Springtime Firewood Festival

[Simonkenton]

I cut down this big locust tree. When I bought this property 24 years ago I had hundreds of locust trees.
The blight swept through 20 years ago and killed them all.

My brother and I had to use the rope and pulleys to move the logs down the steep mountain. Had to move the wood about 80 feet down to the driveway.

The blocks of the pretty green colored wood began to pile up.

A fine sight. Zero rot. I have just about quit sawing up my locust, the trees on the ground are half rotten. I don't stack rotten wood.

A truck load of locust. The best firewood in the state and you can't buy it. There is hardly any locust left, you can buy cherry or oak, or hickory, but not locust.

The Fiskars would not do the job, to my surprise. Usually locust is easy to split.
I had to get out the Ochsenkopf and the ten pound hammer. Ochsenkopf doesn't play.
19 percent moisture. I am going to put a stick in the wood stove tomorrow.

 

[Simonkenton]

It got good to me. I went out this morning and got another truck load.
I cut two dead standing locust this time. They were smaller diameter, about 10 inches.
Once again, not a milligram of rot.

 

[mrd1995]

Looks like you are off to a great start with some nice looking weather.

 

[Woody Stover]

I have just about quit sawing up my locust, the trees on the ground are half rotten. I don't stack rotten wood.

I've never seen any rotten BL, even when I found it lying on the ground with no bark left. But yeah, sometimes it will have a pithy center, which I'll just chip away with a hatchet. If it's not much, I don't bother with it, it will just burn away leaving the good wood to burn and heat the house.
You've commented on other pics, saying the wood was rotten, and I saw nothing wrong with it, so I guess you just have very high standards.

 

[Woody Stover]

Zero rot.

Hey, there's a little rot on the edge of that one!

 

[Simonkenton]

I am so busted! I don't know rotten wood when I see it.
Please, in your great wisdom and experience, tell me what rotten wood is.
I am lucky to be able to learn from someone as experienced as you are.

 

[Woody Stover]

I am so busted! I don't know rotten wood when I see it.
Please, in your great wisdom and experience, tell me what rotten wood is.
I am lucky to be able to learn from someone as experienced as you are.

OK, I agree with everything you said there. Nice to see that you've come around to my way of thinking; It reinforces by belief that I'm always right.
Seriously, if you want to throw some good wood away due to your aversion to "rot," go ahead..it's your life.

 

[Lakeside]

You Lucky Dog ! Looks like most had no bark too.