This stuff is piling up faster than I can process. I need a 48 hour day, and the energy to go with it.
Cut it, split it, stack it before it roots. Dries pretty fast. If someone delivered it to me I'd process it, but would not go out of my way to get it.
I’ll cut it if it’s laying across the trail. I just cut and push it out if the way. I’ll burn some sassafras because it usually doesn’t need split but I’ll leave Poplar alone. I’m having trouble keeping up with all the Ash around here. If I have time to cut it’s usually for higher BTU wood. If someone was going to dump it off in my yard I would probably take it though.
I've had russian olive splits and rounds sprout. Got a foot or so tall, too. In the stack, not on the ground. Some trees possess some indefatigable survival capability.
I picked up some fresh cut Bartlet Pear out of a friend's yard that sprouted all over sitting in the pile waiting to be corded and split.
So, you guys are tellin' me I'll have more trees if I wait to process this? I'm takin' a if that's the case.
Nice score! Willow isn't very good, but it burns better than snowballs. I wouldn't turn my nose up (and haven't) at willow dropped off at the house. It's gopher wood, but free and delivered is hard to beat. Gotta stay warm in October and May too, right?
Willow is garbage. Not because it is a bad wood or will hurt your stove... But it's so wet it takes eons to dry.
I had some years ago that was piled on the ground which sprouted over the Summer when I went to split the rounds they had roots already growing into the ground and the shoots where about two feet long. Once it was split and stacked off the ground it dried in about 6 months. I would rather burn Pine.
LOTS of SS firewood. Poplar, Pine, Spruce, Cottonwood, and now Willow. Firewood smorgasbord. I'll get as much of this done as possible before it gets too cold or there's too much snow, then I guess it'll sit and take root. Maybe you can give me some pointers on how that hi-speed processing thing works?
Got the first Willow log cut this afternoon. Rotten inside, and man does this particular log stink. I thought one of the dogs had dumped a load nearby. Used almost a tank of fuel and oil.
Well, it wsan't exactly funny at the time. You know that reaction you have when you pass an area where a skunk has been hit by a car? Yeah. Ok, maybe not quite that bad.
So, fairly nice day today. Thought I'd get a start splitting up this Willow, so I took the splitter and everything down where the rounds are and went vertical. Just so there's no confusion or ambiguity......willow isn't my favorite wood to process. Maybe it's just this first log, but man, it's twisted and gnarly as all get out. Found a large nest inside....it's where the stink is coming from. Ended up having to noodle it down to get it on the splitter. This stuff is worse than the Beech I got a couple years ago. I think I'll refuse the next load if it's Willow.
