i used to sell half cords of nuggets to a customer for a few years. Last year he got tired of them and asked for normal splits which i obliged. I sold a three face cords of shorts...12-14". One guy was thrilled as he had a small stove. Barrel O' Nuggets...can you deliver and dump them? Looks sellable to me. Or is this strickly your wood to burn?
We just burn them. When we get all our drums full, my cousin will get some fo4 his stove. We are going to cut a dump trailer load of 12-14" wood for a cancer patient, planned for Oct 2, with our mission team from church, we have several piles of nuggets and shorts we will go through, plus cut some. The guy that gave me those trees we got 7 loads from asked if we could cut her some. I have about a half load of logs cut 70", make 5-14" rounds.
Ive been nibbling away splitting the score and finished up today. Mound in back right is more of it. Gotta find a spot to stack it. Forgot about the Collins ax and used it today. I seem to like it more than the X27 at times. The stack behind the mound is a bin of shorts and nuggets 4x4x4...half cord almost full. I stack the shorties and fill in with nuggets/cookies. Few chunks i will noodle. Mightve been able to split some but im liking noodling more and more. Maybe im just getting lazy in my old age?
Under rated stuff! Didn't realize how fast it dries out. Just put a piece on our fire. Was uprooted in April of 2018, cut and split in June 2018. Down to 11-12%, thought it was at 21% but the meter was upside down.
This was downed by May 2018 tornado Jotuller . I believe it was bucked shortly after. Sat in the mound since. 95% of the wood had decent "meat" only a couple seemed to have lost some density. A couple had some preexisting punky centers. I forgot to jab with MM. Honestly i wish i could score more sugar. Most i score is a city or yard tree with lots of knots and/or gnarl. Seldom a nice straight one.
You're in Northern Vermont. Isnt every Winter night cold? What other wood do you burn? Is beech up that far North?
yes you do. Tried with the fiskars to half them and no go after several whacks so the 460 to the rescue. Do you noodle at all?
Sugar Maple is king for cold nights here. Plentiful, hot, and quick to season. It is great at shedding its bark after a year or two also, which can make for a happy wife. Very little red oak left around, and no white oak until a fellow gets into the Connecticut River valley. sugar maple it is - just watch out for old metal taps!
How about Rock Maple? Always thought that stuff grew on trees up there. Doh!! Looked it up, all one and the same, never knew that.