What Kind of Pine/Evergreen Do You Burn?

[windthrown]

I've seen some CL adds for free wood chips. I would take them but have no idea what the hell I would do with wood chips.

I use them around the house to keep the mud down. I get 80+ inches of rain a year here.

So what happened with all the pros? Actually it might be a good thing they're gone, I doubt they would have enough patience to put up with someone like me.

Some are still here, some do not post much any more. Many have moved to other forums online. Some have passed away.

I've been wondering, why are the trees over there so large? I know the wettest place in the world is in Kauai (I hiked that island once, freaking awesome) so it can't just be the amount of rainfall you receive.

Oh damn I'm jealous. I would love to see that view everyday. I'm living on the wrong coast.

It is usually overcast here so you do not see the mountain peaks much this time of year. But it is a scenic place. From where I took that photo you can see Mt Hood, Mt Jefferson, Mt Adams, Mt St Helens, and Mt Rainier. We get a lot of rain on the west coast. I get 80+ inches a year here, but above me in elevation on the Cascades they get 140+ inches plus snow. At my ex's ranch in southern Oregon she gets 100+ inches of rain a year. Many rain forests all along the coastal mountain ranges from central California up through the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, and more in the west slopes of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges. Most of the big trees are in the rainiest areas. The tallest redwood (which is the tallest tree in the world) is near the CA/OR border in CA near the coast. The tallest Doug fir is now just south of Roseburg, OR in the coast range. The tallest Sugar pine is in the west Cascade slopes NW of Crater Lake. The tallest Sitka Spruce was along Highway 26 near Cannon Beach, OR, but that blew down in the Hurricane in '07. The largest tree in the world is the General Sherman Sequoia tree in the Sierras in California. Big trees, big tree species, lots of water.

 

[svk]

Maybe we should start a thread called "Why you should move here"

 

[Ambull01]

Maybe we should start a thread called "Why you should move here"

Negative. If this arborist starts dropping off whole dump truck loads of logs for free like he claims I may stay in MD forever lol. I may still scrounge but then I'll be a very picky scrounger. Probably sell all the stuff I scrounge as the arborist should supply all the personal wood I need. When I get that first dump truck load it will be Christmas all over again. I'll be able to stay pine/spruce tree ignorant because I'll never touch the stuff!

 

[windthrown]

Maybe we should start a thread called "Why you should move here"

Oh, well... pot is legal in WA now, and soon to be in OR and AK. OR was listed as the most desirable place to move to last year. Dunno why, taxes are high here (except no sales tax... yet) and the weather always sucks. There is a saying here that if you are not complaining about the weather, you are not from Oregon. I know, a double negative. Housing prices in Portland are increasing rapidly as people in places like San Francisco are being forced out by insanely high living costs, so they are moving here to Portland. So people in Portland are being forced to move toward the cheaper burbs to the east. Pot being legal will likely attract even more people to WA and OR. You can get stoned here, legally! Dude...

 

[stihlaficionado]

white pine, red pine mixed with hardwoods never alone

 

[svk]

Negative. If this arborist starts dropping off whole dump truck loads of logs for free like he claims I may stay in MD forever lol. I may still scrounge but then I'll be a very picky scrounger. Probably sell all the stuff I scrounge as the arborist should supply all the personal wood I need. When I get that first dump truck load it will be Christmas all over again. I'll be able to stay pine/spruce tree ignorant because I'll never touch the stuff!

If you are getting arborist loads arent you getting whatever yard trees that he dumps including pines?

 

[Ambull01]

If you are getting arborist loads arent you getting whatever yard trees that he dumps including pines?

Okay tree ID book back on my buy list.

 

[svk]

Okay tree ID book back on my buy list.

Split/sell the primo stuff. Get/stay two years ahead on good wood then sell everything else.

 

[steved]

Yard trees (cringing)...

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[Del_]

Some winters we heat with as much at 40% Leyland Cypress!

Of course we burn a lot of pine and other wood that most consider to be 'trash' woods.

Now that is a lot of Leyland Cypress! It's a way over planted landscape tree in this area so it's pretty easy to come by.

I'm only mentioning it because I doubt many other use it.

For the most part it's about like any other conifer.

 

[Pulp]

I call them 'tree butchers' myself. On this forum site there used to be a lot of us pro arborists with chippers and such, and pro fallers. Now its guys with hopped up chainsaws boasting about wood cutting speeds cutting logs lashed to saw horses. As for firewood, no arbor business here that I know of sells firewood. Takes too much time and space. I do know a few that keep the wood to burn themselves, but most post ads on CL for free rounds to be taken on site. Then the wood zombies like me show up and it disappears in a few hours, especially better wood like oak. There are bigger firewood processors out here where I live where a lot of logging is done, and they buy and salvage cull logs that they haul and cut into firewood. Some sell it green to the suckers in the city. Some logging companies here sell cull logs direct to the public. A dumptruck load of green Doug fir & hemlock logs costs $300 delivered. They come to about 2.5 cords of wood bucked, split and stacked. You can also buy a logging truck load of logs for $1200, and that comes out to about 9 cords (roughly 3 cords per MBF, and roughly 3 MBF per logging truck: 1 MBF is a thousand board feet of lumber).

