Tripple stem hollow white birch

This went well today……..
with several wedges and the winch It wasn't a GIBIR situation, it was more like a Get It Before It Falls, on my camp!

 

Wow look at that! What was the rest of it like? Was it all rot?

 

Good work, so was the sapwood the only good wood on the tree?

 

Once it was down I was bucking it up thinking that 8" pieces stood up with a small fire built in the hollow part might be a cool little thing for evening event with an adult beverage or 3. About 4' up the hollow turned into stuff that looked like packed sawdust. I just junked it.

 

Yeah Horkn, that's all that was holding it up, sapwood.

 

I think I would build a fire in the stump just because, also!

 

I do love the smell of Birch burning, esp. in a campfire!

 

What little birch I get around here we like to keep the bark so the kids can heat it up in the firepit and watch it wrap around a poker stick. Then its like a cool torch. Sometime we just throw the bark in the fire pit and watch it curl up. Great stuff.

 

It's also nature's fire starter!