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  1. Fireaxman

    Flooded Oak Tree

    Is that Cat Tail? I thought it was maybe a bed of Iris.
  2. Fireaxman

    Flooded Oak Tree

    How long have you been in the house? Is this your first winter there? This situation may or may not be recurrent long term. Our soils are wetter this year than I can remember (I have been here since 1980), not because we have had especially high annual rainfall but because we have had more...
  3. Fireaxman

    Fireplace Firebox Repair

    Thanks for this post, very timely. I had my entire firebox replaced last year, but one brick has slipped out of the mortar somehow. Just noticed it yesterday and was wondering what to do about it. Will take your suggestion.
  4. Fireaxman

    How much do you charge for a cord of wood?

    Sweet! Customer sees exactly what he or she is getting, easy and quick to load, highly visible ... Good marketing technique! But a lot of work to set up and some expense for the frame I imagine. I have two 18 foot and an 8 foot flat trailers, pretty easy to just throw some wood on and go sit...
  5. Fireaxman

    How much do you charge for a cord of wood?

    Ooops. Show stopper. Wonder what kind of hoops I would have to jump through to be "Legal" in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. I am definitely going to be "Honest" in my dealings with all people. But "Legal" puts a lot of extra bureaucracy into the equation.
  6. Fireaxman

    How much do you charge for a cord of wood?

    I am tempted to try it. Two state campgrounds within 30 miles of me, one within 5 miles. Mild winter last three years means I have ten cords of seasoned inventory on hand and another five cords on the ground, and Randy puts up couple hundred cords a year for $200 a cord. I took 17 cubic feet...
  7. Fireaxman

    How much do you charge for a cord of wood?

    Came by one of the local stores down here that sell bundled wood today and thought about this thread. Checked out one of their "Bundles" just to see what I would be paying them for a full cord. They sell 0.75 cubic feet for $7. Gentlemen, correct me if I am wrong, is that really $1,194.67 a...
  8. Fireaxman

    How much do you charge for a cord of wood?

    Where can I get some of those baskets ? I am splitting 40,000 pounds of live oak. A lot of it shatters in the splitter because of all the twisted grain and knots and it is coming out in chunks and short pieces. It is Excellent wood, very high BTU, but it doesn't stack well. Your baskets...
  9. Fireaxman

    blue green flames

    The "Copper" (from various sources) explanation is probably the right one for a boiler fire with just an armload or two of wood, but I frequently get blue and blue-green flames from my largest, hotest bonfires towards the end of the evening. It is my theory that some of the un-burned wood on...
  10. Fireaxman

    Bonfires

    Another nice cool weekend in SE Louisiana, and the Power Line Clearance Crew has made plenty of pine available along La-22, so we had another Wonderful evening of entertainment with Live Music and No TV and No Video Games. I calculated the volume of wood we burned on this thing and I almost...
  11. Fireaxman

    Judging seasoned standing/fallen wood?

    Yessir. Especially the pine. But I learned to separate my heart wood from my sapwood when I stack my wood. The sapwood, with the bark on it, is particularly bad to culture wood boring insects and fungus. I have to burn my sapwood the year after I cut it or it starts turning punkey and insect...
  12. Fireaxman

    Judging seasoned standing/fallen wood?

    Well Spoken! An Excellent Warning! Since I am a slow learner I have several near misses to my credit.
  13. Fireaxman

    Judging seasoned standing/fallen wood?

    Looks like you are from Maryland. You may not be familiar with the specific condition I am referring to. When the Southern species get diseased, and because of our warm climate and humidity there is a lot of disease, Loblolly and Slash pine exude inordinate amounts of sap. When the tree...
  14. Fireaxman

    Noob Firewood business

    Sale by the "Trailer", or by the "Pickup Load", or by the "Wheelbarrow Load", or even by the "Bundle" is perfectly acceptable to me. The consumer sees what he or she is buying and makes the appropriate value judgment for their situation. But if it aint a cord, don't call it a cord. How would...
  15. Fireaxman

    Co-Dominant Loblolly Pine Problem

    Thanks! Exactly the advice I was hoping to hear, and I fully agree. Likelihood of hitting the White Oak? The White Oak is immediately East of the pine in question. Assuming the roots are compromised on the South side I would guess the pine would tend to fall away from the compromised root...
  16. Fireaxman

    Co-Dominant Loblolly Pine Problem

    This is either a very early formed co-dominant loblolly or two closely grown loblollies that grew together and probably tapped each other's roots. I actually suspect the latter, in spite of the title of this thread, because on close examination it appears there is entrained bark all the way to...
  17. Fireaxman

    Bonfires

    I do both. For a small fire, what I call a "Camp" fire, late at night, when most of the folks in the subdivisions are asleep in their beds, a garbage bag of pure Acetylene or Propane has a nice, quiet effect. But around New Year, my friend, when most folks in the subdivisions are enjoying...
  18. Fireaxman

    Noob Firewood business

    Yes, it has been said many times, but as new people come into the forum it certainly needs to be repeated. No hope for educating some folks, but I am always optimistic about the new guys, and somebody needs to hold the high standard or everything just deteriorates like termite infested wood...
  19. Fireaxman

    Judging seasoned standing/fallen wood?

    I echo Farmer Steve, "... it will depend on species as to how dry it is if it is standing" but I will try to provide a little more detail. Of course it also depends on the climate and micro-climate where you live, the predominance of wood boring insects and fungus, and the reason it died. If...
  20. Fireaxman

    Bonfires

    Really Good Guess! And Very Close! But not exactly. Although I have actually been there with the garbage bag(s) and acetylene, and just the right mix of oxygen, many years ago. The resultant complaint call came from a small town five miles away. Five law enforcement agencies responded to the...
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