Not really firewood but at least it was chainsaw fun

I love WRC. My favorite outdoor wood to build with. Expensive stock around here. Love the smell. Ive done a few WRC roofs and would stop and sniff the shingles. Even nicer when damp and you open the bundle.

 

Western Red Cedar I believe. Not commonly thought of as a firewood here other than kindling.

LordOfTheFlies , I think Husky Man answered your question for me although some do burn it and like it!

 

Holy Schitt Batman, a Cedar Shake Roof is a Better Guarantee to Burn your House Down, than burning Pine in your Woodstove



Doug

 

I put the logs on Craig's List late last night and got a call early this AM from a very likable young man who is a wood carver. He just came and got the 4 largest logs and was tickled pink. Made my day to see how happy he was! I threw in the rounds for free. Lots of other interest out there. If the last two go in a hurry, I may have to pester the land owner about the rest of the trees.

 

Congrats on selling the logs.

 

That's awesome. I can't remember who it was but someone had a Cadillac trunk of like 5 or 6 rounds cut nice and square....and sold them for like $60 each or something crazy like that. I couldn't believe it.

I don't usually run into small diameter logs like that but next time I do I will try the same.

 

Ha ha, that would be the legendary Mwalsh9152!

 

LOL I sold 5 rounds for $100.00 and definitely delivered them in the trunk of my XTS for an additional $50. Though, after dropping the price by 50% my wife offered the person I delivered those to 5 more for free if they picked them up.

 

Nice to drop the price and give away the 5 rounds. I didn't make a killing on these logs. Enough to cover expenses and buy a bottle of fine bourbon. I cut the kid a break. Seemed very nice but unfortunately had just bought a Husky chainsaw.I felt sooo sorry for him!

 

I have about 10 of these on my property, my neighbor has several he needs taken down here in Ohio. Hoping someone will get a mill then we can take them down and make lumber

 

Looks to me like Incense Cedar, not Western Red Cedar.

It's an easy mistake made by lots of people.

Look, this real stringy bark is Western Red Cedar.


And this "Flaky Bark" is Incense Cedar


Color of the wood tells the tale as well. And the Cedar foliage look different on the two, if we had any to look at.

I'm fortunate to have both on my property.

 

Dayum Bob, that is some BEAUTIFUL property ya got there

That “Stringy Bark” on the WRC works really well for fire starting too, dries quick, and especially mixed with split Cedar Kindling, it is hard to beat for starting fires. Of course dribbling on a bit of Used Motor Oil, doesn’t Hurt either


Doug

 

Hey thanks, Doug! I took that picture from the front porch yesterday morning. It is a pretty view, and comes with cougars, bears, and some big bucks.

And I saw your comments about motor oil AND tires too!!!!!! LOL.

My brother in law uses charcoal lighter fluid like so many others. I had a 44" dbh western red cedar that wasn't fit for anything but kindling, so I'm on year 3 with it. Should last 5, but the pieces with big knots of course don't make kindling so I burn them early in the morning to heat the place up fast, doug fir / grand firs all day long, and my more limited stash of oak, ash, madrone at night.

I'm busy either planting trees, or in the easy chair.

What's new with you Doug????


Blacktail.

 

Hi Bob, my dedicated account closed in April, I have been working crazy hours, let me buy a bunch of saws, but didn’t give me much time to USE them , finally getting a little home time, so just out rounding up the Used Motor Oil, Scrap Tires and Junk Railroad Ties to Heat the House

Sounds like you came through the September Fires all right, I was Glad to hear that, we got to level 2, but I was working in Medford then, and the Wife went with me. PGE “Deenergized” our neighborhood for a week, we lost some food in the refrigerators and Freezers then when the power came back on, it blew out 2 microwaves and the dishwasher , otherwise we have been pretty much Happy and Healthy here, I Hope that You and the Family are as well



Doug

 

Buzz Benton I think you are right. I kinda had some doubts about red cedar. A friend called it yellow cedar. Didn't have the normal distinct cedar smell. I was very aromatic but slightly on the chemical side.

 

Well, I just love all the cedars, they are so varied, popular, useful, and interesting. No wonder you sold those logs. It's a damm shame more does not get re-plated, it almost never is.

We do have some Alaskan Yellow Cedar in Oregon, and I've traveled just to see a grove of it. It is a shaggy tree in both bark and form, and not actually a cedar at all, but a cypress. Is it yellow? Yeah, kind of, the scales or "leaves" are yellow in comparison to other conifers. The wood is white, but turns yellow. I built my son's play fort with it and it outlasted everything else. I would use cypress over cedar any time for exterior mill work like window sashes or planter beds.

We have Port Orford Cedar in Southern Oregon too, it's also actually a cypress and has very white wood which stays white and has a really strong smell. They made arrow shafts from this wood. We are battling a disease that has killed these trees by the millions.

Western Red Cedar is not actually a cedar either, but it likes cool wet, shady places. It's a Thuja. I have some old growth stumps that might be 80 years old, still solid, fluted trunks with the spring board notches still plainly visible. As a woodworker, I love the darker brown and reddish tones the wood usually has.

Incense Cedar is a true Cedar. If you've ever sharpened a pencil then you know this smell - as most pencils are made of it. I spent today planting more of it on my place, it likes drier spots than the western red cedar does. When I was grade school kids would sometimes throw up in class, and the custodian had a bucket of incense cedar shavings and he would cover up the vomit with these to absorb the moisture. That smell has thus been equated with that vivid memory for me.

Of course we do not have any Tennessee Red Cedar in Oregon, boy would that be awesome!

And I have a Blue Atlas Cedar in my yard, and what an elegant tree they are! Sorry to go on - but no one has to read all this.

 

So after all that I wonder what the so called cedar that we have around here is. There was a thread here a little while back that got me to thinking it’s actually a juniper of some sort. It had red and sometimes almost purple color. Looks and smells like the stuff cedar chests are made of. I’ll get some pictures tomorrow. It’s almost like a weed around here and will take over pastures.

 

Its actually juniper, but i still call it red cedar and absolutely love the smell of it! Grab some if you can SHB. Dries fast and makes great kindling from what ive told, but the few logs i have i dont have the heart to make kindling out of.

 

I did. I love cedar. Do an occasional cedar roof and will stop all the time to sniff the shingles, especially when the bundles are wet.

 

Yeah!....right...... make kindling out of it
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