My biochar production tally thread.

14,580

Second pile was much better!

5/14/25

14,730

Felt like the last burn was too green, so wanted to give this one plenty of time to dry.  Got the piles built in late May, which was followed by a very wet summer.  We finally got a dry week followed by a bit of rain for burning.  The piles seemed to burn well and I spread some tonight.  While it was raining every day we managed to get all the storm felled trees bucked and split.  Still need to reduce them to kindling and let them dry out, but things are moving along.  Took this pic before we were finished, probably added another 30% to the pile.  

wow, a lot of work there!  Kudos.

15,090

Got the larger of the two piles spread.  One more to go….

Found a better pic of the woodpile.

9/6/25

15,480

Got both piles spread and started building new ones.  Would love to burn as soon as we get them built, but going to give them a while to dry.

15,900

Got a quick turn around and favorable weather, a long dry spell to assist in drying the wood, followed by good rain for burning.  The first pile we built burned really well, the second didn’t have quite as long to dry and didn’t completely char the core, but still produced over 400 gallons of char.  Still need to spread the better of the two piles.

9/27/25

15,980

Squeezed a little spreading in between other obligations…

16,415


All spread, back to piling!

16,990

Big white pine burn, most of the remaining windfall from Helene.  Topped off one of the two piles with a bunch of bamboo that died after flowering.  Neither pile charred the center very well, the huge piles just exacerbated the wet wood problem.  Still made a ton of char, maybe a new record.  Got the smaller of the two piles spread.  One more to go…

11/4/25