Ooh somat to do this afternoon . A free eucalyptus, not the best I read but frees free . Besides my van smells cool and my heads clear
Think it was overtaking her garden , she had it felled but needed rid of the wood . Always happy to help
I burned some eucalyptus when I lived in So. Cal. Some of it wouldn't burn at all--even after a year sitting out in the So. Cal. sun, while other stuff would burn ok. Not great, but ok. I didn't burn much tho.
Question for my learned friends 3” or less branches of eucalyptus what’s chances of them seasoning , there around 12” in length ?
Shouldn't be a problem Grahamt, I literally have tons of eucalyptus that size, just give it a couple of years to season. I don't split anything under 5", and eucalyptus is 95% of my wood supply. Oh and once properly seasoned it burns great. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
...wow.... a real blast from the past. I don't remember the gum tree...but sure remember Elitchs. It was a beautiful place. Went there many times when I was a kid. They had beautiful, private picnic spots throughout the park. Mom would always make a fun picnic meal. We would eat and then ride all...well not all the rides. The summer after my soph. yr in high school I worked there. I was on the trash crew. 6am-3pm. We cleaned up the park before it opened at noon. Then we kept all the trash cans emptied. The best job on Fri afternoon was waxing the floor of the Trocadero Ball room. It was a hard wood dance floor, like a basket ball court. ....about the same size. There would be big band dancing on Fri-Sat night. You used a 16" wide push broom and that saw dust w/wax in it. Slooooowly, on a hot afternoon, you made tiny strokes, pushing that saw dust across the floor. Great memories! Thanks!
I had my fun there as a visitor mid 70's - mid 80's, what a BLAST!! And yes I contributed to the gum tree in the line for the ride Too cool you worked there. I took a baseboard from the tiny closet at my great grandparents that my grandparents ended up living in, house in Henderson Colorado as a momento (they sold it to the fire dept to burn as practice for fire fighters )-- I found 1/2 a ticket stub behind that baseboard to a theater. I recall researching it a couple decades or so ago and I was led to Elitches ballrooms but could not confirm it. It was dated 1924. I must scare that up again though I have not seen it since we moved here a few years ago. I remember stories my father has told me stories about helping the janitor in his grammer school, ( Hazeltine grades K-8 ) they used sawdust soaked in oily chemicals that the pushed/swept across the hardwood floors. I'm entranced with both my
Pretty good actually. There are many different types of gum but if you give them plenty of time to season any type should burn long and hot. It's the main hardwood sold as firewood in NZ and it's very well regarded.
Since this site is so blatantly north hemispherist (south hemisphobic?), here is some info to warm the cockles of your heart until your gum is ready. Gum Firewood - FirewoodNZ
Good score. Really good firewood but split the larger rounds ASAP as splitting it without hydraulics as it starts to dry out is a MASSIVE pain in the backside..
