A warm welcome, Air2bmc and Oldman47. 47, if you are new to woodlot ownership, congratulations. Wish you many years of happiness and adventure on your new land.
Welcome to the forum Oldman47. You'll find there are many old men here and also new members. Glad to have you. 40 acre plots are nice to have, especially when they have trees on them. Sounds like you have a good mix of wood and that will help you, especially that hickory, oak and ash. Not sure if the EAB has reached your neck of the woods but if so, I'd be cutting all the ash. It is great firewood and does not take long to be dry enough to burn excellently. It is a shame to lose all that ash but we've been fighting this now for 13 years. Also be aware that oak, while it is indeed one of the best, usually needs 3 years to dry right. For more information on firewood, have a look at this: http://firewoodhoardersclub.com/forums/resources/primer-on-woodburning-by-backwoods-savage.6/ You can even download a pdf file from there so you will have that for reference any time you need it. Good luck.
I'd be curious if theres a ticker on how many people (members or not) have downloaded your file and benefited from it? Has to be like a zillion!
Welcome to the nuthouse As for shortening the existing splits a jig made out of scrap 2x4's come in handy. Disregard tipped over wood pile
Welcome to FHC Om47, sounds like your gonna have a pretty nice set up there when complete. We are fans of pics in progress also.
Welcome to the forum Oldman47 , you will fit right in here , don't hesitate to ask questions , we all would love to help you out, no dumb questions here . If you would like to see other hoarders near you , at the top click members and Map , you can add yourself too , if you like . Yawl come back now ya hear
Check out this thread out for some ideas of jigs for re cutting to size http://firewoodhoardersclub.com/forums/threads/cuttin-more-scrounge-to-size.4644/#post-110568
And some of us are actually 39. Well at least for a couple of days still. Welcome to FHC olman47! Ash certainly dries in a year or less, but unless you have EAB in your woods now, I'd not cut all ash down assuming it will due from EAB. There are studies, and the ash around my city/town are examples ( so far) that eab isn't all encompassing as a death warrant for all ash trees. If you cut them all down, you'll never know if they would've survived. If EAB hits, you can cut them down and burn them. I'm usually a prudent person, utilizing science, and reality to guide my decisions. No offense meant backwoods, or any one else that thinks otherwise about EAB. With 40 acres, and all of those species, you'll undoubtedly have enough dead standing trees of all sorts to get you ahead of the game.
I owe all the laughs to coal reaper he dug to the bowels of youtube for the "idiot chopping wood" which is what the video should be called - it'd be viral by now Sorry to derail your thread Oldman47 we usually reserve those occurrences for beer
