Firewood

[lxskllr]

My construction client uses billboards for stream diversions. They hold up well under harsh conditions.

 

[flushcut]

I think a lot of cultural knowledge about woodburning has been lost. Around here, most houses don't have a fireplace anymore. You used to get one whether you wanted it or not :^D With every house having woodburning capability, knowledge of wood, even if imperfect tended to propagate.

And that is why threads like this exist. To pass on the knowledge of others to people looking for information rooted in old timey ways learned from those before us.

 

[Nutball]

I have burned open flame alcohol in the house for some quick heat. I need to make a nicer looking coffee table fire pit, but it sure puts out a lot of heat when the "smoke"(CO2 & H2O) is kept in the house.

I just found this, the haiku bot comment is funny
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I'd prefer a design that better mixes the fuel and air to minimize carbon monoxide production, but that might decrease the visual quality of the flame.

 

[davidwyby]

I shouldn’t muddle things up since my world is so different from most of yours.

I very very rarely stack. Takes too much time. I try to take steps to save steps. Still working on that. When I deliver I almost always just throw the pieces on a stakebed and calc 1.5 times the space required for stacked. I can throw a cord off the trailer in 15 minutes that way. Maybe half hour to load? I shudder to think how long to throw it in and periodically climb in and stack it.


Sometimes I do stack into totes. Handy to forklift load for delivery, but they are small so if only throwing the wood in, can’t get the volume in one load on the flatbed truck. It’s also not fun to bend over into the totes and throw the wood out unloading. Need to build a dump…

I don’t need a cover in the desert. Generally the wood is already dead and dry. If green, I try to cut it green (much easier and more pleasant than hard and dry). Then I let it dry in round form until it splits easier.

I’ve been thinking about how to split directly on the trailer. Hold the log over the trailer, cut the rounds to fall on it, split them on it, drive away (sales/delivery).

I need to build the forklift fork mounted splitter. Pinch, lift over trailer, split into pieces into trailer.

 

[davidwyby]

Incidentally…I split a few rounds from a log of hard, dense, interlocked grain, dry Euc today. The tough stuff. I did it with my 6lb Oz block splitter (hi @Bermy !). Towards the end I switched to the 8lb Estwing for one round…I think the Oz splitter was actually better.

 

[davidwyby]

Ported 75cc saw and full comp square ground chain…like a hot knife through butter. It’s nuts how hard and dulling it becomes once dry. These rounds and dense and heavy. They feel like concrete, not wood.

Trying to get my green stuff cut up while it’s green so it can dry for splitting.

The GMC is for sale

 

[Burnham]

Nice patina on that truck. If I was 20 years younger, I'd be tempted.

 

[flushcut]

The Jag needs a baby brother.

 

[stikine]

The Jag needs a baby brother.

Yup, and B needs another project to stay busy 😄

 

[flushcut]

At least keep him home.

 

[stikine]

At least keep him home.

Yes, and not travelling about like some retiriy

 

[davidwyby]

I wanna travel


Man that stuff is not butter when it’s half dry. Tough.

 

[davidwyby]

Red 390 ported 32” full comp square ground a little too aggressive. Very funky log

 

[davidwyby]

IG is trash, should have put on YT

Green, then half dry

 

[Ed L]

Our weather has finally broke after 2 months of freezing temps, 2days in the 50's was a welcome change.
2 hours in the woods got me 2 nice dead ash, they were down, but supported off the ground.
Still decent firewood.

Ed

 

[davidwyby]

It’s 91

Not good firewooding weather 😒

 

[Ed L]

No it isn't. I would get heatstroke.....

Ed<--can't take heat

 

[Ed L]

Back to the woods today, low 60's, sunny with a light wind.....perfect.
The mess for today, down Soft Maples in the low ground.

First tree was junk....half rotten. 2nd was solid.
View looking toward the field, lots of obsticals and uphill, some brake steering required.


2nd tree, 20" butt dia, 25'+ long, nice stick, all solid.



Ed

 

[Ed L]

Why me?
Had enough wind lately to take this danmed thing down....and of course, its a miserable effin willow, time to dig out the skip chains. Yea, thats a 12oz beer can for scale.
Theres a 2nd smaller trunk behind it....

Ed

 

[flushcut]

Does anybody know if willow is similar to redwood? As far as cut ability? Would a square grind be better?

 

[davidwyby]

Supposed to be stringy and fibrous, I’d say yeah.

 

[Ed L]

Its wet....think water pouring out of the cut. Almost as bad as cottonwood.
Had a 4' trunk I was cutting 12-14" off of, 084, 36" bar, there was so much water pouring out with the chips creating drag...I couldn't cut it.
I was soaked from the waist down....and stunk like piss, because cottonwood, stinks like piss.

Ed

 

[Dave Shepard]

Be sure you take all saw chips, splinters, and every shred of bark off the property or you'll have 600 willows by September.

 

[Kaveman]

Come to find out, my ex, and both girls are allergic to just about every tree species local to them. They got through this last winter on a bunch of willow from a job I did a few years ago. Apparently it seasoned quite well, and made beautiful heat for them nearly all winter. They squeaked out of the cold season on scrap Aspen also left behind from a job.

Apparently, as soon as they had gone over to burning willow, everyone's allergies immediately improved. She's now trying to line up a few willow takedowns for my trip in September. She's not having much luck.

 

[davidwyby]

Come to find out, my ex, and both girls are allergic to just about every tree species local to them. They got through this last winter on a bunch of willow from a job I did a few years ago. Apparently it seasoned quite well, and made beautiful heat for them nearly all winter. They squeaked out of the cold season on scrap Aspen also left behind from a job.

Apparently, as soon as they had gone over to burning willow, everyone's allergies immediately improved. She's now trying to line up a few willow takedowns for my trip in September. She's not having much luck.

Could hook them up with some euc if that works. Better heat than willow.