Am I the only one who would rather nurse a marginal coal back to life than use a match? This time of year I don't need to burn around the clock....
And here we have the correct answer! You use what you've got to do the best you can in the time you've got. I've used galvanized pipe on...
+1 on the Atlas thermals
I've put wood in piles and wood in rows. It all goes in my pole barn so it does not get rained on. Rows take a lot more work. After several...
Any soot I've had burns off with a sufficiently hot fire. I just had some soot on my glass this evening from a log that slid forward. I turned...
I split by hand and I know you are trying to avoid the axe but I think this would work fine on a splitter. I just split it right near the punk....
It's hard to say. Usually about a year. I've had them at 6 months or so. Some species are slower like 2 years. Oysters are fairly aggressive...
[ATTACH] Beer can aluminum makes a label that will outlast the log. I can recover the stainless roofing nail when the log gives up the ghost.
[ATTACH] you can see the dowels if you look closely
I'll take a picture of the inoculation once it stops raining. Not much to it really: buy inoculated dowels, drill holes, hammer in the dowels....
Smart taking the easy stuff first. With a sledge and a couple of wedges, those big, too heavy to move rounds are about 30 seconds away from being...
And put in about 1800 plugs in the last 24 hours (headlamp comes in handy!) Pearl Oyster. Dropped an oak and put in 1000 Lion's mane plugs during...
... patting myself on the back about this one. Cut down a gum to use to grow mushrooms. 25 inch bar on the saw for scale. Dropped it right...
Good point about the trailer. The bed is always with you and it’s convenient. A trailer can carry more and it is also generally easier to load...
I just bought a Nissan Leaf used. It the most basic model. I’m loving it for my 10 mile trip to work and around town. Meets almost all of my...
It has a lot of good features. Electric drive trains are superior in every way other than range and already many needs can be met with electric....
It’s pretty light so not a lot of BTU/volume. Not easy to split. Add in the amount of ash and it doesn’t add up to great firewood. It’s the...
anyone else notice that fully dry wood burns better than wood with extra moisture still in it? Yes.
It leaves WAY more ash than oak does. At least the elm here and the oak here.
I separate by species. Process one tree at a time; some racks end up with more than one species. I label each rack with species, month, and...
