That will scare those moose out of your garden!

 

I wish. LOL
Would be nice though

 

The top set looks like they grew differently, the shapes are a not the same. Is that common?

 

Not that uncommon, most likely from an injury. Can happen during antler development when the tissue is soft or a body injury on the opposite rear leg(Car/fighting/hunting injury)
The base pedicle can be damaged during shedding which will cause the new antler to grow malformed every year - which is even more common than the usual thinking that these are cull animals or genetically inferior.

 

Never seen moose antlers the same.
lots of variables in Mother Nature.
Lower smaller set has a brow tine on the Right side, pointing down, first I've seen that.
Some kinda damage during growth, I'm guessing .

 

What are the dimensions of your woodshed Bogy ? I know you have said before I believe but I don't recall. Also how many cords does it hold ? I think I may try to get one built this summer if I can find the time.

 

9'-6" deep, 48 ' long , 7' tall on the low end , 8-1/2' on the high end
roughly 21 cord
Some Pictures:





Today's Pic:

 

Dave the more I've thought about building as shed like yours with 3 bays the more I start to think about the varying wood species I come into and want to burn.
In your case all you get is birch right?
Problem here is I go from shoulder season - to 20's to 70's to 40's to teen's to 50's - more I think about it having segregated stacks with tin makes more sense for me anyways.
I'd hate to be moving wood around to get to oak & hickory with a pile of gum in the way.

I plan on doing something more permanent than my current lay tin on what I'm going to burn stacks

 

I had spruce when I first filled it
do narrow front to back with one wood type.

Center section is 1/2 spruce, 1/2 birch:
(could stack 1/3 1/3 1/3 of different types. just some do some cross stacks)


A 2X4 top to bottom of each row to separate types might work

 

Another thought, which I thought about doing.

Work from the back side to the front,
stack the oldest wood in the front row first. Newest wood in the back
Then when burned oldest wood is in front row.

Working back to front to fill a section works now that I'm caught
up & empty a section each burn season
Then re-fill it with wood all C&S about the same time.

Also some might need to make the front & back row have more (some) shoulder season wood,
Center rows for Dec & Jan the higher BTU wood (coldest months)

 

Looks like that overhang addition in the front you put in gave you another 2-3cord of capacity.

 

I see your main posts are out of the ground. How are they mounted Dave.

 

See the concrete pier block at the bottom of the picture ?
I dug a 12" (+/-) hole down to gravel, filled & compacted the hole with gravel to about a foot from the top
Then buried the concrete pier block to where the top of the block is ground level for each corner post.
They freeze in , in the winter & hold the roof down in the high winds, & I also took care
to make sure the edge of the pallets are on top of them .
That way the weight of the wood helps hold them down too.

 

That addition gave room to keep 5 rows deep dry.
Thinking about adding 24" overhang to the back, one more row of dry wood.