1st Kansas City CL Scrounge

Brick (ware)House said:

Picked this load up today. Guys taking down the tree had it cut up and helped load - even offered us $20 for fuel which I refused. Full 18' trailer load which should be about 2 cords split. Thankfully I had my brother along to help. I think it is some kind of elm which isn't the best but not too bad for 2.5 hours of work. Can anyone ID from these pics? May have to borrow dad's hydro splitter if it gives me trouble by hand. Any chance this might be ready by next year?

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Brick warehouse do you have a splitter? If that's elm doing it by hand won't be fun. A splitter even tears it instead of splitting it.

Elm is terrible without a splitter. Even with it can still be a bit of a PITA. I'd rather split hedge crotch wood with my splitter than some nasty American elm.

Maybe it's just me, but the piss elm is a bear to split, but others go pretty well once you let them sit around a few months, frozen or standing dead.

Brick (ware)House said:

Will be heading past your place on I35 north tomorrow on my way to Thanksgiving. Hope you have a nice holiday. It would be fun to come up and help you cut but I wouldn't feel right taking anything other than scrub wood off your property.

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I hope you and your family have a wonderful thanksgiving. I'm not really looking for help cutting wood. I've been blessed with far more timber than I'll ever be able to use. This is my first time heating only with wood and I would not have been able to accumulate the requisite knowledge on the subject in so short a time without the help of people on this forum. In that spirit I'm going to try to help people on this forum if I can. The one thing I can certainly help with is the thing I have in abundance. So my offer stands. Let me know.

Any of you fellas like to burn Hickory? Not sure but there may be an opportunity to get some later this winter

Wooddust said:

Any of you fellas like to burn Hickory? Not sure but there may be an opportunity to get some later this winter

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I'll burn almost anything . I'm burning properly seasoned pine now because it was already cut and I just had to load it up.

Wooddust said:

Any of you fellas like to burn Hickory? Not sure but there may be an opportunity to get some later this winter

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Hey wooddust. Heck yeah. Hickory is great. If I get one, I usually keep the small limbs for smoking wood and stick the rest in the stove. I know the neighbors love it when I have it the stove. It makes the whole neighborhood stink real pretty!

Brick (ware)House said:

My place is just west of downtown in the bottoms. Right next to the haunted houses and a few blocks north of the old stockyard district and Kemper Arena. I have the wood ready but my stove won't arrive for another week. Wish I was up and running because it has been cold!

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Wow... your just north of me. I could almost throw a rock that far.... No seriously I'm probably only 8 miles away from Kemper.... Nice to see a few more people from the KC Metro area on.

Wooddust said:

Any of you fellas like to burn Hickory? Not sure but there may be an opportunity to get some later this winter

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Thats one wood that I've not had the chance to burn. Got a little bit every thing else.

Hey chvymn. You must be somewhere around Shawnee or Overland Park?

Missouri Frontier said:

Hey chvymn. You must be somewhere around Shawnee or Overland Park?

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Yep...Just north of Shawnee...

Maybe this winter there would be a window of opportunity for a couple folks wanting some hickory. Depending on weather Ill hopefully be doing a timber stand improvement effort on my farm basically ridding a acre or two of hickory trees. Last year I took down about 40 from 10 foot to 80 foot. Easily that much this year. I was able to get rid of most to a friend who heats with wood and had a way to get it. Its all weather related and dependent on my getting other priorities done first like rebuilding a fence around a pond. Have hedge as well but almost afraid to say much because hedge is a dangerous tree for folks who have not sawn them before.

I live maybe 2 miles from you, pretty cool.

I've been doing the KC craigslist for 2 years now, once it gets cold like it has been recently it is pretty common for wood to disappear within a few hours of it being posted. Especially any of the good stuff. I usually tried to get the wood in the winter since the sap is down and the wood seasons faster but I don't know how much gas I wasted rushing to a CL post only to find it already gone. If you got room to store it, collecting in spring might be worth considering.

Looks like red (slippery) elm to me. Kind of a rust red when fresh cut and will turn a even light brown within a day or two. Might rent a splitter for those as I have yet to find one that is easy to split.

Nice to read posts about Kansas City. One of my sons moved down there about 12 years ago because of work.
He lives in Overland Park.
When we visit, people in that big city seem friendlier than in my small town here in Wisconsin. Even the drivers are better.
If he was a wood burner I'd steer him onto a few of you guys, but he helps keep the gas company in business.

Brick (ware)House said:

Well then count me in. I had a nice holiday and hope you did too. Was able to scrape together almost a cord cleaning up my mom's back yard (including some locust and hickory).

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Glad to hear Brick. I'll let you know when I get the bug to cut again. Good score from your moms place!

Wooddust said:

Maybe this winter there would be a window of opportunity for a couple folks wanting some hickory. Depending on weather Ill hopefully be doing a timber stand improvement effort on my farm basically ridding a acre or two of hickory trees. Last year I took down about 40 from 10 foot to 80 foot. Easily that much this year. I was able to get rid of most to a friend who heats with wood and had a way to get it. Its all weather related and dependent on my getting other priorities done first like rebuilding a fence around a pond. Have hedge as well but almost afraid to say much because hedge is a dangerous tree for folks who have not sawn them before.

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great Wooddust. Let me know when you are ready to clear. Have saw will travel!
Pretty sure we can get that hedge too.

Fins59 said:

Nice to read posts about Kansas City. One of my sons moved down there about 12 years ago because of work.
He lives in Overland Park.
When we visit, people in that big city seem friendlier than in my small town here in Wisconsin. Even the drivers are better.
If he was a wood burner I'd steer him onto a few of you guys, but he helps keep the gas company in business.

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Fins lets work on converting him. Probably wouldn't take more than an extended power outage in January to convert him.

Brick (ware)House said:

So this thread seems to have attracted a few KC metro area burners and I was thinking we could do a meet up after the holidays. I would be willing to host at my place and fire up the smoker. We could do a pot luck for side dishes and maybe have some drinks. If there is interest I'll start a new thread.

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Sounds like a great idea. A bit of a KC metro wood burners mutual aid society with a little BS over beers and supper.

Had a nice fire going this am at the farm…630am was 18 outside and had cooled off to 54 inside…a few logs and a pot of coffee later was toasty 72. Now home and a roaring fire in fireplace. Something about burn in wood!