I just cut and split some english elm. Wet as anything, being as it is spring here. Easy to split
Branch wood about 10' was about 40-50 years old, dense!
I kept some nice branch unions as the internal colouring is beeeyootiful!
Fire wood is sold by the tonne or meter here. Some people deliver it neatly stacked in the ute, others it's tossed in...you have to wonder about value for money. Bit confusing
So how is sycamore for burning? Just cut and split some yesterday. It was a dying tree.
It has some nice colouring inside, spalting and even some green streaks. If I had a woodshop I'd get so sidetracked.
For kindling we go and pick up sticks and branches lodged and piled up against fences alongside the river after flood, then cut them up on the sawhorse with the 150.
Ditto the sticks for getting a big chunk of wood going when we've let the coal bed go down a bit too far
Burnham, your weather and ours are in a crossover, sounds just about the same here as there at the moment. We are getting a lot of rain atm
Derail....I'm watching the news, the premier of Queensland (a lovely lady) just said she had a big hookup with all the mayor's yesterday...(via zoom,) :lol...
Just bought a load of dry euc from my friend to see us to the end of winter, the bulk of my firewood is a bit too green yet, euc, cedar, macrocarpa, oak, ash, elm...I believe in diversity :lol:
We're burning macrocarpa at the moment.
There were a few rounds of Robinia in the pile from two years ago, the hubby commented on how hot and clean it burns, I remember you lot told me to save it for the firewood pile when I had a fair sized removal job...thanks :)
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