Ran by the city dump this morning to check out the log pile. Unfortunately, I just had hand surgery on one hand (I'm in a cast) so I was scouting for future help and loaded some logs one-handed. A lot of Aspen logs and an entire Ash tree. I'll be back! In the summer, I don't see much Aspen logs here. It all burns! Zack
Zack, does the Aspen have more heat potential or hold a fire longer than the Pine that you have so much of there in Wyoming?
I'd say Aspen is the lowest quality firewood I'm looking for, maybe slightly better than Cottonwood. This is my first year gathering my own firewood. I gathered 9 cords, sold off 3. My concern with this hard winter is that I'll run through my 6 cords before summer hits. The mountains where I can ideally grab Ponderosa or Lodgepole are under 2 feet of fresh snow right now. With this place being 15 minutes away from home, I'm just gathering what I can, cutting it and stacking it. I'll come back this weekend and take as many loads of Ash as I can handle.
If I can just keep the bulldozer from pushing everything into the pile. It creates a terrible mess to cut when they do that. Right now, this wood is the only stuff I can get to with the winter snow.
Ok gotta ask. What’s the third pic? Looks like Sassafras to this east coaster. maybe you need a hatcharoon?
Thanks. Years ago before I cared what tree was what I had a job in Enfield doing maintenance on an office building. One morning I arrived and notice all this cotton stuff blowing all over the neighborhood. Bossman called shortly after from Hartford and I mentioned it. He got a good laugh out of it.
That cotton fluff is really bad if it is floating around on a hot day when the AC is running. It doesn't take long to plug up the coils
