As I drive around I always note stacks of of wood in peoples yards, year after year sitting there not being touched. Rotting in piles, like in a neighbors driveway, over four years sitting there and now small stacks he is keeping next to a dozen trees he has been trimming and yet keeping the small rounds stacked under the trees as though he will be gathering them up any day rather the truth of pending rot. I sent a letter to a guy last year about the huge pile of rounds in his backyard I had been eyeballing for years, was saving them for grandson who said he wanted them but checked and I could now have them. They were all giant rot rounds which I left.
Another neighbor just had a tree guy cut up a couple decorative pears which the homeowner wanted to keep and the tree guy said almost everyone wants to keep their wood now. As I watched the homeowner work the rounds into a cart for movement to the back I could not understand why, he has not had any smoke out of his fireplace in the five years I have known him and yet here he was squirreling away the smallest rounds to a hoard which I would be willing to bet is the begging of a rot pile to match his immediate neighbors behind their shed and so on all along the street, everyone has a pile of rot to call their own. I would bet 8 out of ten houses in my area has a pile left to rot.
I figured out why, in retrospect it is obvious.
According to how much the supermarkets charge for those bundles of wood from Lithuania, it is all gold, wealth not to be squandered but saved for the time to cash in.
Now I know, had always thought the value was in the energy spent splitting it.
Sorry if I am pointing out the obvious, just been a puzzler to me.
Another neighbor just had a tree guy cut up a couple decorative pears which the homeowner wanted to keep and the tree guy said almost everyone wants to keep their wood now. As I watched the homeowner work the rounds into a cart for movement to the back I could not understand why, he has not had any smoke out of his fireplace in the five years I have known him and yet here he was squirreling away the smallest rounds to a hoard which I would be willing to bet is the begging of a rot pile to match his immediate neighbors behind their shed and so on all along the street, everyone has a pile of rot to call their own. I would bet 8 out of ten houses in my area has a pile left to rot.
I figured out why, in retrospect it is obvious.
According to how much the supermarkets charge for those bundles of wood from Lithuania, it is all gold, wealth not to be squandered but saved for the time to cash in.
Now I know, had always thought the value was in the energy spent splitting it.
Sorry if I am pointing out the obvious, just been a puzzler to me.