Time to stack wood

[tcreeley]

I'm about a half day short of finishing my bucking and splitting for this year. This'll be my first year using a wood stove, so I hope with our relatively mild winters, ten cords will be enough. Once it starts raining the little road back to the wood piles gets too slick for the tractor, and I need it to pull the logs out before I can limb them and buck them to length. But it's a good feeling to see all that wood stacked up neatly on the pallets and all ready to go, and know I won't be out suffering in the summer heat swinging the chain saw around. At least until next Spring...
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That is a nice bit of wood you have there! I find with tarps. if the wind starts to lift an edge or it is going to break free- I just nail the tarp edge to one of the pieces of wood that is handy and close by. Then the tarp always stays put.
Nice work there.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Thanks, tcreeley! We get ferocious winds here, enough to take a 10'x30' conduit framed temporary shelter I'd guyed down with 1/8" aircraft cable and twist it up like a pretzel. Once the wind gets under anything it's gone. Last year I took what was left of the shelter tarp and used it to cover the 6' lengths of timber I bucked and split this year. I used two inch lengths of 1x2 through which I'd drilled a hole for a 1 5/8" plated drywall screw. I found I could stretch the tarp pretty tight, and with four foot spacing on the anchors I didn't lose even one of them. They were easy to install and just as easy to remove. I'll reuse them this year with the new camo tarp in the picture, but I still wouldn't be surprised if a big wind got it.

 

[Danno1]

I'm about a half day short of finishing my bucking and splitting for this year. This'll be my first year using a wood stove, so I hope with our relatively mild winters, ten cords will be enough. Once it starts raining the little road back to the wood piles gets too slick for the tractor, and I need it to pull the logs out before I can limb them and buck them to length. But it's a good feeling to see all that wood stacked up neatly on the pallets and all ready to go, and know I won't be out suffering in the summer heat swinging the chain saw around. At least until next Spring...
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10 cord for one winter in Cali??? Are you up in the mountains?




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[RedNeckGeek]

Danno1, My place in Yankee Hill sits at 1125 feet of elevation in the foothills, and last winter we got only one snow with about four inches piling up on the ground. This is the first year I'll be using wood to heat the house, so I don't have a baseline for making a guess at how much wood I'll need. I sure hope ten cords is enough, as the house is well insulated and gets a significant boost from passive solar on sunny days. The main heating system is forced air propane, and the last 275 gallon fill lasted almost eighteen months. During that time I was in the house only about two thirds of the time, and during much of that I'd have preferred a warmer temperature. But another big reason for putting up ten cords was to get the wood on pallets so it could be easily moved. If things go according to plan, construction will start next year on a new shop building where the logs were stacked. 8)

 

[dave1949]

Danno1, My place in Yankee Hill sits at 1125 feet of elevation in the foothills, and last winter we got only one snow with about four inches piling up on the ground. This is the first year I'll be using wood to heat the house, so I don't have a baseline for making a guess at how much wood I'll need. I sure hope ten cords is enough, as the house is well insulated and gets a significant boost from passive solar on sunny days. The main heating system is forced air propane, and the last 275 gallon fill lasted almost eighteen months. During that time I was in the house only about two thirds of the time, and during much of that I'd have preferred a warmer temperature. But another big reason for putting up ten cords was to get the wood on pallets so it could be easily moved. If things go according to plan, construction will start next year on a new shop building where the logs were stacked. 8)

I'd be surprised if you used more than 2-3 cords, and that sounds generous for oak in a good stove heating a well-insulated house with a passive solar assist.

If you can keep your firewood dry inside a building it will be good for many years.

 

[photogman]

Avoid trouble later from mice and stack the wood a goodly ways away from your house!

 

[tcreeley]

Finished stacking my wood - 6 cords of it, I have 8 total, 4 for this year, 4 for next year.View attachment 392670

 

[lockhaven]

what type of wood is that TC

 

[tcreeley]

red maple, birch/yellow/gray, cherry, oak

 

[tcreeley]

red maple, birch/yellow/gray, cherry, oak

I used to wheel barrow it to the house, or dolly it. But with my arthritis I can't manage that through the snow anymore, so I stack the wood so that I can keep the snow clear with the tractor, and get good and close with the tractor bucket and fill that. Then I bring the bucket to the deck and dolly the rest of the way into the house.

The cats love the wood, and sit up there for when we drive in. One cat waited while I stacked, waiting to be fed!