Let’s talk about firewood

[OpenCountry]

Last year sucked with having to fill a new fire wood shed up for the first year. It was a pile of cutting/splitting. Now I only cut 3-4 trailers per year. Half the shed holds one years worth of wood so I’m able to alternate years and always cutting two years ahead now. Buddy has a mill so we built the shed with all milled lumber .

 

[longtail55]

maybe its just me but here in the Midwest we have mulberry trees everywhere and tend to grow in the places people don't want them so pretty readily available. Nothing beats the smell and the snap, crackle, and pop of mulberry at the campfire. I think its a pretty wood also. Good thing my folks are farmers and live on a ranch where its readily available

 

[Redmt]

We have a couple more cords to cut for next winter. Anyone want well seasoned dry oak? We have hundreds of oaks killed in the 2020 fire. Bring a very sharp saw capable of 24" trees and come and get it.

 

[antlerradar]

Picture of the wood pile, 40 feet long, six feet wide and seven feet high. About a year and a half worth of supply.

 

[Redmt]

Picture of the wood pile, 40 feet long, six feet wide and seven feet high. About a year and a half worth of supply.View attachment 410752

Impressive. That's about 13 cords by rough calculations.

 

[Gellar]

I have added a headache rack though. After a new rear window was installed. mtmuley

Did you find out the hard way?

 

[mtmuley]

Did you find out the hard way?

Yep. Load slowly shifted forward. Finally the pressure blew out the widow. Sounded like a gun went off. Glass everywhere. Scared the shit out of me. mtmuley

 

[Keep on]

Splurged a little last October for my birthday. Big upgrade from the throw away Poulans I'd been using all my life.
Still split by hand, my dad is 84 and still uses a maul, won't allow myself to buy a splitter.

 

[mevertsen]

Man that’s a good sized juniper. What did the wood grain look like? I bet it would make a nice table. I’ll trade you something else to burn for just 1 of those trees.

Really not that good. This three was pretty gnarly. That big around but lots of other arms coming off of it. Some of the smaller stuff might hold together better.

Edit. Here's part of the stump. It we broke it up to load.

 

[Gellar]

Yep. Load slowly shifted forward. Finally the pressure blew out the widow. Sounded like a gun went off. Glass everywhere. Scared the shit out of me. mtmuley

I’ve broken a few. Drive my atv through the window once when I was loading it. F150 with a sliding rear window. They can’t replace just one panel and it’s cheaper to get a solid window. I had a seasonal kid a few years ago not latch the goose neck trailer. Luckily he had the chains latched but they were just long enough to come through the back glass on a single cab f250

 

[Redmt]

Splurged a little last October for my birthday. Big upgrade from the throw away Poulans I'd been using all my life.
Still split by hand, my dad is 84 and still uses a maul, won't allow myself to buy a splitter.

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I bought one of those little 250's a couple years ago. My favorite is an 028 but it's cantankerous to start. I have a 391 with the compression release. I just can't start them as easily as I used to. My wife has a 20" bar Stihl battery saw. It almost comparable to the 250.

 

[mevertsen]

Ive got to say.

Some people's ability to cut perfectly straight and stack in a nice pile

This will get put in a shed, but it doesnt stack pretty. Lol