Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area

[ri chevy]

This is what is left of the damage to the tree from Sandy. Too bad because there was no ant damage at all on this tree. Very healthy.

 

[ri chevy]

fruit cherry?

That is what I thought, but I haven't seen one with this gray type bark before. I have seen them with darker bark. The wood was completely white with a little dark spot. Almost looked like maple. It didn't have the cherry type of meat wood inside the bark.

 

[blacklocst]

I cut this today. It looks like Gray Birch. I have no idea what it is. I also cut up a tree that Sandy toppled.


Some sort of Gray Birch I think.

I'ts actually Black Birch, higher on the btu charts than White Oak and dries in half the time. On older trees the bark checks vertically and becomes darker.

 

[ri chevy]

Black Birch

Cool. Black Birch. Now I have a start on where to look for it. I've never heard of it. Thanks for the tree ID.

 

[ri chevy]

BTU CHart

US Tree Service

Black Birch is pretty high up on the BTU Chart.

 

[camoman]

Rep for a fellow Canadian, nice pile of sticks ! Is that the Crappy Tire gas splitter with the horizontal/vertical option ? Can't tell with the cover on it.

thnx thnx.. its a North Star 30 Ton horizontal/vertical splitter.. picked it up at Northern tools last year. So far its been great!

 

[Rudedog]

All cut up. I have about a half day tomorrow to finish the clean up. I got 2 truck loads of wood out of all of this. Not bad. Every little bit helps.

Looks good. Nice looking wood in non back breaking sizes. I have to do all of the heavy lifting due to the fact that I have a City lot.

 

[ri chevy]

I cut every piece to a measured 16" lengths. I had to carry everything out about 125' to 150' to the street. On the bigger rounds in the photos, I rolled them as far as I could and then quartered them on scene by hand, to make lifting and stacking them on my truck easier. And easier on my back!

My FIL taught me to measure each piece. It makes stacking them much neater and nicer looking. But the real reason is that each piece fits in the stove perfectly. We got tired of trying to jam in larger pieces, only to have to take them back out while smoking. It takes a little more time to measure, but for me, the benefits outweigh the extra time.

 

[NHlocal]

I cut every piece to a measured 16" lengths. I had to carry everything out about 125' to 150' to the street. On the bigger rounds in the photos, I rolled them as far as I could and then quartered them on scene by hand, to make lifting and stacking them on my truck easier. And easier on my back!

My FIL taught me to measure each piece. It makes stacking them much neater and nicer looking. But the real reason is that each piece fits in the stove perfectly. We got tired of trying to jam in larger pieces, only to have to take them back out while smoking. It takes a little more time to measure, but for me, the benefits outweigh the extra time.

I'm with ya' 100% on that one! 16" length makes 'em easier to stack outside before I burn 'em and a whole lot easier to load into the stove when I'm getting ready to burn 'em. (but I still have the "uglies" to deal with :bang: :hmm3grin2orange: )

 

[ri chevy]

I keep the uglies in a separate place from my "real" wood. :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Mac88]

More stuff for the mill

A couple cherries, the slab will be cut to 12" or so and get split for next years kindling.

Slab and "clean-up" cutoffs from a big red oak, most of it will get cut to 16" and split for the stove.

 

[blk90s13]

I got more wood to split and pile for next year, after Sandy came through here I decided to take some trees out in my front yard it was scary waiting for something to fall on the house :msp_scared:


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[NHlocal]

Hope your house is safer now, nice pic. :msp_thumbup:

 

[Mac88]

I got more wood to split and pile for next year, after Sandy came through here I decided to take some trees out in my front yard it was scary waiting for something to fall on the house :msp_scared:

Hope your house is safer now, nice pic. :msp_thumbup:

It looks like you got the bad stuff down. Now the fun begins. ;o)

 

[terryknight]

different kinda wood pile

this is all scraps from construction and what not that were turned into kindling with a table saw, we also fill several trashcans with it and give them away to people. There is also a small wood stove in the office at the shop that we burn only kindling in

 

[Mac88]

different kinda wood pile

this is all scraps from construction and what not that were turned into kindling with a table saw, we also fill several trashcans with it and give them away to people. There is also a small wood stove in the office at the shop that we burn only kindling in

I've burned my share of that stuff. It all makes heat. I've got a hug stack of hedge planks off our old deck that got torn down this year. They were nailed to the underpinnings with Ardox nails, and I'm just too lazy to go pull them all so I can saw up the boards.

 

[terryknight]

I've burned my share of that stuff. It all makes heat. I've got a hug stack of hedge planks off our old deck that got torn down this year. They were nailed to the underpinnings with Ardox nails, and I'm just too lazy to go pull them all so I can saw up the boards.

sawzall and then burn nails and all

 

[Mac88]

sawzall and then burn nails and all

That would work, but they got a lotta nails in them. Really hard to handle. There's about 500 sq. ft. of planks, 8-12" wide. They're gonna burn, all right, just not in the stove.

 

[stihl023/5]

Bonfire!

 

[memory]

If you are going to burn it, why not get some heat out of it?

We burn stuff with nails and other metal in it like broken down wood boxes on occasion. When the stove gets cleaned out, it goes to the burn pile anyways. If we didn't burn it in the stove, it would be burned on the burn pile. From there, it will eventually go into a dumpster.