Same here I just have no idea how much I will be burning any given year so I plan to stack it deep and keep it coming. I have a friend who is a logger so I'm hoping to get hooked up from him now that he knows I'm looking. None of it will be seasoned though. I have plenty of room for storage and if I don't mind burning pine then I have as much as I want on my property. However my stove is small so I can't stuff enough pine in to last through the night.
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Same here I just have no idea how much I will be burning any given year so I plan to stack it deep and keep it coming. I have a friend who is a logger so I'm hoping to get hooked up from him now that he knows I'm looking. None of it will be seasoned though. I have plenty of room for storage and if I don't mind burning pine then I have as much as I want on my property. However my stove is small so I can't stuff enough pine in to last through the night.
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Feed it pine when you are around give it the good stuff and hardwoods overnight. Win, win. I never get 2+ years ahead. Last year I had left over so this will be the first winter that I am burning wood that has had over a year to season. Burn what you have and keep on c/s/s. I am always looking for wood some years it is easy other years it is lean. This year was a little lean considering last year I picked up 2+ years worth of wood. Like I said if you can season 2 years awesome, if not just c/s/s and burn.
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I think I messed up on my stacked rows. I stacked double rows and left no space in between the damn things vs single rows. Have to hurry up and cut up the 3 large downed trees, get them split and stacked so they're able to dry before next winter.
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I always double stack my rows. The seem more solid and less likely in my experience to fall over. Mine seem to dry fast enough double stacked.
they must have different sized 1/2 cords down in maryland.
i only get 30 cubic feet of wood by his measurments
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Yeah, double rows are definitely sturdier. My wife gave me the go ahead to stack firewood in the front yard too so I'm going to drive metal rods into the ground at the end of my brick bottom layer to hold the splits. Leave 6" or so between the single rows. I love it when the cold weather makes my wife think functionally vs aesthetically.
they must have different sized 1/2 cords down in maryland.
i only get 30 cubic feet of wood by his measurments
Hey when's the next PA GTG? I have to attend the next one.
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PA GTG is usually early may. Typically the first weekend of spring turkey season so I usually cant make it .
Your wife seems like a keeper if she is letting you keep wood in the front yard that definitely wouldn't fly if I tried that.
Your wife seems like a keeper if she is letting you keep wood in the front yard that definitely wouldn't fly if I tried that.
This is what I have been doing but my moisture meter seems to be wrong or I'm using it wrong because the oak reads 12-15% but doesn't seem to want to get going. Part of the issue is this time of year here it's high 30's at night and 70 during the day so we rarely burn during the day. I've been getting up at night to feed it and then throwing a decent log on in the morning to kill the chill. It's just a learning process for me and getting to know my stove and how much I can damper it at night.
If I could grab all the wood leaning or fallen over at my hunting property I would be years ahead. Problem is it's 90 miles from home one way and I just don't have the trailer to move more than 1k lb's at a time. I miss my 2500 diesel. Last weekend I should have brought a load home but ended up working after the morning hunt. I also don't like running the saw during bow season.
last year was the second weekend in may i think. no date set yet. i'll keep ya posted.
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Keep a stack of the good stuff in side even if it is only a few logs. Get the fire going good with the pine and throw the oak on. The denser hard woods like oak take a little more to get going even seasoned compared to the pine the the softer woods.
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PA GTG is usually early may. Typically the first weekend of spring turkey season so I usually cant make it .
Your wife seems like a keeper if she is letting you keep wood in the front yard that definitely wouldn't fly if I tried that.
With my luck I'll have National Guard training the next GTG.
Being cold tends to change her mind lol. Try and purposefully burn some wet wood. When it doesn't burn right and your wife is miserable from the cold, tell her you need to start stacking wood on all available sites to speed up drying. She may give in.
Yep, same weather here.
Ya'll are making me jealous with all this hunting talk. I've wanted to start deer hunting for a while but have no clue how to get started.
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Nah she knows the game plus I have a lot of back yard that can hold wood before I needed to put it in the front yard.
As for learning to hunt. Get out and do it. You will learn more from getting out in the woods and hunting. The best way to learn is to get out and see what you see, hunt the thickest areas you can find an you will find game. Seriously you seem like a smart guy you can figure this out. Plus from my understanding MD has liberal bag limits. If I had more time and the access I would be hunting MD as well as PA since I am around an hour or hour and a half from the border. But since I hunt public land in PA, I need to make the most of the available time to try and fill the freezer. Speaking of which, I need to start hunting because the freezer is getting down to slim pickings.
As for learning to hunt. Get out and do it. You will learn more from getting out in the woods and hunting. The best way to learn is to get out and see what you see, hunt the thickest areas you can find an you will find game. Seriously you seem like a smart guy you can figure this out. Plus from my understanding MD has liberal bag limits. If I had more time and the access I would be hunting MD as well as PA since I am around an hour or hour and a half from the border. But since I hunt public land in PA, I need to make the most of the available time to try and fill the freezer. Speaking of which, I need to start hunting because the freezer is getting down to slim pickings.
Well my skidding buddy didn't show up today, think I worked him too hard yesterday....
I gotta admit I was one sore son of a gun this morning, once I got going all my soreness went away.
So I started splitting my red oak scrounge around 6am this morning, got about 4 pickup loads split. This red oak I found was from our last logging 5 years ago, some of it is punky, but most of it is prime!
I gotta admit I was one sore son of a gun this morning, once I got going all my soreness went away.So I started splitting my red oak scrounge around 6am this morning, got about 4 pickup loads split. This red oak I found was from our last logging 5 years ago, some of it is punky, but most of it is prime!
So from around 10am to 130pm I went and did the skidding by myself, yes I am beat again...but hey it's fun!
I'd say I hauled out at least 6-7 pickup loads, too tired to cut anymore today, sheesh...I can't wait to go back to my "vacation job"
I'd say I hauled out at least 6-7 pickup loads, too tired to cut anymore today, sheesh...I can't wait to go back to my "vacation job"
Gotta ask you all something, and I'm going to make this my 1,000 th post, is 3pm too early for beer?
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nah get back to work lol
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I will once I buy another compound bow. Plus I guess a tree stand is a must. I think there's no bag limits for does here. How many do you take a year and how long does it last? My ex-wife was less tolerant of new hobbies so I had to give her the boot but not before she forced me into selling my bow. I think I'll just buy a crossbow this time.
Well packaged venison will last two years but best to eat it sooner. I try to run out of venison by spring time which means lots of it from deer season through mid winter then cooking up the odd packages that are left when it starts to warm up.
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If you haven't hunted before, take a hunter's safety class. I always took it for granted, since I grew up in a hunting family, but they can have a lot of valuable information.
The school district here teaches hunter's safety to all 6th graders as a part of the school curriculum. The reasoning was that, even if the kid doesn't hunt, and doesn't live in a house where firearms are present, there is still a good chance that they will come in contact with firearms and / or hunters at some point in time.
The teacher who leads it brings rifles and shotguns into the school to demonstrate how to safely handle them, and at the end of the course, the student has an option to go to a local shooting range on a Saturday, and take the field portion of the hunter's safety certification. Very valuable, real world stuff.
The school district here teaches hunter's safety to all 6th graders as a part of the school curriculum. The reasoning was that, even if the kid doesn't hunt, and doesn't live in a house where firearms are present, there is still a good chance that they will come in contact with firearms and / or hunters at some point in time.
The teacher who leads it brings rifles and shotguns into the school to demonstrate how to safely handle them, and at the end of the course, the student has an option to go to a local shooting range on a Saturday, and take the field portion of the hunter's safety certification. Very valuable, real world stuff.
