Small rounds

I will take "Should I split it" for a dollar Alex. Usually if the diameter of the round is about the same length as a 1$ bill or smaller I will leave it in a round. No real good reason other than I hand split and would rather my swings be used for bigger rounds instead of tiring myself out making a bunch of kindling and a big stack of overnight btu's sits looking at me begging to get dry.

 

Please tell me your user name is a workaholics reference.

 

Is that a pallet i see under that stack of rounds???

 

If you mean mine no I got it from all of the recent ads and memes where it says damm it Carl. Just cleaned it up a bit and added the K as in my name.

 

No I don't think I ever heard that one.

 

Well I don't know about well respected and using the term "famous" is bordering on being reckless with the truth. But yes you are correct, It is not firewood till it is split.

Look at it this way. Driving through the country side you will see stacks of rounds bucked up, piled between trees or just neatly setting by the side of the road. They will sit there for years rotting into oblivion and utter uselessness. How many stacks of split firewood do you see having this same fate?

Many years ago I had forked branch we set aside while making firewood. It look very much like female anatomy, especially after a mod was done with the chainsaw. This seemed pretty funny at the time but then barley pop seems to make anything funny. The branch found a new home behind the wood stove on top of firebrick on the wall where it sat for many years. Eventually it was thrown into the stove and sap boiled out years later when it burned. This was after thousands of hours being exposed to close proximity to a wood stove.

 

See? ..... and a famous wood carver!

 

And they make good all nighters in the house after 2-3 years!

 

Karl with a k is the only way to spell it!

 

I have cut LOTS of rounds when processing tops left from a wood harvest and spent an entire winter burning only rounds 5" or less from tops. Some folks will not cut tops for firewood because stems produce wood faster (fewer cuts and more pounds per stick before splitting) and so more firewood for me... While splits always dry faster, the extra time to cut and collect rounds from tops makes splitting inefficient for rounds under 5" for me. I just stack the rounds, let them dry for 3 years, and burn them without difficulty. Splits will be drier but my rounds have burned well enough for me. I always protect smaller rounds from getting wet since they rot more easily.