Who burns wood

I haven't for 2 years, have for 20+ , my chimney was broke. It is now fixed. I know this a mental thing, once I start it, I have to keep it going aroung the clock. It is chilly this AM I think I'm getting pushed in the corner. I love wood heat. I've had a couple of cords delivered, nice looking guys by the way. :woohoo: The older I get the worse I get. PC

As I said before it has been 2 years since I burned. OMG what a chore it is. Still love the heat and smell but the work of it sucks. I hope my attitude changes soon, it's early in the season. My garage door decided to not work today , it would only go up half way,this is how I bring the wood in, thank God I know enough contractors to call and assist me. My buddy Tim came to the rescue. It has been an expensive year. Everything is now 35 yrs old and failing, like me. :S PC

Lanny I know of what you speak. I'm too old now. I can't do it. But i'm burning just the same. I can no longer do the work. I spent many a year cutting, splitting, stacking and hauling . I'm now at the stage were I'm paying for it. There are MOMENTS i wish I was a man, but I'm not, so I have to give my graces to being a women.PC

---I have burned many cords over the years. We always cut our own wood. I used to burn 6 cords a year in a poorly designed house for heat. I had a free standing stove in the livingroom with 12 feet of single wall pipe up to a high ceiling. The pipe alone added as much heat as the stove. I used to nap right in front of the stove on winter days. ---I have 2 wood stoves in my current house, up & down. The upper stove will only take scrap lumber as it is a confined space where I cannot open the lid to add anything bigger than a 2x4. That has not been a problem as we always have scrap wood from jobs that we save in garbage cans. I can burn a can full in a day. ---My favorite woods are fir, maple & fruit trees. Fir is easy to get around here. Fruit trees are rare. I have lots of locust at my shop that grows like bamboo. Locust is a hard wood and great for stoves. ---Opportunities for free wood are much less today than years ago. I used to turn down free wood all the time. Now I accept it if it is easy to get. A few months ago I got a free cord of pine. Pine is a softwood but it was free so I took it. ---Years ago there was a large log yard on Lake Washington right off the freeway about 8 miles from my house. I would take a pickup and trailer down there and cut beautiful logs on the log pile for free. I could park right next to the pile and fill the truck and trailer in about 2 hours. Some of that wood was old growth fir, hemlock and cedar (which I seldom took because it is a soft wood.) Those were the days. One day I showed up and the area was closed. I went to the office to inquire and was told they sold all their reject lumber logs to a firewood company and the days of free cutting were over. :angry: ---I always loved cutting wood. I cut cedar bolts for a cedar mill one summer up in the woods. We cut some logs that were over 7 feet in diameter. One had been downed for over 900 years and it didn't have a speck of rot on it. I dated it because there was a stump growing OVER the log that was down. 4 of us ate lunch on the stump and I counted over 900 rings on the stump growing over another log. When we had cut the log out from under the stump you could have easily driven a pick up through that stump. There was nothing nicer than my Stihl chainsaw throwing chips 20 feet across the ground filling the air with that sweet cedar smell. Lanny

Twillski, I love it , nice job on the pole barn, good luck with the rest. You and anyone can hijack my threads anytime. I throw this stuff in because I know you guys do more than roofing, but you don't talk about it.

Club, keep on cuttin'

Not sure where all of you are at but the weather has been insane everywhere. Hope all are dealing with.

My fire is out gotta go take care of it. Yuck PC

There is a small 1100 sq ft ranch w/ a basement Steve (no garage). We'll add on 6 or 8 X 30 ft. and add a screened in porch and garage Needing a lot of work and is getting it too. SOme work now and some when we do the add-on. It's got good bones. You can barely see it in the 1st pic I posted.

The family unit will be moving there fer sure :)

Nice piece of real estate there, Twillski. :) Does it have a house on it? Are you moving the family there or is it just for the business?

Pole Barn Before:

Pole Barn After

Sorry for hijacking your thread Patty.... I am pretty excited about of this.......WORK! :woohoo:

split a bunch of oak up yesterday

We never did that, just amazed at the artistry of the arrowheads, tools that were used and created from need. Look for fields close to creeks, this is how they lived. Water is always a need. We always spoke with the land owners for permission to hunt. Never a rejection. We came up with Indian artifacts rainging from 1000 to 7000 yrs old. Awesome. Happy Hunting.

My stove is still burning. :S

patty i used to go arrowhead hunting myself around here, got to where it's hard to find a place to go try to make them myself i even use the wood from the horse apple tree for a billet to chip the flint

Jerry, very interesting. Yes to the fruit they produce. I qualify them to Walnuts. Am I right about the location of the trees? All of us should know this land belonged to the Indians, they had the most respect and honor of nature that has been lost through the years. I will look bordark up. Peaked my curiosity. It is no longer a common wood around here but it is here and few know or even understand it's value. And since I'm rambling which I've been known to do that is how we got into arrowhead hunting. I have enough what my husband thought was important to build a house. LOL He/we found arrowheads and tools that were extrodinairy, it was such an eye opener to a past that many of us never think about. I just recently sold my husbands arrowhead colletion. I just today found more. I have to shut up now because I can go on for ever. PC

Hi patty are there orange sized green fruit on those trees ? we have a tree here in central texas that has them . the wood is yellow and will dull a chainsaw quick most folks call them horse apple trees . the real name is bordark . i have heard tha indians made bows out of these also. years ago they would make living fences from them by bending limbs over and pin to the ground till it took root and repeat

It is official, started the fire today, chilly week ahead. It is in the basement, lots of trips up & down stairs. Yuck

This is the only burning we are doing

:)

Looks like you made a little clearance. Nice. PC

Still haven't started my stove. I did burn it once after it was fixed but that's it. Temps are dropping, within the week I'm sure. I'm dreading it.