Full Buckets.....

[scott_vt]

OK I ADMIT TOO MUCH COFFEE THIS MORNIN.
ALAN

Evenin Alan,
Hey, I just want to remind you that the last time you had too much coffee Bird deleted your post and mine !

 

[escavader]

 

[Highbeam]

I load the bucket like that but not until we use it. I don't get snow like you folks do and I learned pretty early on that the less I have to move the firewood the better. So now I lay the logs in a row, cut the rounds in a row, splipt in a row, and stack in a row all requiring only the minimum amount of wood movage. Then that row dries all summer and gets covered on Labor day. That cover is slowly peeled back as I harvest dry firewood into the tractor bucket to be dropped near the house for burning.

We have been getting excellent harvest weather with nice warm afternoons and no rain at all for awhile now. The rain should start in about a week and continue until July. This time last year we were just about to begin 24/7 burning.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evenin Beam,

Good to hear from you !

Hey I hope your enjoyin that wood stove you got, Im still hopin to get one like that when I do the addition on the Vt house !

BTW maybe you should psot a pic of your stove for the guys !

 

[Oleozz]

Like the way you have that wood stacked on your FEL Scotty but our ground is so rough that after driving two feet it would be on the ground again.
I had 40 acres timbered last fall so have plenty of firewood but we use coal instead. As soon as the soybeans are harvested I will start cutting firewood with the hopes that I can sell some.
Do you have lots of oak or is mostly maple?

 

[Highbeam]

My stove picture is a little outdated with the orange carpet and all but here's my wood stacked, and the wood split. In a row as promised but is covered now with black poly hanging about a foot over each side.

The soapstone stoves from Hearthstone have really climbed in price. So much that I would now recommend the other Vermont Soapstone company which is Woodstock. We really love burning in soap.

 

[irwin]

My stove picture is a little outdated with the orange carpet and all but here's my wood stacked, and the wood split. In a row as promised but is covered now with black poly hanging about a foot over each side.

The soapstone stoves from Hearthstone have really climbed in price. So much that I would now recommend the other Vermont Soapstone company which is Woodstock. We really love burning in soap.

After seeing your woodstacking job Highbeam, I'm way too embarrassed to post any of mine!! Ya shur d' purdi werk.....

(1st pic:another view of your stack...2nd pic: some good advice )

 

[EddieWalker]

Good Afternoon Guys,
Im sure all my northeast neighbors are doin the same thing as me, I brought in 6 full buckets to my Uncle Daves cellar this morning ! Even though my Texas buddies are sending a bunch of that darned humidity up this way, we know its gonna be gettin chilly really soon ! At least I got the battery charged up in the old Beast !

Temps here in East Texas are peaking right around 80 degrees with the lowes around 60. I was wondering what happened to the humidity, now I know that it went to visit you guys up North!!

That sure looks like the hard way to get rid of your wood. Here, I just put the whole tree into the fire. Once I get a few dozen of them in there, they all burn up in just a day. It looks like the way you are doing it, you'll be burning that wood all winter long.

Eddie

 

[Charlesaf3]

LOL Eddy!

Had a nice fire tonight, though I confess I had to open the windows to justify it.

How the heck do you not have that stack fall over Scott? I know for sure you have bumps up there in VT.

Nice stack Ductape - gave me some ideas for my new stack. Still a bit too warm here for splitting to my mind, we're still planting flowers, but splitting will be here in 2 weeks or so I'd guess.

 

[Egon]

Is Highbeam practicing for a cordwood building?