Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area

[Cowboy254]

Ran a couple tanks through the 291 today.View attachment 803011

That oak is purdy.

Wife says I have a problem . I agree I dont have enough wood yetView attachment 803235

I agree with both you and your wife. My wife used to say that sort of thing, then part of her died and she stopped saying it. I didn't stop though...



Look how excited the squids are.

Attacked a bunch of red oak today that I cut up from a deadfall back around Halloween. This 'summabich almost fell on my house! The mild winter and barely touched wood stores didn't motivate me to split much wood over the winter (we're 3 years ahead already), but this oak was already punky around the edges and sitting on the ground. Needed to get it split and stacked before the spring rains... I have a love/hate relationship with oak. I love how it burns when it's dry; I hate how long it takes to dry and how easily it takes up moisture and rots! Like the last bit of oak I split, I removed ALL of the bark and punky edges, and this time actually spent the extra effort to split it in smaller pieces, not only to dry faster, but also because our old stove seems like prefer oak when split thinly.

Next up is a bunch of big ol' Black Locust logs and a smattering of Black Cherry. I went for the oak first because it is just so prone to rotting and talking up moisture. I could leave these BL logs on the ground for the next three years and come back to them being as firm as can be! All of the punky bark covered pieces with slivers of good wood all went into the campfire/fire pit rack. Took much longer than it normally might take me on a good day, but hey, it's oak... it's worth it, right? Only two dump carts were discarded for compost or the burn barrels...

Oak splits are definitely the purdiest of splits.

I could afford a gas hydro splitter, but nah. Last thing I need is a large piece of equipment to store and maintain. Also, dealing with gasoline, the noise, levers and picking up heavy rounds. The only bending over I prefer to do is when picking up the splits and stacking them. Plus it's a good workout and makes me earn that beer!

I agree. I have never used a hydro splitter. Any unsplittables get noodled, and then the noodles have a purpose. It'll be a few years before I go down the splitter road, hopefully many years.

I finally got the woof pile inside the yard cleaned upView attachment 805067
it sure sucks cutting up wood on gravel

I'm sure the cleanup is no good. But that red gum stack is premium firewood, must be hard to decide whether to sell it or burn it yourself.

 

[Jere39]

Finishing up the foundation of my next splitting site. I split where they fall. This standing (at the beginning of the video) dead Red Oak had a slightly greater diameter than my bar length. After opening the face, and completing the back cut from my natural side, I reset the wedges, and pulled the trigger on the far side:



After the saw is shut off, my deputy of security come off leash to inspect the work ahead:

 

[Plowboy83]

Hey @Cowboy254 hope all is well. I sure would love to keep it all but I’m thinking there should be at least 12 cords of red gum and that wood take me 10 years to burn. I’m sure it would keep that long. I got some good new the other day a farmer buddy of mine has red gum he want took down smallest is prob 5ft trunk

 

[Cowboy254]

Hey @Cowboy254 hope all is well. I sure would love to keep it all but I’m thinking there should be at least 12 cords of red gum and that wood take me 10 years to burn. I’m sure it would keep that long. I got some good new the other day a farmer buddy of mine has red gum he want took down smallest is prob 5ft trunk

Sweet!

 

[Plowboy83]

I finally found a round that would stop the dirty hand tool 27 ton

 

[Cowboy254]

Looks like it was hard going. Red gum can be quite variable in its splittability.

 

[mountainguyed67]

I had a couple oval oak logs. Too hard to roll, so I brought the splitter to them.

 

[mountainguyed67]

 

[mountainguyed67]

This is what I ended up with from this one log.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Where I’m usually working with the wood.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

nice lil scrounge the other day. all oak. had to travel far to get it... right across the street! nice load of firewood. headed straight to the woodpile!

 

[mountainguyed67]

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I’ve never seen a log truck like that, here they’re all a semi tractor with a set of wheels at the back of the logs like a trailer.

 

[svk]

Here's what is left of 10 cords. The ***** of the deal is we had a lot of runoff and I have probably a quarter cord frozen to the ground. Weather for the next week is on the cool side for this time of year so we won't be getting it out for a while. I would like to burn all of this so I can get a fresh start for next year and clean up the area.

 

[Philbert]

Here's what is left of 10 cords.

Blue spruce?

Philbert

 

[Tim Carroll]

While everyone else was out stocking up on TP and hand sanitizer I split a little oak.

 

[mountainguyed67]

While everyone else was out stocking up on TP and hand sanitizer

Not everyone was doing that, I haven’t been to a store in 5 days.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Some of you people who have bought truckloads of logs, what have you paid for that?

 

[Saiso]

We were going to build our home in this area but the idea fell through. Gonna be using this as my wood yard as soon as the snow melts. Finally an area big enough to pile separately by species and also split my firewood!

 

[svk]

Some of you people who have bought truckloads of logs, what have you paid for that?

I do not buy but around here the going rate for a semi is 80-120 per cord which may include any or all of birch, maple, ash, oak, and tamarack.

 

[Jere39]

Not out buying groceries, nor tp. And, now that the gyms are closed, not playing any RB for a couple weeks. But, my pup and I are still getting our exercise, and we have a 10 year head start on the practice of Social Distancing