I'm with y'all.
I've been heating with wood since the blizzard of '78(?), lost power for 4 days and decided I wasn't going to get bit again.
Been using a poulon 20"er for the last 16 years and it's fine for my needs.
I don't have my 25 acres in any conservation plan.....taxes @ 400+ a year is cheap enough for me 'specially after having to pay 25hundred a year for 4 acres back in jersey.
The firewood of choice around these parts is hedge apple, aka osage orange, braintree, bodark...burns like coal. One thing about harvesting hedge, you're going to bleed! Guaranteed!
We've got some elm thats been hit with the blight, barkless, dead standing. One in particular is a monster.
I believe elm is a choice wood for working, sculpting...don't know.
My last trip out on the ridge was to drop some red cedar, juniperus virginianis ? for cutting into siding. Need to get out and secure firewood for this winter but at a constant 90 degrees daytime highs I just can't get motivated.
G...I'm jealouse of your stacks, where do you find the time?
I've been heating with wood since the blizzard of '78(?), lost power for 4 days and decided I wasn't going to get bit again.
Been using a poulon 20"er for the last 16 years and it's fine for my needs.
I don't have my 25 acres in any conservation plan.....taxes @ 400+ a year is cheap enough for me 'specially after having to pay 25hundred a year for 4 acres back in jersey.
The firewood of choice around these parts is hedge apple, aka osage orange, braintree, bodark...burns like coal. One thing about harvesting hedge, you're going to bleed! Guaranteed!
We've got some elm thats been hit with the blight, barkless, dead standing. One in particular is a monster.
I believe elm is a choice wood for working, sculpting...don't know.
My last trip out on the ridge was to drop some red cedar, juniperus virginianis ? for cutting into siding. Need to get out and secure firewood for this winter but at a constant 90 degrees daytime highs I just can't get motivated.
G...I'm jealouse of your stacks, where do you find the time?