All that left over wood...

[Magicman]

Awww, where is your sense of adventure.  My mine immediately went a different direction.   

[eastberkshirecustoms]

Awww, where is your sense of adventure.  My mine immediately went a different direction.   

You hit the nail on the head MM! I do believe that is how most of us 'upstaters' feel about 'the city'.

BTW, welcome, thesawyerswife.

[WDH]

Don't go and burn down New York City.  That will stress them out  .

[customsawyer]

You could build goat fence. :D

[Okrafarmer]

You could build goat fence. :D

Building goat fence is kind of pointless!  ;D

[petefrom bearswamp]

I give  my Hemlock slabs to a neighbor, Hardwood I  sell with some success.
Chuck, be sure to tell him to burn on a very snowy day so the enviro police don't see it.
Open burning is now verboten in NY state.
I did my pile last winter and thought i was doing it on the sly, but a local forester (my son) passed by about 1/4 mile away and told me the smoke was very visible.
pete

[thecfarm]

Burning brush or slab is against the law in NY now????

[paul case]

If it heps smoke is harder to see after dark. I wouldnt say you should disobey the law of your state.

PC

[Okrafarmer]

If it heps smoke is harder to see after dark. I wouldnt say you should disobey the law of your state.

PC

That's why some of us move to other states.  ;)

[Chuck White]

I believe that burning wood, branches, brush, etc is ok, but no trash like cardboard, papers, etc!

Who knows, it sometimes changes without notice!

[shelbycharger400]

when Its dark with no moolight, or heavy fog days things happen  :D :D

[WH_Conley]

Ky has a no burn rule for disposing of sawmill waste. You can have a fire for a family gathering or among friends. Just drop a few soda cans around til it has burned out. Oh, get the kids a really long hot roasting stick. :D

[eastberkshirecustoms]

I believe that burning wood, branches, brush, etc is ok, but no trash like cardboard, papers, etc!

Who knows, it sometimes changes without notice!

Chuck, it has to be 3" or under in diameter and no leaves. How that equates to slabs- who knows? Celebratory bonfires are OK as long as they are monitored. Like stated above, just break out the beverages of choice and a pack of wieners, and you are golden.

[Cypress Sam]

Arkansas dept of polution control and ecology came to visit me.  After sawing slabs are considered industrial wast and cannot be burned!!

[Okrafarmer]

Arkansas dept of polution control and ecology came to visit me.  After sawing slabs are considered industrial wast and cannot be burned!!

Arkansas? I thought they would be better than that!  >:(

[paul case]

That is interesting. How can wood  such as slabs be in a different class (like being called industrial waste) just by it being cut off the log, but almost everywhere in this great land there are people who cut firewood and sell it where ever and however they want.

I guess it is all in how you cut it.

PC

[isawlogs]

  After sawing slabs are considered industrial wast and cannot be burned!!

   So its ok to burn a round or split peice of wood, but if it is a slab cut on a mill its industrial waste.. Who thought this one through   :-\ 

Paul ya beat me to it ...  :D

[Okrafarmer]

 :( Must be due to all that blade lube!

[Nomad]

Arkansas dept of polution control and ecology came to visit me.  After sawing slabs are considered industrial wast and cannot be burned!!

     Did you ask him what genius dreamed up that bright idea?

[SwampDonkey]

My neighbor has a LT40 I think and he stacks his slabs in the yard with the tractor and a couple of his close by neighbors with outdoor furnaces come get some slabs by late winter. It's white cedar, so it burns fast. Leftovers are burned in the spring. The guy with the mill uses electric heat. Now if it were me or most fellas on here, I know what I'd do. But then again these guys will skid wood down the paved road with a tractor. Any of you guys allowed to use the paved road as a skid trail? And I mean 2 miles, not just crossing the road. ;D :D

[Magicman]

 :D  I once skidded two utility poles across town behind my Ford Bronco.  Maybe the right wrong person just did not see me.   ;D  I figured that they could not come up with a law that was being broken, but I would never try that stunt now.

[SwampDonkey]

I was just up to where they have been playing with the tractor on a piece of their land, cutting wood. They have to use my cousin's road to access it. Counted the rings on the fir that were 18-20". Most logs are chalk white. The ring count was 50 years on the but. The rings from 20-40 years average 1 cm, so 3/4" a year in growth in those years. It's probably been close to 30 years since the last cut. I think  they must be going to use the Mizer on the logs because they are cutting them 8-10'. That would seriously drop their value as logs at a commercial softwood mill. We always cut logs as long as we could for the better $$bucks, in 2 foot increments after 12 foot. Meaning if the log went to 19' to the min top, it had to be cut 18'.

[petefrom bearswamp]

East Berkshire, When I read the regs my interpretation of our reg is fires need to be 3' or less in diameter excepting "ceremonial" bonfires, I guess to allow the Native Americans to have large ones.
I have 129 acres, so i guess I'll just pile the stuff I can't get rid of in various places and allow it to decompose over time.
Pete

[Busy Beaver Lumber]

or just beat them at their own game and make a burn barrel of 3' feet in diameter and about 5 feet tall, cut the flitch in half and chuck it in.

[r.man]

Ridiculous laws and rules should be ignored, or at least circumvented. There are generally loopholes that can be used to do this. Always read the actual text with this in mind and something generally pops out.