Firewood thread!!! Let's see what you got!!!!

[jacktheripper]

Another load of Russian olive done yesterday. Now it’s time to start hauling my split wood off site, and splitting roughly three more cords of poplar, elm, and cottonwood.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

Going on my 10th year of handsplitting firewood. Have never owned a
hydraulic splitter. Too slow and boring.

Ive no electricity, running water or that btch-ass heating oil. Wood is my only source of heat. If u don't love running saws, wrenching on wood trucks/atv's/snowmobiles, swingin axes, running dog teams and rivers boats, this is not the place for u.

Up here in Interior Alaska, the snow stays in October, and melts by may 7th or even second week of may. Below zero weather hits in November and April still gets below zero at night.

Nother good year of gathering. Still gotta split a bit more.

 

[jacktheripper]

Going on my 10th year of handsplitting firewood. Have never owned a
hydraulic splitter. Too slow and boring.

Ive no electricity, running water or that btch-ass heating oil. Wood is my only source of heat. If u don't love running saws, wrenching on wood trucks/atv's/snowmobiles, swingin axes, running dog teams and rivers boats, this is not the place for u.

Up here in Interior Alaska, the snow stays in October, and melts by may 7th or even second week of may. Below zero weather hits in November and April still gets below zero at night.

Nother good year of gathering. Still gotta split a bit more.

How many logs do you need to burn to connect you to the internet? Asking for a friend.

 

[Jusgunn3]

I think I will stick to visiting that place when the weather in nice and keep my hydraulic splitter

 

[jacktheripper]

Went up to the mountains and got me a good old standing dead pine.

 

[titanman6100]

Here you go some cherry rapped in poison ivy

 

[jacktheripper]

What does this look like to you guys? This was in the city brush pile today. Elm?

 

[Junk Meister]

What does this look like to you guys? This was in the city brush pile today. Elm?

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Coffee Bean?

 

[jacktheripper]

Coffee Bean?

I thought you were joking, but I looked it up… very similar lol. This is in Wyoming though…

 

[JimBear]

I thought you were joking, but I looked it up… very similar lol. This is in Wyoming though…

Growing range for Kentucky Coffee Tree shows western Nebraska, Oklahoma & Kansas. If it will grow in those arid places it will surely grow in Wyoming.

They claim it very drought resistant tree.

What part of the state are you in ?

It actually looks very similar to the Kentucky Coffee trees that I cut a couple years ago.

 

[JimBear]

Coffee Bean?

Good call, I had forgotten about them. They aren’t common here but there are a few around & it definitely looks similar.

 

[Junk Meister]

I thought you were joking, but I looked it up… very similar lol. This is in Wyoming though…

Honey Locust looks similar but not so yellow Your pics may be of a bit dryer honey locust.
Ya never know who planted what where and it survived.

 

[jacktheripper]

Growing range for Kentucky Coffee Tree shows western Nebraska, Oklahoma & Kansas. If it will grow in those arid places it will surely grow in Wyoming.

They claim it very drought resistant tree.

What part of the state are you in ?

It actually looks very similar to the Kentucky Coffee trees that I cut a couple years ago.

I’m on the south eastern side of the Wind River range. So central western Wyoming.

Honey Locust looks similar but not so yellow Your pics may be of a bit dryer honey locust.
Ya never know who planted what where and it survived.

True… my family visited a month or so ago and brought a white oak sprout in a water bottle. We’re hoping to let it grow and plant it in the backyard here. It might be the only white oak in the county if it survives.

 

[JimBear]

I’m on the south eastern side of the Wind River range. So central western Wyoming.

Out by Lander area.

I used to go thru & into Wyoming a lot when I hauled oilfield supplies.

I always enjoyed the drive from Rawlings to Muddy Gap up to Sweet Water Station then up thru The Wind River to Bridger,MT.

Casper to the Wind River was a nice drive as well.

Heck, I really liked the whole state.

 

[jacktheripper]

Nice, yep you got it. So it turns out that Kentucky Coffee Tree is actually recommended for planting in this area. I never knew! I think that’s actually what it is. Nailed it on the first try!

 

[Junk Meister]

In the 70s' We sawed some 8' x30" (and bigger) for Free Wheeling Bicycle shop. They were in Lincoln, NE near the university. They used the planks/boards for neat shelving for a niche coffee and tea store that they put into a corner and it was neat (and successful)

 

[jacktheripper]

Well it turns out it was actually honey locust. I didn’t realize we had it out here, but the wood is super dense and probably heavier than anything else I’ve ever worked with. I got a half cord of firewood and four mill logs out of it.

 

[JimBear]

Well it turns out it was actually honey locust. I didn’t realize we had it out here, but the wood is super dense and probably heavier than anything else I’ve ever worked with. I got a half cord of firewood and four mill logs out of it.

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It will probably take 2 years to dry down to 20% out there. It normally takes 3 years for me to get mine dried down here.

Boring Beetles love that stuff after cutting & splitting.

 

[jacktheripper]

It will probably take 2 years to dry down to 20% out there. It normally takes 3 years for me to get mine dried down here.

Boring Beetles love that stuff after cutting & splitting.

Why are they so boring?

 

[jacktheripper]

My buddy has a bandsaw mill and a kiln. I think we’ll take one log to mill and dry next week and see what happens.