Was able to get into the woods this morning on hard/frozen ground.
Cut a big fallen down ash into 18" cobs.
Had to haul them by wheelbarrow out to my trailer. I aint 25 years old anymore
Feels good to get a start though.

Good lookin bunch of firewood.
atv and a trailer makes it a bit easier for us old guys.

I have a little splitting left to do and then my heating bill is paid for a while

Mostly what I have on my place is ash and maple.Ash splits nice for kindling too.Nothin like a nice piece of ash !

Got atv n trailor.
Just couldntget within 30 yards. That's where the wheelbarrow came in handy.
A good piece of oak trumps a good piece of "ash" nowdays.

My firewood is 90% oak, some Hickory and some maple

I heat with wood too. We have an abundance of ash and still more to take down.
The dead ash gets so dry that it burns rapidly.
Not much for making a bed of coals.
Oak burns more slowly and makes good coals.
Now that my back is ruined, the tractor has a front end loader a skidding winch.

Nice but hard action on the ash chunks!

I suspect that ash is probably the best btu wood we have around here. We have a few spots of burr oak but ash is (was) a lot more plentiful. The city gov folks in Soo Foo have made it a big push to take out as much green ash as possible (unless an owner was willing to treat the trees) off the residential streets. I doubt they gave anyone the option to salvage for firewood. Just ground it up into chips and probably land filled most of it. Of course, none of those folks rely on wood for home heating during the winter...

I've finished my firewood resupply already this spring.


I fill my house garage with enough firewood for next winter (less than 3 cords), refill the lean-too with new stuff and I'm ready for next winter.
I have enough firewood for 5 winters right now all split, stacked and stored under cover out of the rain/weather.

Mostly Shagbark Hickory, some Sugar Maple and Ironwood.
I leave all my ash for the woodpeckers.

I too have finished next winters wood supply . 20 face cord of 18” hard Maple.

I need to get hauling some cords to my wood shed as soon as it dries out in these parts. Ground springs around my place are flowing surface water still, and I can't drive on my yard area or there will be more ruts to contend with. Need a few days of no rain and wind should do it.

I'm making progress.

Good idea.

I think it is time to pick out a few good pieces

That stack of wood is a thing of beauty
Tell me more about that indoor boiler.
Looks interesting.

That stack of wood is a thing of beauty
Tell me more about that indoor boiler.
Looks interesting.

Did I hear you right….that you have to bring your trailer of wood to the Wood Nazi Station….so they could confirm your amount and you have to put 20.00 in the Nazi States Hand ?

Some days I wish we burned wood
But then I'm 57 and nah...

Been burning free ash for the last 3 years. Doesn't burn as nice as oak but the price is right. We also burned some popple that came down. Works pretty good as kindling and fine on those days we just need to take the edge off.

We have a Vermont Castings Intrepid in the living room that does the trick for pretty much the whole house, backed up by the very efficient gas furnace I had installed a few years back. I used to try to keep a wood fire all night but now just stoke it up a little bit when we go to bed, then let the gas furnace kick in during the night.

A couple cords a year does us just fine, and we are already just about done for next year. Given the size of the wood stove I take it down pretty small with the splitter and Wonderful Wife does a great job of stacking. At 69 I can still keep doing this for a while.

Moosetrot

The boiler is about as basic as it comes, but well built. I already had an oil fired hot water system, so I have it on a constant circulating pump, and it maintains the temp. for heating the house and domestic hot water. The wood boiler has a place for a domestic hot water coil, but my oil furnace already has one, so that was unnecessary. I added the insulated jacket to it (probably should have used rockwool) and that helps a lot.

Way to go.