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what do you do about rain/snow? Do you just make sure to cover it on those days?

in three years it will turn to powder

Troy. I really, really want to try & support you but you continue to create expectations & make commitments to your youtube audience & you never, ever follow through. My advice, just don't tell anyone anything about what you WILL do as you likely won't. As Nike once said...JUST DO IT! And please stop making excuses for everything.

Nicely done!

Very nice...would love to see you route a board

Very nice!

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Outstanding !

Instead of fiddle fartin around with that i`d just run it through the planer and call it a day.

I just looked you up on UA-cam. I hadn't heard anything from you & got curious. Glad I checked in when I did. I'll be looking for you now, as I watched your channel for sometime before. Good Luck & I hope all is well with your wife & daughter.

I knew you would make it work...i love it ❤

Nice work

nice job on assembly Troy

Igot a new phone and it has taken me a long time to find all the channels I had before but I gotcha now buddy. BTW good work.

Now you getting somewhere, Troy.

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1st!!! Lol. So good to have you back on UA-cam. Blessings to the family!!

Nice set-up, Troy. Wishing you success.

I literally noticed this with my cherry wood... its not taking it long at all to dry. I split the logs and they were at 40% ... the same day i split the splits jnto smaller pieces and left it in the sun for about 3 days and it read 18% and an even small piece was left in the sun for 2 days it read 9% 😳 i was shocked! It led me to realize the smaller you cut up the logs the faster the dry is. Im using it to smoker ribs..

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Looks like your on a roll 👍 Best of luck to ya ! Watch those fingers 😊

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I live in southern West Virginia and most of what I burn is red oak. I salvage trees after big storms so I cant pick and choose when I harvest my wood,but I've built my racks about a foot off the ground in my very open front yard running north to south. They get full sun exposure as the days pass and the wind almost always blows West to east through the wood. With a moisture meter I've dried oak from 45% down to 18% from july to November. I stack my wood about 4ft high and 4ft deep on 12ft long racks and I never cover it from the weather unless its winter and we're expecting snow and ice. I hand split about 5 cord a year and tryin mix thicker pieces(4") and thinner pieces(2") to aid in drying and burn time. Seems to work out ok. I still only clean the chimney once a year.

I’m going the twine angle also

I'm working on getting a meadow.

I CUT WOOD IN WINTER. SAP IS DOWN. SPLIT BY MARCH. AIR STACK. I HAVE OAK THAT IS SEASONED BY SEPTEMBER.

just get 2 or 3 years ahead and no need for games

Father ran a firewood business for a time in my teen years as a side hustle. We cut firewood that first season like crazy. We did not sell any firewood for the first 3 years. After that 3 years we had a lot to sell and that bought us time to be cutting new firewood and it season for a year or two before we even needed it. So start today so you can make an income within 3 years. Just keep at it and have good rates so people want to buy from you.... however don't be to cheap to where you make no money and sell out to quickly. If your piles are going very fast it is likely you are underselling yourself and losing out on profits. That $200 a cord may be able to sell for $250-300 and you stay in business but making more money.

Beautiful wood. Thanks for the tips. - N Idaho -

Black pop up shed acts like a kiln mine gets up to 115 degrees or more dry lumber from sawmill so I'm thinking of getting one for my drying firewood of course I'm not in the firewood business

He ultimate drying conditions? Arizona. Sun. 110 degrees and 10% humidity in the summer, and 65 degrees and 15% humidity in the winter. Walk outside in a wet cotton shirt in the summer and you are bone dry in under 5 minutes.

Not sure what 'average conditions' are, but if you're in a place that gets really cold in the winter, the cold air will stuck the humidity out of your wood faster than warm dry air. In the Appalachian's in WV, my white oak dries in one season, even if i leave it in 6 foot rounds, because it's basically freeze- dried over the winter.

Troy good to see your still at it.

the wood grain on wedges should run with the length of the wedge NOT PERPENDICULAR.

A neighbor who cuts a lot of firewood off his land only drops the trees in the middle of winter. I asked him why and his answer was because at that time of the year a tree naturally has the least amount of moisture in it. Makes sense to me. You’ve got some great looking splits there. It’s really going to provide some excellent firewood once it’s well seasoned.

So I used to watch your channel a lot back when you were in NY in the camper in 2012 or so. Happened to check in and noticed your videos are taken down as of this time. What's going on?

