It's that time of year....

[krex1010]

No I'm not talking about heating season, it's th time of year that the procrastinators and lazy folks start freaking out because they don't have enough wood. Once again my brother in law is acting surprised that it's October already and he only has a cord of wood. And once again my mother in law is looking at my 6 cords of split wood and my pile of wood that I have ready to be split and is giving me the roun about guilt trip on how her son doesn't have enough wood and he is too busy with work to get wood. Gotta love it, my response was "well u guess he will have to heat with his propane furnace this year"

 

[punchy]

do you mean it's gonna get cold again soon, who'da thunk it? i do know what you mean, i have heard a few saws running latley.

 

[blujacket]

My neighbor will start gathering wood and splitting it in the next few weeks. Smoke will fill the neighborhood as he tries to burn this wet wood in his open fireplace. I work all spring and summer scrounging and splitting, and people think I am crazy... My stacks line our property lines, and the last couple nights he has had fires in his backyard pit. I don't want to bear false witness, but can't help to think he is burning my hard earned seasoned wood in his pit.

 

[JP11]

I just shake my head at all the houses I drive past that JUST got a grapple load delivered. I just want to leave a note that says..I hope this is NEXT year's wood.. or you're wasting 30% of your money.

I know.. I'm preaching to the converted.

JP

 

[Fire Breathing Dragon]

I just nod my head as I read the original post. A buddy stops over last weekend to borrow my hyd splitter and as we walk past my wood stash for this year "oh, there are 4 rows there?" I said yes, remember when I called/emailed you last winter to go wood hunting and you never responded? This is a product of that wood... He is borrowing my splitter to split a freshly cut cherry tree. I told him he can have a couple wheel barrel full of my dry stuff but recommended trying to find some "seasoned" wood and offered him my moisture meter for testing. Yes, you buy em books and send them to school and they eat the pages...

 

[PapaDave]

he is too busy with work to get wood

Everyone has time. It's just a matter of how they choose to use it.
Every couple days after work, or on days off for the year and he'd have a bunch. Maybe's he's too busy watching TV or some other worthwhile activity.

 

[mfglickman]

he is too busy with work to get wood.

If he works that much he can afford to buy a few cords in Spring and just stack it - anyone has time to stack.

 

[bogydave]

I used to do it that way. Was the way I thought it was done. Cut in the fall & burn it in the winter.
What I've learned here & having experienced cleaner burning, cleaner chimney, better & more heat.
Now "I know" how important dry wood is & how to prepare & season it to get it dry.
Some know it's important to burn dry wood but don't know what dry wood is or how it's done.

We can help those who know dry wood is important,
but the lazy ones are on their own.

 

[oldspark]

You cut wood when you dont need it so you have it to burn when you do.

 

[swagler85]

I am in the same change this year. Have dry wood to burn after fighting sizzling wood last year. Thanks to everyone on here, cant believe how easy and fast the properly seasoned wood burns. I put a quarter of a supercedar under 3 cherry splits and they lit right up. Love those cedars. Got my sample and am going to order some more for this year.

 

[krex1010]

Yes I love the look on his face when he realizes he has no wood for the winter, he seems shocked by it, like wood was going to magically appear through no work of his own ( I do believe there is a pun somewhere in there). He always looks at me like I'm crazy when I am out in march and April gathering and splitting wood, to him burning season is almost over so he doesn't think about it. To me march is the perfect time around here to process wood, it's not warm but generally not too cold, there's no hunting, no fishing, and in a pinch the wood i split in march could be passable if I'm short the following fall as it will have at least 8 months of seasoning time. When he is short he will go find wood and try and split and burn it right away, and yes he is no stranger to chimney fires.

 

[PapaDave]

and yes he is no stranger to chimney fires

Oh, there's a surprise.

 

[blujacket]

Oh, there's a surprise.

 

[ikessky]

I'm not sure people around here know any better. They've been doing it for so long, that's how dad used to do it, that's how grandpappy used to do it.......... And then there are the people who have never burned wood, but did an OWB when they build their house. I can't even tell you how many of those people I've talked to that make the comment about how they need "good, dry wood" but they think that means having the pile delivered in the spring (and just cut what you need for the day as you need it).

 

[Jack Straw]

Hey, I can sympathise.....I am scrambling right now, I gotta get 2015/16's wood together and I mean soon!

 

[Backwoods Savage]

We're seeing wood piles beginning to grow around here. But that is only during cold spells. If it warms back up, there is no more cutting. Gets cold, the saws start again....

 

[PapaDave]

It's the JIT system.
Never did work well.

 

[Gark]

We hear saws all around us this last week or so, while hardly any other time we do. Probably making fuel for those Thanksgiving and Christmas fires in the open fireplaces. Oh, and another SUV-full to get 'em through the winter in case the power goes out.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Always amazed at people and their procrastination, but you see it EVERY year.

"You can't fix stupid"...

 

[wingsfan]

I went to the hospital last week for blood work, AND THE RECEPTIONIST AND A CO-WORKER WERE TALKING ABOUT HAVing (sorry about caps)To go out and cut wood for the stove as it is starting to cool off around here. When I told them they sould be a year ahead on thier wood, it was a suprise to them. They are new to burning or this is what they do all the time. A buddy of mine used to live across the street and he did the same thing, cut and splitt as needed, Tar was dripping from his chimney cap. I will always have dried wood.

 

[red oak]

Yes just talked to a friend who was saying that they only needed a few more loads of wood for this winter. I said I was still cutting too. Just didn't mention I'm cutting for 2014.

 

[weatherguy]

My neighbor should be getting his green wood dumped off any day now too, I can smell his wood when its dropped off because its just been cut and split.

 

[Wood Duck]

Those darn fall weather cutters are competition for us year-round scroungers. This is a tough time of year to scrounge firewood. In the spring nobody else but me wants wood.

 

[JOHN BOY]

I just cant understand why folks wait till almost winter to get this winters wood , hada few guys tell me well ya want to burn green wood anyway last way longer... Ok Some just never learn......I'll agree its great cutting wood in the fall and winter . But its for next year and the following 2 yr's if i get some oak !

 

[flatlandr]

I've been cutting/splitting on the weekends for the past month or so. My neighbor comes over and asks "how cold do think its going to be this winter?" I got the deer in the headlights look when I told him this is for 2 years from now. I learned my lesson the first year when I came up short on seasoned wood.