That pile in the background of the pic is all oak, and it smells great as the thermals rise off it in the mornings....jk mentioned selling the nice red oak logs, but they don't bring that much here.

We sell the nice straight white oak logs to a stave mill nearby, but that market is down somewhat due to tariffs and their effect on whiskey exports.

Firewood gets in your blood....It's getting close to 50 yrs of processing now....Started out helping my father cut, haul, split, plus feed 2 woodstoves in a big farmhouse on the Tennessee river.

Think I'm a lifer, Lol.

A little story about firewood. A few weeks ago I was splitting up some rounds left over from last year and my grandson pulls in. I tell him I have to get my firewood ready for this year. Well 2 days later he pulls in with his buddies dump truck full of cut and split wood and a big smile on his face. He dumps that load and said he has another load to get. Well all that's great except my wood stove in my shop only holds 16 inch pieces and at least 70 percent of that wood was 18 to 22 lnches long and all of it was split real big. Now if I had a outside burner there would be no problem so, now I have to pick out the short pieces and resplit them plus cut down the longer pieces to 16 inches. I truly love my grandson and I know he means well. Sort of funny that he saved me some work but created more work. I'm just glad I'm retired plus I pay myself by the hour. Lot of work for this 77 year old man. LOL

Yup, as always splitting Red Oak, the smell if acetic acid will fill the nose. Once smelled, never forgotten!

Trappers are hard workers! Good job!