I am NEVER splitting Cherry again .....

[shawneyboy]

It takes WAYYYYYY to long to get it spit when you do it like I do, smelling almost every freaking split !



Shawn

 

[maxed_out]

Yup Shawn you got the problem. I guess we'll start seeing you at our monthly support group sessions. I've been in therapy for sometime over my firewood sickness addtiction. And the solution? More wood!

 

[Gark]

Our local 'wood hobby' illness support group recently disbanded. Couldn't figure out why until I discovered all the members were back out in the woods cutting -- what with the temperatures back out of the humid 90's. So with the saws in the truck, here I go.....

 

[Woody Stover]

Shawn, whatever you do, don't start huffing White Oak. If you get on that slippery slope, you'll soon be resorting to murder to feed your addiction (cutting live trees.)

I've been in therapy for sometime

Aroma therapy?

 

[shawneyboy]

Shawn, whatever you do, don't start huffing White Oak. If you get on that slippery slope, you'll soon be resorting to murder to feed your addiction (cutting live trees.)

I've been in therapy for sometime

Aroma therapy?

I am a multi sniffer, I also have a problem with Black Birch

Someone, anyone, save me

Shawn

 

[Woody Stover]

I also have a problem with Black Birch

Please don't inform me of new stuff to try. Last time that happened I was in the woods for a week licking every toad I could find!

 

[RNLA]

Some locust smells good, apple as well.... on-n-on-n-on! :roll:

 

[mywaynow]

The Black Walnut is great too, and you don't have to get your nose right into the grain to enjoy it! Glad to hear I am not the only one getting slowed down with the cherry either.

 

[Blue Vomit]

for some reason, if I have enough freshly split, it smells even stronger after it rains (cherry). My whole yard smells like cherry. Awesome!

 

[CTYank]

I also have a problem with Black Birch

Please don't inform me of new stuff to try. Last time that happened I was in the woods for a week licking every toad I could find!

Guess I shouldn't tell you about sugar maple, then.

 

[golfandwoodnut]

and then is sassafrass, i know it is Dennis's favorite. The roots are what they used to make root beer out of and sassafrass tea.

 

[chvymn99]

See I like the smell of Red Elm, Black Licorise (sp?)

 

[Beetle-Kill]

Ya know, I'm not one to judge. If you like the smell of someone else's wood, more power to you. :red:

 

[Woody Stover]

Guess I shouldn't tell you about sugar maple, then.

I've got a bunch of rounds that I'm going to split soon; Pignut Hickory, which I know smells great and Sugar Maple, which I'll soon be finding out about.

 

[weatherguy]

So I guess Im not the only one that likes to wander through my piles sniffing the freshly split wood :lol:

 

[My Oslo heats my home]

My wife caught me 'sniffing' wood in late March, she thought I had a problem (maybe I do). I had 2 nice cherrys last year, the splitting sucked but the sniffing didn't

 

[thewoodlands]

It takes WAYYYYYY to long to get it spit when you do it like I do, smelling almost every freaking split !



Shawn

Wait until you burn so much that you think all your wood smells like Cherry. We burn over three cord per year.

zap

 

[heatwise]

thats funny, cherry and walnut are the two that always trigger memories of milling and working it into furniture. i honestly have a guilty feeling when i run across some of the finer woods and process it into firewood. i guess it all cant be turned into furniture and i have to keep warm.

 

[shawneyboy]

My wife caught me 'sniffing' wood in late March, she thought I had a problem (maybe I do). I had 2 nice cherrys last year, the splitting sucked but the sniffing didn't

My wife and my neighbor already think I am crazy with all the wood I have out back, if they saw (caught) me smellng my splits I am sure the men in the white coats would be called.

Shawn

 

[MasterMech]

The wood coming from my primary source (golf course I work for) is mostly cherry and crab apple. I have piles of splits there waiting for me to haul 'em home. The smell is unreal. My wife keeps calling wondering why I haven't come home yet.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

and then is sassafrass, i know it is Dennis's favorite. The roots are what they used to make root beer out of and sassafrass tea.

Hey Golf, I was going to suggest to shawneyboy that he sniff 2 splits of sassafras and if he isn't better in the morning to call me.

 

[Thistle]

See I like the smell of Red Elm, Black Licorise (sp?)

You got it.With a slight cinnamon scent also.Great stuff to burn & build certain smaller projects out of.Getting scarce around here now,pretty much all the large older ones were hit bad by Dutch Elm Disease in the late '70's - early '80's.Then about 10 yrs ago I started seeing quite a few that survived were beginning to die off.

 

[Rob From Wisconsin]

I hear lots of talk about smells that conjure up "pleasant memories".
What about the smell from American Elm, and the nasty memories
that come to mind from splitting that

Sorry for raining on everybody's parade.......

 

[firefighterjake]

My wife always seems to catch me when I'm sniffing my cherry and apple . . . never fails that she chooses the one moment to pop outside when I'm taking in a deep whiff of that fragrant smell of that wood.

 

[3fordasho]

Maybe we should start a list of wood we wish we couldn't smell... I'll add to Rob's mention of american elm:

cottonwood
box elder

I hear lots of talk about smells that conjure up "pleasant memories".
What about the smell from American Elm, and the nasty memories
that come to mind from splitting that

Sorry for raining on everybody's parade.......