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unlike most who use some crumpled newspapers and whole logs[/QUOTE]
Ooooohhhh.... so that's what I've been doing wrong.:monkey:
Ooooohhhh.... so that's what I've been doing wrong.:monkey:
OK, I'm giving you the other side of the story. I have some wood cut up and laying behind the house. Not the best for firewood. They were Christmas trees gone wild and a hemlock. I cut a couple and a contractor cut a couple more. I bucked them up into firewood sized chunks and I piled and burned the limbs--by hand.
I don't have equipment other than a garden cart. I have one of those jobs where I'm picnicking in the woods most every day. I come home pretty tired and the last thing I want to do is pack chunks of not all that great firewood up the hill and across the yard and then split it. Split it by hand.
So, it lays there, I bring up a few pieces now and then...and so it goes. I've also got a wood pile to move into the newly remodeled woodshed, as I have found out the wood pile was on a spot that becomes quite wet 9 months out of the year.
In the back forty, farther from the woodshed, I've got chunks of a willow tree laying in a pile. I have been on this property for a year, there's still junk from previous owners to haul to the dump--took a load there yesterday. Sometimes it is overwhelming. I bought acreage to have some space. I knew it would be work, but nothing too urgent.
I don't want to spend every minute doing physical labor...I like to relax and do a few enjoyable things on the weekends. So the wood sits. It is my property, my wood and nobody else's business. It is not a fire hazard, I don't notice any vermin living in the willow pile, so it is not a health hazard. What would Clint Eastwood say? Get out of my yard? No offense, but that's the other side of the story.
I need my mom, the English expert, for the "use of Lay Lie lecture again. Woodboogah, are you good at the rules of Lay Lie?
If the trees you cut are indeed white oak, were green when you dropped them, and left in the round, there is no possible way that they could ever be used this year for heating the house anyway.
Green oak takes 1 to 2 years to dry, even after being split. This year's high humidity summer with lots of clouds, rain, and not much breeze just makes the drying time even longer.
It is a shame when good fuel goes to waste. I'm always seeing fuel...and by fuel I mean pine, poplar...what a lot of people consider poor fuel...going to waste. This country would be much more energy independent if we utilized this wasted fuel in clean burning EPA woodstoves and boilers!
One guy I told about a very large locust only 2 doors away from him, replied, "Yea, just back your dump truck up to my front door and dump it" I said" if you help, I will," he sneared and walked away.
Shoot, wish that would have been me. I'd have been all over that deal quicker than a duck on a Junebug!
True, it's your property and wood and you can do what you want. But take no offense, I don't think that anyone would think it a shame that you are leaving Pine and Willow lay around; I think we are talking about seeing lots of excellent fuelwood laying around going to waste. Especially trees that we ask the owners about and are told "I'm going to use it for myself" and you drive by years later and it is now a mulch pile.
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