it was a good wednesday

i'm a scrounger and use craigslist as my only source for firewood. recently, there have been many awesome looking posts, but they get gobbled up quickly while i sit at the office job doing the 9-5 thing. by the time i get home, it seems most nearby scrounge opportunities are gone.

tuesday night around midnight, i saw a local post go up. only 5 mins away. i was tempted to go for a midnight stroll, but didn't want the police asking me WTH i was doing. so, 6am, headed out and picked up what i believe to be some cherry. is my wood ID correct? the original post said "cherry, oak, and doug fir", but i don't think i saw any of that.

then, later that day, after getting home from work, there was the jackpot post. the local power utility cut down 2 doug firs and there was a huge pile out there. 3 full trailers later (finishing up around 11pm), i have enough wood to keep me busy for a bit. i think it's doug fir (which would be a first for me), but am not sure. i'm used to seeing monster doug firs in the mountains - the kind that has 6" thick bark - so i'm not 100% positive. the wood grain and color definitely looks doug fir to me.

overall, i think it's probably 1.5 cords. some of those doug fir pieces were a PITA to lift up by myself (8 pieces filled a 4x8 trail --- the pieces were probably 25-30" long).

i split open a few rounds last night. definitely doug fir for the one.

the other still seems like cherry to me (or plum?), but doesn't have much, if any, smell. the bark on it plus the grain type looks like cherry to me, but at the same time, it doesn't split like the previous load of cherry (that i'm 100% certain is cherry) did. i'll grab some more pics eventually...

yep. i'm a happy camper. the doug fir is fun to split. very solid/strong feeling unlike some of the cedar i've split.

well that was fun. tomorrow, stack em.

decided to make a makeshift storage rack (eventually will be demoing an existing basketball court we'll never use).

turned out to be just shy of 1.5 cords.