Haven’t really started splitting yet but broke a couple bigger white oak rounds down the other day to carry to truck and they were frozen. You’re right, they do split easier when frozen! Those are some great piles of spots you got there, Brad. Your customers are lucky. Some real primo stuff!
Rereading this thread and i misinterpreted this. Some of it "popped" easily, where as some the ax just buried itself in the soft wood.
It's weird. I have always had wood to split during winter, but this year it's all done. Strange feeling....
Your black locust fell down!!! I would pick them up for you Just the kind of guy I am Took a ride up to Torrington today. Near Unionville, Farmington River I started noticing black locust along the roadside. Was quite a swervy trip the rest of the way
Havent been able to get any splitting done. Couple days of snow, then busy weekend, and two rain days yesterday and today. Rain stopped mid afternoon so i was able to head over and got a half cord plus split. Bit messy in the slush but better than being stuck in the house. Before After More frozen ants and creepy crawlies under loose bark. Maggots really skeeve me out. Ill stack barkless separate from bark on. Some of the rounds were from trees felled in the Summer so bark was looser and came off easily. At least a couple cords of rounds yet. Ill hit it tomorrow and get at least another cord split.
Bark less separate from bark on due to shelf life? Amazing what comes crawling out of the rounds. Mice, salamander, ants, spiders, and grubs are a couple of what I have seen.
Ive seen big white grubs the size of a pinky finger, rocks and pop cans. I try to keep the grubs alive so I can take them fishing, but my two long weekend trips dont line up with when I find the grubs. One time I forgot 20 of them in the fridge.
I sold three cord of dead barkless this Winter. One customer called today and was beyond pleased with it. He has friends that want wood. Wants another one next year. Says it was the nicest firewood he has ever bought in many years of burning. Retirement aged guy. Any dead barkless will get SS and go next Winter. This will get stacked alone as will the green bark on. If the "green" barkless is ready next Winter it will get sold then. PITA but worth it.
Don’t you hate buying something that you forgot at home! I swear, I do it all the time Hopefully, you at least caught some fish
Customer for life! I’ve got some dead standing stuff that I need to get to. Not a lot of it, but especially the one tree is pretty big. This helps give me an idea of what to do with it.
Just the maggots in BL bother me for some reason. The decaying cambium layer makes it smell worse than rotten eggs and wet dog combined hence the reason they like it. Ive run into all types of critters in wood myself. Cut though a mouse in a hollow round years back
