Douglas fir?

Finally got around to taking down the dying fir tree. Believe it to be a Douglas. Hand split it with the isocore and stacked it. Easy splitting for the most part. Seems like it’s going to burn hot, better than average shoulder wood? I’ll find out in a year or two. Came out close to a cord, kept everything 3” diameter and up. Now I’m working on the stump, which is why I cut it high.

 

Nice work Winston! Did it smell like fresh cut framing lumber? Is the whole stump getting dug by hand or pulled out some how?
Not in a hurry to hit that BIG white oak?
Is that a new Stihl?

 

Ha! White oak is still going to happen. Probably not going to buy a new saw, using the same mentality as with the insert upgrade going to run it until it dies, I want every penny of savings from wood burning.

 

Douglas fir is great wood. Here in the PNW it is our go-to firewood.

 

That looks an awful lot like the fir tree that died in the back yard here a few years back.
Never knew what kind of fir except for it wasn't a balsam fir. It was an oddball in a package of Christmas tree seedlings from the late fifties that got planted in a windbreak instead of in the Christmas tree acre. The only trees left in that windbreak are Norway Spruce .

 

After a lot of digging I’ve now accomplished the bomb crater look for the lawn.

 

Everyone needs a hole in their yard to play with their toys in.

 

Said the same thing to the wife. Why bother with trampoline and swing set when a hole is obviously more fun. Same deal with a big cardboard box.