a true windfall

Anonymous-0 · Jun 20, 2013

Storm that blew through here last Saturday knocked downd a nice size hackberry. This is load one - two more to go. It's already cut up I just hafta to load it - but they won't let me drive on the yard - I hafta load by wheelbarrow, about 100 yards and slight incline.

GeneMO · Jun 20, 2013

"They wont let me drive on the yard" ???

Then it would lay where it fell.

Gene

Anonymous-0 · Jun 20, 2013

well I need the wood real bad and it's only about 10 miles from the house, I don't want to pass it up. I just need some young bucks to go with me to help load. By the time I'm done I'll have a pretty good footpath through the yard.

retired farmer · Jun 20, 2013

You and I think alike. I would freeze to death before I would heat with wood.

Paul from MI · Jun 20, 2013

Cutting, splitting, stacking fire wood--YEAH! Hauling in a wheelbarrow--NO WAY!

maxwell99 · Jun 20, 2013

knor,

I still have a wood stove insert,

main heat is a heat pump

but, I still like to cut and split wood with my powered wood splitter as long as I still can.

I currently have two big piles of wood close to my wood shed that needs to be cutup and split.
we had a big ice storm go through last year, so I got plenty of wood.

That old wood splitter never gets tired, just keeps on keeping on.

old wife's tale: wood heat is very efficient as it heats you twice, once when you cut and split it, second time when you burn it.

jCarroll · Jun 20, 2013

How long do you hafta soak hackberry in fuel oil to get it to burn?

2x4 · Jun 21, 2013

burns as good as anything. It's a relative of Elm; just don't try to do a lot of splitting.

Texasmark1 · Jun 21, 2013

Hackberry is the native tree around here. Yard is full of them. It burns just fine if you don't try to burn it the minute you cut it down. It doesn't burn fast like ash, and doesn't explode like boise de arc, but doesn't leave the charcoal that oak does. For free wood, can't beat it.

Mark

Anonymous-0 · Jun 21, 2013

we have a propane fired boiler so I burn a lot of wood for heat to keep the propoane costs down. I've heard that old saying about splitting your wood warms a man twice - but it's already quite warm lol. I do use a splitter, my days of of splittin by hand are in the past.

Bob in SD · Jun 21, 2013

Would they let you run a riding mower across the yard? This is the year my 8 yo daughter learned to ride the mower (not cutting yet, just driving). I have a small utility trailer that she can tow. Haven"t had to get the wheelbarrow out all spring, and shes figured out how to use it for lots of chores that don"t really need a wheelbarrow. (Yes, it does take twice as long when she helps, but it"s all fun. She actually asked to use it to haul her bicycle (flat tire) from the shed to the garage but I drew the line on that)

Fawteen · Jun 21, 2013

You and I are on opposite sides of this.

Granted, it takes a lot of time to heat with wood, and if you're farming or working full time, it probably doesn't pay when you figure the time you spend working up firewood at any respectable wage.

Me, I'm retired. Heck, I even pay for the wood. As long as I am able to do the work and enjoy doing it, I'll supplement my oil-fired boiler with wood.

Three reasons:

1. $1000 worth of wood will provide way more BTU's than $1000 worth of oil @ 3.60 per gallon. If I did the math right, about 5 times as much.

2. The $1000 I spend on wood goes in the pocket of a local guy trying to make a living, not some Middle Eastern sheik. (In order to keep this post/thread from being poofed, I won't speculate on what they spend their money on.)

3. There is nothing, and I do mean NOTHING like wood heat when you come into the house froze to the bone from doing winter chores. Or ice fishing "8^).

T in NE · Jun 21, 2013

I burnt some hackberry over the winter. Stuff split nice, burned hot, and didn't make near the ash as our elm. It was cut into 4-6 foot sections a year and a half earlier.

I have a ton of bur oak and elm that we knocked down over the winter that I have to get sectioned out so it dries and doesn't rot. Even as dry as it is here, 2 years on the ground and ash and elm will be rotten in the middle if not cut down into 6 foot or so sections.

hopadoe · Jun 22, 2013

Fawteen, I agree 100%.

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