That cedar must burn like rocket fuel. Sure is pretty and I love the smell.
Hot fire and cold beer... One of life's excellent combinations.
Using roundup (the regular stuff) last year stopped the PI last year but a couple of leaves have appeared there this summer. Now I've sprayed it...
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Yeah, good thing it didn't hang in another tree coming down. Wonder how many critter condo's were in it...
Sounds like the same kind of thinking that caused new iron appliances to have the warning label "Do not iron clothes while wearing them".
Nuthin' at all wrong with soft maple! Heck, a couple years it was all I could find and it got us through those next winters just fine.
I'm thinkin' elm. The ash bark here comes off in huge sheets, elm bark falls off in small bits like the picture.
Good to hear that you and the better half are safe Mr. Savage. Yes, the drought is over - weeds are taking over the veggies, heheh.
I agree with your priorities, Moparguy. Around here if we hesitate to grab roadside wood for very long at all, it be gone!
I'm a big fan of the rubber roofing membrane stuff to top cover. Tarps are frustrating....
That would be really cool if it was headed to your house.
We have clayey soil but fortunately they left a good layer of topsoil on it all which helps get baby trees started I think. about 2 years after...
papadave's post (walnut saplings) got me to reminiscing on the trees we've planted on our 2 acres. This walnut, with 2 others, was planted from...
Walnuts make beautiful trees. I see 'em as replacement for all the ash we've lost here. Ya done good, papadave.
We've had good results with the chipmunk jacuzzi. 5 gallon pail half filled with water and enough sunflower seeds to cover the water. A 4' board...
Heheh. When it rains it pours. Locust is SUCH good wood. I think you found the pot 'o gold!
To feed the hoarding instinct, I'd ask if I could cut on his property, given that I'd clean up after. And I'd ask if it would be OK to take...
Throw BTU's away -- blasphemy! Kept the uglies for my Ideal Steel which eats 'em like candy.
Thing is, the friend this wood is for only has a fire pit, no wood stove. His wife wants only pretty & straight wood stacked near the fire pit for...
