Oak and only Oak....

My neighbor, he's in his upper 80's, wants only Oak to burn. Even with Locust, Hedge, and Mulberry in his stash. I was over loading his mud room with the last bit of his skid at the house. Went down to his piles to load up some good Mulberry (too much ash) and Locust ( just didn't like it). Then I had to talk him out of the pile of Oak that we had just split two months ago. I ended up loading another skid for this week, by poking around a couple piles. He only got one major pile of dried oak left for this year. If he keeps this up, he'll be burning NG before spring time. Cause last year he tried to burn some "green" oak (25-30%) and just couldnt get it to burn nicely. I ended up taking my moisture meter and explaining him that it was too wet.

I'm kinda of at wits with this. Since I pretty much have supplied him and cut and split for him the last 3 years. But I've gotten no big Oak score the last two years, just small ones. I guess he'll be have to figure out what he'll be doing in the next years as far as supply. I'll continue to cut and split if he needs, but my supply line has been in a drought in that tree. He's got about 2 cords of Mulberry and 2 cords of hedge/locust thats ready.

Just kinda of frustrated...

 

Send him to Mass. we're loaded with oak here

Ray

 

We've got quite abit of Oak around here. But very few opportunities for free Oak. He may just have open up the wallet for a load for next year, if he wants oak.

 

Yep, you are so...so right about that. But I hate to see him waste away the other cords in his shop furnace... but its his. However, when its gone its gone....Kinda of sad, since it is such good wood.

 

I've donated it all so far. But next year will be different, unless something changes. I've ran out of my Oak sources, I gotten a little bit of this and that from my sources.

It just kinda of irritates me that he has about average wood that's dry but he doesn't want to since it's not Oak. Each to there own I guess.

 

He should donate the undesirable wood to you

 

Well, he's my neighbor and he's in his upper 80's and a good friend. Can't really get away from that particular situation, except not to supply him with wood. I guess the mentality / stigma that Oak has, has been in instilled in him. There are many disadvantages to Oak too, like drying time. In which he found out last year. However in his eyes I guess it's advantages outweigh any of its competitors. The main thing that I do it for is that he enjoys wood burning.

 

Brought this back:

Well I just found out this is his last year, probably burning wood. Which is very sad, but he's got nobody to process it but me. And he doesnt want to pay for wood that is processed and dropped off. I don't have the time for both his and mine. He goes through about 10 to 12 cords a year. But he looks forward to it each year. He asked me if I wanted his uncut wood. I said yes... So I'm busting my butt to get mine all processed to make room for it. His underlying health issues is putting a halt to his burning. Sad, but a fact of life I guess. He just can't do it no more at least he's able to get around at about 90.

 

Yea, he's got a big fireplace with a blower (24" to 30" long splits). I tried to get him to move to a newer stove a couple of years ago to save on the wood and would probably do a better job of heating his house. Plus the smaller splits would help him be able to move wood around easier.