Got a good load of walnut split up. Nice and straight for the most part. Better get to stacking it now so the trailer can quit crying.
Uh......holy canoli, that poor tractor isn't just crying. Looks like a good 1/2 cord...maybe a little more.
Trying to clear out some space for when the rest arrives. Next row is a truckload of the branches (10-18" diameter) from the day we dropped the big oak. Then some rows of oak from spring, then a row of Apple and some other stuff. Haven't made it to the bottom of the rounds stack in over a year. It just keeps getting piled in front.
Usually about 2/3 piled that high. Good thing it only had to go about 100' then it's getting added to mega cube #2.
That's a 5x10', right? If I slightly mound a load over the rails, it's a 1/3 cord or so. I can see that being 2/3........or really close.
I've yet to burn much walnut. I have some but only about a weeks worth of burning that I scrounged from a tree job along side the road. But time's a comin' cause the creek is about to drop one for me and lightening tore a bunch of bark off another. Good sized, and straight they are, but from a fence line so a mill won't touch them.
Got this side at 4.5' x 12' x 1.8' (20" splits) for a total of 97.2 c.f. Plus what I put on the other side measuring a conservative 2' x 5' x 1.8' that's another 18 cf. So that's a total of 115 cf which is real close to a full cord. Don't mind the mule... I'd have never taken that load down the road.
"Don't mind the mule , load the wagon " Great looking stack. Nice colors The cube in the background stands out big time ! Looks like a small building
That stuff burns nice pretty, I cut up a tree of it last year and tried some out already. Wish I could say mine was "straight" too!
The little bit of walnut I dealt with split real easy. It was on the ground for over 2 years before I split it in July so I'll check it out next fall. Everyone seems to say it doesn't like giving up it's moisture.
I'm almost to the walnut in my stacks.....there's around 2 full cord in there from a huge one we dropped several years back (some of you will remember the big one I had milled). Just the branches and tops from that huge tree gave me 2 cord! It's BONE DRY and ready for the stove....
Great splitting (one of the easiest all round,next to Red/Black Oak),smells wonderful when burning,sawing & shaping. Normally dries in 18 months around here,sometimes a bit sooner if you've had lots of wind/sun.
