This weekend was one that I was actually looking forward to it raining the entire time like the forecast said so I wouldn't have a reason to be outside and could get a good start framing the basement. But it was sunny in the morning, so I decided I should mow while I could. Then while mowing around one of my pine trees I realized something looked funny, turns out one of my larger cedar trees had snapped in half and fell into one of my pines the night before in a storm. So 4 hours later the ceder tree is pulled out of the pine (thanks to the neighbor seeing what I was doing and bringing over his Kubota, my little Wheel Horse didn't have quite enough weight to drag it out), and it's all cut up and all the limbs dragged to the burn pile and have been turned to ashes. And it's still sunny out! It didn't start raining until I opened the garage door and set up my miter saw. I only got one wall put up in the basement, I had planned to get through 3 walls yesterday. All for a few rounds or firewood that's not good for much other than the fire pit.
You oughtta consider turning that cedar into kindling. Nothing better than a few small splits of cedar to get a fire going in the stove. That's all I use for kindling here.
Weather has been messing with my schedule also. I've been needing to spray some invasives but the constant threat of rain and the runoff thereafter has been discouraging. I spent a couple hours weedeating yesterday instead. 60% chance today...maybe I'll bush hog a little.
I use 1/4 of a Super Cedar round. I tried splitting kindling for a few years, but I start 1-2 fires a day with my stove and decided it's not worth my time and effort to make kindling when a Super Cedar can light up small logs.
I'm pretty frugal (cheapskate, in the words of my coworkers) so I try to spend as little as possible on things. Cedar can be a pain to split though, unless it's the old-growth variety.
When we were young we did some weedeating too. We soon realized that tomatoes and lettuce, as well as broccilli and zuchinni tasted so much better.
I got a bunch of the cedar last year freshly cut, so aromatic. The cub cadet split it up like nobodys business. I really look forward to burning it. I've never had much of it, variety is the spice of life. It went toward the three year plan, soon to be the four year plan.
It can be! I figured since there was only 6 or so larger rounds I'd just use the Fiskars instead of getting the hydraulic splitter out. I regret that now, I spent more time prying the Fiskars out of half split logs than the time it would have taken to just gas up the splitter.
I too love cedar for kindling. I just came across some cedar shingle scraps that will soon be kindling.
We use 1/4 super cedar too but still enjoy making and using some kindling. Still helps get the fires going just a little bit quicker.
Here's a couple pics after I finished up last night. Outer walls have insulation installed and have been framed. Next is to frame up interior walls to create a few rooms; a workout room, home office, and kids play area. The previous owner had already started to finish the basement, so there's a large storage area you can't see to the left and then a laundry room and closet to the right already finished. And they boxed in the I-beam and support posts. There's a grid for a drop ceiling already hung too, but I'm not sure if I'll try to re-use it or not.
