The Daily Firewood Picture Thread

[GRANITEstateMP]

hedgerow,

what did you end up doing to get the garn back up and going?

[hedgerow]

hedgerow,

what did you end up doing to get the garn back up and going?

I got lucky and the same welder that had repaired the weld that had failed two years before around the heating chamber came back and repaired the weld that failed this time and welded some metal in to beef up the area around were the blower assembly sets. I have been back up and running since May heating my domestic with it. Once again no help from Garn. I hope we are ready for winter. I had to spend another seven hundred on propane and electric to finish the winter out when the Garn went down and my temporary fix failed.  

[jmur1]

It gets pricey quick when the main systems fail!

Here is the last ash I cut this summer.  Just dead enough to be dangerous!





jmur1

[Magicman]

 

 
I split this year's supply of Red Oak firewood this morning.  Mostly rounds and the back contains split sawmill slabs.  That is a 5'X10' trailer with 12" sides and I am stacked a few inches above the side boards toward the front.  The rounds and slabs had been stacked under a shed for 3 years so plenty dry.

[mike_belben]

Looks like yer ready for a sou'easter lynn   ;)

[GRANITEstateMP]

Magicman,

Maybe I can get you to explain "dry" firewood to my customers!  I sell mostly green and very few of my customers are putting up wood for more than a year to dry. Most are out of the pile and into the stove :(

[Magicman]

 

 
I went ahead today and split the remainder of the sawmill slabs and will haul them home the next time I am at the farm property.  The trailer was too full to haul them today


 
Well maybe too full for the ZT.  :


 
So I rearranged the load a bit and


 
Handled it OK.  I'll do some firewood stacking tomorrow afternoon or Monday.  ;D

[trapper]

some of mine


 


 

[Runningalucas]

Dropped 3 cords off today at a customer's place.

20210821 firewood delivery 3 cord - YouTube

That's a neat truck!  I'll have to post pics of my 'truck' here soon; 1st season using a kubota rtv with hydraulic dump, and the log splitter in tow around our property; loving it so far.

[Magicman]

Yeaahh!! 


 
What should be my Winter's firewood supply is stacked and ready.    That is almost a half cord and I have another probably ¼ cord still at the farm.  I'll haul it home whenever it is convenient.  Anyway, bring er on....burrrrrr.    

[GRANITEstateMP]

 :embarassed: Magicman, 

That is a nice row of dry firewood. It might even be enough to keep me in heat up til Thanksgiving around here...if we don't have any real cold snaps!

[Tacotodd]

Mississippi cold is a different cold than New Hampshire cold, at least for the residents of the 2 states. NH is VERY cold compared to MS but MS is hot compared to NH. Like most things in life, it's all relative to what you are used to  :-\

[Magicman]

And then it might be relative to how big your fire is or how heavy your coat is.  ;D

[Tacotodd]

I look like the stay Puff marshmallow Man in cold weather Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

[SwampDonkey]

Gotta love them firewood pallets. I just snagged a half dozen brand new ones from a neighbor's refuge pile, date stamped on them, none older than a year. 8)

I hauled a couple loads in on Saturday, too hot here to start cut'n more. Waiting for that cool down. ;D This is next year's wood. Although I am going to burn some of the stuff I cut in the spring, got a little mouldy on the ends. Fire will cure that. ;)

Keep warm all and play safe. ;D

[SwampDonkey]

That's a neat truck!  I'll have to post pics of my 'truck' here soon; 1st season using a kubota rtv with hydraulic dump, and the log splitter in tow around our property; loving it so far.

The Ranger, chainsaw and the Collins is all I use. Got a wood splitter, but don't need it for aspen, fir and maple wood. One crack and toss'er in the pile. Aspen and fir are the best, grows fast, easy split'n, grows as abundant as weeds. And worth 3 times it's weight as firewood versus pulpwood. ;D

[Tacotodd]

SD, how does it split compared to pine. We don't have Fir around here so I wonder if you have ever had any Pine (specificity Loblolly) for a comparison. 

I'll also take an answer from others.

Hand splitting & not machine. Because I don't have a machine but I DO have a maul and an axe 🪓.

[HemlockKing]

I love splitting green pine, the most difficult for me is spruce, it is VERY stringy 

[Tacotodd]

HK, I appreciate you jumping in, but I'd like someone that's done it to give me a direct comparison between the two. I'd like to know how Fir that I've seen SOMEONE split on YouTube compares to the pine that I've hand split, but I've not run across any people yet.

Like they said in one of those Mel Brooks movies (history of the world pt1) "NEXT VICTIM!".  

BTW, I LOVE those movies. He didn't care WHO he gave grief to or about what it was. He was an equal opportunity guy like that. That's why I like them.

[SwampDonkey]

I would think them southern pines would be like our red pine, a hard pine. Not easy splitting at all. Knarly, like spruce and tamarack. :D But boy, red pine is nice firewood, like burning maple. I had to use a hydraulic splitter on red pine. ;)

Balsam fir is our fir out this way, very easy to split, very little effort to it.  You line'm up and I'll whack'm down the line. :D Doug fir, might be tougher. Seen a guy with his neighbors on Youtube (WranglerStar) using a big hydraulic processor on mill reject Doug Fir for community firewood. 'nuff said. :D

I never use kindling in the furnace.  I just place half slabs of fir or aspen on paper and light'er. Split side down. Fan on in under 10 minutes with a ball of fire.

[barbender]

SD, please don't mention wranglerstar on the forum😂 Most pine and spruce is a bit gnarly, unless it is clear. Balsam has such small knots that it tends to behave.

[SwampDonkey]

SD, please don't mention wranglerstar on the forum😂

I know. I've unsubscribed from there at least 5 times. Then I said to myself, oh heck, there's far worst entertainment. :D :D

[KEC]

My answer to splitting wood is a big stove that will take some very big wood through the door. I do split some with axes, maul and wedges. An Estwing hatchet will take a lot of abuse from a hefty hammer. I fell into a deal with a property owner to cut a lot of wood a mile from the house. A lot of hickory, some walnut, ash, a little hard maple. He wants the wood gone so I'm taking some basswood, cottonwood and box elder too. I keep that separate to burn first, keeping the good stuff for later and next year.

[barbender]

I've only watched a couple of his videos, him and his ilk just drive me nuts because it seems like they have to put out a how to video, before they even know "how to" do it themselves😂

[SwampDonkey]

I've only watched a couple of his videos, him and his ilk just drive me nuts because it seems like they have to put out a how to video, before they even know "how to" do it themselves

Learn on the job, or the moment. He clearly stated many times though, his videos will show the fails right along with the successes. 'Professional home owner'. What a hoot. Good thing someone actually goes to work over there to support his hobbies. Look out though, one day there comes a day of redemption and it won't be from the Lord, but a higher power. :D