Pin Oak for Firewood.

[Paul B]

that second pic, those hooks on the edge of the counter look right about 'hook yer privates and yell' level

 

[stig]

You can burn oak here after one summer of curing.

Well, your summers are actual summers.

Our summer is the two days between spring and fall where the sun might shine if it is a good year

 

[Al Smith]

Pin is about like red or white oak in these parts .It burns okay after a year, better after two .

 

[darkstar]

145.00 a ton, OMG
tip fee

 

[stehansen]

That would make you want to figure out something to do with it, besides pay someone. I pay about $2/ton here.

 

[Tree Reb]

$2, that was a while ago for me. Only a few landfill tips left now this side of the mountains. Most goes to transfer stations, some only take 6" or less.

I have two I can use, this is the closest the Seven Hills one. The prices are just down a bit. I try not to go there very often.

http://www.wsn.com.au/dir138/wsn.nsf/AttachmentsByTitle/Pricing+Brochure+July+2009/$FILE/WSN_Pricing_Web_JUL09_FINAL.pdf

 

[Cobleskill]

I like pin oak as much as any other oak. The one thing about it is it should be covered. It rots pretty fast if it isn't.

 

[Tree Reb]

Thanks, I'll remember that.

The other Stephen was right, you need a good cleaver. One for keeping the roo population down, and one for vermin.

 

[sotc]

Wow, I didn't know there were so many types of tonnes!
Artarmon
$/tonne
Auburn
$/tonne
Belrose
$/tonne
Chullora
$/tonne
Macarthur
$/tonne
Rockdale
$/tonne
Ryde
$/tonne
Seven Hills
$/tonne

 

[stehansen]

$2, that was a while ago for me. Only a few landfill tips left now this side of the mountains. Most goes to transfer stations, some only take 6" or less.

I have two I can use, this is the closest the Seven Hills one. The prices are just down a bit. I try not to go there very often.

That place grinds it up and sells it for bedding for dairy cows, I have another place that charges $15/ton and ships it to a co-generation plant, another garbage place charges $25/ton and makes compost out of it. The county has a landfill and they charge $30/ton. I'll go to some of these other places if I need to get right back to the jobsite but of course I rather pay $9/load. Most of the bedding and compost places don't want palm wood, or oleander. The palm stuff can go to the landfill or you can pay $50/ton at the garbage place, or you can sneak it into the dairy bedding place.

 

[Tree Reb]

I ended up getting that job, did it today. Going back to grind the stump tomorrow.

Not the most friendly tree to work on. Probably better with the leaves on, but I think they are going on my "don't do them" list.

Easy to cut but sure is heavy. Ended up with about 2 ton, now I just hope it splits ok.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Hand loading is always fun!

 

[Tree Reb]

I don't mind it, saves me coming home and lifting weights.

 

[Cobleskill]

It splits good. I find it odd pin oak grows down under. In the US it is native to the NE. It is planted as an ornemental. Think it was planted or do they grow in the wild?

 

[Tree Reb]

It would have been planted like most of the trees I remove. This is an old area lots of imported trees, some good but mostly not.

They can get pretty big in the right area, like some Northern suburbs or the mountains.

 

[Frans]

You can hardly use a wood board in CA anymore as the board of health frowns on it... Sux.

It has been discovered that the plastic cutting boards hold more bacteria than previously thought

 

[CurSedVoyce]

It has been discovered that the plastic cutting boards hold more bacteria than previously thought

YUP!

 

[stehansen]

"They" surmise that some of the naturally occuring bacteria fighting chemicals in the wood are the reason.

 

[Al Smith]

It splits good. I find it odd pin oak grows down under. In the US it is native to the NE. It is planted as an ornemental. Think it was planted or do they grow in the wild?

Oh I'm not so sure that pin pin oak is actually planted .I suppose it depends on where you are at .

Around these parts it's native as all about every variety with the exception of live oak .,

The brush,limbs etc on a pin are a pain in the butt as they entangle so badly.

Most oak will take weather pretty well as compaired to other woods .I imagine white oak is the best in the weather but pin really isn't bad .

Unfortunately pin because of all the limbs does not split as well as white,red or burr oak .Those damned limbs leave knots that go clear to the center of the main stem often . Steel wedges and a sledge hammer if you don't have a splitter .

 

[Tree Reb]

Oh I'm not so sure that pin pin oak is actually planted .I suppose it depends on where you are at .

The brush,limbs etc on a pin are a pain in the butt as they entangle so badly.

Unfortunately pin because of all the limbs does not split as well as white,red or burr oak .Those damned limbs leave knots that go clear to the center of the main stem often . Steel wedges and a sledge hammer if you don't have a splitter .

It was planted.

Yes I know that, now.

Thanks, can't wait till tomorrow.

 

[Tree Reb]

Well that a fun morning, split about half of it. Al was right about the knots.

Funny stuff to split at first, but I've had worse.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Yikes! I hope you didn't have to do that by hand.

 

[Tree Reb]

There's another way?

 

[Al Smith]

I'm tellin ya,use old farts are tougher than we look . I've taken the axe to a bunch of that stuff .