Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area

[stihl023/5]

diesel 4.00 up here stillotstir:

 

[Fred Wright]

Well, today was in the low 50s and partly sunny. Perfect weather for playing with my wood.

Was up around 9:00 and got at it. Most of the sweetgum and black gum stack is done. One row of the woodpile is finished. I've got a few maple rounds that are too heavy to get on the splitter. I'm gonna get the saw out tomorrow and noodle 'em in two. Mize well shave off the pile of rounds that are too long at the same time. If it doesn't rain, that is.

The black gum is surprisingly easy to split. It parted like red oak... I could shape it any way I wanted it.

Then it's one stack of rounds left to tackle. That's mostly red oak with some maple thrown in for good measure.

 

[IthacaMan]

This a pic from when I started splitting for this season.I will get some pics tomorow of what it looks like now.

 

[Mac88]

Well, today was in the low 50s and partly sunny. Perfect weather for playing with my wood.

Was up around 9:00 and got at it. Most of the sweetgum and black gum stack is done. One row of the woodpile is finished. I've got a few maple rounds that are too heavy to get on the splitter. I'm gonna get the saw out tomorrow and noodle 'em in two. Mize well shave off the pile of rounds that are too long at the same time. If it doesn't rain, that is.

The black gum is surprisingly easy to split. It parted like red oak... I could shape it any way I wanted it.

Then it's one stack of rounds left to tackle. That's mostly red oak with some maple thrown in for good measure.

I like the "flatwood" on the corners, Fred. It's a lot more stable than a bunch of odd sized splits.

 

[Arbonaut]

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[Denis Gionet]

Wow Stroker, that's quite the incredible stack of 8-footer rounds ! Those run through a multi-head processor, or a slasher ? Kind of a big batch of wood for firewood, prolly going to a mill I suppose ......

 

[Arbonaut]

Not Firewood they there is several stacks gone averaging 30". Definitely to the mill. You gotta luv the way white and Jack and Black Pine smells when you burn it in the furnace. More of a luxury here than something you normally see. When I started on a Tree Farm/Cattle ranch when I was a kid that old boy was a true conservationist. He had planted plots of Jack Pines and White Pine in 1954 when he came home from Korea. Those will soon be 60 year old trees. His family was not in agreement about anything and when he died, he donated several hundred acres of them pines to the U of I. They were 30+ inch trees when I worked there 25 years ago and had been in the care of a master horticulturalist for 35 years . And when we managed fire roads and limbing with pole saw, it was as high to the bottom branches as you could reach then. Those are some Monster Illinois pines. Who knows what the University of Illinois will do with it. They don't have any damn sense.

 

[IthacaMan]

This a pic from when I started splitting for this season.I will get some pics tomorow of what it looks like now.

This is now.Enjoy the pics.uttahere2:

 

[Fred Wright]

I like the "flatwood" on the corners, Fred. It's a lot more stable than a bunch of odd sized splits.

Thanks, my friend. Can't take credit for the idea, the SheWolf suggested it. She was looking at some square splits I'd made and said they ought to go on the ends. So that's where they went.

The pile is nearly finished. I got the rest of the sweetgum and black gum rounds split and stacked today. I'll have to take the little stepladder out there when I cover it.

As you can see I cut way more than I needed this year. Won't be able to get it all on this pile. So I'll cut some sweetgum saplings, drag 'em out with the Little Black tractor and start a third pile in the yard with what's left over. It's red oak and maple. We're gonna need three wood piles anyway... one to be using and the other two to be seasoning. That'll give us 2-year-old seasoned firewood every year.

 

[beerbelly]

Just finished a few days ago. Still standing. Wife was a big help; dog...not so much!


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[MarineScott]

This is now.Enjoy the pics.uttahere2:

What are you using to cover the wood?

 

[beerbelly]

What are you using to cover the wood?

Me??? Nothing but the bark of the wood on top. Supposed to work. They have been doing it in Europe this way for years. We will see. I guess ideally it would be out in the open, but this is where I cut & split it, so this is where it is. In a sunny open location, you can go from live tree to in the stove in 3 months(so the experts say). I'll let it sit until next winter.

 

[stihly dan]

Looks like rubber roofing. I want to know how well it seasons. A had a stack that size and it took 3+ yrs to season.

 

[IthacaMan]

What are you using to cover the wood?

Rubber roofing. It holds up better than blue tarps and was free.

 

[IthacaMan]

Looks like rubber roofing. I want to know how well it seasons. A had a stack that size and it took 3+ yrs to season.

The rubber roofing does not change seasoning time.The wood was already dry when I split it and stacked it.The rubber just keeps it dry till I need it.

 

[Ductape]

Yesterday I finished bucking the last few Oak logs I had laying around. Got to try out my new 550 a little. So far..... very happy. Used the fiskars to split em up, and stacked about a cord of splits I had in a pile. I feel good to have two full seasons worth of wood. Now to scrounge up a third years worth......

 

[Jakers]

This is now.Enjoy the pics.uttahere2:

its December 16 and your grass is still green? is that normal there? mine is white this time of year

 

[IthacaMan]

its December 16 and your grass is still green? is that normal there? mine is white this time of year

Over here in Ohio we havent had any snow yet. And im not complaining.

 

[NHlocal]

Was able to load up and haul out what I had on the ground and cut up at the "20(+)" property, 2 truck loads of Red Oak. :biggrinbounce2:
This is where we unloaded it at my Church's property, it's also our splitting stacking area.....
.....12 trees down, at least 12 more to go.....:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Fatarrow]

Spent some time on the pile this weekend.

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Next years wood, split last week. I was only able to fit about 4.5 cord in the wood shed this weekend. This stuff will get stacked on pallets outside for now until I burn through this years wood.

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A pic of the wood I stacked.