Mt. Nusatsum

Mt. Nusatsum

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Firewood

Today was  a good day for working on 2012's firewood supply.  The ground still is frozen and there is still snow which makes cutting up the logs easy when they lay on the snow.  This big old cottonwood was taken down last fall if you recall when I had my experienced neighbor teach me how to safely fall a big leaning cottonwood.  I didn't need all the wood for the fall of 2011's wood supply so it lay there for the winter.  It's still not completely accessible with part of it frozen in the ice for another week or so.


The discouraging thing about the day was one of those big old slow dumb mosquitoes landed on me and tried to bite!  What's with that - mosquitoes when there is still snow?  I hope it's not an omen after all the water that saturated the valley after last fall's flood.  Grizzly

3 comments:

  1. grizz, do you use a wood splitter and/or a chain saw? do they sell those in town? what models do you recommend? what about the differences in burning temperatures of jack pine, alder, dogwood?
    I hear jack pine burns the hottest. Maybe a column on your blog about these issues is appropriate. just askin'

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  2. No wood splitter. I always figure that by the time I lift the blocks into a splitter I can split them just as fast. See my posts in January 2010 about firewood BTU's I think it will answer your questions - it still comes down to "I burn what I burn because that's we always did or I burn whatever is easy". Douglas Fir wins as far as BTU's Grizzly

    http://www.bellacoolablog.com/2010/01/firewood-debates.html

    http://www.bellacoolablog.com/2010/01/firewood-debate-followup.html

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  3. I shouldve know you already covered the topic! Thanks Grizz, that is some fantastic information that will be very helpful to me. Now I just have to learn how to fall a tree properly!

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