Long time pellet burner making preparations to journey to the wood world. First scrounge ever tonight. Power utility dropping lots of trees around here. New saw(echo cs-400), and this was its first run in anger. Just cut a few things. I still need to build a proper stack area, so I didn't want to go overboard and have no where to put the wood but on the ground. Going to get the stack space prepped and built this weekend, and then I can process with the maul. Customary pics or it didn't happen proof attached. Earl
Good start Earl. I was wondering why you are switching over to wood from pellets. I know for myself I like the exercise and the free BYU's and I know some others have grown up with it so it is what they are familiar with. You have a good saw so just keep up with the free wood.
It's all over but the crying ( heard it in a song ) we converted from coal ourselves. Im with mag I do it for the exercise and all those btu's we are surrounded by . 2 stroke smell = freedom
Earl, you can stack the wood on the ground and get along just fine. Just lay down something under the wood like landscape timbers or do like we do, cut some saplings in the woods, lay those down and stack on top of them. Just so your wood stays off the ground and out of water is all you need. Then top cover the stacks.
If there is wood to be scrounged in your area, I'd scrounge as much as you can as fast as you can. Scrounging is a feast or famine, and you never know when the next easy scrounge will come along.
Hi. Get the wood while it's available, once you've got it home it's not going to start rotting spending a couple of months on the ground so you'll have time to process and get it stacked. You'll kick yourself if you don't get all you can while it's available
You will find once you start cutting, splitting, stacking (css) firewood, that it is a lot easier than trying to css pellets.
FYI I burn a few pellets in my woodstove. My lighting practices came from Pallet Pete . Get a good base of coals going! Been doing it all season!
We will continue to have a pellet stove. It's just too convenient. We will be moving to a free standing pellet stove to get the fireplace back. Eventually a stove in the fireplace. The wood will need the drying time, so starting now.
Used the maul for the first time on these rounds. Most were ok but a couple kind of laughed at it, and the maul didn't even phase them. One had an interesting interior wood pattern. I will need to get pictures.