I see your hard at work as always uploading videos ....WHY DON'T YOU TELL YOUR VIEWERS HOW YOU HAVE BEEN DESPERATELY SELLING GIFTS THEY SENT YOU FOR FREE. TIMES MUST BE TOUGH FOR YOU AND YOUR RICKSHAW WIFE.....MELON HEAD

I see your hard at work as always uploading videos ....WHY DON'T YOU TELL YOUR VIEWERS HOW YOU HAVE BEEN DESPERATELY SELLING GIFTS THEY SENT YOU FOR FREE. TIMES MUST BE TOUGH FOR YOU AND YOUR RICKSHAW WIFE.....MELON HEAD

I see your hard at work as always uploading videos ....WHY DON'T YOU TELL YOUR VIEWERS HOW YOU HAVE BEEN DESPERATELY SELLING GIFTS THEY SENT YOU FOR FREE. TIMES MUST BE TOUGH FOR YOU AND YOUR RICKSHAW WIFE.....MELON HEAD

I cut my oak in the fall, leave it on the ground over the winter. In the spring the tree will bud out and even leaf, I find this draws a lot of moisture out of the tree. I buck and split it into IBC totes and stack it loosely and mixed up direction etc to allow lots of air movement I cover my bins with half totes (cut in half to make a little roof, and park the bins spaced about 1 foot apart on the south side of my house. between wind sun and reflected heat of the front of the house it dries and checks in a few days and if I resplit (or cut) and check moisture I can hit 9-12% in 3-4 weeks.

Nice video! Covering the wood protects it from rain and snow but also shields it from sun and wind. So what is your strategy for covering and uncovering the stack?

Place large wheel carts on each end of the saw buck and toss the cut wood in those. Save you fro. Picking it up off the ground..

It all depends on where you are....if you are in the Southern USA, drying times for the same piece will be faster than in the Northern USA. If you are in the Western USA, it will dry even faster than in the South, due to the lower humidity of the air. You must cover it also so that it does not get rained on, even in a stack! So there is no average environment, no average drying time, and no average wood by species. You can help it along by splitting, stacking and covering, but unless you commercially dry it by heating it, kiln drying, you will not speed up the "average drying time".

You are the definition of "glutton for punishment"! Do you have a table saw? Have a neighbor with a table saw? A BIL with a table saw? An edger? Anything to keep from crankin' that sorry bandsaw up and down! And don't guess, make them all to maybe two standard widths. Use a 'story pole', or lay them out on a flat table, marked to length. Other than that, good job!

chop chop!

Garden fencing is good idea.

Is climate-controlled barn firewood processing comes with a idea of a slow manual grapple. Heavy enough to lift up and then over the logs you pull in by the tractor four of them or 8. Nice to have chains.. this grapple grandpa's them lifts them up and you changed all them. This grapple take the rounds that you just made and present them to the log splitter. And a nifty little conveyor will the logs outside preferably in two a large basket on the forks of a utility tractor. No you can store your tractor inside the shed.. if you want a sawmill in the shed I should just having a gantry crane that hovers over the bed of the sawmill. And yes that grapple which was on a swivel is now attached to the gantry crane.. well it's a nice idea. And some of it is supposed to be easier on you so you won't get hernia problem.. work safe my friend I don't know if i'm going to get my concept or not in real life I thank you for your TV show inspire me to figure things out..

I realize you things have cost.. but you would do well making a barn with enough room and try to solar cool in the daytime two window air conditioners. As you pull into this shed barn logs to be chainsaw cut by electric and split.. you can do this on the hottest of days.. you can split wood while listening watching to a junk TV set.. one of the classic radio broadcast.

I SUGGEST PANELS. MAKE A TABLE JIG AT LEAST SOMETHING LIKE 4 FT WIDE LAY DOWN YOUR WHth SOUTHSIDE UP AND LAY ON TOP OF YOUR HEIGHTS saw SIDE DOWN.. AND BRAD NAIL THEM TOGETHER TRYING NOT TO FASTEN IT TO THE jig TABLE AND HALL THIS PIECE TO YOUR WORK SITE. Screw fasteners to cross plank NOTE THAT YOU'RE SNOOP IS USING DRONES NOT USING A PEEP HOLE IN THE FENCE. Yet.