Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area

[derwoodii]

chopped up a ton+ of sugar gum blocks yesterday during the brief sunny breaks in between in howling cold rain & still a ton to go...
yeah i dint neat stack it as can wait as dumped 2 years before i move to the pretty ready to go pile..

 

[thewoodlands]

I picked up the splits that were left from the last two Beech I felled (0294) and then went over to the splits left from the first five Beech I felled (0295) and filled the trailer (0296) and stacked it.

I used some Ironwood that I brought off the hill to finish this stack.

 

[SS396driver]

It seems to just never end . I buck and split and there just seems to be more. I haven't scrounged in a couple months been getting calls from the two property owners if I'm coming back . Told them after this situation with covid eases up ,but I did mill some ash today as I finally got to the bottom of the pile. The ash mills much easier than the hickory

 

[woodchuckcanuck]

My thumb met up with a new sharp blade on the sawmill last evening. Just gotta wrap it up and keep going. The boss is on the green chain splitting the kindling.

 

[SS396driver]

Started splitting the rounds from last spring mostly white oak ,black birch and maple . Going to have to noodle some of the big ash rounds this tree was a good 4ft in diameter

 

[thewoodlands]

I felled three Ash today and bucked up two of them.

Picture 0302 is the first Ash, 0307 is the second, 0308 is after I cleaned up the area, 0311 is the third Ash and 0312 is what I'll have to buck up of the third Ash.

It's time I start splitting and stacking the Ash off the backhill first and then the Ash from today.

 

[mountainguyed67]

and bucked up two of them.

What, we have the same terminology as a New Yucker???

 

[thewoodlands]

What, we have the same terminology as a New Yucker???

Northern New Yorker, a good 10 hours north of NYC.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Northern New Yorker, a good 10 hours north of NYC.

I didn’t think that state was big enough to take ten hours to go anywhere.

 

[H-Ranch]

I didn’t think that state was big enough to take ten hours to go anywhere.

It probably is, but that may count 4 hours getting out of the city!

 

[SS396driver]

Takes me 5 to 6 hours to go see my step son in Buffalo. I live 2 to 3 hours north of NYC

I didn’t think that state was big enough to take ten hours to go anywhere.

It probably is, but that may count 4 hours getting out of the city!

 

[thewoodlands]

This is from todays splitting, all the stacked Ash is from the first tree I felled with about five more nice size rounds left. I'm not sure if it will fill out that two face cord stack but it still gave us some good firewood.

I still have three more Ash on the backhill that need s & s along with the three up top.

 

[mountainguyed67]

You put the rows that far apart so the wood will dry faster?

 

[thewoodlands]

You put the rows that far apart so the wood will dry faster?

Yes and so I can get my fat arse between the rows too cover them. There should be 19 - 20 inches between those rows.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Okay, we’ve managed to cover ours by going around it. And it’s very hot and dry here for 4-5 months, so we don’t need to space the rows. If we cut and split wood by May, it’ll burn fine the first winter. Dries out fast. In summer 2018 we had a hundred straight days above 100 degrees. I find it interesting to see what needs to be done in different areas.

 

[Philbert]

chopped up a ton+ of sugar gum blocks yesterday during the brief sunny breaks in between in howling cold rain & still a ton to go...
yeah i dint neat stack it as can wait as dumped 2 years before i move to the pretty ready to go pile..

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I like those vertical Aussie Chopper splitters.

Philbert

 

[Cowboy254]

chopped up a ton+ of sugar gum blocks yesterday during the brief sunny breaks in between in howling cold rain & still a ton to go...
yeah i dint neat stack it as can wait as dumped 2 years before i move to the pretty ready to go pile..

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Sugar gum! I have never come across it but I've read that it is excellent stuff.

 

[Cowboy254]

Started splitting the rounds from last spring mostly white oak ,black birch and maple . Going to have to noodle some of the big ash rounds this tree was a good 4ft in diameter View attachment 825265View attachment 825266View attachment 825267View attachment 825268View attachment 825269

I have been removing wattles - a hardwood acacia that is not as good as the local eucalypts for heating - from our property, C/S/S with the intention of burning them for ambiance in the firepit. Most of it has been sitting around for 2-3 years because I burn all the bark, chips, noodles and splitting leftovers in the firepit first. Looks like you have several years supply of firepit fuel there.

 

[derwoodii]

Sugar gum! I have never come across it but I've read that it is excellent stuff.

yeah its crazy hard heavy wood if i swing an axe at these rounds will just bounce back

https://www.thegreenyard.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Firewood-Properties1.pdf
Density Density is the amount of space a mass of firewood occupies, the denser the wood the less space a given mass takes up, or the greater a particular volume of firewood weighs. For example Sugar Gum is about twice as dense as Radiata Pine, so a cubic metre of Sugar Gum weighs approximately 1070kg, while a cubic metre of Pine weighs only about 512kg

 

[derwoodii]

I like those vertical Aussie Chopper splitters.

Philbert

yup me too real back saver as some have log lifters fitted