hope u get it. nice chunks!!
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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hope u get it. nice chunks!!
good pix, MM... can't miss it right there in the center... a stand out! pun intended!
lol! I hate clean ups, too... but if you intend to scrounge in the city, and not go more than a few feet... you have to take what comes your way...
after all oak is oak. and every bit burns nicely, well... that has been my exp.today's local scrounge. just a few houses down the street. now here is the rouge. some guys scrounge forests. lol. some fields. some just trees. all are important. my scrounge today is important, too. just on the bit smaller side of the scale. a part of an oak tree, a limb or two... and a very important ingredient to all of my fires... kindling! oak kindling
in the pix is just over 90 pcs of oak. this is not wood split into stix. but still very important. you see, it goes on right after the paper, pine needles, small kindling. then this. usually about 5 or so. teepee shape. this wood helps make the hot oak coals, I add in some a bit bigger, too... the hot oak coals that lite off the firewood stix...
so, since I use 5 or so of this size stuff... and over 90 pcs... and I was about out, too... that means I have the interim bits for another... 18 daily camp fires!
and to me, that is both significant and important. if another limb just like it comes down, down the street... I will go get it, too. I keep between 1 and 2 cords around the place... firewood stix size.an important ingredient for daily campfires... scrounged today, free oak!
I even like to scrounge a bit of old cedar fence now n then, too. here is some I decided to cut up today. laying around and I need some more cedar kindling. so I will get a camp axe, one of 4 or 5 or so I have... and hand split this into square kindling stix. dried and on top of the pine needles... the camp fire always starts with an extra oomph! of gusto when fresh dried old cedar made into kindling is on scene. 
scrounged cedar kindling to be split... in production
scrounged cedar kindling to be split... in production
speaking of red hot oak coals... here is some firewood going this evening that I scrounged this summer and recently. it took smaller rounds to get it going... see above!
we don't, but the tv weatherman said today... that the next cold blast... just a couple days out... later this week... just might bring in some snow flurries to Austin, TX... uh-huh!
I have firewood outside, exposed... outside and in wood shed... and inside barn up at farm... what do I like the best? for indoor fireplaces... dry oak. for mr Brutus and outside on a cold day... the firewood sitting outside, exposed. wet, damp... and makes great smoke!!! lots of it, too! lol
later on today...
I like wood like that to burn outdoors, too...
so will cedar, but it sure is hot. I use it outside as bumps... if n when a stix seems too loose interest... I stuff in some cedar stix... that usually wakes things up and gets the show back on the road...
I had to catch up with Pioneerguy600
I found him
Today we cut some dead standing and dead top stuff close to the road
We even did our part to feed deer and rabbits
We both had a go at being Donk
The pile continues to grow , it was a great afternoon
good pix! thanks for posting. enjoyed seeing it all. especially that in the woods and in the pick up...
what about the hackberry wood?
how does the hackberry burn? I note some use it as a firewood, but some references called it a soft(er) wood. do you like it? burn it inside or outside. I am asking because there is a lot avail across town free if I want to go get some. or resonalble delivery fee if I want what is about 5/6 cords. clean limbs, trunks, uncut and of course... unsplit!
warm here today, too... had a camp fire going, but T shirt weather. could have wore shorts, but I don't cut wood in shorts. winter returns in couple days...
Hackberry burns okay. Definitely not a softer wood. A little tough to split but usually seasons fairly quick.what about the hackberry wood?
how does the hackberry burn? I note some use it as a firewood, but some references called it a soft(er) wood. do you like it? burn it inside or outside. I am asking because there is a lot avail across town free if I want to go get some. or resonalble delivery fee if I want what is about 5/6 cords. clean limbs, trunks, uncut and of course... unsplit!
tough to split as in the chunk wont give in? or tough as in the wood splits but wont separate easily? stringers, etc?
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It's really stringy. Especially when wet. I havent burnt any yet so idk how it burns. Seems to dry ok but its all outside and wet now.
We’ve been behind on our firewood for 3 winters. Life happens. We do the same, I bring 5+ days worth inside at a time from the woodshed. After a few days by the wood stove, the stuff is much more dry.
Hopefully next winter is a better winter for us.
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So I have some standing dead Maple that are in the bottom of the slough/gully. Tall few branches nice to work with.
But... They seem to be infested with powder beetles. I cut some last year and it was 1st in last out. Was like handling flour bags and my fear was infesting the wood shed.
Is there a way to kill them? My guess is best leave em to the wood peckers...
But... They seem to be infested with powder beetles. I cut some last year and it was 1st in last out. Was like handling flour bags and my fear was infesting the wood shed.
Is there a way to kill them? My guess is best leave em to the wood peckers...
