Firewood Season 2023

[indyjohn]

Don't tell the OG that I posted this pic, she will not like it!

But those 3 poles in front of the covered firewood splitter and the ones to the left came from the mess across the road that leads to the cabin after the last big storm a few weeks ago. Beech and Poplar with some Sassafras mixed in. The largest pole is 102" long and about 18" in diameter. Lots of work to do, right there.

 

[ghuns]

...I consider the people that are not allergic to poison ivy to be super heroes!

I spent the first 30+ years of my life as a super hero.

Somewhere around 35, I lost my super power.

It sucks.

 

[yetti462]

I spent the first 30+ years of my life as a super hero.

Somewhere around 35, I lost my super power.

It sucks.

I found your lost powers, when I was younger I could walk by it and be a walking bubble in 2 days. Now it doesn't phase me, I think I built up immunity.

 

[cmann250]

Check back in 2028. I think I’ll still be allergic to poison ivy.

My wood cutting season would normally be after the first frost until May. However I’m trying to regain access to parts of my property.

 

[Michigan Slim]

Check back in 2028. I think I’ll still be allergic to poison ivy.

My wood cutting season would normally be after the first frost until May. However I’m trying to regain access to parts of my property.

I just had to cut four more oaks off my trail. Still have a couple hundred yards to go. Was just up there(Newaygo County) a couple weeks ago and cut six oaks out of the way.
Lost a quarter of the timber on my 40 to three years of oak worm. Oaks 6-18". Hundreds standing and coming down. Nobody up there wants it because half the county got hit.
The understory is going nuts. Ash seedlings, maple, cherry. Still lots of green oaks but no acorns. I'm going to buy a couple hundred pounds of 12-12-12 and hit a couple of the bigger white oak. Try to get acorns next year. Good for all my critters.

 

[ghuns]

...Nobody up there wants it because half the county got hit...

Hmmm... Anybody got a flat bed semi I could borrow?

 

[Michigan Slim]

Hmmm... Anybody got a flat bed semi I could borrow?

Got to be enclosed. The state gubments get a little pissy about that.

 

[ghuns]

Got to be enclosed. The state gubments get a little pissy about that.

We'll do it Smokey and the Bandit style.

 

[Michigan Slim]

We'll do it Smokey and the Bandit style.

I'm Bandit and in your car!

 

[klausm]

need the tarps to go with the rig

 

[cg21]

Well it’s official I joined the club. I will likely limp through my first season with stuff I already have stacked, my splitting maul, and electric chainsaw. Next year I will up my game.

 

[klausm]

Well it’s official I joined the club. I will likely limp through my first season with stuff I already have stacked, my splitting maul, and electric chainsaw. Next year I will up my game.

if you can find standing dead trees most of it will be burnable

 

[cg21]

if you can find standing dead trees most of it will be burnable

I am not the best stacker and I don’t know the measurements cords face cords and such but I have a decent stack that I think will last me though the winter. Especially while I am learning and still have a furnace as backup!

Any advice on stacking wood? I have a large paved area I no longer use it isn’t covered. But it is touching my house. Is that TOO close ? It has a 10x20 carport also. I am worried about termites mice and any other invasive critter.

 

[klausm]

I stack away from the house, out in the open on skids where the sun and wind can get to it. I like to cut all mine to 16" and can get 2 rows on 40" wide skids. I will cover it with a tarp in Sept. before the fall rains start in and to keep the snow off. I am lucky to have a enclosed back parch where I can store a month's worth once we are in wood burning mode. I will average 4+ cords a season

 

[cg21]

I stack away from the house, out in the open on skids where the sun and wind can get to it. I like to cut all mine to 16" and can get 2 rows on 40" wide skids. I will cover it with a tarp in Sept. before the fall rains start in and to keep the snow off. I am lucky to have a enclosed back parch where I can store a month's worth once we are in wood burning mode. I will average 4+ cords a season

So I should be concerned with critters near the house.

 

[Leadeye]

So I should be concerned with critters near the house.

Yes, stack away from the house if you can.

 

[klausm]

I regularly find mice nests and American cockroaches

 

[klausm]

if you cut 16'' lengths a full cord is 24 feet long stacked 4 foot high

 

[cg21]

I stack away from the house, out in the open on skids where the sun and wind can get to it. I like to cut all mine to 16" and can get 2 rows on 40" wide skids. I will cover it with a tarp in Sept. before the fall rains start in and to keep the snow off. I am lucky to have a enclosed back parch where I can store a month's worth once we are in wood burning mode. I will average 4+ cords a season

Now that I know the measurement ….. is this your only heat source (or primary atleast?) I have roughly 2 cords cut and stacked by your 24’x4’

 

[klausm]

Now that I know the measurement ….. is this your only heat source (or primary atleast?) I have roughly 2 cords cut and stacked by your 24’x4’

yup furnace is set at 64 and hardly runs, not the most or best setup, fireplace insert at one end of the house, but we use a box fan to help circulate the heat