I have a slightly different perspective, built on years of fretting about lost wood (and love). While I might not be able to benefit from the warmth of the withheld, and perhaps, wasted (from my perspective) wood, the ecosystem will benefit. We need to build up the soil, and that rotting wood packs a good punch. There will always be more wood to find to burn.
Oh man birch on the ground, that is abuse, hey Brad guess what- asplundh been on my road and the landowner just got back to me, ill be grabbing a bunch of ash,maple and birch this week. Asplundh is doing alot of work in my town. Oh ya!!!
Birch go es bad fast when not properly stored, good effort with the chisel. I always pull over and scrounge bags of birch bark to help with ignition
You're gonna need a bigger yard! Wish we were closer. You and I would have a make some serious firewood. Good luck with them. Hope its some decent wood.
Im doing some work for the same customer again. I pulled in the other day only to see the pile as it was three months ago! If i could take it take it i probably wouldnt as its been sitting for close to a year now.
Oak in the stack beats Birch on the ground. Well I’m my neck of the woods birch is an ehh I guess I’ll take it wood.
I did a job for the same customer and the neighbor still has he birch sitting there "seasoning" I thought it was a mushroom farm! Nice lady who i talked to and scolded her about the wood. They had acquired more wood which you can see in the back. Come Spring it'll be there two years. She says "oh, its still good" It've taken it away...for a fee!
Looking pretty far gone. I burned mine last spring, it was fine, after being split and stacked under cover. That's a mess, though.
I tapped a couple of the logs and still seemed beefy and not punk. I was looking forward to see if it had been used or not...something only a hoarder would understand!
That doesn't surprise me as I've drove through there a few times a few years ago when the ash was dieing all over the place. I figured in a few years it would really be a mess. Why did they just let it all go to waste?...
White birch is amazing how fast it gets punky inside if it is not split ASAP. A few years back a buddy of mine bought a place up north that had 2 cord of birch stacked up. The outside bark was intact and you could pour the center out leaving a husk similar to a card board tube. It was so rotten and punk we had difficulty burning it in a large fire.
Yeah at the first sign of a birch getting a weakened or sick top, cut it. It's already started to degrade from low to medium btu's even in its prime.
I'd wager the insides are so soft that not only would a screwdriver push into it by hand you could probably insert either end of the screwdriver. You probably can't even split it any more. And yeah, sometimes you just have to close your eyes and let people learn the hard way. Often times decisions were made by tree-huggers conscientious souls to leave trees on the ground to "give back" to the forest as would have happened before people were around. Forget about the fact that right now, not only are there people around so circumstances are different, they can also sometimes be an additional fuel source for a fire. Sometimes it doesn't matter how much logic and facts you bring to the decision table, the decision makers can be power hungry authoritarians that don't care about facts and logic, just their own agendum(s).
