Firewood

[ronwoodcraft]

Found this Standing dead spruce tree yesterday. It's solid bone dry wood that's already seasoned. Got a little over a half cord out of it, and I think this will finish up this winters firewood supply.

 

[unclemac]

my favorite wood is those standing dead trees! They "pop" with clean splits with the axe! I also like rot, but dried out wood.... they light like paper...

 

[dognose]

good stuff.
I picked up about a cord of wood today from my cousins. I cut 3 large oaks there two years ago. they had split the cord then and I thought they wanted it, but last week they said come on over and get any wood there in the back by the woods. DONE!

 

[unclemac]

ready for winter!

 

[dognose]

When I was loading the wood, I came across multiple snakes. I stopped counting at 10. Most where very small and sluggish as the temps were down in the low 60s last night. Nothing major but interesting there were so many small snakes there.

 

[AU Seeker]

When I was loading the wood, I came across multiple snakes. I stopped counting at 10. Most where very small and sluggish as the temps were down in the low 60s last night. Nothing major but interesting there were so many small snakes there.

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Those are Dekay's Brown snakes, the female gives birth to live young in late summer and tends to burrow under leaves, logs etc., so that probably a family of them, they eat slugs, snails and worms, but other snakes, some amphibians, birds and many other animals prey on them.

 

[ncsuwolf]

Found this Standing dead spruce tree yesterday. It's solid bone dry wood that's already seasoned. Got a little over a half cord out of it, and I think this will finish up this winters firewood supply.

question, and pardon my ignorance, but we never (I mean never) burned any coniferous wood in the house. Perhaps a pine knot to start a fire, but the creosote and chimney fires were too big a worry. How do you heat your home (assuming this) with non-hardwood and deal with the chimney issues?

 

[ronwoodcraft]

question, and pardon my ignorance, but we never (I mean never) burned any coniferous wood in the house. Perhaps a pine knot to start a fire, but the creosote and chimney fires were too big a worry. How do you heat your home (assuming this) with non-hardwood and deal with the chimney issues?

Some conifers are worse for creosote than others. Ponderosa Pine seems to be the worst but if it's dry well seasoned it's not bad. The spruce like in this picture burns very clean. Just burning small hot fires with the draft open as much as possible along with chimney cleaning once a year is all I do.