I’m running out of “extra room” for scores that pop up, to keep under cover anyway. This sheltered area of the wood yard is all filled up now. The bottom part of the row in the front is all white oak from June 2021-January 2022. The upper left hand corner is all cherry from around thanksgiving 2022. To the right of that is all ash I got in the last couple weeks. In the rear of the pile to the bottom and the right is red oak heart wood splits from May 2021. Above that on the left is more of my recent ash score. I’m trying as best I can to burn up the pile I’m currently working on in my unfinished woodshed area Once space opens up there I can find plenty more to fill the void.
Nice work! For oak or any other longer drying time wood, just put it outside, ideally off the ground. It'll be just fine
That’s kind of what I figured I’d have to resort to. Not the end of the world though. I have plenty of pallets I can stack rounds on that’ll at least keep them out of the mud. The only wood on my radar at this point is a bunch of dead and barkless black locust at the bottom of my road. Also a small truckload of white oak down a bank a mile away. Either score can wait though (that is if I myself can sit still )
Despite the light burning year I am slowly chewing through firewood and spaces are opening up. The empty spot on the pallets is where I want to relocate some white and chestnut oak. I just started tearing into another mixed pile of white oak, apple, Norway and Sugar maple. There’s probably more in there but I won’t know until I get further into it.
No, but I could do some quick volume measurements based on the diameter and height. Off the top of my head there should be about 2 cords in each hausen.
As of mid-April I really thought I was done with hoarding until next winter. Pffft! Opportunity after opportunity came, and although I didn’t get a lot at any of the scores, it’s adding up. This small end stack is a nice mix of black locust, black birch, beech, white oak, and a touch of sassafras and tulip poplar.
Nope I may go back, but it’s very low priority at the moment. Too many other non-hoarding activities that take precedence first.
I saw last night that there would be heavy rains today so I capped off this stack I’m keeping the tractor under it for now until I organize the storage space under my deck. After the tractor’s out of here, I can stack all the aspen I split on Sunday. Or maybe I’ll store my splitter under it. I dunno. Decisions, decisions.
