Friday evening... Done with work week... Tired... Heading home, almost 2/3 the way. I look down a side street and see a tree tree work being done and lotsa of wood on the ground. I of course lost the tiredness. Get to the next intersection and get a turn around. Talk to him, then head off to go get my trailer. By the time I get back the main trunk was knocked down. Probably 40" across, stuck right between two house. Any ways the young man loads up my trailer in no time flat and with easy...
Leaves look like pin oak. It will stink when split, but smell good when burning...great grab...hope you can get more...
... The minute I got out of the truck the smell was wonderful.... But then again I love the smell of red oak... Kinda of like back at home... When the wind was out of the east you could smell the Dairy farm a just a few miles away... Always said you could smell the money....
Yea, the owner told me to tell him to stop or he'd keep loading... ... That trailers good for about 7500 lbs...
yes, and he was cherry picking the better ones for me. By passed a few of the splits. It was nice to see that. But beggars cant be choosers when its free and easy.... The opportunity presented itself and I could't pass up with them doing the work... and they told me Thank you it saved them about 1 1/2 hour on the job since they would have to have came back to get the the rest... Thanks... Sometimes my eyes wonder for the right reason....
Some good stuff there Kevin! Funny how wood score adrenaline trumps being tired aint it? Know from experience. Great that you were close to home and got it loaded.for you.
When it comes to scrounging I am jealous of many of you and hardwood to boot. I will just live vicariously because I am not leaving Alaska.
When I can find it I will harvest it in a heartbeat. White birch is the best wood we have. Also worth mentioning is the cold climate, the species we speak of are of a higher quality than a warmer climate can produce. For instance I know that in many places the white birch is a landscape shrub (multiple stem) or tree that is nice to look at but is very poor quality wood for our purposes. It would certainly take some scientific data to have a true comparison of how the boreal forest trees compare to different regions of the 48. I have to go back over 30 years to remember what burning red oak is like. We have fun comparing our different species and their BTU’s, but let’s us not forget that our daily mean temperatures are significantly different. For many it’s hard to fathom that it’s not out of the normal to have lows ranging from -40 to -60 for several months. Think of the temp difference between inside of 72*-75* and the outside temperature. I have just started my heating season and will burn into May. Let’s use 260 heating days the fact that I only go through 20-25 cords of wood a year shows the quality of BTU’s the white spruce and white birch have.
Rope we were just discussing this sort of thing over the weekend and I mentioned the difference even between our popple and the popple in the far north. Same tree but a whole lot different. I figure it has to have something to do with the shorter growing season but I could be wrong.
Dang! That is some huge wood! I agree with Rope - I’d kill for some Oak of that size. Hardwood doesn’t like our altitude and cold winters here. The best wood I have here is Doug Fir. I can get hardwood in the city, but it’s a bit of a drive.
