Sounds like a little negotiation saved you a lot of time.
Producing BBQ Smokin' Wood...
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LOL! So its not on my patio, but its on my drive way
if u got cherry wood u put it wer u want to. I took 1 1/2 hrs to cook some sausage on the smoker tonite just so i could use my cherry wood. Edwin if i had all that cherry id put it in a safe place so no one can get it! It smells so damn good burning!
What I cannot understand is why they turned down my offer to bring some walnut splits. I have a bunch, but they said no to my offer to include it with the oak and mulberry. Some say walnut is in the top ten group of smokin' wood species. To each his own I guess.
many people can have a very strong allergic reaction to walnut or like myself being highly allergic to any kind of nuts with Hazel ( Filberts) nuts being on par with cyanide for me.
That would probably include hickory and other nut trees as well. Sorry to hear about that allergy. It's the pits. I used to be a consumer scientist for the FDA in Washington. Some people are even allergic to orange juice and other citrus fruits.
On the other hand, this customer has never objected to me supplying walnut for his fireplace along with oak. Oak is a nut tree that produces acorns, so it would be hard to believe he is allergic to walnut.
There is a substance that Walnut produces which is quite toxic (can't remember name) That one , even none allergic persons, needs to take some precautions when working the wood.
I came up with a short-log stacking idea that might work better than trying to stack short, 8" long logs in a typical 8' wide firewood rack. Most metal racks people buy from a store have a pair of rails about 14" across so stacking 8" logs won't work very well, if at all, unless you somehow fasten a sold bottom and sides on it. That's not impossible but consider this alternative.
Along with the 600 half-length short logs in the truckload delivery, include about 100 regular 16" to 18" logs. Make a layer of these for the bottom of the rack first, closely packed. Next, stack the short logs two on end atop that bottom layer. As the stack of shorts in pairs goes up, add a layer of longer logs to the sides. The short logs near the ends well then have something to squeeze against as the stack height increases and thus hold the longer logs on the ends in place. The longer logs then form a U-shaped frame.
So, the final result is a stack of 600 short logs ready for smokin' and 100 long longs that will have to be eventually cut in half by the customer or burned as firewood. Regardless, this stacking idea would reduce immensely the work required by the customer to cut his smokin' logs shorter to fit inside his smoker's firebox.
Forum, can we kick this idea around? WDYT?
Along with the 600 half-length short logs in the truckload delivery, include about 100 regular 16" to 18" logs. Make a layer of these for the bottom of the rack first, closely packed. Next, stack the short logs two on end atop that bottom layer. As the stack of shorts in pairs goes up, add a layer of longer logs to the sides. The short logs near the ends well then have something to squeeze against as the stack height increases and thus hold the longer logs on the ends in place. The longer logs then form a U-shaped frame.
So, the final result is a stack of 600 short logs ready for smokin' and 100 long longs that will have to be eventually cut in half by the customer or burned as firewood. Regardless, this stacking idea would reduce immensely the work required by the customer to cut his smokin' logs shorter to fit inside his smoker's firebox.
Forum, can we kick this idea around? WDYT?
