The Dump Smelled Nice Today!

Had to make a recycling run today and that meant stopping by the compost area to check for wood. It had rained and they were grinding so slim pickings. A load came in while i was there but mystery wood i think was box elder (see separate thread). Grabbed some Eastern red cedar (juniper) logs to make kindling. May save this one and make some cookies. Split a couple when i got home before dusk. Not used to making this many splits from one log.

 

I love the dump! It's like a gold mine of stuff!

And I love me some juniper too. Very nice kindling production btw. Must have smelled amazing.

 

The one looks like a 3 leaf clover. Make a cookie out of it and then paint the white part green with a red center, might look kinda cool.

 

Very faint at the dump but the splits yes. I filled an empty box with the splits and put it in the laundry room next to the furnace. Im wondering if it will smell like cedar soon?
I was trying to take the knot free rounds. Have to buck to correct length too. I may tinker tomorrow.

 

I wont split that one up and will cookie it. Just wondering what would be a good thickness?

 

Cool colors Brad!!!

 

Very cool.. I would have grabbed every bit of that Cedar too!

 

Beautiful looking kindling!

 

Just went downstairs to put laundry in the hamper and got halfway down the stairs and could smell the cedar. Maybe ill put a bag of kindling in every room down there. We live in a raised ranch and the lower level just used for storage.

 

Is that beech up on the left side of the pile?

 

That wasn't the dump that was smelling nice!

 

That looks like Purple heart! That's pretty exotic wood, but I don't think its around here. Purple heart is great for carving and other woodwork. Not sure of the BTU's though.

 

I thought Box elder only had a red streak running through it.

 

Just about spit my coffee when I read the title of this thread! It reminded me of a joke someone had told decades.

A boy and girl were parking and he asked her what she wanted. She whispered "Kiss me where it stinks". He started the car and drove to the town dump.

 

I love red cedar. It can get tough to split when you get to the branches though

 

I've messed with a bunch of cedar and you don't want to cut it to thin, it will crack on you. I have some night stands made from some that are 2&1/2 inches thick and they are 12 years old, no cracks or checking.

 

Nice find Brad! Amazing what people drop there. I've seen some pretty decent piles of good hardwood there a few years back.

 

Ha!, I had to read it twice as well. I'm happy to see someone else has a dark side.

 

You want kindling? How many trailers of pine logs you want me to drop off?

 

Not sure. It gets to be a tangled mess when the huge payloader scoops and pushes it up into the pile. There were some massive logs on that side.