Show us your wood (pile)

Mickey Merrie · Feb 28, 2023

Here is some of my wood work...

Mickey Merrie · Feb 28, 2023

Then I got a walnut log to mill in to a mantle for behind the wood stove.

Bowkills · Mar 3, 2023

There is nothing like wood heat. Easy burning season this year. Got awhile yet as it snows in may almost every year. Let them rip and stay too warm...

Mickey Merrie · Mar 3, 2023

Every day it's mid 70's in my home...unless she gets it up to 80, then my eyes start to wrinkle!
Just got back home to fresh Rib Eyes cooked on the grill i got inside the top. It's 77 in here right now.

Bowkills · Mar 3, 2023

Mickey Merrie said:
Then I got a walnut log to mill in to a mantle for behind the wood stove.View attachment 174254 View attachment 174255 View attachment 174256 View attachment 174257

How green is that log and are you going to heat it to dry it out?

Mickey Merrie · Mar 3, 2023

Bowkills said:
How green is that log and are you going to heat it to dry it out?

First I have to cut it to rough dimension. It was a dying tree last summer when we took it down. I will Alaskan Mill it here in the spring to rough dimension then air dry it from there.

Any input from more experienced hands is more than appreciated though brothers!

I painted shut the ends after it was cut to minimize end splitting/checking.

Bowkills · Mar 3, 2023

Mickey Merrie said:
First I have to cut it to rough dimension. It was a dying tree last summer when we took it down. I will Alaskan Mill it here in the spring to rough dimension then air dry it from there.

Any input from more experienced hands is more than appreciated though brothers!

I painted shut the ends after it was cut to minimize end splitting/checking.

I built a fireplace 4 my parents. Took an elm section that was dead just that summer cut that fall/winter. Painted ends. Put it behind my wood stove a month. Cooked it in my smoker a whole weekend and let dry another week behind the stove. Sanded it down. Seal many poly coats. No bugs or finish flaws after a few years. It did shrink width wise 1/8th in or so in a few years.

Mickey Merrie · Apr 9, 2023

OK! So the pile of limb wood from the picture up a ways in this string is now split and stacked! I uploaded a video of a stroll along my wood pile on Resurrection Sunday! Hope you all enjoy it.

I will post another picture soon of what I have left to do.

But the question remains..."How much is enough?"

I guess my answer is just a little bit more.

http://imgur.com/a/wbfiM37

hickslawns · Apr 9, 2023

How many chord do you have there? Pretty decent amount of firewood for sure.

Mickey Merrie · Apr 9, 2023

hickslawns said:
How many chord do you have there? Pretty decent amount of firewood for sure.

I'm guessing 16to 18 cords. The stacked is about 60'+/- by 10'+/- by 3.5+/- high give or take.

Mickey Merrie · Apr 9, 2023

Mickey Merrie said:
I'm guessing 16to 18 cords. The stacked is about 60'+/- by 10'+/- by 3.5+/- high give or take.

Then I have the unstacked pile... That will be given to friends who need the help. I will post another picture of the stuff I still have to finish cutting and splitting yet. Most of that will go to 3 or 4 folks who heat but can no longer do the wood.

Mickey Merrie · Apr 11, 2023

Here is the last of what I need to process. Then I can clean up the mess, the saws, the splitter and move on to my next obsession...

5Cent · Apr 11, 2023

That's a lot of wood Mickey, nice work!!

Mickey Merrie · Apr 11, 2023

5Cent said:
That's a lot of wood Mickey, nice work!!

Thanks! Most people do wood because they have to, or prefer to. I do it because I'm stoopit...

We threw the TV out of our home 2 decades ago. (Much easier when one is a Browns, Pirates fan...) We then put in the wood stove! We prefer the heat and not having the thermostat set to 1 degree above shivers all winter.

finelyshedded · May 8, 2023

My boiler is officially done for burning this winter/ spring season. Let it burn out Saturday while we were gone and it’s cleaned out and blower motor is unhooked and put away in garage till next fall. Burned up all my reserve leaving just a truck load of cherry/hickory chunks for BIL’s offset smoker.
I unhook blower motor cuz I found that it lasts longer if it’s not exposed to the 6 months of weather when not in use. It stays dry and cool in garage. I do plug hole where it’s mounted to keep critters from making it a home over the summer. Lol

Mickey Merrie · Jul 22, 2023

https://theohiooutdoors.com/attachments/mantle-log-jpg.174254/

So I processed the Walnut Log down to a 6.75 x 6.50 beam 5.5' long to finish drying before I fashion into my mantle. I couldn't get away to the TOO Summer Bash at Giles' ranch so i did some TOO stuff instead.

The cut offs will be used to make stick bows by a friend of mine and I gave the neighbor kid who loves to make things the smaller side cutoffs to have some fun with also. They aren't in the pictures.

The pine board is screwed on the walnut as a saw guide for my mini Alaskan Mill.

finelyshedded · Jul 31, 2023

I’ve got a new offset smoker ordered and to be delivered within the next month or two so I set out to take advantage of the nice weather to start splitting some hickory for it. It looks like I’ll have a nice supply for it. I do need to split some Cherry wood too.

hickslawns · Jul 31, 2023

Can't believe I forgot to update. Last week I hauled 4 dump truck loads. I cut them last fall but it was too wet to get in there. Bobcat never struggled. A couple of them I carried two at a time. Need to cut to length, split, and stack.

Concordmeadowsfarm · Sep 17, 2023

Cool nights are beginning. Wood sheds nearly full!

finelyshedded · Sep 26, 2023

New Lone Star offset smoker is scheduled to be delivered here on Friday sometime and I’ve been splitting hickory and cherry like a beaver on speed. I think I’m good on smoker wood for several years. Lol

I have hickory stacked along on the left side of boiler and today I started stacking the Cherry I’ve split on along the right side of boiler.