Spent some time at a friend's place this morning. Taking down some small trees and cleaning up some downfalls. A mix of oak, and tri-birch(Black, White, and Silver, I believe) I caught some of the birch, about 6months before it was too late. Like zombies it was in the process of turning. I'm guessing about 2-3 weeks of heat out of the effort. The morning's scrounge is what is laying against the larger logs below. x27 for perspective. I'll be cutting lengthwise grooves(opposing sides) into the birch, before cutting to stove length. Hopefully, I"ll get to them, and the remaining logs this weekend, as it is supposed to rain tomorrow.
You might be a bit disappointed in some of that birch but the rest looks good. Just throw the birch on top when you build a fire.
If some of the birch is really too far gone, I'll smack it to bust it up, and put the bark aside for fire-starting. Most of that load was live and standing. It was just in the way, or leaning over his lawn. Thanks!!
I got to some stuff like that not too long ago. Fortunately for me it wasn't much but likely to use it as fire topper. The junk pile will grow from here.
That's why you have to split all sizes of birch,' even the small stuff will get punky "Dead standing birch, is already punky "
This is why Im kinda freaking out more and more on my pile. Im probably halfway done ish but most of the logs or wood I have now has been cut so theres no danger of it going punk but the heart wood is tight so it doesn't split well it chunks. Sapwood actually splits really well without much effort. The biggest rounds were about 2 feet diameter, noodled for me. So Im going to split what Rounds I can and then get some hydraulics to work for me. Dang elbow pieces are just about the tightest grain.
I have another thread about those. They are what's left of a load of delivered logs I bought. In the background you see the growing split pile. The remaining legs are oak. Probably red Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
Nice score. I'll burn punky wood, my stove doesn't know the difference as long as its dry. I don't know that I've ever seen birch or if we even have it around here. I have a lot of hackberry and it goes punky relatively quick. On the other hand, I've found black walnut and ash before that looked like hell on the outside, thought what the hell I'll cut it, and turned out to still be pretty nice wood.
Yeah. Funny thing. Some speices rot from the heart wood out. While others seem to rot from the bark inwards. If the heart wood is still solid, I'll stack it and cover it to dry so it'll be used the next season. Sent from my XT1030 using Tapatalk
