Yeah kindling is about all Cedar is good for in the stove, but I do like cutting and splitting it. It's got to be the most aromatic smelling wood there is and it splits like a dream. Nothing for Cedars around here but I had a job year ago on Northern Vancouver island when I was 19 year old where I got to experience cutting into huge old growth Cedars trees. We would find standing dead or fallen Cedars in the bush and buck them and split them on the spot. Then we'd wrap rope slings around the splits and every week or so a helicopter would come and pick up the slings and drop them down in a pile by the road. Then we'd go load them into a semi trailer and they'd get trucked off and sold at a shake mill. Many of those puppies were 6 - 8 ft in diameter, and at least one tree I measured was 14 ft in diameter at the base.
Sean, that is a darned-fine looking hoard there buddy! Welcome to the family, glad to have you with us!!
Anyway to put some kind of rig on the dogs so that when you let them in they haul some of that wood with them?
I agree with you on that. Back in the 90s when I lived in Whistler I would burn slabs of cedar in the wood stove. That was before I knew anything about btus, I would still mix it with other conifers though. I remember working on one job as a carpenter in Whistler and walked into a room where some yellow cedar was being worked on, man I can still smell the sweetness! Thats big! Nice to have those memories. It gives you some fun stories to tell!
