The first time I got wood from this guy was a long time ago when he was cutting a neighbors tree. He knocked on my door and he's been bringing me...
My local tree man called me yesterday and said he had a few pieces of norway maple and a lot of red oak. I wasn’t going to say no. Their...
Keep in mind that at 20%, the wood that you are feeding the fire with is 1/6th water by weight. In a campfire burn you are heating the middle so...
Purely by age. It gets split and stacked in the order that my tree guys bring it to me. I never sort by species. It tended to to run over half...
My 16" stick eventually evolved into putting a 16" handle on a pickaroon. Dual purpose tool.
Tree guy texted me yesterday. Said Black Birch. Naturally I replied yes. Decent load. Not too big, not too small. The Is only punky for...
//Sarcasm on Looks like a lot of chimney fires just waiting to happen..... :thumbs: //Sarcasm off
How were they kept prior to you bringing them in? Shed/covered stack/uncovered? Whatever your doing it is right.
For log length on the ground with loose bark (maybe a layer of punk) a good hoe does the trick. A Rogue Hoe Travis Tool meets the bill. For...
When did your land revert back to woods from fields? Trees 2 and 3 look like classic wolf trees. That is a tree that was not cut when the...
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the technique is to plunge almost all the way, then cut down. At this point you are cutting the bark and dirt...
I didn't think about it before but I believe me tossing the beer that night gave me a 'hard' starting point instead of just waking up feeling like...
And black birch has way more BTU than cherry variants.
Looks great! I love it when the tree guys bring me that stuff. Getting it green and healthy is a good thing, it does not have pockets of rot in it.
Its been 120 days with no alcohol for me. I think the longest in my adult life. I always drank too much, never could stop once I started. It...
I consider back saving/wood handling tools tools a necessity for which I prefer a pickaroon and pulp hooks. A peavey is a necessity to deal with...
Get a peavey/cant for sure. And have wedges on hand. If a log is too big or lopsided to roll look for a high spot that you can clear under and...
The rounds look like they will be pretty easy to roll if its at all downhill. Get yourself a pickaroon, they are a great tool for handling...
I looked in my kids bathroom this morning and saw a roll of paper towels on the floor by the toilet. Upon further inspection I saw that there was...
I've found that green and alive Oak, fresh off the stump, is about 75-80% Figured out with a scale and time. Yep, its down to where it takes...
