Fire Photos from burning scrap: Much more to come as I continue on my journeys. I hope you enjoy T2 Tappin'
damm! That's some freaking nice porn there. I have to admit i love the red oak number 1 with your fine ax over that pile! The wood color looks like a blend of cedar and redwood, eye popping for sure. Reading here I don't know how much difficulty that job was for splitting. I'm thinking how oak can be a toss up because I read on here some people have difficulty splitting it dry.
Holy cow! Someone has been rolling some btu's. Thanks for the pictures they are awesome with huge oaks and a hand fell tree.
Nice job with the ax work - good idea to find out how much rot is in those standing dead before you start cutting. Sometimes all you have to do is touch them and they fall over.
I appreciate the kind words y'all. I started on all these Dec 11. It's taken me a good bit longer than I anticipated since I'm only able to work 1-3 hours a day after work. With the days getting longer hopefully I'll be able to get more done. Never can have enough wood reserves It will take some of this through the summer to season it's so wet. Just finished the Pin Oak and Maple yesterday evening. My 562 is getting a firmware update at the shop so the 340/345 hybrid got fed heavily. Never skipped a beat though. Got to pick up the 562 late this afternoon. Some of this red oak has had some deep color for sure. It hasn't been too hard splitting the red oak since most of it has such a high water content. I have used the splitter on some of it that has a lot of knots or the pieces that are near the crotch of the tree. The white oak was really stringy though. It was a job even with the splitter. The Maple splits great. Nice clean splits with the pieces cut 18" long. I really enjoyed taking the one down by hand. It's nice to switch things up every now and then. Made a place for the deer to eat some corn out of the stump of that one. That's why I left it about 24" high. I got a good friend of mine that owns a local tree company and he always teaches his fellers to clean the rot off the cutting area before felling. Not only to make a good cut but for safety. Learned it from him 6 years ago and have done it ever since. Dead standers can be some risky felling. Here is one more pic of Red Oak 1 that I found scanning through my pics T2 Tappin'
I know that is fire wood but seeing that wood be like a table, some preserved cut would be nice to look at! Its all the same though! Looks good.
Thanks for the pictures and that is some mighty fine firewood there. But I can just imagine some of the guys on here that hate the smell of red oak. I hope they didn't look at the pictures after they ate. Personally, I still like the smell of red oak and even pin oak. Cottonwood and willow is not my favorite though and neither is thorn apple. But most smells don't get to me like they do other folks. Someone told me back in the days of sawing lumber I could stand the smells better because I grew up cleaning cow stables.
