Gonna be a busy today. I grabbed some Alder out in Puyallup today. Big pile of trees. Some 18-24”. Now head home, check on the pork shoulder, friends coming over this afternoon, looks like I’m gonna split this and chill out. damm saw lost a bar nut and this nut forgot his spare nuts.
That is some great looking wood! I bet there was some rubbernecking when your trailer was rolling home.
Saw this on Next door. It's about 3 minutes from my house. I already have more firewood than I can handle though.
I love how alder splits so dang easily. It’s versatile, clean,and doesn’t stink. If it rots, it’s obvious to tell.
FatBoy85 I lost a bar nut last year or the year before. I was deep in the woods half way through my harvesting and noticed it missing. I was so annoyed at myself as production had to halt and a trip out of the bush and into to town was in order. I lost half a day because of one nut.... I vowed it would not happen again. I have yet to keep a spare nut in my kit but thanks to you sir it gave me a reminder to buy one!
It dries quickly and is usually pretty straight. I've got burns from alder that are way longer than would be expected based on btu ratings. The only downside is how much ash it leaves.
I kept a baggie of them because that very thing happened and when I went to look they weren’t there. bummer on my part! I should have had them in my tool box no excuses. well I’ll go get it taken care of .
I should have done that yesterday, it was such a nice day. Right now its still dark and rainy as ever. Storm rolled in this morning. But will get a shot soon.
I buy them in ten packs off EBay. Pretty inexpensive and a task saver. Had a Stihl notorious for that. Now I keep a supply of them for each saw. I have a problem with misplaced scwrenches, and buy an extra cheapo one whenever I happen across it.
Sourwood, sounds like a good idea. I just felt foolish that I left my supply of them elsewhere and well you know the drill. Anyways here’s the one for yooperdave I split what was easiest at the time. Now gotta figure out where these splits will go next, time to build another rack or stack on one I have.
When you're out there with the camera once again, take a pic or two of the inside of the split, please.
Or Hoh Rain Forest. There’s this place too: Hoquiam: this seems to be an interpretation of the Indian word “ho-qui-umpts” which means “hungry for wood” which refers to the driftwood at the mouth of the river. Tumwater.
I grabbed one that was reddish orange on the ends and split it fresh as you see. It’s more of an off-white color. Freshly split here. Really pretty color but it doesn’t last long. However down here is when I split it yesterday, that pretty white-yellow like before and this happens. Color leaches out all over. That’s why when you cut it, later the red orange pigment can get all over you. Alder here is such a great staple. Very plentiful and hard to go wrong with it. Very versatile and burns clean. blacktail said about the ashes, he’s right I just compacted the ashes a lot as I loaded wood again and again. These are split large as I liked how well they burned from my last load beginning of the burn season. Some consider it a garbage tree but no sir, far from it and its heat is worth the work.
