Nice load of pin oak today

May have been the most I ever had on the trailer, but had it strapped up pretty well.

 

Impressive load Greg. Gonna run out of pavement at the rate you're going.

 

Curious as to what/how it smelled?

 

IME pin oak has the most "manurey" smell of the all the red oaks ive cut.

 

Red and Black Oak are predominant here on my ground on the Crawford Upland.
It is interesting, some of them smell much stronger than others.

Oh, and editited to add that is a nice load and a nice setup.

 

You would be correct. Reminds me of cleaning horse stalls when I was teen. I love it but some people can't stand the smell, lol...

 

Killer setup there Greg.
I could only dream of having that.
OWB and an area for all your wood and it's not sitting in the mud and dirt.

 

Have your back yard paved???

 

While I love the smell of red, white and chestnut oak which is what I mainly get around here, pin oak does stink a little more when green. But once split and left out it settles down quickly and burns for me just as long as any other oak I have. And unlike the other three, not many people use it for much beyond firewood, though I have heard you can get a few bucks for big logs that they will make into railroad ties. Probably 40% of pile to right in photo is pin oak, 20% red and then other 40% all kinds of things. And none of it seasoned much, but will be fine for OWB by next winter

 

Sticker says 10k, trailer 3k empty, and based on tires I think we may have been pretty close. Thankfully the dump groaned a little, but did dump it.

 

How's the new found power in that saw going?

 

Very thankful for it. I can move the splitter in and out by hand and also the wheel barrows roll easily when needed. Can cut out there almost all year until heavy snows. Pavement has held up ok, only issues being from my own screw ups with grapple

 

The one pictured is my friends, but my 395 runs great. And not to start an argument, sausage fingers told me to run richer fuel mix than standard 50-1 due to what he found when he took it apart. So I did that and now have maybe 5-6 tanks of 40-1 through it. Runs great. Saw is just as heavy as always but you don’t have to hold it as long that’s for sure.

 

I have grabbed pin oak not really thinking about it, to make my slow smoked cheeseburgers. No lie my kids loved those type of burgers, that “crappy” wood made those burgers taste like manure it ruined burgers for my one kid for a while. At first we thought it was the 1/4 beef we bought, nope it’s the poopy pin. Pin oak just for the woodstove.