I started out this morning taking a ride down the local dirt road where I’ve gotten so much downed wood this past year. I bucked a few rounds of white oak with the 455 Husky and noodled them in half. As I was finishing up, a truck pulls up and a guy about my age approaches. He says he owns the horse farm at the end of the road and wants to know if I want some precut crabapple. Being an ultra rare score for me, I happily take him up on his offer. There’s still plenty of oak and crabapple left, and I have his number whenever I have time to make it back. Score!
Definitely a win! The crabapple I've been cutting and burning is a little smelly. Not in a good way either. I burnt some of it in the fire pit on the patio and it smelled like nasty oil. It burns great though, so I'll burn the evidence.
Bummer to hear this. My main reason for wanting it was for cooking turkeys in the pit outdoors. If it's got a funk to it, then it'll just be regular stove wood for me.
I'll try burning more outside, and I'll report back. It's possible I had other things in the pit and that made the smells. I hear some people smoke food with it. If so, this can't be normal. It's a fruit wood. It should be good for that, right?
Looks like you won the hoarding election. Nice find and connection. Always extra sweet to score that rare scrounge. My research and have been told that crab apple is very similar to apple as far as smoking quality and taste. Did you try that crab apple you cut at DG last December?
Not yet, I want to give that another year of drying. I still have a little apple wood leftover from 2020 so no rush to burn it
Another load of white oak. There’s a few more rounds left but I’m not too crazy about the knotty/crotchety section, and the rotted area at the butt end.
As nasty as some of those crotches can be, they often burn extra long. At5 least that's what I've found with the oak ones.
There’s still some white oak to be picked away at, but this is the last of the really nice sections. I then topped off the load with whatever apple wood I could fit.
Id be leaving the knotty part of that too. Us CT hoarders are quite the wood snobs! How much more crabapple does he have?
