Pine is good for starting fires from coals, for shoulder season, for campfires and for making maple syrup. I wouldn't depend on it in the depths...
I buy 5-gallon cans of VP Racing SEF94 at my local saw shop and that will last me all year in my outdoor power equipment. For under a hundred...
I really wanted to bid on that critter when I saw it. That would be the ultimate firewood 'tool' for my woods. I'm glad you got it though, I...
Not butternut. Butternut has a dark heart, almost like walnut or cottonwood. I have a few of them around. I've cut a lot of basswood, have two...
Poplar, elm and what appears to be red maple, or possibly silver maple.
Sir, you have a fish. OK, inside joke at my house. That's a basswood tree.
That is most definitely hop hornbeam. One of my favorites for burning, although it never gets very big so it takes a lot of effort to collect a...
I live in a house that's less than 1/4 mile from the house I was raised in and lived in for nearly 30 years. Except for four years of college...
I have a dual-wheel one with a heavy tub that I got from Tractor Supply, and the tub is cracked. Probably from throwing splits in when it was...
Well I solved my problem. Found a Facebook Marketplace ad that had only been posted for 12 minutes, guy selling 3+ cords of dry hardwood. I was...
No. :(
True dat. But, I am way over my average annual consumption. Normally I'm 6 cords into an 8-cord pile by now. Heating that garage before I...
What part of the world are all youse guys living in? The tropics? I started tallying up in the first week of October and I am just over 8 cords...
Bald cypress is native to the southeastern US, according to Wikipedia. Winston said dawn redwood (metasequoia, native to China) and that's...
It's some kind of tamarack or larch. Just not sure what. Bark looks like cedar or juniper, little cones look like tamarack, no foliage in the...
The LAST thing you wanna do is use a hose. Fire extinguisher in the woodstove or fireplace is the best option. The cold water from a hose,...
All I see is future firewood.
If I had a choice between being buried in snow for months and dealing with 100° heat, humidity and insects for a week, I'd take the snow every time.
I use a piece of 1/2" PVC conduit that's 19-1/2" long and a piece of sidewalk chalk. Why 19-1/2"? The chalk is about an inch in diameter so if I...
It really depends on several factors: what species am I cutting, how much effort do I want to put into this, am I pressed for time, do I even...
