Worlds ugliest firewood......And the winner is.

[stihl sawing]

I got this one, As you can see how nice a smooth my wood is.lol It's sweetgum. Never try to split it when it's green cause it will tear apart like you see. There are a lot worse pieces in the pile so just grabbed some knarly lookin ones. It's hard to get in the stove with all the pieces going everywhere but it was free and gas is not. You have to use gloves to handle it or you will get splinters. I have a whole wing full of red oak but that's next years wood.Just wanna get rid of this stuff this winter. I will let it dry out good before splitting this stuff again. So yeah i think it's the ugliest woodpile around. Let's see some ugly wood from you guys. Can ya beat my ugly wood.LOL

 

[WidowMaker]

you ain't seen an ugly wood pile til you see a pile of 50 to 60 year old apple limb wood with there pruning clusters. Talk about ulgy wood...

 

[Rookie1]

That stuff looks like the elm I get from my backyard. Pretty stringy.

 

[Peacock]

I've got plenty of elm and oak crotch wood that's good bit uglier than that!!

 

[Joshlaugh]

I also think it looks like all the elm I am burning right now. Might be ugly but it burns well.

 

[stihl sawing]

Ok , We gotta have pics to prove who's got the ugliest.LOL

 

[beerman6]

I see nothing but heat?

 

[Wood Doctor]

Ok , We gotta have pics to prove who's got the ugliest.LOL

Darn! I forgot to take pictures of that dead pin oak I brought in two weeks ago. Looked great from the outside, and I hauled away a dozen 24" rounds to the splitter after carefully dropping a huge tree of "gorgeous" dead wood, all ready to burn.

Well guess what? Most of these rounds were so completely infested by carpenter ants that even 8" pieces just crumbled as they were being split. There were so many big black ants that I couldn't get to the camera to photograph them all. The ants were chasing me like bandits for wrecking their home.

I threw a whole truckload of trash wood away and LOML found ants for a week in the laundry. :censored:

 

[cityevader]

yeah really, where's the pics to go with the "I've split ugly stuff" replies?

I've split some piles of way worse ugly splits (that's a good story in itself) that looked like...........

shoot, I didn't take any pictures either.

 

[SWI Don]

I have been burning my ugly splits lately. I am trying to clean the top of the stacks in the shed where the shorts and ugly pieces go. I would like to pack some more wood in.

I have a walnut crotch piece on the porch that wouldn't fit in the stove due to a fin coming out of the split side. I tried to break it off with pliers but am going to have to break out the saw.

Elm will make some stringy messes. Walnut crotches can be bears to split. All of that pillowy burl that people like in gun stocks and furniture makes for hard splitting. I have never been around a sweet gum but it doesn't look fun.

Don

 

[Wood Doctor]

yeah really, where's the pics to go with the "I've split ugly stuff" replies? I've split some piles of way worse ugly splits (that's a good story in itself) that looked like...........

shoot, I didn't take any pictures either.

+1! How do you take pictures when five thousand carpenter ants are crawling up your pant legs, your sleeves, into your shirt collar, and down into your boots?

Then LOML shrieks at the sight of huge grub worms crawling out of the log that a large mouth bass could hardly swallow?

Somehow the camera gets lost in the shuffle.:spam:

 

[stihl sawing]

+1! How do you take pictures when five thousand carpenter ants are crawling up your pant legs, your sleeves, into your shirt collar, and down into your boots?

Then LOML shrieks at the sight of huge grub worms crawling out of the log that a large mouth bass could hardly swallow?

Somehow the camera gets lost in the shuffle.:spam:

I know that's right, Them little suckers hurt. I hit a nest of them one time and the chain throwed em all over me before i realized what was happening.

 

[Wood Doctor]

I know that's right, Them little suckers hurt. I hit a nest of them one time and the chain throwed em all over me before i realized what was happening.

This last ugly oak beast I felled had thousands of those big black carpenter ants with wings on them--the winged reproductives? I have seen them before but never so many as this tree was housing. We split open the chamber that encased them. I'm not sure how they fit into the order of things in the colony. I think the workers may feed them and then they fly away to start another colony somehow. We never found the queen.

This tree was 32" dia at the base and infested 25' up with this colony. How any branches at all were alive, I will never know.

 

[stihl sawing]

A lot of oaks around here have carpenter ants. But some of them have seems like millions of them wadded up in the trunk. The wood that they chew up is a black jelly lookin stuff and smells really bad. I hate hittin that stuff with a saw. After that mess dries on your saw it is had to get off.

 

[SWI Don]

I ran into a mess of ants in some apple this summer. I didn't mind, got a half cord of apple.

They were crawing all over. Somehow I mananged not to get bit. It is better in the winter time as the ants are all dormant and don't move much.

Don

 

[Marc]

Pfft... even my straight grained red oak looks that bad... which might have something to do with my piss poor aim with the maul. I blame my astigmatism.

Seriously though, I don't give one fark what my wood looks like, which probably most of you guys don't either, but I see some people with stacks so neat and tidy... just a waste of time in my eyes. The sole purpose of processing wood for fuel is to create a chunk sized such that it fits in your appliance. It isn't to make a work of stacking art.

 

[Ole Farmerbuck]

Ok , We gotta have pics to prove who's got the ugliest.LOL

You talking wife,gf or dog? Oh ok....wood.

 

[stihl sawing]

You talking wife,gf or dog? Oh ok....wood.

Uh,Wood Buck. We don't wanna see no ugly pics of wives or gf.Now if ya happen to have a good lookin pic, ........Well that's a different story.LOL

 

[stihl sawing]

Pfft... even my straight grained red oak looks that bad... which might have something to do with my piss poor aim with the maul. I blame my astigmatism.

Seriously though, I don't give one fark what my wood looks like, which probably most of you guys don't either, but I see some people with stacks so neat and tidy... just a waste of time in my eyes. The sole purpose of processing wood for fuel is to create a chunk sized such that it fits in your appliance. It isn't to make a work of stacking art.

I don't stack mine all pretty either, But i don't leave it laying all over the yard. Some people enjoy doing the stacking, Not me. That part i don't like cause of the bending over constantly.

 

[KMB]

I got this one, As you can see how nice a smooth my wood is.lol It's sweetgum. Never try to split it when it's green cause it will tear apart like you see. There are a lot worse pieces in the pile so just grabbed some knarly lookin ones. It's hard to get in the stove with all the pieces going everywhere but it was free and gas is not. You have to use gloves to handle it or you will get splinters. I have a whole wing full of red oak but that's next years wood.Just wanna get rid of this stuff this winter. I will let it dry out good before splitting this stuff again. So yeah i think it's the ugliest woodpile around. Let's see some ugly wood from you guys. Can ya beat my ugly wood.LOL

Sweetgum...since I moved down here and started burning wood for heat in my burner/stove, I've been told by the locals to avoid using Gum (Sweetgum) wood because it produces more creosote (and as you've shown, is a bear to split green). But I've learned (if I get this right) that creosote is more of a problem with most any wood that is not seasoned properly. So do you find that properly seasoned Sweetgum burns fine without producing a lot of creosote? (or should I have done a search?...:monkey: )

Kevin