Introduce yourself here !

Careful with the peat harvesting. Never know when you might uncover a druid sacrifice body
Welcome. I think your posts will be very enlightening on what you burn and what others methods may differ than in North America.

 

Welcome, Gazahayes! I once burned some peat, they sold it in the grocery store one year around St. Patrick's day. It smelled nice. Sounds like you have a good supply of wood coming your way. Please post some pictures!

 

I'm pretty new here myself, but welcome! This is a great place so far!

 

Usually no bodys in the bog but we have recovered old shoes and glasses. Going setting up the go pro to record the trees coming down hopefully. That's what they were like before and this was during the storm!

 

Welcome Gazahayes , tell us more about burning peat.

 

G'day and welcome Gazahayes. What are the winters like in Ireland?


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Welcome aboard Gazahayes

Now...regarding that burning of peat.....Make sure that the scotch and whisky manufacturers DO NOT run out of what they need first!!!



As I understand, they use it for drying malts, barley, etc?

 

Trees down now Winters aren't bad no real bad frost or snow just lots of rain and sideways rain at that.

 

Mainly used for making poitin (Irish moonshine) it gives it more smokey flavour. Peat is a good fuel once you get the weather to dry it and like timber it's best left season for a year at least. Have about 20 cubic meter bags saved during the summer17 for burning winter 19 on.

 

Hi. I am Ole a 2 year lurker. I was told to introduce myself. Great forum you have here.
I don't burn wood in this house but our first home we burned for 18 years. I own a 40 acre woods here in Southern Wisconsin so I have a little firewood business just to keep my woods clean. It is about 1/4 miles up the road so I just use my Honda Rancher ATV and a little trailer to procure wood. I sold 10 cords last year all oak and all to my friends. They come and get it in my shed then we drink all my profits up!

In December I turned this:



and this:



into this:



My tools are Stihl MS261C, Stihl 192TC, Husqvarna 445, (which I do not like the Stihl 261 is twice the saw) Logrite 30" hookaroon, Fiskars 36" splitting axe, Fiskars 36" 8# Isocore maul, and I just picked up a used DR 5 ton electric splitter.
I bring the rounds into my shed then split and stack and my buds come around June 1st and pick it up so it can season outside for the next burning year.





I swear I could live in my shed if it only had heat. I paid $200 for the DR elactric splitter and it was like new still had paint on the wedge and the push plate. Worked great one oak had 81 growth rings it was a bigun'



I will try to dig up more pics of "stuff" I have harvested out of my woods

 

Me again. More stuff I have harvested from my woods and pics of the woods itself.

Didn't get him with a gun but a trail cam pic is all:










(just kidding wanted to see if you guys were awake)




(another kidding shot, you guys still up?)



shed

 

more woods stuff

















oh and I like guns also

 

Nothing like jumping in and making a splash! Great pics,ole !
Thanks for joining up and posting!

 

Ole you have a little piece of paradise there. I love the morels! You make some beautiful firewood, why not burn some yourself?

 

Looks like a nice place, got any animals of your own?

 

Welcome home ole the pictures are awaome! You'll fit in here just fine!

 

When we built this house in 1997 it was a joint decision to give up burning wood. So no chimney. I booked my LP this year at $1.01 gal which I feel is cheap. No we don't have any pets but I am looking at a cute "mix breed" dog at the humane society,,,,

 

We had a dog when the kids were little. Boy he was a good one. Another mixed breed.



He was special. He could pick his nose with his tongue. hehehehehe



full disclosure. The Toyota tailgate bench has been sold and replaced it with a gas pump