OK, I'd like to know if anybody else does this or I'm just a solitary weirdo. I realized I'm a firewood collector. Not in the sense of being a hoarder like all the rest of youse guys, but I tend to pick unusual pieces, chunks with spalting or curl, or even species I don't often encounter, and set them aside. I don't ever burn them. They stay under cover, or even in my shop or basement, nice and warm and dry. Some of it is even still in the woodshed, I have a large yew stump, some mulberry and a whole bunch of juniper branches needing to go into dry storage. There's large pieces of apple and hop hornbeam for future use as tool handles, I have several pieces of curly black locust just sitting there, some hollow logs I may try to make vases out of, birch for craft projects, etc. Someday I plan to take most of it and actually use it for something, but my wife says I'm just a collector. I even have a piece of hard maple, it's been with me for almost 40 years, looks just like Darth Vader's helmet. I probably have a quarter of a cord of random chunks and pieces on shelves, or in boxes, just sitting around.
Completely normal! Some people collect rocks, some collect guns, some automobiles, etc, etc. No judgement here........ You go with it. Sent from my Z832 using Tapatalk
I had a nice collection of little rocks. When I climbed to the top of a volcano I picked a few choice specimens of pyroclastic pumice. I had them in glasses from different places. Kids mixed them all together into a nice pile on my office desk for me one day.
I sometimes will put aside chunks of firewood that have some cool feature to them when I'm splitting "to make something out of some day". Most end up getting burned eventually because who has time to make things?
I have a lot of wood but I cannot say I collect any of it. But collecting things is a fun hobby and it really does not matter what it is. For me it is chainsaws. I do use them and rotate them so they all get used eventually.
We have collected several pieces of driftwood we use for decoration around our place, but so far all our firewood has remained in the woodshed. Still, I'll withhold judgment until I see some pictures.
If you enjoy it, keep on collecting! Heck of a lot cheaper than collecting other things, and it's well seasoned if you do need to burn it.
As I drive around the property today, I realize zed I am collecting rounds and log piles all over. I need to get splitting and stacking...... tons of 6 inch minus ash logs for scrounging. Does that count?
I saved a piece once that had a stain in the shape of a heart on it, was going to give it to the wife but forgot to, not sure if I still have it. We are all weirdos in our own little way.
I think the unique firewood collection idea is neat! I don't collect, although I have collected a single piece of wood (not firewood) that we've had for about 11 years at this point. We call it the Root Poker. My wife and I were camping in Glacier National Park in the summer of 2005. We came across this piece that I'm sure was part of a root. About 3 feet long with a bend at the one end that makes it look like a cane. Well, we started using it as a fire poker for our evening camp fires. And, we liked it so much that we took it home. The Root Poker has now camped in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, the Adirondacks (NY), and North Carolina.
