Around a month ago I got motivated to burn my brush piles and huge pile of bark/chips around the working area. End of two days two big brush piles, one garden from pruning an overgrown Red Maple, One in the pasture from removing an 80' tall spruce were gone as was my pile bark.
Great! So the other day I happened to see that one of my 3 big windbreak cedars by the garage had died. Was out today pruning it up. Big batch of brush building in the pasture again and hardly any stuff to get a good fire started. Wish I had kept about half of that original pile.
Plan now is to get a good fire going with what bark I have, add spruce spits from that tree (only about half cured) and start adding cedar prunings along with some grass green black locust and flowering plum trimmings. At least the spruce splits are no loss - hardly any heat value in them - worse than willow.
Harry K
Great! So the other day I happened to see that one of my 3 big windbreak cedars by the garage had died. Was out today pruning it up. Big batch of brush building in the pasture again and hardly any stuff to get a good fire started. Wish I had kept about half of that original pile.
Plan now is to get a good fire going with what bark I have, add spruce spits from that tree (only about half cured) and start adding cedar prunings along with some grass green black locust and flowering plum trimmings. At least the spruce splits are no loss - hardly any heat value in them - worse than willow.
Harry K