What's funny is the assumedly yard bird Honey locust is more difficult to split than the string cheese like elm. I am able to make nice 4x4's out of the elm, but the Honey locust has been all odd shaped splits. I'm fine with that. The splits will sit at the end of the driveway where the stack is, until I build my proper wood shed. It gets a lot of exposure to wind and sun there as well. It'll have to move though because that's where my boat goes once I get out out of storage. Until then though..... I'll stack away.
So, back to the thought of a 3 bay shed of ~4 cords each. 10' x 10' footprint with a 5.5' tall stack will do the trick......X 3 of course. It'll make a nice privacy fence too, at 30 feet long.
Wonder if it'll be large enough? I know it sounds kinda smart allecky, but if you can score free wood like that...might be like a garage-the bigger the better. (That and any true Yooper wanna-be knows that the garage has to be larger than the house!)
I am pretty certain that it will be big enough for a 3 year plan. I can always stack on the side of the wood shed too. I am going away from tarps. I hate them. They look like crap too. I live in the burbs, in a nice neighborhood, so I don't want to hear about anyone not liking my hoard. Fences make great neighbors. Great woodsheds can make great great fences too, no?
Yeah, I don't like the tarps either. But my building inspector likes woodsheds just a little too much.....
I'll have to verify this won't be an issue with our ordinances. I don't want this to interfere with my future detached garage plans, which would go right about where the wood stack up to where the piles of unsplit wood is now. I know other homes in this town have similar woodshed / outbuildings. I do have a small, but deteriorating shed that I keep my lawn tractor in now. I don't ever plan on fixing that shed, but rather replacing it with the detached garage on the driveway.
Close to back to operational on the splitter exhaust. I have to take the 45° coupler off of the muffler in order to allow the muffler to spin on. I'll take care of that at work tomorrow. It's getting dark later and later every day. I might be able to start applying a few minutes a night before it gets dark. Slow and steady...
Sure does, but I typically don't work slow on the weekends. Well, at least one of the 2 weekend days. However, if I can get some work done during the week, and more importantly get the equipment all set to work, I'll be that much further ahead.
Muffler nipples!!!!! Have at it Eric VW ! I added another nipple and another 45° coupler. Seems to do the trick. Tomorrow evening I'll split some more. Yes, daylight savings time will hit soon, and that will help, but I plan on having this all, or mostly done this weekend. There's only about 30 more bucking cuts to make, then it's all just splitting and temporary stacking work.
Horkn just elevate the shed, get your base at least 12" off the ground and invest in expanded metal for the flooring-Face it south, into the prevailing wind if possible, shadow board the ends....No need to really thank me later, a beer will do just fine...You got a great plan brewing-Just for reference, my shed holds 5 cord but I have plenty of room for stacking elsewhere as I dont live in the burbs, close but I have ample space-I sun cure then move to the shed 8-10 mos out before burning-My shed is 4x40, each bay holds a cord so your calculation is spot-on...Cant wait to see the build
Ashwatcher , it's going to be facing due west. Now for us, most of the prevailing winds seem to come from the West, so that should be fine. I'll look to see if I can find steel grating for the base, but at bare minimum, it will be raised to allow airflow. The three sides will be slatted to allow airflow as well.
Face it south-my prevailing is from the west too-works great, and leave the back open so you can access from both sides...just suggesting...shadow board ends too-it keeps the weather out, the air-flow constant...
Yeah, West facing is what it will be. The power company is clearing lilacs, sumac, and a plum tree out. This shed will be a privacy fence in effect as well.
Here's what I got done today. I started a 12 or so, and got done by 5pm Here's what's left. I only ran the splitter today. My muffler pipe fix worked great. Plus since it is aimed at the ground, it's a little less annoying. Tomorrow, I'll run the saw and cut up the remaining logs so I can split those too. I figure there's 20-25 cuts to do. I just couldn't get at the logs with all the pieces I needed to split in my way. I'll move the splitter so I don't have to carry rounds to the splitter. Splits, even big ones are still much lighter than any of these rounds, or half rounds are. There's still a few of the half logs of elm that need to be cut once then split. Those things are still heavy in halves. I want to get this all done so I can go to the Milwaukee Auto Show to look at new trucks next weekend.
I'll definitely ask for more from the tree service. I did find out about the 29" elm from the landscaping place. The place that delivered the big elm has a processor. This thing was too big to go in their processor, also I think that elm isn't in their offerings for firewood choices. That's fine, it's good stuff, and even better when it's dropped off in the driveway for free. Some of it is even pretty easy splitting with minimal string cheese effect.
Hey Horkn , nice work man and glad to see you splitting the right way---was worried about you, knew parts of WI really got hammered, you look no worse for wear there...we set high temp record here yesterday @81, today high winds, temp in 40's down in 20's tonight----crazy weather but what ya gonna do? Again, nice work my my friend and enjoy the show-glad you got our nipples worked out, know Eric VW was really worried-I need a new old truck,,,thinking 3/4 ton lwb-so's I can haul more hoard...
