It was bad enough that I left the wood I had already cut for burning in the open where precip and temp swings in the last couple weeks made it less than perfect, but then my wife noted I should make use of several piles I had made while cleaning up dead [and a few live too close to buildings] trees over the past several years. I thought the half rotton "cottonless cottonwood" I drug up was nasty, but: YUCKKKKK...... everything from so downright rotten it falls apart so I don't have to bother trying it, to very tempting, yet I swear even that absorbs more heat drying than it gives off burning.
Waste not, want not: I'll probably burn most of it yet, but I'll have to have that stove good and hot, and maybe feed it a couple nice splits to every one of this junk. With this stuff alone, trying to keep it hot enough [and that's after a good bed of coals!] to burn clean - heck, burn at all: I spend more time feeding in small peices than I do getting anything done - I could probably put in an excersise bike - ride it for 5minutes every 15minutes and have better use of my time and energy and more heat!
OK, rant done! ;-) Figured you guys may as well laugh at my rant, rather than sharing it with my wife and disappointing her on her efforts to make good use of wood.
Waste not, want not: I'll probably burn most of it yet, but I'll have to have that stove good and hot, and maybe feed it a couple nice splits to every one of this junk. With this stuff alone, trying to keep it hot enough [and that's after a good bed of coals!] to burn clean - heck, burn at all: I spend more time feeding in small peices than I do getting anything done - I could probably put in an excersise bike - ride it for 5minutes every 15minutes and have better use of my time and energy and more heat!
OK, rant done! ;-) Figured you guys may as well laugh at my rant, rather than sharing it with my wife and disappointing her on her efforts to make good use of wood.
