Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area

[NDtreehugger]

I have 2, wish I could get them togeather

 

[stihl023/5]

Stihl023/5 I never thought of running my metal fence posts in between the wood slats of the pallets. Looks effective. I'm going to do that today to shore up a couple of my "Wood Cribs".

Yes it works quite well I seen it somewhere years ago and started doing it. Makes great use of thinner pallets.

 

[Hedgerow]

Yes it works quite well I seen it somewhere years ago and started doing it. Makes great use of thinner pallets.

I always wanted to fill a corn crib... I may do that just for kicks this year...
Need an elevator for it though...

 

[Steve NW WI]

Hedge, there's a local that does that, we drove by it on the way to Boyds. Just stacks it up as high as he can reach. Seems to work well.

I might try the same this year, just gotta rescue the old crib from the grasp of them damn boxelders. Concrete floor, open sides, and a good roof, what more can you ask from a woodshed?

 

[Hedgerow]

Hedge, there's a local that does that, we drove by it on the way to Boyds. Just stacks it up as high as he can reach. Seems to work well.

I might try the same this year, just gotta rescue the old crib from the grasp of them damn boxelders. Concrete floor, open sides, and a good roof, what more can you ask from a woodshed?

Kinda what I figured... Just load it like you would ear corn...

 

[stihl023/5]

I always wanted to fill a corn crib... I may do that just for kicks this year...
Need an elevator for it though...

I would try it but I think the corn will be good enough this year to fill the other cribs.

 

[Hedgerow]

I would try it but I think the corn will be good enough this year to fill the other cribs.

Yeah... The corn is worth more...
Ours is long gone already...

 

[Steve NW WI]

Yeah... The corn is worth more...
Ours is long gone already...

There's thousands of wire corn cribs sitting unused around here, no one picks ear corn any more, except for a few little guys feeding a few pigs or beefers. Might as well get use out of em for something.

We used to have a 8'x50' rectangular crib that would have worked nice for firewood, but the floor was shot and no roof, so it came down a few years back. The space gets used for storage of rounds that need to be split from wood I cut away from home. Dump it there, and split at my leisure. That way I can work faster if someone has a bunch of loads they want gone.

Here's a pic of my crib from back when it was still in use, with a load of firewood behind the tractor, just to stay a little bit on topic:

 

[stihl023/5]

Yeah... The corn is worth more...
Ours is long gone already...

See I cheat I do most corn on the cob then let it fully dry in the crib. (No cost to dry) Then I fire up the sheller for what I need, cobs then go through the chipper and back on the fields. Ever burned cobs? They burn hot. Besides you beat the snot out of a combine doing corn.:biggrin:

 

[Hedgerow]

See I cheat I do most corn on the cob then let it fully dry in the crib. (No cost to dry) Then I fire up the sheller for what I need, cobs then go through the chipper and back on the fields. Ever burned cobs? They burn hot. Besides you beat the snot out of a combine doing corn.:biggrin:

1 row? or 2 row picker?
New Idea?
Done a little work on those in a past life...

 

[geek]

Finally managed to get up and collect the sycamore that I had been cutting up.
Was 2 degrees this morning and turned in to a beautiful day. Was drenched after filling her up with two loads.
I have split and have and will end up like arnie after this lot. Tested a log out and split fairly easy.

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[Steve NW WI]

See I cheat I do most corn on the cob then let it fully dry in the crib. (No cost to dry) Then I fire up the sheller for what I need, cobs then go through the chipper and back on the fields. Ever burned cobs? They burn hot. Besides you beat the snot out of a combine doing corn.:biggrin:

Old school. You've been unignored. Still can't hang with even a small combine though. 20% moisture corn keeps well in a crib. Here, snow can be butt deep before it dries much below that in the field. I never shelled any though, IMHO, feeding ground ear corn to cattle/pigs gives a better flavor than straight shelled corn does. BTW, all the stalks and dirt from soybeans wear a combine a lot quicker than corn will.

