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I stack outside on pallets. I put down 4 pieces of 1" pvc under the pallets so they don't contact the ground and they last virtually forever. You can also screw the pvc to the underside of the pallet before laying it down to make it a simple setup. 6 Cheap bricks will do just as nice a job and...

I have no missing teeth, I know exactly where mine are. In a jar LOL When the tooth fairy visits I'm in for a big payday :)

For me when a chain won't keep it's edge for long it's time for it to depart for a few reason. The chain itself is getting sloppy, the angles are at war with each other or the entire chains rakers and bumpers haven't been filed in forever. Your problem IMO is the rakers are as high as the teeth...

Maybe 1/2 cord here. The weather has been all over the place so mainly house warming fires and less than stellar wood. Seems like a similar pattern to last year though when we all burnt crud wood until early January then had to burn locust and oak to try and stay warm for 75 days in a row. Hope not.

Poplar is just fine to burn. Keep the splits on the chunky side and you will be burning it well into the coldest months. It's not going to last like a high btu hardwood will, but keeping the poplar splits quite large and it's quite shocking how long they will burn.

Me for that leaner would be the perfect time to fire up the pole saw. Stand uphill about 10ft away and go nuts with the pole saw and watch as the pressure splits the trunk at some point. Your limited to pole saw bar length though, cutting a 3ft tree with a 1ft bar will just make for a very...

It gets grouped into a few species that get called poplar here. SVK is spot on as Aspen IMO

+1 on mulberry. wonderful woodstove firewood with very high btu. No so good for open fireplace since mulberry loves to snap and pop and even put on a cool fireworks display now and then.

chipper1, Guess just a matter of time and nature will thin the herd to those that can endure. Winter here would be a beast for survival but I at least have the basic survival knowledge to last. One big solar flare and earth goes back to bow and arrows for 2 years or more if you know how to...

Whitespider, You got it buddy single rows are the way to go. I get the occasional bugs but generally not from wood piles but from from casino night. What happens in the forest stays in the forest :)

chipper1, Just sad isn't it. lord knows what happens if the power goes out for a week. lol Oh well maybe we are over rating basic skills and people really don't need them anymore. Should be an interesting world if it happens. 2+2 =3 less the work, wood and food :)

chipper1, Who wants to be normal lol What is normal these days, living life on a cellphone, eating takeout 7 days a week and having 10s K owing on a credit card because things you didn't need you got anyway. Work and math are a mystery now. I'm ok with being not normal. :)

Marine5068, So about 5 years here in Ontario. That should be about right for the next summer here LOL Do you even remember what summer was?

Most of the pictures are not elm but what it is who knows. Growing in the city or in a forest? To me a few pictures look like different species. Was this more than 1 tree? In the 3 pictures #1 elm something and looks like American elm, the other 2?

Whitespider, Tough to see the bark clearly in any of the pictures. I'm going on the diamond shapes bark in picture 1 and the split color and lack or stringiness as Rock id. A good end grain pic sure would help the ID and you might be right on American once we see one. Either way he has some...

Brentr, Your welcome. Rock elm is better than hophornbeam :)

Looks like rock Elm to me. Tough to be 100% on the Id though since it's tough to see the end grain and tougher to see a large section of main bark. Branch wood looks very odd to be American elm and splits are not stringy like American elm so I'm about 95% sure it's Rock. One of the best...

Try splitting on the round. When I'm forced to use an electric splitter splitting on the round can even handle nasty elm rounds. Splitting on the round is just splitting a piece of the side instead of trying to split the entire piece. Position the round so your splitting of the side bark to...

I used to have mystery wood but then I got married now I have no wood at all LOL I've burned things I can't remember cutting, always fun watching the hottest longest burning thing you will ever burn but not ever knowing what it was.

tla100, Your kindle stack is great, your star case not so great. At some point someone has removed the column that holds stairs from bowing and the back support of the stairs looks pretty drinking party installed. IMO it's a temp staircase that the construction crew forgot to finish. You...