hey gang -
i LOVE to hear stories about finding sources of free firewood.
i live next door to a logging yard (big woods buffer in between). the trees come in, get offloaded and then the ends are shaved off. they are labled and split-checkers banged into the ends. this means that there are hundreds of rounds laying in the yard of all different lengths. i spoke to the owner and he says i can take all i want as long as its already been cut. the vultures around here come in these monster trucks and take ALL of the stuff that's reasonable stove-length so i have to time it just right. i can usually scoop up about 4-5 cords/year of primo rounds before the greedy ones get there. but there is unlimited short stuff just lying there (4-8" 'long') they are more like gigantic coasters. so i built a crib in my basement and split them and throw them in a big pile and burn them in the fall months and also in the small woodstove in my wife's studio. i LOVE burning those chunks...it reminds me of stove-coal.
all the wood is oak, sugar maple, cherry, ash and walnut. this takes the pressure (and work) off managing my woodlot since i don't have to be constantly scrounging for and hauling every dead tree in the forest.
in 35+ years of burning wood, i think this is my best load ever. i've got 8 cords seasoned, one pile is 3.5 cords of shagbark hickory, white oak and black/honey locust, seasoned 2 full years. it's going to be a warm winter. now i'm gonna go git me a couple of pickup loads of them 'coasters' and burn them for october and novemeber.
be good fellas and be safe out there
OT
i LOVE to hear stories about finding sources of free firewood.
i live next door to a logging yard (big woods buffer in between). the trees come in, get offloaded and then the ends are shaved off. they are labled and split-checkers banged into the ends. this means that there are hundreds of rounds laying in the yard of all different lengths. i spoke to the owner and he says i can take all i want as long as its already been cut. the vultures around here come in these monster trucks and take ALL of the stuff that's reasonable stove-length so i have to time it just right. i can usually scoop up about 4-5 cords/year of primo rounds before the greedy ones get there. but there is unlimited short stuff just lying there (4-8" 'long') they are more like gigantic coasters. so i built a crib in my basement and split them and throw them in a big pile and burn them in the fall months and also in the small woodstove in my wife's studio. i LOVE burning those chunks...it reminds me of stove-coal.
all the wood is oak, sugar maple, cherry, ash and walnut. this takes the pressure (and work) off managing my woodlot since i don't have to be constantly scrounging for and hauling every dead tree in the forest.
in 35+ years of burning wood, i think this is my best load ever. i've got 8 cords seasoned, one pile is 3.5 cords of shagbark hickory, white oak and black/honey locust, seasoned 2 full years. it's going to be a warm winter. now i'm gonna go git me a couple of pickup loads of them 'coasters' and burn them for october and novemeber.
be good fellas and be safe out there
OT
