Yes, maybe wait and see if pallet hoarding is for you. I bet it grows on you, especially when the weather gets cold and you are scrounging for wood you can burn right away! And it stacks so tightly! And people are happy to give them to you. We had a sticky day, so all I did was strip off black locust bark, and move the splits out of the driveway to the back yard. Not very inspiring, but I needed to clear the decks for processing the oak. I know how lucky I am to have my own chain sharpener. I don't have the patience, but it's a lot like what he does for work, sitting at a bench working on small things with tools.
Midwinter, don't get to caught up, I'm gonna be cutting lots of small Beech when we get up there in October. I have the hotel already booked!
Slim pickings today, but I got a little red oak and some tulip I think. It is possible there is some ash but most likely tulip. I have a little trouble telling the two apart yet. Looks like someone’s been hitting my honey dump. Hopefully not the guy who was filling his truck to “throw in the gully.” I’m not quite sure why you’d want to throw a bunch of rounds in the gully unless you wanted to start a termite farm. There are a bunch of uglies, some “pine” that won’t split, and some big rotted ones.. might as well throw those in the gully.
Rent a tractor trailer and I'll give ya all you can haul back! I'm sure Midwinter will have her fill by next year and I have two more acres to do yet! There's still plenty for her and I'm good for about the next 25 years at least.
No, there is plenty cotton wood in the East and Mid Atlantic region where you are. It's a variety of poplar and I think some call it "Popple" I'm convinced they call it cotton wood because of the fluffy fiber like layer under the bark. Never researched that though.
I remember I used to feel disappointed in myself watching your firewood game always moving full steam ahead without pause .... Now I just accept it
Cotton wood around here developes small seeds surrounded by tufts of what look like cotton. When it comes off the trees, it looks like a snow storm. If that happens on a hot day when the AC is running, you end up with a lot of the cotton matted around the compressor unit. It is a very low BTU wood.
Yes that makes sense, but I have never witnessed that snow storm phenom around here. Probably because I'm not in an area where too many of them trees can gather, or any trees for that matter haha! I have seen that fuzz drifting off trees though. Thanks for setting the record straight Erik.
I have a bunch of cotton wood trees right across the road from our place so we have experienced the snow storm and matting of the AC.