OK, OK. Enough of the "we pro", or "big timber", or "pro fallers" stuff.
Enough of the "Harry Homeowner", "fru-fru", or "weekend warrior" fool talk.
Many of us have done both so-called "pro" logging AND cutting firewood for ourselves. We don' need no stinkin' divisions here.
Besides who the F knows who or what your C.V. or experience is ? Who ?

Deal with how different parts of the country cut more than just big timber softwoods. East and midwest have more diverse species Windy than the PNW. So ?
We cut hardwoods, softwoods, blowdowns, firewood, trails; probably more variety than only big softwoods. So what ?
And, we use shorter bars and maybe smaller saws. Why? Trees don't grow to 90" DBH here. Smaller DBH timber in isolated lots means saws that are lighter to carry in.
Faster to sharpen in the field. So ?
So ?

 

[slowp]

The troll has arrived. All bow.

Portland also has or will have a law that you have to pay and get a permit and an OK from an "arborist" before cutting a tree on your property. The same goes for pruning. That would discourage me from planting any yard trees.

 

[slowp]

OK, OK. Enough of the "we pro", or "big timber", or "pro fallers" stuff.
Enough of the "Harry Homeowner", "fru-fru", or "weekend warrior" fool talk.
Many of us have done both so-called "pro" logging AND cutting firewood for ourselves. We don' need no stinkin' divisions here.
Besides who the F knows who or what your C.V. or experience is ? Who ?

Deal with how different parts of the country cut more than just big timber softwoods. East and midwest have more diverse species Windy than the PNW. So ?
We cut hardwoods, softwoods, blowdowns, firewood, trails; probably more variety than only big softwoods. So what ?
And, we use shorter bars and maybe smaller saws. Why? Trees don't grow to 90" DBH here. Smaller DBH timber in isolated lots means saws that are lighter to carry in.
Faster to sharpen in the field. So ?
So ?

Tell us more!

 

[Wannabe123]

It took to page 6 for there to be a fight. You guys are slackin

 

[slowp]

It took to page 6 for there to be a fight. You guys are slackin

A fight? If you are going to work in the woods, you must not be so dramatic. It is merely a discussion. Pulp is simply trying to find his/her niche where she/he might be taken seriously. That didn't happen on the F&L area, so he/she is apparently trying to impress folks here. I am simply asking for her/him to share more knowledge of their expertise.

I hope he/she keeps up. Maybe that'll inspire folks to move to the east, Mideast or anywhere but here.

 

[Wannabe123]

Me dramatic or this pulp character? I got no skin in this game, just thought the huffy puffy posts shouldn't come so late in the thread.

 

[svk]

Me dramatic or this pulp character? I got no skin in this game, just thought the huffy puffy posts shouldn't come so late in the thread.

He's been a member for ten months and had 56 posts during that time so I'd postulate he's really not on here that much and probably just saw this thread.

I see he's already made friends with slowp though

 

[Wannabe123]

He's been a member for ten months and had 56 posts during that time so I'd postulate he's really not on here that much and probably just saw this thread.

I see he's already made friends with slowp though

Ah, see I deserve more cred. I've been on here a few weeks and have a hundred plus posts. Guess it shows I don't have a job (until Monday). Does this mean I get to be twice as much of a general jackass than someone with half the posts or is jackassery privilege assigned on some sort of time/post ratio.

Clue me in before I screw up and slowp "likes" me just as much.

 

[svk]

Ah, see I deserve more cred. I've been on here a few weeks and have a hundred plus posts. Guess it shows I don't have a job (until Monday). Does this mean I get to be twice as much of a general jackass than someone with half the posts or is jackassery privilege assigned on some sort of time/post ratio.

Clue me in before I screw up and slowp "likes" me just as much.

Lol, love your sense of humor.

If someone joins in and starts posting right away and more importantly doesn't show up with an attitude ie you or ambull01, you will fit in pretty quickly. If a guy posts here and there, people don't get to know him/her as quickly. I've seen pulp post sporadically and I haven't read enough to formulate an opinion on him. Some like slowp already have.

 

[Wannabe123]

I for one don't find people's opinion of me on the internet worth losing much sleep over, but conversely I don't see the point of spending my free time on an internet form where everyone just ignores or shuns whatever I say. Why would causing little facebook-y mini dramas on a forum about wood and chainsaws bring anyone any sense of enjoyment? Quite possibly the dumbest use of time I could possibly conceive.