Firewood cutting time again.

Well, I've started storeing away the rest of next winters wood supply, that I cut last season. I had to light the fireplace again today to warm the house. Rain and 55F outside, this morning. The first pic was my 96' long wood pile last winter. I burned about 2/3rds of it. Started putting the last third into my cellar for next year. I converted an old electric feed cart into a wood cart. It rolls well on the blacktop driveway, and I use it in the cellar to move the wood from the pile to my home built dumbwaiter, which hoists the wood up to the side of our fireplace.
I am putting the finishing touches on this new woodshed, which will hold 16 plus cord of wood when full. I have a small start on filling it, a bit over 1 cord. I installed a used Royall wood boiler in the garage last fall, which is tied into my centrsl hesting system, thus the reason for the woodshed being adjacent to the garage. 0 oil consumption, last two years. The woodshed was reverse engineered taking advantage of used steel that I had left over from my contraacting business. I retired last year. Bought $300 worth of dimentional lumber and cut the rear poles from the wood lot. It also extends rearward along the side of the garage for more tractor storage. I have 48 cents/sqft invested so far, 624 sqft. total.
Hopefully, next week I will get up in the woods and start blocking and splitting the logs and poles I cut and skidded to landing throughout the 140 acer woods, last winter. We have always believed in managed woodlands, a practice that my dad taught me, and has served our family well, providing lumber, firewood and maple syrup for over a hundred years.
Loren, the Acg.

I like your shed, its a lot nicer than my used tarp garage I just bought. I've fought with tarps for years so I got this tarp building to try out.

I've been filling old apple bins, have 15 filled so far and stacked inside. I think it will hold 35 bins total. I was given 14 full cords of 4-8 ft wood. Mostly poplar but thats what we normally burn anyways.

Loren, I had always wondered how that worked out for you, managing the sugarbush, doing maple syrup and heating your home.

I have a similar situation here with 85 acres on land + the pond, much is wooded now, some fields let go in the 80's and a nice 11 acre of mature hardwood up top, seems with old trees in the hedgerows, clean up and storm damage, provides what I need, but it also seems its not infinite either, though there is quite a bit of wood here, the fields have a lot of birch, and poplar, some young oak though, which are now starting to produce nuts, we have some hickory around too.

From what you have shown us, its hard to imagine how it works with the amount of wood you use annually, seems like you would cut faster than it grows, but I know thinning and selectively harvesting has to have some real importance in all of this.

With all of this wood cutting wood in the woods, does anyone worry about deer ticks and Lyme disease?

Loren, how are you putting almost 2500 sq ft of wood in a 600 sq ft woodshed?

Bret,
Ell typo shuld be cubic ft. The main part is 2100cuft. give or take as the ground slopes
Loren

That there has to be the most firewood I have ever seen at a persons house just for themselves.

Where are you located at?

I don't worry about them. A lot more chanch of dieing on the local highways than dieing from a tick, or skeeter.
Loren, the Acg.

Loren,

I like your tractor storage shed. Does it keep 'em dry in the winter? Sure would make my decision to take a quick ride around easier.

I'm waitin' 'til fall. Skeeters around here would carry me off if I cut wood before a frost.

my co-worker got Lyme disease last week, Eastern Shore of MD. Not good. 3 of my kids have had it.

Loren ACG,

Wow! When I first saw pics of your wood pile, I figured you were set for life. That was before I knew you make Maple syrup though.

You cut an amazing amount of wood. Also the most well stacked wood I have ever seen.

I cut wood September thru December, some times in January if the snow holds off.At 76 always in the morning for 3 or 4 hours.Old age aint much fun.