Wood cutting weather

[alderman]

A nice day to get a load of wood

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

 

[Deleted member 135597]

Fall weather really brings out the hunting and firewood cutting urges!

 

[Woodchuck71]

Coming inside from a cold days work,and the warmth is better IMHO,then walking into the A/C after hot and sweaty

 

[Big Dan]

Good load of wood there Alderman,happy to see you're still using the Shindaiwas. I still have and use my 575 and 488 on occasion.

 

[rancher2]

Sounds like we are finally going to get some nice dry weather hope to get some firewood blocked,split and loaded before we go back to combining corn.

 

[066blaster]

finally dry enough by me to go out and cut some today. every year i try to scrounge some downed dead trees that are off the ground that i can burn right away. i also found some huge dead ash trees that i can cut ,,looks like i will be burning mostly ash for the next few years

 

[Wood Doctor]

So, everyone agrees that you need dry weather for while. I agree also. This has been the worst early fall weather that I have ever seen for firewood collection or processing and also the worst for crop harvesting. The two tend to go hand in hand. Flooded fields are everywhere and will take days to dry out. Wood that I split and thought was dry has been soaked.

Tomorrow I will again try to collect hardwood that I can split and burn in my stove or sell immediatly if there is a surplus. That has been impossible to do for the past two months. 066blaster and I are on the same page.

 

[066blaster]

So, everyone agrees that you need dry weather for while. I agree also. This has been the worst early fall weather that I have ever seen for firewood collection or processing and also the worst for crop harvesting. The two tend to go hand in hand. Flooded fields are everywhere and will take days to dry out. Wood that I split and thought was dry has been soaked.

Tomorrow I will again try to collect hardwood that I can split and burn in my stove or sell immediatly if there is a surplus. That has been impossible to do for the past two months. 066blaster and I are on the same page.

I agree , my wood wood definitely needs to sit inside by the burner a couple days before burning it. and that is the 2 year split and stacked stuff. was dry as can be mid summer, i should have brought some in then.

 

[Wood Doctor]

I agree , my wood wood definitely needs to sit inside by the burner a couple days before burning it. and that is the 2 year split and stacked stuff. was dry as can be mid summer, i should have brought some in then.

One thing I have noticed that is really rare. The wood that I split from big rounds that I cut last spring is drier that anything that I split and stacked outdoors, even splits that were stacked off the ground on pallets. No sun, calm winds, and lots of rain produced this. At least the center heartwood from the rounds never got submerged in mammoth rain. In this case, the bark actually protected the wood like an umbrella.

The splits that I can produce today from stored rounds can be loaded and sold. They are drier than the splits that I made last spring and stacked. To me, this is goofy, but that's the way it is in these parts.