How's Your Wood Pile Looking?

[Full Chisel]

Making some good progress, I have about 2.5 cord put up for this season that will be dry and ready to burn and have started to C/S/S next season's wood. Will have about 6 cord of Red Oak all together by this fall and should be getting more. A friend has a ~24" dying White Oak that is going to need taken down fairly soon.

 

[bigblue12v]

Not enough lol here's my two piles, have gobs more to split yet...

 

[user 122190]

I finished up splitting and stacking my scrounge firewood. Some of it is of low quality, but its at the front of the stack and won't last long. By the really cold days of December I should be into the well seasoned Fir and Tamarack.

 

[1967 Tempest]

I think I might be done. I have a few more piles around town that I might get, but thats its.

 

[Deleted member 135597]

I think I might be done. I have a few more piles around town that I might get, but thats its.

it's never done brother!

 

[Full Chisel]

it's never done brother!

Ain't that the truth...

 

[lknchoppers]

Got about 10 cords here.

 

[Weber_Steaks]

Mostly ash here, one cherry tree etc. Had the tree service guys take a total of 5 trees down, all were dead and 3 were in the power lines....wasn't taking chances with winter on the horizon...

 

[Weber_Steaks]

Two separate piles, and I Still haven't finished stacking the birch , cedar, or box alder

 

[Weber_Steaks]

They were gonna charge more for taking the wood, I said leave it, I have both two outdoor fire pits and a indoor fireplace....but with a crew of 5 and 5 trees taken down, and every branch chipped and shredded in their big diesel industrial chipper, and two guys raking the yard continuous.......all for $800 cash, and they even removed some problem honeysuckle shrubs growing on the side of the house and trimmed some branches etc, no additional charge.......

Can't complain, looks like once I have both stacks split and add in the birch, cedar, and box alder, I'll have two cords 1.5 cords will be all ash and cherry as they were the three biggest trees

 

[Weber_Steaks]

Still can't get over how straight the grain is on this ash, it's ashamed they just died last year, emerald ash borer got them, I have the proof I believe, I'll post a pic and see what you all think

 

[Weber_Steaks]

 

[Weber_Steaks]

 

[MustangMike]

That is why when several Ash trees blew down on my upstate property, I bought a guide for the chainsaws and made post & beam out of them for a new hunting cabin. Was a lot of work, but the Ash will likely never grow back.

 

[Weber_Steaks]

Bark just peeled away in large sections, not a single leaf or live branch left, died suddenly over one season...both ash trees were side by side, 10 feet apart in front yard.....

 

[Weber_Steaks]

The big one on the left is for sure going to be a table, I plan on sanding the top surface and giving it a good stain, should I keep the rest natural, or finish the entire piece ?

 

[Full Chisel]

That's without a doubt EAB damage...

 

[Weber_Steaks]

That's without a doubt EAB damage...

Thanks for the reply.....emerald ash borer, never seen one live but I know the damage and destruction they can cause

 

[Weber_Steaks]

Here is another question... ..once these EAB destroy. The tree, do they do something to the structure of the tree fibers to make the ash more difficult to split ??, seems my uncle's ash wood had the same problem and his was difficult to.split, everyone says ash is easy as pie to split, but no one says if it's easy to split once emerald ash borer takes your tree .......

I think this bug does something to the wood grain itself to make it harder to split ??

 

[MustangMike]

It just depends on the tree. Clear trunk is usually easy to split, knotty Ash is not!