And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
DKLee, I like that judge, we need many more with such practicality. The Fir, Pine, Larch, Poplar, and such species common to the Lakes regions cut easy, split easy, and burn fast. Where I am, Elm, Maple, Elder and Hackberry is the most commonly encountered wood from urban maintenance. If you know and apply some guidelines when you cut it, they can split well enough. Elm and Elder are notorious for splitting difficulty if they are cut wrong. Hardwoods like Hickory, Ash, Oak, and walnut burn hot, and long, and are significantly more effective than the soft woods. My most usage was 4 full cords in one winter, because I was using premium wood. From cutting the tree, to the stacked 4x4x8, it takes me about 24 hours per cord of aggregate time. Assuming the photo is 16x16x8, that is 16 cord. So, maybe ten weeks. But that same can be done in 5 or 6 weeks if it is softwood. There are times a splitting maul is 4 times faster than hydraulic.
Addendum, I don't burn fresh cut unless it came from a standing dead source. I want my wood at least 10 months dry time. So, rotate the cords so you're burning the oldest.
Our farm had a 6 ft deep below floor level, to the second story rafter cross beams wood shed, right out the kitchen door. It was due to our farm originally built as a coach road inn. Well was under the kitchen table, cellar and structure built over the well. Wood shed had a board walk along one side, past two carriage stalls, to a luxurious 3 holer outhouse, we had the original two oven wood fired kitchen cook stove, a 30 ft long sitting room, a bunk room, 7 guest rooms, servant quarters, best info claimed it was built in 1689. Too a lot of wood to heat. We measured by how many trees instead of cords.
Walls that look like stacked firewood, hollow in the middle and a hidden doorway gives you floor space that's not taxed as a shed... but it's probably dry firewood. Getting your wood in for the winter is a good feeling!
Red Oak on our farm, we'd cut and split right after the coldest winter days, it splits easy @ 20 below. 13 of us, the girls would stack, the boys would cut and split... we did it all winter long, who knows how many cords we went through, we just gathered as needed, all the dead trees, it was real work - the alternative was freezing cold in the uninsulated, very old & big farm house.
Now THAT is a woodpile.
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ReplyDelete"Craftsmanship" even with their firewood. Amazing stack. Wish I had the patience.
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ReplyDeleteStacked by one skilled in masonry.
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Can see starting by building a straight tunnel in, then work outwards, leave one stack all around, then the inside stays dry.
ReplyDeleteThat is a lot of work for one person to do. I wonder how long it took him to do this?
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DKLee, I like that judge, we need many more with such practicality. The Fir, Pine, Larch, Poplar, and such species common to the Lakes regions cut easy, split easy, and burn fast.
ReplyDeleteWhere I am, Elm, Maple, Elder and Hackberry is the most commonly encountered wood from urban maintenance. If you know and apply some guidelines when you cut it, they can split well enough. Elm and Elder are notorious for splitting difficulty if they are cut wrong. Hardwoods like Hickory, Ash, Oak, and walnut burn hot, and long, and are significantly more effective than the soft woods.
My most usage was 4 full cords in one winter, because I was using premium wood. From cutting the tree, to the stacked 4x4x8, it takes me about 24 hours per cord of aggregate time. Assuming the photo is 16x16x8, that is 16 cord. So, maybe ten weeks. But that same can be done in 5 or 6 weeks if it is softwood. There are times a splitting maul is 4 times faster than hydraulic.
Addendum, I don't burn fresh cut unless it came from a standing dead source. I want my wood at least 10 months dry time. So, rotate the cords so you're burning the oldest.
ReplyDeleteOur farm had a 6 ft deep below floor level, to the second story rafter cross beams wood shed, right out the kitchen door. It was due to our farm originally built as a coach road inn. Well was under the kitchen table, cellar and structure built over the well. Wood shed had a board walk along one side, past two carriage stalls, to a luxurious 3 holer outhouse, we had the original two oven wood fired kitchen cook stove, a 30 ft long sitting room, a bunk room, 7 guest rooms, servant quarters, best info claimed it was built in 1689. Too a lot of wood to heat. We measured by how many trees instead of cords.
ReplyDeleteWalls that look like stacked firewood, hollow in the middle and a hidden doorway gives you floor space that's not taxed as a shed... but it's probably dry firewood.
ReplyDeleteGetting your wood in for the winter is a good feeling!
Red Oak on our farm, we'd cut and split right after the coldest winter days, it splits easy @ 20 below. 13 of us, the girls would stack, the boys would cut and split... we did it all winter long, who knows how many cords we went through, we just gathered as needed, all the dead trees, it was real work - the alternative was freezing cold in the uninsulated, very old & big farm house.
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