Made a burn pile. Won’t be able to burn for 3-5 months, but I need to get ready. I need several piles if I’m gonna make any real progress.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Looks like a tinderbox in that photo. Hope your weather turns wet soon. We have been in severe drought in my location all summer until about 2 weeks ago. Regular significant rains since have felt almost alien after such a dry stretch! Best of luck out there.
Not sure but it’s a bunch.How many cord does he figure in each pile.
Thats a heck of a processor.
It is!
It’s usually mid October before we get rain, at the earliest.
And the pile looks huge to most people, but is only a drop in the bucket when looking at what needs to be done to make the property relatively safe from wildfire. I’m gonna try and make several more piles before the snow flies, I’ll have to clear some areas. Clearing an area could (probably will) be the first pile in itself, then it’ll take round two to add stuff from other areas.
Here‘s where some of the pile came from, this was all thick.
I’m not making a road, I just drive through to load closer.
My scounge for today. To many pears on the old limb. To hot to get the saw out.(91*) So on the pile it went. Enough wood to heat the shop for a day.
I need more wood like a hole in the head but a buddy called today... His son's tree service is removing a sugar maple and did I want the wood? I'll have to go get it because nobody wants to drive out here in the sticks but I said yes anyway. Sugar maple is the holy grail of firewood around these parts..... Perhaps even highly valuable!
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In the northeast, sugar maple is the "queen of firewood." If I could burn one wood and no other, it might be hard maple.
Looks like sustainable tree spacing.
Nice pics.Spent tonight scrounging some "queen of northwest firewood"..Western Larch. Sure would have made a nice saw log.
Beautiful evening, not a soul around for miles.
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Where's the deer?
The boy and I cleaned up a bunch of branches and droppings from under a pine, spruce, or something like that today that I cut off yesterday. Had a nice big fire that burned the mulberry it was under, I'll cut those branches off and drop the tree tomorrow. Hope to get the rest of the tree on the fire tomorrow, unless someone wants the wood.
Not sure what we'd call it here, but I think it's nasty and all the branches stink. I have another to finish up when the weather cools, glad it's not a big rush.
Why not get the ones closer to the rd, need the exercise
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Can't just take what you like, only the horizontal trees are ripe for the pickins.Why not get the ones closer to the rd, need the exercise
Same here, only logger Nate is exempt...
We can cut standing dead, but they're hard to come by.
Were you spared the bark beetle? We have an abundance of standing dead, and fallen dead.
Yeah, not too bad around here. Over by Helena I've seen quite a bit of damage, but that's about 4 hours east.
There is a Pear tree at the fish and game club on the archery range. No one still alive knows how it got there. There are several other trees around, so it is tall, straight and thin. The only reason you know it is there is occasionally you will see a pear on the ground, and look up at the canopy and see them! I don't think it dropped any pears this year, but it is still alive.
There was a pear tree at the children’s camp, Mike but it died a few years ago.
Definitely. We use it when we go camping.
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