I clicked on that picture and it tells a story about a 9v battery in a junk drawer starting a house fire! ? Yikes!
I do the same thing. I like having some lighter wood to start fires and mix in when you need some quick heat. Helps a lot in the morning to provide quick heat and burn down any coals too.
Ya know sumthin? That would work. While at work, I placed a new 9V into my pants pocket that I also carried my change in. Guess what, I had this warm sensation in that pocket. Seems it moved around enough throughout the day until it finally lodged against a coin which immediately shorted out the terminals of the 9V! Same thing must have happened in the drawer of that house; just no one there to catch it.
9V batteries start a lot of fires. Mostly in trash cans. Even when they're "dead" they have enough voltage left to be an ignition source. Good practice is to tape the ends over before trashing them.
They have Norway Spruce ? There's lots of birch too. Quite similar to the type IKEA uses a lot of. Birch is the yellow leaved trees in the picturesque Scandinavian Fall foliage scenes.
Ironic, no? They spend their whole life trying to detect a fire and when ya throw them out, they start em!
Good looking load there. I need to get some more this year. I got a cedar this summer split it up small and it's makin' some nice kindlings...
I picked up a truck and trailer load last year, it was already dropped and bucked, I just had to load it. Stuff like that is hard to pass up, no matter the species!
Its not really that great of stuff I would not loose to much sleep over it Not getting any locust is more to about
From the little cutting of pine i have done around houses.... Just the limbing alone tuckers me out lol
They do which is a softwood pine species (must admit I am lazy to generalise, however) but the point is the same. You burn what you can, and burn properly. Pine gets a bad rap, and I don't know why. I'm happy with any pine I can get my hands on, and my chimbley is clean. I dont have the luxury of choosing my wood or having a large access to a mix, so needs must. My main wood at the mo is Sycamore, which is cracking, although again, a maligned wood (possibly because it is/was classed as invasive) Anyone in NW England? Please feel free to drop as much pine/sycamore off at my house as ya can (you can ask, cant ya?!)
It gets a bad rap because the dummies that dont dry it properly and start chimney fires ! Where im at its nothing but hardwoods.... Cuz its hardwood country. But where theres pine.. U burn pine. Where theres crappy Cottonwood... You burn crappy Cottonwood !
my mom is from Norway and I've been back a few times. Norway spruce gets planted around here, as a non-native species it grows well and makes a good landscape tree as well. My comment was supposed to be a humor, no more. Kinda like teasing a much younger little sister. No offense.
No offence taking! Sorry if it came across that it had, I didnt mean it to, billb. I do tend to be blunt without thinking. Ask my hubby
