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Cut wood Dawn to Dusk today

Discussion in 'The Wood Pile' started by bogydave, Oct 24, 2015.

  1. papadave

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    Dave must be out cuttin' Birch.:thumbs:
     
  2. Machria

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    Good eats, no?
     
  3. bogydave

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    Public/State land, yes.
    Yes cut anything in the cutting area, dead birch are rotten , there is some nice dry spruce there but I try to get all birch, much higher BTU
    ALASKA Fire wood BTU, .jpg
    $10/cord have to buy at least 3 cord, up to 10 cord per year:

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  4. bogydave

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    Partial (3/4) load today. Had to be home by 6 .
    Hit a few rain drops on the way home, but was a nice 42° cloudy day,

    No moose visits today
    Was another cutter there, he said I never see anyone here cutting , I said the same
    He was getting the down,dry spruce to burn right away.

    Today's load:
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  5. HDRock

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    Good deal , just a few rain drops
    So ! Ya done yet or ya need more ?
     
  6. clemsonfor

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    Love that trailer setup.

    So you said the birch is rotted, but your cutting it?
     
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    Dead birtch are rotted. You must be cutting green birtch
     
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  8. bogydave

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    Yes
    & even some of the big ones have hollow centers.
     
  9. clemsonfor

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    It keeps telling me your trailer thread link is bad?
     
  10. HDRock

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    Yep error here too
     
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    Have seen you post that about the BTU ratings of the species before, but I just happened to look at what that is comparable to around here. Birch would be about like white ash or red oak and the spruce would be like cherry so it wouldn't be too bad to burn. Now of course the 3 different charts I have saved are all over the board on their ratings. I think the Log Rack seems to be close in my experience for this area.
     
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    If birch is close to red oak thats pretty good. I knew the spruce had to be better than our pine or else it would be pretty poor hearing species.
     
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