Those will make great end splits for your stacks! I look for those nice square or rectangular peices also.... I'm thinking I obsess too much about my splits.
The BSOmeter is pegged!!!! Judging by looks of your stacks....................you split all straight grained wood!!!! You don't have any box elder or ash or mulberry up there do you???
Thanks, All birch. Yea, If I had lots of straight one like in the picture, my stacks would look like Backwoods or PapaDave"s. Several bananas in the stack, you can only see the ends, lots of gaps in there . (I tell myself it's good for air circulation)
My splitter has a knife, not a wedge so it makes pretty straight pieces. It has no problem "splitting" a log sideways against the grain even.
Love the straight grained stuff. Easy to split, and easy to stack. They usually don't have many limbs to deal with when you're bucking them in the woods either.
Yea I was being a "wood snob" selecting tree with few limbs, but most had hidden twists, buried old limbs, & other anomalies, Some show signs of living thru a fire . The few that are perfect make awesome splits, Like the western cedar, could've made shakes & shingles out of them Give me an idea, Grade A1 Select fire wood, worth more $$, straight , stacks tight, get more wood(& BTUs) per cord in a tight stacked cord of A1 select
LOL 2 options here Birch & spruce I try for mostly birch. But I do scrounge , but scrounging here, where lots burn wood , you gotta be in the loop. Seem to get a cord or so now & then. There's always someone trying to sell, or give away cottonwood, Got some a few years ago. Light as balsa wood now. Burns good in the fire pit.
Yeah I hear you, I have Hickory out there drying, I just don't have the option of going and cutting in the woods
You seem to be doing pretty good scrounging, Hickory is the top #1 wood (IMO ) Waa! Waaaaa You need to retire LOL More time to spend cutting wood ! DNR Link to your wood areas : http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-30301_30505_64424---,00.html
Yeah I do pretty good scrounging. I am retired that's why a lot of times I get the jump on everybody else for scrounge. There's a lot of wood to be had up in northern Michigan but I just can't haul enough to make it worth driving a hundred miles. I will look around on the site you linked to and see what I can find
I was kinda joking but 100 miles isn't that bad if the price is right for the wood & the wood is good quality. A trailer & truck loaded up, could be close to a real cord, say $50 - 70 for gas. Add in the fun & adventure aspect. Definitely worth looking into. Could drive up & look the cutting area over, then decide. My 1st trip to the cutting area I got 2 trees, 1/2 a PU load & I worked my butt off to get it. My process evolved & now have a set up that works for me. Now my October job is to cut 6 - 8 cods of wood. I look forward to it.