1 row? or 2 row picker?
New Idea?
Done a little work on those in a past life...

Used to have a #10 until it died of old age and obsolete parts, now have a 324 out back. It's a picking machine till you try to get the cobs to go UP the husking bed on a good sidehill...

Just another temporary derail of the thread, I better go split some cottonwood and put a stack pic up before work.

 

[Hedgerow]

Here's a stack pic to keep the thread going...

 

[upsnake]

Hedge, We better not hear that you are not coming to our MI GTG b/c a pile of wood fell on your head.

 

[Hedgerow]

Hedge, We better not hear that you are not coming to our MI GTG b/c a pile of wood fell on your head.

It ain't done yet either...:big_smile:

And I keep waiting for you MI boys to get one together!!!
April or May is best...
Thawed, but not too many skeeters yet...

 

[Wolfen]

Looking at yalls rigs, makes me think mine is ratty looking LOL but here it is anyway

Wood so far, mostly split with the 8 lb maul in the other picture, last 1/3 I have had the splitter

Here's the area where I split it at, right in that little opening area

This is what I haul it on (class 1)

This is what I haul it with (4 banger that's why the trailer is class 1)

Here's what I have left to split for this year so far (yes that's all mixed, mostly Gum and Oak)

And these are the tools I use, the axe is older than most of yall on here, I got it from my Grandfather, the Maul is the 8lb 2011 model, the wedges are 40 years old, and the hydraulic splitter is a ten ton from Harbor Freight, and so far it splits everything except what I split with the maul and axe, the Sledge hammer is only 20 years old and yes that's a ten lb one, and yes I use the tools all day when I split wood, and yes I DO sleep good that night The dog is my 12 week old Beagle Hound mix that saves me from snakes and brings me rabbits and squirrels

 

[Steve NW WI]

Hedge is that the entrance to Levi's top secret saw shop?

Didn't get any splitting done today due to a dead splitter tractor battery. To get something done while it was charging, I brought some wood in the house. A bunch of square pine for taking the chill off. 1/8 cord there:

I loaded another load to bring in tonight or tomorrow:

I took the little 420 out and almost finished blocking the cottonwoods before I ran out of fuel. Lots of overbucking on the bigger pieces. I'll finish tomorrow with a bigger saw.

Here's what I've got worked up already from those cottonwoods, the front row finished will be a full cord:

Time to head for work, have a good one everybody!

 

[Hedgerow]

That would be the entrance to his sniper's nest... "Airsoft BB wars"

 

[zogger]

Finally managed to get up and collect the sycamore that I had been cutting up.
Was 2 degrees this morning and turned in to a beautiful day. Was drenched after filling her up with two loads.
I have split and have and will end up like arnie after this lot. Tested a log out and split fairly easy.

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Interesting firewood rig and sycamore rounds. What sort of heater do you use?

 

[zogger]

Looking at yalls rigs, makes me think mine is ratty looking LOL but here it is anyway

Wood so far, mostly split with the 8 lb maul in the other picture, last 1/3 I have had the splitter

This is what I haul it on (class 1)

Here's what I have left to split for this year so far (yes that's all mixed, mostly Gum and Oak)

And these are the tools I use, the axe is older than most of yall on here, I got it from my Grandfather, the Maul is the 8lb 2011 model, the wedges are 40 years old, and the hydraulic splitter is a ten ton from Harbor Freight, and so far it splits everything except what I split with the maul and axe, the Sledge hammer is only 20 years old and yes that's a ten lb one, and yes I use the tools all day when I split wood, and yes I DO sleep good that night The dog is my 12 week old Beagle Hound mix that saves me from snakes and brings me rabbits and squirrels

I think I like that (without ever actually seeing or trying one) nordic ski track manual biodrive hydraulic rig. IIRC HBRN, now banned, bought one and seemed to like it.