Matt Warfield
01-13-2006, 5:31 PM
I thought I'd tap into all of your experiences and get some advice on this problem that I have. First a little background to bore you. :D
My wife and I found a place in a nice small down that was being foreclosed on - Nice place, good lot, great town, 12 wooded acres behind our property. Well, that didn't last long. The spring after we moved in, they started cutting down trees to make way for a road into the new development.
Yep, you guessed it, I bought some logs. Being a bit strapped for cash, I picked out and paid for roughly 400 BF of cherry and 500 BF of red oak...or so I thought. I also paid the guy to deliver it to my yard since he had the equipment. Well, delivery day came and I came home to a pile of 36 logs - a couple 6', a dozen 12-14', and the rest 8.5'. Using the Doyle method, I estimated 2600 BF in the log. That was a daunting number considering I still had to have it milled. But that problem has been managed and four long days later, it's all milled, stacked, and stickered. I did lose some of the cherry to ants so I've only got about 950 BF left. :D
So, back to this problem that I have. What do I do with it when it reaches equilibrium? I suspect it will be this spring as all of it was in the 13-14% MC range in late fall. Would you guys recommend leaving it where it is(and deal with my wife for taking up her garden space), moving it into the second stall of the garage(and force the wife to park in the driveway), build a shed(and listen to the wife complain about that thing that's blocking the view of her flowers), or drop it off at your place? :eek: I realize that I could rent a storage shed but I'd rather not pay a rental fee to keep it.
Opinions anyone?
Thanks,
Matt
My wife and I found a place in a nice small down that was being foreclosed on - Nice place, good lot, great town, 12 wooded acres behind our property. Well, that didn't last long. The spring after we moved in, they started cutting down trees to make way for a road into the new development.
Yep, you guessed it, I bought some logs. Being a bit strapped for cash, I picked out and paid for roughly 400 BF of cherry and 500 BF of red oak...or so I thought. I also paid the guy to deliver it to my yard since he had the equipment. Well, delivery day came and I came home to a pile of 36 logs - a couple 6', a dozen 12-14', and the rest 8.5'. Using the Doyle method, I estimated 2600 BF in the log. That was a daunting number considering I still had to have it milled. But that problem has been managed and four long days later, it's all milled, stacked, and stickered. I did lose some of the cherry to ants so I've only got about 950 BF left. :D
So, back to this problem that I have. What do I do with it when it reaches equilibrium? I suspect it will be this spring as all of it was in the 13-14% MC range in late fall. Would you guys recommend leaving it where it is(and deal with my wife for taking up her garden space), moving it into the second stall of the garage(and force the wife to park in the driveway), build a shed(and listen to the wife complain about that thing that's blocking the view of her flowers), or drop it off at your place? :eek: I realize that I could rent a storage shed but I'd rather not pay a rental fee to keep it.
Opinions anyone?
Thanks,
Matt