Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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I hear ya on too much wood to move! I'm getting on halfway through my 23 dump trailer loads and may have ~16 cords stacked now. I was thinking today that these old bones are slowing me down. But it is my gym exercise so I'm gonna try to continue.
I do like your narrow/long trailer for the four wheeler. Maybe could use some short sides, but then you would probably just tend to overload it! LOL
Oh, speaking of wheelbarrows.
Where is your shorts/uglies/rejects pile? Must be pretty big by now.
Everybody always wants to see behind the curtains! LOL
I have a pile of uglies, but some go on the top of the stacks, and I've actually burned some this season that was good enough. I also have a lot of rounds cut that will either have to be noodled or put through a hydraulic splitter.
If it makes heat......
I'm guessing ambrosia maple.
Tough to see the color in the small image on my phone.,, but if it’s a muddy brown/grey it’s mineral stain. I run into that a lot with the maple I cut… it’s growing in very wet clay conditions. Ambrosia has a definite pink / reddish pink appearance. I see that regularly in small projects made by guys in my woodworking club. No indication it’s spalt as the tell tale black lines aren’t present.
a lot of wood pix! all look the same. i measured them. nope! each series another day of firewood making!
Nothing by wrong with the wheel barrowed use when wood deck & storage rack or shed is close by . I have wheel barrowed plenty of hard wood over the yrs . When it muddy or I'am hurt in then the quad or backhoe route wins out . I have 4 large 18" girth maple to take down shortly , 2 24 & 26 " poplar also that are widow makers just waiting to happen . Never a dull moment ! lol.
i hate it when
like that happens! hope u get to the bottom of it. sounds like a neighbor! 
but i am only speculating...
cool pix! star interesting... but i am wondering who is that character just to the lower R of it... sorta reminds me of....
"hear, hear!" some days that is just how i feel, too!
Did a pork butt on the Traeger yesterday. Twenty hours using cherry pellets. Having it today for my youngest son's 3rd birthday party.
Well guys, starting tomorrow my heating system is going to be drastically changed.
For those who don’t recall, my house has boiler heat. I have a ca-1982 propane boiler, 2002 era dual fuel electric and a 1982 wood boiler.
The wood boiler is great although very inefficient…With one problem: The fellow who designed the heating system used a stainless steel pipe within the clay chimney. This guarantees that even if there was a chimney fire, it would simply burn out itself within the stainless pipe. The downside is that the stainless pipe is too small of a diameter to adequately vent the boiler in all conditions. Therefore when the boiler is heavily fired or on days where it’s warm out and there isn’t much draft, we get a lot of smoke blow back into the furnace room. Even with a small hood fan that takes away the excess while feeding the fire, it definitely makes the entire house smell like smoke inside. For this reason we’ve only heated with wood for two seasons in the last 40 years. So the fail safe that prevents chimney fires also prevents proper operation of the boiler.
Starting tomorrow, a heating contractor is going to remove my water heaters and my gas boiler and hook up a new very efficient gas boiler with instant hot water beside the electric boiler. He said the contaminants coming off the steel woodstove would surely plug up the new boiler and recommended bypassing it. He said if we wanted we could put in a heat exchanger so we could still run the boiler however with those draft issues and the fact that the new boiler is going to be super efficient, I’ve decided that we are going to bypass the boiler completely and as time allows I will remove it.
I’m going to look for a efficient freestanding woodstove that I can put in place of the boiler to use as back up heat for the house in case of power outages or Armageddon. Between that and the two fireplaces we should have plenty of heat for even the coldest days. The other freed up space in the furnace room should allow me to either put in a standing freezer or a good sized gun safe.
For those who don’t recall, my house has boiler heat. I have a ca-1982 propane boiler, 2002 era dual fuel electric and a 1982 wood boiler.
The wood boiler is great although very inefficient…With one problem: The fellow who designed the heating system used a stainless steel pipe within the clay chimney. This guarantees that even if there was a chimney fire, it would simply burn out itself within the stainless pipe. The downside is that the stainless pipe is too small of a diameter to adequately vent the boiler in all conditions. Therefore when the boiler is heavily fired or on days where it’s warm out and there isn’t much draft, we get a lot of smoke blow back into the furnace room. Even with a small hood fan that takes away the excess while feeding the fire, it definitely makes the entire house smell like smoke inside. For this reason we’ve only heated with wood for two seasons in the last 40 years. So the fail safe that prevents chimney fires also prevents proper operation of the boiler.
Starting tomorrow, a heating contractor is going to remove my water heaters and my gas boiler and hook up a new very efficient gas boiler with instant hot water beside the electric boiler. He said the contaminants coming off the steel woodstove would surely plug up the new boiler and recommended bypassing it. He said if we wanted we could put in a heat exchanger so we could still run the boiler however with those draft issues and the fact that the new boiler is going to be super efficient, I’ve decided that we are going to bypass the boiler completely and as time allows I will remove it.
I’m going to look for a efficient freestanding woodstove that I can put in place of the boiler to use as back up heat for the house in case of power outages or Armageddon. Between that and the two fireplaces we should have plenty of heat for even the coldest days. The other freed up space in the furnace room should allow me to either put in a standing freezer or a good sized gun safe.
Oh yeah, there are no repeats. @Cowboy254 would be on me quicker than a drop bear if I tried to sneak anything past him!a lot of wood pix! all look the same. i measured them. nope! each series another day of firewood making!
if ever there was a good example of... 'do so much with so little'... am thinking you would be a strong contender!!!
enjoy seeing all ur pix, even if little changes!!!
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