What is wrong with me and my wood addiction...lol?

I MUST BE SICK. I just did the opposite of this thread. I JUST TURNED DOWN WOOD. A friend I've known since childhood, lives about 2 miles from me, just called, said he was fixing to take down 2 big pecan trees with excavator. Did I want any of it??? I must have a fever....said I was swamped with wood right now....might have been scared of what hunny bunny would do........ believe me, if he had said oak or hickory, I would have taken my chances with her...

 

Pecan! U turned that down? How far do I need to travel


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Middle Georgia, probably 600-700 miles. I'll tell him to save it for ya...

 

Hah! My F150 suspension won’t make it that far...damm! If they can save it for 10 years I plan on retiring in SC around then


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Uh oh, this isnt good! What would the mrs. do? Did you want us FHC guys to talk to her for ya? Im sure we could convince her!
What is pecan like to process? Split easy by hand?

 

It will haunt you on sleepless nights... the pecan you refused!

 

I would take that wood just to smoke meat....yum, yum, yum....mmmmm


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Some will split ok by hand, then you get the twisted pieces, about like hickory. Most pecan wood you get are limbs, because the trees are cut back to make more limbs , thus more pecans.
It's a great smoking/cooking wood, pops a good bit, so it needs to burn in a stove, makes a good bit of fluffy ash and small coals.

 

How far have you gone with the F150 to get a load of wood and how full was it? I drove 1 1/2 hrs across Connecticut to help a friend cut some wood last Summer then drove home with a heaping truck full! Sugar maple, red oak and ash if i remember correctly!

 

Welcome to the club cigarsmokingzombie

No need to worry. You'll get lots of 'help' for your addiction here. Eventually you'll get the urge to buy more chainsaws, axes, mauls, wedges, hookaroons, etc. and maybe build a wood shed or three.....

 

I get about 1/3 chord per trip in my truck, so try to keep my distances less than 90 miles one way. I’m thinking 1/3 chord is worth about $60 and gas for 45 miles is $10-15 so I’m making off when it comes to dollars and cents not including the exercise and joy of doing it.

Only problem is the wear and tear on my new truck. When i fill up the back, it looks like it’s ready for takeoff. I can barely see over the dash.



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Thanks. I have a woodshed now that can hold 15+ chords. Only problem....it’s empty!


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Welcome cigarsmokingzombie , You’re gonna like it here, I guarantee it-We like pics, dogs and beer. We also like spending your money on accoutrements to enhance your addiction, er, hoard. So you’re off to a good start and nothing is wrong with you. For example, if you need a new saw, any hoarding tools regardless of cost, just ask us and we’ll give you the green light-It’s that simple! Sweet dump trailer btw. Nice to meet you

 

Thanks
For all the warm welcomes fellas.


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Have you considered coil over shocks or air bags? When we got our dump trailer, I had to add bags to our F150, to help level it out. Easier than hooking up a weight distribution hitch each time. If you are gonna haul with your truck, that would be a good upgrade. You can get complete kits that have bags, tubing, fittings and compressor or just bag system and put air it them when you need it.
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Good thing about bags is you can adjust the ride, with shocks, you can't.

 

She would probably just roll her eyes, tell me I'm crazy and go help me...lol
She doesn't like it when she starts splitting some that is spalted and it breaks off, she says it's rotten. I will do a short video of our inventory, might understand why she feels that way. I have some logs covered up that are 3+ yrs old. Some in my stacks that are 18 months+ old. Between my regular job and side jobs of cutting grass, putting on a few metal roofs, building a mud room in our house, it got left behind..

 

Yes, welcome cigarsmokingzombie, these people will help you. By help I mean add to, and support, not resolve or aliveate, a wood hoarding addiction. I don’t think it’s been a month yet since I joined. I have got more wood split & stacked in my yard than ever. ( might have enough for next season already) Plus have 2 of the nicest & biggest stacks I’ve ever made that are at my work ( wood heat there also) with more to process at both sites. They just keep saying things like “ nice stack, now make it taller.....” welcome

 

Wider is fine too...

 

Great job! Nice post, too!



Now get outside and get back at it!