This year's logs.

[difflock]

Pics,

I should have left the pile another year by rights and dragged more Sitka and Lodgepole down from the Moss to cut split bundle and leave to dry over the summer, before stocking the shed, but hey-ho.

Hawthorn, going in at about 25% a few nearer 30, and a couple of outliers that 

read 35.

But it can lie in the shed until winter after next as I have room for more than 2 years firing.

I will split the heavier(and wetter) stuff and leave in billet bundles outside the rest of the summer.

 

[sandspider]

Good stack of wood there. I envy you your machinery and drying space - I'm currently extracting old, damp ash logs from across a stream (awkward access) by hand. Possibly not worth the effort! 

[coppice cutter]

Anything free is always worth the effort!

[difflock]

I keep telling myself that the exercise is good for me, every time I rehandle timber that I already handled multiple times. Though having the ever-so-small ever-so-decrepit 40+ year old forestry trailer to lift, transport and stack that pile of timber was much appreciated. My limited cycling this past 18 months  also told a positive tale since I was not huffing and puffing like other years I started on the firewood prep regime.

Cheers

Marcus

[sandspider]

13 hours ago, coppice cutter said:

Anything free is always worth the effort!

Not sure about that! It's wet, heavy, awkward, up a steep slope across a stream, and just starting to go a bit manky. And my wrist hurts!

 

Still, at least I'm not stuck down a hole in the fog in the middle of the night. With an owl.

[coppice cutter]

43 minutes ago, sandspider said:

Not sure about that! It's wet, heavy, awkward, up a steep slope across a stream, and just starting to go a bit manky. And my wrist hurts!

Jeez man, people pay good money to get a workout like that!

[coppice cutter]

44 minutes ago, sandspider said:

Still, at least I'm not stuck down a hole in the fog in the middle of the night. With an owl.

Is that a euphemism for something perverse?

[sandspider]

 

😁

[Muddy42]

Nice work.  I have a bloke, forwarder and a processor coming in a few weeks to help do mine.  A few days of hard work and then the eco angus will have enough food for the winter. I stack in grain sacks in a big open sided shed.  I've found that you as long as the wood is well seasoned you can bring it in wet in May and it'll be dry (about 15%) by the winter.  We used to mess around manually with a tractor, trailer, chainsaw and a stone shed, but it took too long and the logs never dried properly. 

[woody paul]

Broke down some large rings for land lord this afternoon so he can lift them on to his Hycrack splitter.