Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area

[ri chevy]

Hmmm. I shouldn't have cut it all up. Lol
I have one 16" round left. Lol

 

[svk]

Hmmm. I shouldn't have cut it all up. Lol
I have one 16" round left. Lol

It will burn.

 

[ri chevy]

I appreciate all the help with the ID's guys. Thank you. [emoji106]

 

[treebilly]

Well it's definitely an Aspen family member by bark. And it's taller than an Aspen grows. And if it smells like crap it's gotta be a cottonwood.

The only cottonwood I've dealt with smelled like a filled baby diaper roasted in a plastic bag for a few days. Yes, that bad lol.

Yep that's the smell of Cottonweed

 

[stratton]

ROSEWOOD .....thats the red colored pieces.

 

[Woodcutteranon]

That is quite an impressive site!

 

[panolo]

Cool. Thanks. Are they good burning? Wood was real heavy.

Manitoba maple It's a hardwood, dries fast when split, can be a pain in the butt to split, and it stinks. Good shoulder wood but it burns pretty quick. Lot worse out there. Like cottonwood

I've been burning box elder the last 10 days with the warm weather thats been hanging around. Still 72 and sunny in my living room

 

[ri chevy]

Thanks. Does it burn like a cigarette, to ash, or does it coal up?

 

[panolo]

Thanks. Does it burn like a cigarette, to ash, or does it coal up?

Leaves ya a little coal bed but it burns fast so I mix some other wood in there. If its dry you can darn near start it with a match. There is a lot of it free around here because of farm field lines. It grows fast so the farmers are always getting rid of it so it don't scratch the combines Won't pay for it but I won't turn it down either.

 

[ri chevy]

Cool. Thanks. [emoji106]

 

[panolo]

The first picture is a cottonwood that I have on my property. You can see the bark difference between yours. This is very deep and rough. Yours was pretty smooth. The one common thing is the paper under the bark. The second is what I have been mixing with my box elder when it has been warmer. Mostly just sticks and small cuts. Nothing really bigger than about 4". Usually about 2 loads of box elder to 1 load of other filler.

Edit: And to be honest I would have never been able to identify your cottonwood without a leaf pic.

 

[Sandhill Crane]

From CaseyForest post 6168

I would love to get out and start cutting/splitting.
Just too wet to move equipment here too without tearing things up.
I don't have a tractor and front end loader to smooth it back out.
I'm just going to have to wait for it to get colder. Been walking the dogs to the wood lot. I want to start this season with a cut bench on both sides of the SSHD.
Working on conveyor mod again, with the overhead door open. Paints dry on the valve, and hopefully I have what I need to finish up today. Then build another cutting bench.
And, I would love to try a PowerSplit for a bit, like Woodcutteranon is using (post 6206).

 

[svk]

The first picture is a cottonwood that I have on my property. You can see the bark difference between yours. This is very deep and rough. Yours was pretty smooth. The one common thing is the paper under the bark. The second is what I have been mixing with my box elder when it has been warmer. Mostly just sticks and small cuts. Nothing really bigger than about 4". Usually about 2 loads of box elder to 1 load of other filler.

Edit: And to be honest I would have never been able to identify your cottonwood without a leaf pic.

I think that cottonwood bark will vary depending on location and individual tree. Much of the cottonwood I see is indistinguishable from aspen when it is smaller but it just keeps on growing. Some of it doesn't smell like turds either.

My neighbor has seedless cottonwoods that reach about 16" diameter in 12 years then die. Which I guess is both good and bad depending on what you are trying to achieve. They really smell terrible when cut.

The regular cottonwoods are an overgrown weed and between the endless cotton and the obnoxious size I would personally cut any down near structures before they get too big unless someone wants a shade tree.

 

[locochainsaw]

That is quite an impressive site!

Thanks!! It's been a work in progress. Got a smoking deal on the splitter used and it really made just a hobby a profitable hobby!

 

[Toy4xchris]

Getting a little bit split today and keeping myself warm

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[SS396driver]

Some recent pics of the splitting area. It's a little to muddy to get to now. But should be frozen in a few days. Last weekend was out riding the motorcycle 58° on sunday Monday 4 inches of snow

 

[Alex]

Got one side of my old barn floor filled. Working on the other side of it ever freezes her again. Hard to see, about 7 cords here.

 

[Toy4xchris]

So over the weekend we had someone come by to help tame our swampy back yard and in the process ended up taking 7 trees down 2 pine, 1 cedar and the rest are oak. The pushed the tops off into the woods I will probably cut what I can out of that also. Looks like my wood pile just wants to keep growing.

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[rarefish383]

Was just thinking how cool it is that all around the country, all over the world, how much our wood piles look alike. Except those folks that build the really cool houses out of their split wood, Joe.

 

[JCMC]

I finally got some pictures of my set up it works well for a one man operation.View attachment 541001 Cut View attachment 541003l View attachment 541005headed for the splitter View attachment 541007 View attachment 541008 View attachment 541009 View attachment 541011Split and Stack View attachment 541012 then BurnView attachment 541013 .

Finished up the load of logs today gave the Husky 51 a workout Had a little help from my grand daughter
Headed for here tomorrow.