Firewood Galore

[steelhead kid]

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Post your pics on this thread.

Here is a 48 inch fur, thats a 36 inch bar on 046 mag.
Does anything split better than Fur??

If you pics of large trees being bucked, or a pic of your truck loaded down just before the springs break, post em here, we love em.

 

[Gologit]

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Does anything split better than Fur??

I can say with absolutely no doubt, clear conviction, total honesty, and a great deal of experience that nothing, and I mean nothing, splits better than Fur.

If you're talking about logs, though, cedar splits better than fir.

 

[Wortown Mick]

Can you burn fir in a normal fireplace or wood stove for heat?
Id have thought there would be a creosol issue like with pine. Not a whole heck of alot of fir around here.

 

[wood4heat]

Can you burn fir in a normal fireplace or wood stove for heat?
Id have thought there would be a creosol issue like with pine. Not a whole heck of alot of fir around here.

It's almost all I burn. Burned some alder earlier this year and didn't like it, burned fast and if I tried to choke the fire down it would smoke up my glass. The fir burns considerably longer and doesn't smoke up the glass even an eight+ hour night burn. Both were cut around April of last year and seemed dry. I also have two - three cords of maple cut in June I'm dying to burn but will wait until next year if I don't run out of the fir.

3/4's of the maple:

Part of the fir: (plus helper)

 

[wood4heat]

Actually now that I look at that maple pic it's got some of the alder on top. (the smaller orange looking stuff) This was a day's cutting, I went back the next day for the rest and filled in the second row.

 

[country boy]

overloaded?

A good freind of mine stopped by a while back and told me he just finished up his outdoor stove and no wood , snows to deep to go cut. Ok got a couple of cords stashed down in the barn i can set you right up so he decides he wants a full cord. I start my truck with the trailer tied on and figured between my truck and pickupbed trailer and his ole dodge well just haul it all . We start loading his ole truck im throwing the wood on the back of the bed and hes stacking I keep asking him we got enough on yet ,nah the ole girl will hold a little more and this continued until we had the full cord of wood on this poor old 3/4 ton truck. <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd71/timberguy/?action=view&current=chainsawmufflermod002.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd71/timberguy/chainsawmufflermod002.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

 

[wildbio]

Douglas Fir has 21.4 mil BTUs per cord which puts it right there with red oak (21.7). Creosote is an issue if not burned properly. I burn mostly fir and lodgepole pine but in a catalytic stove so the burn is clean and creosote is a non-issue (but one I'm always aware of just the same).

 

[HUSKYMAN]

wood4heat your helper looks like mine trying to cut down this black walknut

 

[Saucydog]

I don't have any experience splitting cedar but the poplar here splits as soon as you bring a maul within 6" of it.:blob6:

 

[GASoline71]

I can say with absolutely no doubt, clear conviction, total honesty, and a great deal of experience that nothing, and I mean nothing, splits better than Fur.

If you're talking about logs, though, cedar splits better than fir.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I don't think anybody caught that one Bob!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!



Gary

 

[GASoline71]

Can you burn fir in a normal fireplace or wood stove for heat?
Id have thought there would be a creosol issue like with pine. Not a whole heck of alot of fir around here.

Been burnin' Doug Fir in woodstoves for more than 30 years... no problems whatsoever...

Just have the chimney cleaned proper once a year.

Gary

 

[RDT]

:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Festus Haggen]

Wish we had Doug Fir around here, I'd have my house paneled in it if I could. I love the color it turns as it ages. I'd feel bad burning it for firewood! Then again, I guess some people would cry at the clear hardwoods I chop up here. That stack of maple is like a fist full of cash, nice stuff! I burn a lot of "powerline" maple that the trimmers dump off for me behind my house. Most of that is big stuff, but once it really seasons for 2 years, it burns like iron.

 

[24d]

I can say with absolutely no doubt, clear conviction, total honesty, and a great deal of experience that nothing, and I mean nothing, splits better than Fur.

If you're talking about logs, though, cedar splits better than fir.

I got it, and handed out the most deserved rep ever !!

 

[GASoline71]

Wish we had Doug Fir around here, I'd have my house paneled in it if I could. I love the color it turns as it ages. I'd feel bad burning it for firewood! Then again, I guess some people would cry at the clear hardwoods I chop up here. That stack of maple is like a fist full of cash, nice stuff! I burn a lot of "powerline" maple that the trimmers dump off for me behind my house. Most of that is big stuff, but once it really seasons for 2 years, it burns like iron.

There is so much Doug Fir in Western Washington state it's not even funny.

Gary

 

[skytow]

ah,yeah, Bob "nailed it" so to speak!





JD

 

[Festus Haggen]

There is so much Doug Fir in Western Washington state it's not even funny.

Gary

No wonder I wanted to buy a house there when I visited! Might still, could be looking at a move someday when my wife is done with all her school.

 

[SAWITALL]

It's almost all I burn. Burned some alder earlier this year and didn't like it, burned fast and if I tried to choke the fire down it would smoke up my glass. The fir burns considerably longer and doesn't smoke up the glass even an eight+ hour night burn. Both were cut around April of last year and seemed dry. I also have two - three cords of maple cut in June I'm dying to burn but will wait until next year if I don't run out of the fir.

3/4's of the maple:

Part of the fir: (plus helper)

Always nice to have good help.

 

[SAWITALL]

wood4heat your helper looks like mine trying to cut down this black walknut

buy that boy some chaps

 

[epicklein22]

A good freind of mine stopped by a while back and told me he just finished up his outdoor stove and no wood , snows to deep to go cut. Ok got a couple of cords stashed down in the barn i can set you right up so he decides he wants a full cord. I start my truck with the trailer tied on and figured between my truck and pickupbed trailer and his ole dodge well just haul it all . We start loading his ole truck im throwing the wood on the back of the bed and hes stacking I keep asking him we got enough on yet ,nah the ole girl will hold a little more and this continued until we had the full cord of wood on this poor old 3/4 ton truck. <a href="http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd71/timberguy/?action=view&current=chainsawmufflermod002.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd71/timberguy/chainsawmufflermod002.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

I used to use a old 75 dodge 3/4 flatbed that looked just like that when I worked at a local campground. You couldn't over fill that thing. We always piled the logs on it until they started to fall off. We had a straight 6 in it and it pulled decent for a old beater. It has taken a hell of a beating over the years I have worked there, so old dodges like that will always have respect from me.