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Haven't read the whole thread, but add to the list: restack after neighbor's dog or wild animals root through the stack.

Hadn't thought about that. If the dog sees a chipmunk or squirrel go in the stack of wood it's game on.

Right now, I put up firewood for 2 fireplaces, 2 wood stoves and a cook stove, plus I sell several cords of wood each year, so I use some mechanical aids.

fortunately this guy didn't disturb the woodpile.



But the next spring he bought the farm trying to get into the chicken gulag.

I'm in Rounder's camp.
The fewer touches, the happier.

Clipper whacks the tree, skidder to the landing, processor into truck logs. Logs on truck, to deck in town yard. When the processor is brought to town for maintenance, we calibrate it cutting firewood, either dumping it into a DUMP trailer or into a pile we'll load with a skid steer.

From rounds to split cords, that's handwork other people deal with. One friend has a clever portable splitter, the rounds roll onto the bottom of a conveyor, onto a plate placed about chest high, slide into the splitter, then fall out onto another platform that is hip high. Do it right and the wood goes right into the stack, no pickiee uppie at all.

Best of all is a guy who has gone full pro. He gets bad logs in his yard and has everything mechanized, rounds cut to exact length, split right into client trailers and away they go.

I've never been around a walnut fire, is it a good scent?

Black walnut has a distinctive odor. Of course, most of the smoke goes up the chimney of my high quality wood stove. But I do get a whiff when adding logs.
I like the smell of burning black walnut.

Red cedar has a pleasant aroma when burned. I think is is bad about building creosote in the chimney.

Sweet

Finally got the last of the split stuff in the new shed. A few more rounds in the woods that I'll get done in the next week or two.

Still a bit smoky but not as bad as earlier in the week. Mostly fog.

How much does a cord go for there Dave?

I have friend in the firewood business, among other things, that I'd like to see modernize, but with a cord going for $150-$170 split from folks doing it as side work, it's hard to invest in the machinery and expect much payback in a reasonable time.

I suppose we could go all venture capitalist, work at a loss for a couple of years, run everyone else out of business, then up our prices to recoup the losses............I'm just not that kind of guy.

That is a sweet shed/tractor port.

I need to find some part time retired guy work (no Walmart here, so no greeter jobs) to be able to afford one like that!

Yes Steve, that's a cool shed.

Thanks. Just don't look to close at it. Carpentry is not one of my skills.

Dude,

My brother builds multimillion homes in SoCal and says your carpentry works just fine.

False modesty. Carpentry is one of my skills and that is a good looking shed. Timber framed, and massive roof overhangs about like I would do.

Our little wood rack in Wabigoon.

It's not square. Not sure what I did as I measured the hell out of things. If you look at the peak of the flashing you'll see the spacers we had to put in to get the flashing to mate with the rest of the metal roof. About 2 inches out.

Are you going to take it to the fair?

Awesome wood/tractor shed!