I thought I was the only firewood junkie, until I found this forum a few weeks ago. I really like this forum, its got a lot of guys I can relate with. I'm here in Western Oregon. The temperature hit over 80 degrees for the FIRST time this year, yesterday, wow. I hope my wood seasons in time for fall/winter. We have lots of trees here, BIG trees, and I like to turn them into firewood. I have a Husky 61, 24" bar chainsaw, Ford F150 pickup, two 8 LB mauls, and two 5 LB wedges. I just used my friends 34 ton splitter for the first time this year, wow, that was nice on some of the harder to split Oregon White Oak. I've been cutting and burning wood since 1979.
I have scrounged about 6 cord so far this year, well since December 31. I have scrounged probably about 80% Oregon Oak, some Douglas Fir, one large tree size branch (20" diameter) from a huge ash tree, its basically half the tree, and also a nice hawthorn tree, oh and a cottonwood, which I am giving away to a friend. I burned some hawthorn last winter, and wow, I really like that wood.
Last year, I dinked around with other stuff like salmon fishing, crabbing, and such, and forgot about my wood pile. Well, I ended up buying 3 cord of wood for the first and last time of my life. I have 2011-2012 (Finished cut/split on President's Day in Feb) and most of 2012-2013 wood done (Not quite done, still have a cord or so of oak to gather down a muddy hill when the mud dries up).
Anyhow, I just thought I would jump in and say a quick Howdy from Oregon. Yeah, I know, the Ducks were such loosers in the National Championship game. Well, it was tied until the last play, I'll give them that.
I'll try to put up some pictures when I figure that all out in time. Looking forward to more firewood cutting stories.
Oregon Bigfoot
I have scrounged about 6 cord so far this year, well since December 31. I have scrounged probably about 80% Oregon Oak, some Douglas Fir, one large tree size branch (20" diameter) from a huge ash tree, its basically half the tree, and also a nice hawthorn tree, oh and a cottonwood, which I am giving away to a friend. I burned some hawthorn last winter, and wow, I really like that wood.
Last year, I dinked around with other stuff like salmon fishing, crabbing, and such, and forgot about my wood pile. Well, I ended up buying 3 cord of wood for the first and last time of my life. I have 2011-2012 (Finished cut/split on President's Day in Feb) and most of 2012-2013 wood done (Not quite done, still have a cord or so of oak to gather down a muddy hill when the mud dries up).
Anyhow, I just thought I would jump in and say a quick Howdy from Oregon. Yeah, I know, the Ducks were such loosers in the National Championship game. Well, it was tied until the last play, I'll give them that.
I'll try to put up some pictures when I figure that all out in time. Looking forward to more firewood cutting stories.
Oregon Bigfoot