The Forestry Forum

I have some downed logs that have gotten charred pretty deeply

Cutting them up for firewood is painful. I’m using a junk chain but the charr is dulling it pretty fast, and I have to re-sharpen.

Any ideas? I think I’m gonna have to use the tractor and push these into a pile or something and burn them.

Or maybe just use my axe and consider it exercise.

How many you got?
I use to burn a lot of white pine. Clearing a grown up pasture. I would have a pile 20 feet across 8 feet high. When I would start it conditions for a fire was good, then it would still be burning 5-6 days later.  :o  Would not be flames 4 feet high, but smoldering.
You would also need some small stuff to get the big stuff burning too.

Nobody likes government rules, but if you burn you may first want to find out  what the rules are. In New York they have bans on burning at certain times of the year. And you are supposed to be in attendance while it's burning. 

It's not very many trees. Not nearly the pile you described there.

We have a burn ban right now so it'll have to wait. There were fires in a couple of places in Tennessee recently.

In my state you are supposed to get a permit. We do our burning without a permit, and I don't see that these permits are legal to require on private property.

That being said, I'm not going to light anything up when it's dry and windy like it has been.