It's taking up less woodyard space where thet are. Not sure how much better it will get. These trees have been standing dead before we've moved here in 2018.
I tru to always harvest pines and spruces also.....they dry fast and are great for starting/restarting a fire .
I know I'm replying to my own post, but Softwood should not be ignored in my opinion.... It is a dream to move, split and stack. Light weight, highly flammable .....great wood!
Agreed, lots of pine ends up in the dump and it’s a great fire starter wood. You can’t beat it for flames in the fire pit. I need to get some more Short leaf pine logs.
Absolutely! Nothing wrong with those woods either. Being I do tree removals, I can be picky in what I keep. With my limited space, and sometimes long, cold winters and the fact that we heat exclusively with wood, I like to keep the premium BTU stuff.....
I scored 6 pickup loads of BL Memorial Day weekend '22 on a CL score. Some was already dead. I'm looking forward to my first BL experience when cold weather hits.
FHC happiness is… …receiving a text/photo at work from my wife telling me she reloaded the firebox for the first time. I work 12+ hour shifts and keeping the house warm will need to be a shared endeavor. God I love that woman. We’ll learn the finer points of “insert Tetris” in due course (I trolled that whole thread yesterday ) Stove Tetris PS - we let the box cool overnight because the surround gets installed TODAY. No more errors/excuses/problems, fireplace company guys. I really mean it this time! Anyways the house was still nice and warm when I got home and overnight, just with residuals in the box.
Try it on an already-established bed of coals (it's hard to get going in a cold stove) then once it's rolling, choke off the air a bit unless you want to be blasted out of your house by the heat My own preference is to mix it with other species but I have burned it straight before... carefully.
Do I need to worry about the stove filling with coals that need to be burned down? How does it compare in that aspect to other premium firewood?
A fellah we know just "retired" and bought a tree trimmer for his skid steer for a lil side work trimming overhanging branches back along the edges of farmers fields...he is busier than ever now...apparently huge pent up demand! Anyways, my brother called to tell me this guy was trimming the farm across from my parents place because I mentioned wanting to see this machine in action. By the time I picked up brother and went to the farm the trimmer was already loaded on the truck and he was mounting the grapple bucket on the skid steer to clean up all the branches. He said he had cut a lot of pretty big stuff and there was a bunch of locust. He was pushing for time and we decided to go get the dump trailer so he could quickly pile the branches on, then we haul it to a single staging area where the firewood worthy stuff can be cut out in the next few weeks, and the rest then just pushed into the woods (per the land owner) Brother cut some of it a couple weekends back and he thinks there are at least a couple cords here! This is just one load and pile...
IME black locust burns down pretty well; pretty much the opposite of cherry or black/yellow birch. I've nursed coal beds along for many hours, raking the coals forward as needed and the intense heat breaks them down. When you've got a deep black locust coal bed going, open up the air all the way and you'll see the color change to bright white, an indicator that it's putting out some serious temperatures
Looks similar to the jarraffes that were around here cutting along power this past summer. Interesting machines.
I've been burning BL shorts and uglies off and on lately. Yes the coals burn down nicely, producing a boatload of heat in the process.
Look at you with the big bold fonts Randy...Did your neighbor move and now you are gonna start on Scotty??
