Just out of sheer curiosity: You helped a lot of neighbors out. Were any of them the ones that give you guff about your holz hausens?
There are roughly a million things I would rather do on a weekend than help my wife clean out her mother's basement. But unfortunately that's what...
Wow. My wood pile must be worth thousands!
Transmission shredded. Not worth replacing. I hate to hijack the thread here, but the truck I'm looking at now has a longer bed. That should come...
In Mike Myers' movie "So I Married an Axe Murderer", the main character's father is talking about how much he hates Colonel Sanders of KFC....
As I have not moisture tested any of the splits that comprise my hausen, I have no empirical evidence to produce that can gauge how dry the wood...
Hey, thanks for the shout out! Dimension-wise it's 10' diameter at the base, so there's four pallets and one cut in half in the middle. When it...
I hated the smell of red oak when I was a kid and had to help my stepdad load cord after cord onto his truck for delivery. Now I love it. My wife...
It was almost 90 degrees the other day on the CT shoreline. You'd think burning wood would be the last thing on my mind. Nope, not this firewood...
Thanks for throwing that out there, but unfortunately you're at the other end of the state. Definitely keeping my eyes open for stuff like this...
8 year-old me is climbing that tree RIGHT NOW.
Cool article. Scratched my history and firewood itch in one go. The firewood nerd in me wants to know specifically what species of oak they're...
For me, it's usually the awkward situation of having to turn down some nasty, unburnable stuff from a friend or family member. Folks who don't...
I hate that there are people out there like this. Nothing better to do with their time than complain about things that don't involve them. I am...
I don't like to pull off the shoulder on 95 for wood hoarding. Accidents happen just about weekly on our town's section of 95, and increase in...
Looks tasty. I've been dying to find some white oak.
There are community Facebook groups for everything these days. My wife is a member of one in our town that is just for people looking to help out...
So I'm sitting at my desk at work yesterday when the power goes out. Not really a big deal, as our generator kicked on and I was able to continue...
I used to try to "eye it", then realized how horrible I was at that. My multitude of failsafe methods that I use now: 1. The hatchet that I keep...
Can't swing a dead cat without hitting red oak in our neck of the woods. It comprises about 90% of the wood in my stacks. Heavy as all heck,...
