enough wood for this winter?

[hayshaker]

do you use wood for heat do you feel you have enough for the comming winter i sure hpoe so.
i dont think i do. still need to find some more some where .so where do you harvest your wood from?

[BornthatWay]

Big trees. Sorry I just could not help myself. Actually we get ours from our own farms.

[hunter63]

Mine come from my land at "The Place" (cabin)....gonna be short.
Pile of rounds cut last fall before surgery.....haven't felt like splitting it yet.

Two big oaks one broke off about 12 ft up feel in ravine....that where 12 or so "rounds" were cut and hauled off.....made me a road to get the tractor in.
This is what it looked like before starting to cut.
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What's left.....

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Another oak down by the road...close to the same size....power line guy cut and left.......haven't got at that one either.

Maybe get some one to cut split for shares.....Lots of wood for the taking.

[randyt]

Back when I burned wood, the wood was harvested from my land or a state deadwood permit or ordered in at ten pulp cords at a time. The wood was always and I mean always cut ahead of time. The amount was simple, if 10 face cords were needed, 20 cords were cut. Wood heat was all we had other than a alladin blue flame kerosene heater.
I have cut firewood for a living. The best I done was 10 face cord cut and delivered in one day.

[ClayPick]

I’ve been spending my mornings harvesting blow down for next year. White Birch, Yellow Birch, Red Maple and Sugar Maple. All the leaves are gone so being able to ID the buds is a skill that’s way more accurate than bark. Because of the terrain I have to yard everything by hand and will I ever be glad when the ground freezes. Hard work but I get to spend time in the woods and its cheap heat. I burned pallets one year from Feb. until spring and don't wan't to run out no more!

[hayshaker]

well if it gets that bad got a stack up in the haymow of oak 5,quarter thick churchpews
12ft long w 2in thick sides, all the scrap in the shop and what not. i think i,ll have
to get the buffalo blanket out this year use it as a comforter.it,s a large bull winter hide.
need to get creative fer sure.

[kyratshooter]

In the places I have lived you had to get your wood in well ahead of November.

After that the ground was going to be mushy and you would never get a truck in and out, and it never got cold enough to freeze solid and support the vehicle.

So it was cold, and you needed the wood, but could not get into the woods to fetch it.

That usually meant that I was cutting wood in the summer, fighting bugs and snakes and the heat.

I had my first heart attack sitting on the tailgate of a truck full of split white oak.

[Rick]

I had my first heart attack sitting on the tailgate of a truck full of split white oak.

And that is but one of the reasons I switched from wood to gas.

[hunter63]

.........and I'm considering calling the wood guy......."Hello wood guy.....can ya bring me a load....I want it over there, please."

[ClayPick]

I miss not having kids around ..... I can only kick my own *** if the wood box goes empty.

[hunter63]

Dandy Don Meredith foot ball player and Monday Night Football guy....said,
" I grew up in East Texas, and it wasn't till I was about 12 years old to figure out my name wasn't, "Boy,... get wood"

[Rick]

I was about that age when I figured out my middle name wasn't "damnit".

[Adventure Wolf]

I own a small farm (about 60 acres) of which about a quarter of it is woodland. I find dead hardwood trees and cut them as firewood.

[LowKey]

I call the wood guy. He delivers. I still get to stack it though. I don't have enough. What I do have is standing dead hardwood. I need 4 cords but have maybe 2.5 cords. Thinking of ordering 4 green cords to have ready for next year and just order green from here on. Getting properly seasoned wood around here takes knowing someone. Otherwise you will, repeat WILL get ripped off. One cord I scrounged late last year was bottom of the pile, covered in dirt and mostly crap birch.

[randyt]

Birch isn't too bad if it's split. I've burned a lot of birch and spruce.

[Rick]

The first seven or eight years we lived here we had four or five ice storms. That kept us in plenty of wood. The commercial tree guys would haul it to the landfill. I'd go to the landfill and pick out what I wanted for free. It worked out pretty well. The commercial guys were paying to dump it and I was creating more space for the landfill so the landfill was winning all around. Then the landfill got the bright idea of actually selling the wood. Boy, the nerve of some guys.

[Adventure Wolf]

I made a deal with one of my neighbors. She's an elderly lady nearing 80, and living alone. She has a rickety old house that is heated with firewood (that kind of scares me because this house looks like it could catch fire), and I keep her supplied with firewood in the winter and in exchange I can hunt, fish, scavenge and forge on her property, which is about twenty to thirty acres. It's a great deal, because she has a great creek for fishing in and it's near a road where people dump trash illegally and I can salvage what I can. Anyway a dead tree on her property shed its top and will make for some good firewood.

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[Rick]

Why do they always land in a creek? All that woods to fall in and they land in a creek.

[Adventure Wolf]

Why do they always land in a creek? All that woods to fall in and they land in a creek.

I'm lucky. The farther you go down stream, the steeper the banks. Had that landed about sixty feet further down stream, I would have to get either a pulley or a horse to pull the logs out.

That picture is hard to see, but the top of that tree took out several smaller trees, and there's a lot of wood there. Plus the bottom part of the tree is still standing. The tree was easily 70+ years old and the base is massive. I'm gonna get out the big chain saw!

[dandan]

Here in S W France it is still mild, temp today is 10' C. We have not had any frost or cold weather.

Where I live , it is rare of late to have any snow longer that a day. We do get some frost , mostly in Jan or Feb. Other parts of France get it bad!!!

I had delivered 20 steres ( cubic meters) of dry oak in 1 meter lengths. This was in Sept.
I stack them in the garden , and cover with a tarp. I have another store , in a barn , ready to saw. I will use about 10 cubic meters this winter .