So, I have been quiet because I have been knocked down a notch by evil cold germs, shared to me by the kiddos. Feeling too ill to process firewood has not stopped me from thinking about firewood... maybe even obsessing. As I spent the last couple days stuck inside, I started cruising Craigslist. After a while, I decided it would not hurt to place my own ad. I stated people in my area can drop tree waste off at my house. Not even 24hrs after posting it, I now have a pile of pear wood! As a bonus, when I came in after helping unload the pear tree I got an email response from someone with logs I can pick up. Not as cool as delivered but still free. Check out the last pic, a brick has grown into the crotch of the pear tree. So even though I have been sick, the hoarding NEVER stops.
Nice work! Cant beat free... Get feelin' better, cause it looks like you've got some wood to work on....
hope you have a mechanical wood splitter to use with that. All that twisted and crotched stuff is just too much to split with a maul. Should be real nice to burn once tamed into reasonable sized fire wood.
I drove by a sign the other day that said free wood; all the wood was gone and I thought isn't that typical to see a free wood sign after all the wood is gone.
I am making a pile to save for when I get a splitter. The pear in the pics is not the best, it is riddled with beetle holes. Still gonna stack it and burn it someday.
Well, all I did was move the pear. To me, the pile looked so beetle eaten and old that the big bad wolf could blow it away. Those twisty old branches are tough as nails, and the chunks weigh soooo much! I am not even gonna try to split anything under 6", just cut and stack. The big stuff will go to the "save for da splittah" pile. About the toughness of this wood, I could pick up a very heavy round by a branch sticking out of the side, the size of my finger, and it did not snap off. The branch, not my finger lol. Hey, it was free and came to my house... It is now stacked on pallets in my processing zone.
Nice score! I've heard they graft pear trees into filbert root stocks around this area to improve their survival chances. My parents have a couple on their farm, and they're heavy with pears right now. One of them is completely hollow but it still probably has over a hundred pounds of pears hanging off of it. If they're anything like my parents trees, they'll be tough, knotty, twisted up trees - probably not much fun to split by hand. But those fruit trees pack a ton of btus and smell great to burn. Save some for the smoker!
Smart thinking dusky... Get THEM to bring it to YOU! Even if it's a bear to split- sounds like you've got a plan, and that's half the battle! Gooder for you, and get rid of them evil germs!
