Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[wolc123]

Since finishing my woodshed, I really enjoy stocking our little side porch, which holds about 1/2 face cord. That lasts us about a week, during the coldest weather that we get, up here near the Canadian border.

I put an old floor lamp out in the woodshed, and the porch has a nice led light. My loader tractor also has good lights front and back. I usually load the porch on a weeknight after work, when it’s very dark out.

I don’t like having any wood in the house, other than what’s in the stove, to keep as much dirt and bugs outside as possible. Our stove sits right next to the door on that porch. That little thing has no trouble heating our well insulated 2000 sq ft L-shaped ranch house.

 

[John_Mc]

I don't bother to burn large logs. If they are not bartered to a friend with a sawmill or used for firewood, they either stay in the woods to rot, creating wildlife habitat while they return nutrients to the soil, or I use them to make brush piles for wildlife habitat.

Occasionally, I use large logs to block the various entrances to our property that our community yahoos tend to make for access to our trails for their ATVs. Everyone in the neighborhood knows that they are welcome to hike my trails on foot, but other uses are by specific one-time permission only.

 

[4570Man]

I like the big logs as long as they’re straight grain. If they’re big and gnarly then I trash them. Pieces like this make a lot of nice firewood.

 

[Duds13]

I like the big logs as long as they’re straight grain. If they’re big and gnarly then I trash them. Pieces like this make a lot of nice firewood. View attachment 2179627

Damn maybe someday I'll reach the point where I turn away knotty, knarly wood. To me it all creates heat and while they make it more difficult to pack your stove tight, the odd shaped pieces work great for shoulder season or those mid-January warmer days.

 

[Jstpssng]

Most of what I burn is cull ends, left on landings after slashing logs out of tree length hardwood. I can usually afford to be choosy; only picking up wood I can lift, of course. Normally I only bring home 1 and 2 YO hard maple, yellow birch, some ash and whatever beech I find.

At one time I was a year ahead but was having back issues in 2022 so wasn't able to do anything. When I stopped burning I had 3 sticks of wood left in the shed. I am still playing catch-up so while I have plenty of wood on hand, much of it hasn't been split and is getting snowed on. I've found as long as I leave it round, it dries pretty quickly once I split and put it under cover.

 

[WinterDeere]

Try as I may putting free ads on FB marketplace and wood related forums, no one ever calls or comes so I burn the stuff every year.

I learned one thing many years ago, and that is a small price charged for an item you'd be fine giving away for free, always fetches a buyer sooner than "free".

Put an ad in FB Marketplace for $40 per pickup load, and you'll usually get more responses than "free". I suppose it may play on the reader's suspicion that "free" must be junk, and $40 is a bargain, but I don't know.

 

[5030]

Really don't mind burning it anyway and I distribute the ashes in the garden. What amazes me is when I put what I consider junk at the edge of the road, it vanishes right away.

I don't consider seasoned hardwood logs to be junk, maybe willow or soft maple but not hardwood and certainly not apple wood. Probably should have kept some for the BBQ but I roasted all of it anyway.

 

[aba4430]

Getting ready to move some wood to the back porch.

 

[BackRoad]

Looks like maybe some Cherry and Ash mixed in Mr. Aba???

 

[WinterDeere]

Emptied another 1-cord bay this morning, so started refilling it with red oak, to be used likely 2028.