It's not that serious where you have to put a piece at a time just half a load with other solid wood. I cover all my wood once it's split and stacked, so not a big deal to me
There are many people who went against popular opinion and ended up doing great things. Don't let our opinions stop you from doing what you think is best. But as always, you will need to provide us with pics of the project. If I was doing the project, I'd probably want to use a band saw. Good luck.
I agree if you want to do it, do it. I think a shave horse and a drawknife would do the trick real well
Chuck it in the stove as is one piece at a time. I used to fart around shaving off some punk with the axe, but it's a losing proposition. Burns quicker, seemingly more ashes, and sometimes gross window.
Yeah this stuff could really touch off fast. I would throw caution to how quickly it wouod be up in flames. Paper is close.
Midwinter just remember that this is very typical for oak. It just does that. Most folks pay no attention to it; only those who don't top cover the wood. The outside layer of oak just simply turns to punk really quick; its the nature of the thing. Just work with it.
I was wondering about this situation myself. I just took down a cherry that I thought was completely shot and to my surprise it was solid in the center! I was figuring on just splitting it and burning it and what ever fell off in the process was fine. I had thoughts of tuning it up with the hatchet too but you guys talked me out of it
I burned dead standing dead punky oak for three Winters. It burned great. There was absolutely NO issues with the punk burning "explosively" or even inordinately. Anywhere from none to several inches thick. It did make a little bit more mess handling it. Nothing a dustpan and dustpan brush couldn't deal with. Unless you're putting together designer bundles for muchos dineros seems like totally wasted effort to me.
Some standing dead trees quickly become worthless, but the Black Cherry is great, albeit messy. I just burn it, and never thought to worry about the stove not handling it. When I was starting from the zero-year plan, standing dead cherry got me through.
Be sure to send pictures of the resulting mess when you're done shaving. Where's all the trimmings going? Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
Dry it and burn it, don't throw the BTU's away. I dont think you can tell the difference in the heat and the fire will not care. Send it to the stove.
And then straight into one of these!!! Okay.. You can't get those exact ones anymore, but load it with punk and use it for fire starters or do what I do with splitter scraps and just toss the bag in the stove...
A nice, wide hewing axe would work well. I'd just season it and burn it. I'm burning a bunch of dry, punky maple right now with one solid maple piece per load. No issues, lighys well and good for shoulder season.
We cut a bunch of other wood today, but did one piece of punky oak just to see. Two quick cuts, and the result: We'll do the rest tomorrow.
Just dry it out and burn it all. Even the punky outer layer has BTUs. And punky oak wood when completely dry still burns pretty long surprisingly. Why create all that extra work for yourself?
So you’re going to burn it anyway? After you separate it off the solid piece? Definitely a lot of extra work. If you want to use it as a firestarter just let it sit on the log. It will act the same way all intact as one piece.
It is extra work, not a lot of extra work because I don't have a lot of punky wood. The deal breaker for me is, it flakes off onto everything when carried in the house. Yes, you can put it in a paper bag, and put the bag right in the stove, but I'd rather just zip it off outside and have a nice solid block of wood. That's just me. I take the bark off wood sometimes too, if the bark is nasty.
