Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area

[Multifaceted]

Another bunch split and thrown into a big pile, this time it's Ash and about takes care of my stacked rounds. Need to start felling/bucking again! Not sure exactly how much, but it was three stacks of rounds about 14-16'' long, and another stack about 10' long and 7' high at the peak. It's definitely a bigger pile than the Oak I recently split. Besides myself for scale, just to give you an idea, the pile is about as wide as it is long. I'm guessing a little over 2 cords.

Running out of flat, level space to stack, so I'm going to do a big holzhausen since Ash dries quickly. Body is pretty sore and tired from today, will stack tomorrow. My other smaller holzhausen stacks have gone rather quickly, so I'm not dreading it as much as a straight, non-cribbed stacks like I normally do.

 

[derwoodii]

nice load of red gum prepped for next year

 

[tnichols]

Another bunch split and thrown into a big pile, this time it's Ash and about takes care of my stacked rounds. Need to start felling/bucking again! Not sure exactly how much, but it was three stacks of rounds about 14-16'' long, and another stack about 10' long and 7' high at the peak. It's definitely a bigger pile than the Oak I recently split. Besides myself for scale, just to give you an idea, the pile is about as wide as it is long. I'm guessing a little over 2 cords.

Running out of flat, level space to stack, so I'm going to do a big holzhausen since Ash dries quickly. Body is pretty sore and tired from today, will stack tomorrow. My other smaller holzhausen stacks have gone rather quickly, so I'm not dreading it as much as a straight, non-cribbed stacks like I normally do.

Great picture! This deserved more than a “like”!

 

[Cowboy254]

Another bunch split and thrown into a big pile, this time it's Ash and about takes care of my stacked rounds. Need to start felling/bucking again! Not sure exactly how much, but it was three stacks of rounds about 14-16'' long, and another stack about 10' long and 7' high at the peak. It's definitely a bigger pile than the Oak I recently split. Besides myself for scale, just to give you an idea, the pile is about as wide as it is long. I'm guessing a little over 2 cords.

Running out of flat, level space to stack, so I'm going to do a big holzhausen since Ash dries quickly. Body is pretty sore and tired from today, will stack tomorrow. My other smaller holzhausen stacks have gone rather quickly, so I'm not dreading it as much as a straight, non-cribbed stacks like I normally do.

Be careful with that axe !

 

[Multifaceted]

Be careful with that axe !

Don't worry, I always wear my woodcutters protective cup

Just kidding, the perspective is deceiving. The ax is actually in front of the saw, more likely to have fallen forward and into the dirt... Either way, thanks for checking out my wood

 

[CaseyForrest]

On the menu this fine, crisp morning is beech and shagbark garnished with some ironwood.

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[flatbroke]

Was at wife's folks for T day so I split this oak I cut for them a few weeks earlier. The larger rounds I quartered are still needing to be split.

Splitter is pretty damn slow and not very powerful. Sure beat wedge and sledge though

 

[Vtrombly]

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On the menu this fine, crisp morning is beech and shagbark garnished wit

h some ironwood.

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[flatbroke]

Keeping busy back home too.

 

[briantutt]

Load 10 in the bag! All ash and oak except a few chunks of poplar.

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[briantutt]

Arial view, pushed the loads into a big pile.

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[briantutt]

Keeping busy back home too.
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Nice view there flatbroke!

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[flatbroke]

Nice view there flatbroke!

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Thanks.

 

[Multifaceted]

On the menu this fine, crisp morning is beech and shagbark garnished with some ironwood.

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Hot damn - nice haul! You'll be nice and toasty next season for certain. All excellent hardwoods.

 

[Multifaceted]

Got the Ash stacked in a 7' diameter x 6' tall holzhausen. I'm estimating that the cubic footage puts it to about 1.7 cords, pretty close to what I thought. There were about three dozen or so split pieces leftover that I couldn't stack properly, so my ballpark figure of "a little over two cords" was a bit high, but close enough.

Here it is compared to my straight stacks of oak...

 

[flatbroke]

Got the Ash stacked in a 7' diameter x 6' tall holzhausen. I'm estimating that the cubic footage puts it to about 1.7 cords, pretty close to what I thought. There were about three dozen or so split pieces leftover that I couldn't stack properly, so my ballpark figure of "a little over two cords" was a bit high, but close enough.

Here it is compared to my straight stacks of oak...

That round stack looks pretty sharp.

 

[Multifaceted]

That round stack looks pretty sharp.

Thank you! This is probably the biggest one I've done so far. It's a very stable formation, takes up less space and looks nice to boot. Unless it's oak, I'll probably continue to dry and stack my wood this way in the future.

 

[flatbroke]

Thank you! This is probably the biggest one I've done so far. It's a very stable formation, takes up less space and looks nice to boot. Unless it's oak, I'll probably continue to dry and stack my wood this way in the future.

Why would you not stack the oak in that manner?

 

[Multifaceted]

Why would you not stack the oak in that manner?

Well, as a caveat, I have yet to try it. My experience with oak is that it takes a very long time to dry enough to burn properly. Oak just doesn't seem to want to let go of it's moisture. I try to keep it open to air and sun as much as possible. Perhaps I should try it, but I don't have any more oak to cut right now, nor any to scrounge. I'd hate to take the time to stack something only for a percentage of it not be properly dried. Just CYA from personal experience is all...

 

[flatbroke]

Well, as a caveat, I have yet to try it. My experience with oak is that it takes a very long time to dry enough to burn properly. Oak just doesn't seem to want to let go of it's moisture. I try to keep it open to air and sun as much as possible. Perhaps I should try it, but I don't have any more oak to cut right now, nor any to scrounge. I'd hate to take the time to stack something only for a percentage of it not be properly dried. Just CYA from personal experience is all...

Makes sense.