Most annoying waste of firewood...

Logging landings in state forest land, why can't they leave the gate open and let people cut the butt piles and some of the tops after there done logging? I'd gladly even buy a permit for that, most the ones around here even have nice gravel roads going to them so its not like your tearing anything up drive to them, but no lock up the gates and let it rot. Really gets my blood boiling!!!

 

My biggest pet peeve of wood wasting is this. When i stop and inquire about wood in front of or in someones yard and they are keeping it. Then i go by on a regular basis and see the same pile, saturated, slowly rotting away months, year later.

Another is when i give wood away to friends/family and it doesnt get stacked/used right away and they complain its not seasoned.

I dont always mind seeing wood decay in the woods. Its the natural order of things. Ill leave some behind if i end taking any.

 

Gonna bump this thread.
I found a new use for those ugly crotch pieces.
Bowl blanks for woodturning. So if you want...
Give me your crotch!

Here's how i deal with them. (Bandsaw)

 

And today i found ambrosia in a maple branch that fell on the neighbor's road where i cut. I had to cut it off the road to drag logs so i cut it up for firewood and the crotch i hauled in to the bandsaw. I was happy when i saw the ambrosia beetle holes.

 

Cant wait to see the finished bowl Tim.

 

And more pics of the process!!
Sca

 

Whick process?
From log to bowl blank? Or bowl blank to bowl?

 

Both.
I watched a fellow turn a bowl on a huge lathe years ago....had burls all over his shop, and some neat bowls, pitchers, plates. Sold them locally. This was before "online"!

I come across burls (mostly smaller) and don't know what to do with them. A variety of coasters, candy dishes etc., would be fun to build. If it didn't require a lathe.
You got my curiosity.
Sca

 

Wish you lived closer. It's a pretty fun hobby. But takes a lot of time.

 

What annoys me currently is when someone cries about not having any firewood all winter and I drop them off several scrounges the previous year which are still sitting rotting away.

 

Im surprised Eric VW hasnt replied to this comment!

 

Not to kick you while you’re down, but most often, it’s “we take the wood and the removal price is higher”

 

Oh give him time...lol

 

I get annoyed at the farmers' burn piles too. And the fact that most of the trees in the Dakotas were planted after the Dust Bowl (some call it the "Dirty 30's") to help prevent soil erosion from wind. They're ripping up these shelter belts just to get a few more bushels every year. If they would just pay attention to history or spoke with their grandparents once they would know why the trees were planted in the first place.

 

You know… I never know that?! I should have , but for some reason never did. I know shelter belts were planted to protect homesteads etc… but always wondered way random tree belts and tree fence lines are there. Although there’s not much of them left.

There a lot of things going on now that could repeat the dust bowl!!

 

Ya I feel Ya.There was a fella who had some maple piled in his yard.I asked one day if he had no use for it I'll take it off his hands.He said no I'll be using it.Time went by and one day he said I could have.By that time the wood had rotted.Go figure !

 

Did you ever wonder what the "Soil Conservation Districts" do?? They plant and sell trees. It all makes sense when you think about it...

 

If ya bury them then they’ll breed and reproduce more rocks

 

Not if we give them these!





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