load WAYYYYY more often!!!:msp_biggrin::msp_biggrin:
yep! and when you are home, or in the evenings or rainy days, or for a fast fire in the morning, etc..you can do that. Save the good stuff for long burn time needed days, overnight and your most cold weather.
There's a wood heating use for everything out there pret near. Especially free and loaded for you! And that is a dandy way to help get ahead with the primo wood, burn the easy to score lesser species when you can, leave the good stuff to season a few years.
I cut/stack/burn ash to willow. Matters naught to me, I can use it. Stacks keep getting bigger. In one year, last year, I went from a winter or two ahead, now I am staring at five years ahead, with a ton not split, 1/2 a huge oak cut up to drag home, two more big dead oaks in the yard, and a ton of smaller ones here and there laying around waiting for me to drag home.
And I am really just putzing at it, following my "if I touch it , I burn it" philosophy. Just doing branches the last few weeks, got around six logs in a pile to buck tonight, then the smaller stuff is cut to size with the mighty jawsaw (no lie, I am starting to dig this toy, it works as advertised on oddball loose branches, faster than anything else I have tried) and ready to go on the stack, about 1.5 wheelbarrows tonight, just putzing around with it in the evening. Every day it isn't pouring rain, I cut some smalls, or split rounds. Slow, steady, stacks get bigger and bigger. 15 minutes to half an hour, and that is in between playing with the dogs and petting the cats and other oddball chores around the house.
I am a plodder I guess, can't see getting all worn out in the heat when I can just do it this way, and saving small and oddball species I seem to be accumulating a decent amount. And it is not even close to work, it is all fun to me.
Now I *could* churn out a heckuva lot more here if I went at it like a real job, this is about as wood rich an environment as a boy could want. Access sometimes gets a little ..soupy..but hey, part of the gig.[/QUOTE]
true dat..but for me..i only have so much storage room...in town...:msp_biggrin: and the city leaves me alone....when I first burnt,,any wood did it.. but now..i get calls all the time to take down diff species of HARD wood...no more soft wood..