Friend texted me this morning and asked if I was interested in a few oak rounds. Had the ole trailer hooked up in a jiffy. To make things better he only lives a couple miles away. Must be doing something right.
barns1 That yard where the rounds were looked awful messy. Glad you beautified it for him by removing that eyesore
I know. Those were my exact words. "A few oak rounds?" He even had them rolled up a pretty steep hill to the driveway. He lives in one of those little lake developments, house is built on a steep hill down to the lake.
FREE OAK?????????? What is this “Oak” of which you speak??? I may have mentioned before, that where we live “Oak” is just Myths and Rumors, my woodsheds have seen more Unicorns ON them, than Oak IN them Here on Mt Hood, we are Solidly in Conifer Country For us, “Hardwood” is either either downhill from, too far from the trailer, or often BOTH, Very little of our “Hardwood” has Leaves I can tell you though that “ Pine WILL Burn your House DOWN “ is an Old Wives Tale, that Refuses to Die, it is as Persistent as the “Steele Dossier” and as thoroughly Debunked, and as Stubbornly won’t go away Doug
I hear that. I'm in Washington and I've seen oak twice in my 15yrs of hoarding. Locust twice and madrona once. Most of our harwood is birch. I could throw a rock in any direction and hit a pile of free fir rounds.
What part of Washington are you in? I just got home from 4 days of helping out in Kennewick, and I leave tonight for a Bellingham run I like Douglas Fir, it is Excellent Firewood, and processes FAST and EASY, buzz off the branches and forget them, then you are bucking telephone poles into rounds We get some Alder, which is great firewood, D Fir is the Premiere wood around us, but we get mostly White Fir where we cut, and some Hemlock too. Oak, Hickory, Locust and such are usually yard tree removals, and not something you can count on getting very often Doug
I'm about 15 miles north of Seattle. Fir isn't bad and it does process easy, same with alder and good for starting fires. This year I'm burning two cords of hemlock, one cord of fir and one of alder, all free delivery from tree companies. I like to have at least a couple cords of birch or maple on hand which are both pretty common. Maple is usually big leaf or the dreaded sweet gum. This past year I've been lucky and was able to get what amounts to about two cords of really good stuff. Locust, dogwood, plum and apple, madrona and holly. I burn about 6 cords a year. Beats the pants off all of them. Alder was my favorite for a while because it doesn't pop and smells pretty good but now for sure its holly. I've had pretty good luck scrounging for next years wood too. I have a half cord of holly, pin oak and yew and three cords of maple cut and stacked for sale next year.
