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**Spinaker** · April 19, 2023, 03:44 PM

The pile has grown

**ofelles** · April 19, 2023, 04:40 PM

It's official Spinaker and Huskee are tied!

**smokenoob** · April 19, 2023, 06:45 PM

need to get some more, getting low.

**Spinaker** · April 21, 2023, 08:52 PM

More rounds cut today for some serious splitting to be done for the sauna. This is a mixture of ash, basswood, silver maple, sugar maple, boxelder and willow.

**Huskee** · May 5, 2023, 12:59 PM

Might not look like much, but this is about 1/2 face cord (and thus several cooks) of a dead ash tree and a downed apple tree from my dad's place. Most of what's visible is ash, the bright clean looking wood, since we did it second. I used to bow & rifle hunt deer under the apple tree and eat its apples when I was young, it's far older than me, so I'm happy to put it to a worthy ending (kind of a Shel Silverstein thing there - if you know you know) Both were dead and so we hacked 'em up and I saved the usable pieces from both. It will make a nice addition to my dwindling pile of ash, apple, oak, and maple logs.

**Spinaker** · May 28, 2023, 03:09 PM

No storage pics but, we harvested some awesome black walnut today. This is one the way to my buddies sawmill. The large section will be sawn into planks and the smaller ones will be mantel pieces. We should get some awesome figure with the branch inclusions on these logs.
Then I hauled two dump loads down to the sauna for firewood. Mostly maple and boxelder. All these were taken out for a new retaining wall project we are working on.

**Jerod Broussard** · June 4, 2023, 07:38 PM

Mini wood crib. Needless to say it will be taller than it is wide. That's what happens when leftover metal from a smoker build gets utilized.

Managed to use ALL the 2" square for the base and legs. Next weekend I'll start going vertical with a section near the top for wood chunks. I have plenty metal mesh wire for a wood chunk crib where a penthouse would be located.

**Jerod Broussard** · June 25, 2023, 03:37 PM

Halfway. Still need a top crib for chunks for sausage smoking. Thin splits slide in the vertical just right for everything else.

**Henrik** · August 10, 2023, 02:37 PM

I just reorganized my wood stash. Main issues I had:

1. all my oak was on the right (outer) side, meaning some of it was getting wet when it was raining.

2. I wanted to separate out the odd gnarly bits. They will still be used, but the ones I can chop up directly I want in a separate pile.

So, I spent an hour knocking the dust off of my oak logs, and moved them to be piled up against the wall instead.

The odd bits got piled up on the floor so I can just grab them one at a time during a long cook.

As a bonus you get to see my PK 300 😄

**realdocBBQ** · August 11, 2023, 01:57 PM

What I'm using for right now. Just a couple rolling carts I got off W00T.

I just moved this over from the main woodpile at my friend's shop yesterday. I'd say it's about... 5% of what we've got out there, which has got to be a full cord to a cord and a half. This is pecan and hickory, there are a couple chunks of cherry in there, too.

This'll be enough to keep me smoking on the The Duck (my new little backyard sizedstickburner) for the 2 weeks I have family here visiting, I'm sure.

Today I've got 2 quartered pork butts (1 MMD+, one korean gochujang) cooking, along with a pastrami flat and point, a couple of chikkins to go on in an hour or two. For my son's 18th birthday party.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em, people!

**Bad Hat BBQ** · August 21, 2023, 11:08 AM

Those are Woodhaven 5 foot Racks. I had one and decided to get a 2nd because the old firewood hoop I had was in pretty bad shape. I only had a handful of splits on-hand, so I ordered 1/4 Cord of Oak from my usual supplier (Five Star Firewood) - seems the delivery is closer to 1/2 then 1/4 but I ain't complaining!!

**Alan Brice** · August 21, 2023, 11:45 AM

Really nice space ya got goin' there.

**Spinaker** · August 28, 2023, 09:24 AM

Gotta lotta work ahead of me.

I am going to get the splitter fired up this week. I need to get through all of this before sauna season is ready to rock. Lots of stacking to be done. I shoulda had kids to help with all of this. Now I get it.

This is just one of three piles I need to get through. Man o man, we these make for some impressive stacks.

**Spinaker** · September 25, 2023, 11:23 AM

Moved this one yesterday.......I got creative as I was by myself. (Ripley was there for emotional support) It became a challenge and I was too impatient to ask or wait for help. Got it on the trailer though.

I was able to put the legs on skids and drag it across the lawn to the sidewalk. Once on the sidewalk, I put the legs on 2x4's and screwed them to the legs and then to the dollies.

Those stairs were really interesting. I got it to the stairs, then rotated it 90 degrees into the grass. Then lifted the other side on to the stairs, then lifted and moved the other side in the grass. And crab walked it up the hill. The thought, "I am too getting too old for this ____" Came to mind a few times.

I cleared the fence and then it was just trailer time!

Getting it on the trailer was easy......with the dollies attached, I simply rolled it right up! Thankfully, I had that plywood to help get over the expanded steel on the tailgate.

Honestly, I found it satisfying. I had to get creative and I got the job done. No injuries and I proved to myself that, even though I am almost 40.....I still got it.