THE firewood thread

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My hubby :) His family own a STIHL dealership so they are pretty serious about chainsaws and firewood! Haha

You would have extra interest in this thread indeed! :hugs

@ScottandSam

Is that long rig ladderish like thang also called an Alaska Mill? I have one something like that and a humongous STILH to go with. :p

My faller father outfitted the entire inside of his house (well OK, except the parts where he used local rock!) with rough sawn yellow and red cedar. From falling, hauling, drying, milling, squaring it up to installation...it was from forest to home with wood.

I been meaning to come post our initial firewood hauling from early this year.

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July 8 2017

In the midst now of my spouse hauling in a load here and there after work. He cuts and loads, comes home, I off load and stack; even Steven...as both our butts benefit from the warmth of a fire.

He is working up to a splitting bee where I'll be hauling the splits and filling up the wood racks for our walls of wood. Not this year's or even NEXT year's firewood to burn...but topping up the supply for three years from now.

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Fur two old persons...we done good! LOL :highfive:

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Great way to start the firewood season off!

And as serious as we are about firewood...we are just as serious about enjoying the excursions. Life is what you make of it and pretty down to basics...water, food, shelter and wood for warmth. Primal and yet, gives a human that internal feeling of satisfaction...knowing you got your wood supply stowed away, ready for immanent winter--can't stop the cold coming, better embrace it with full on enthusiasm. Get er done!
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I think I've posted on here how Rick enjoys getting wood with his wife...we have lunch, breaks, we work, but we also enjoy the scenery and the wildlife...we make it an early day, but hey, it's a full on good time had by all. ;)

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After getting the trailer load...
We drove back thru this area and on the other side...
We flushed out one of these pretty fellas... :)



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Antigone canadensis or Sandhill Crane

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Love this shot..I even captured a dragonfly (Anisoptera) upper left corner!
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Rick has always made what others call "work," fun. He drove 25 K outta the way...just so I could take clicks of these. He had noticed them blooming in the ditch and thought well enough ahead he planned a little side trip to give me an opportunity to click pics of purdy flowers! After a bita work, some play time, eh. :cool:

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We left home (2.5 hour drive to just get there) early enough...
We cut the load, loaded it and were out and gone before the bugs showed up!
Now that's timing! :yesss:



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Cool enough there are dewdrops still on the petals! :hit


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Gorgeous wild flowers in the Wooded Wilds :lol:

He never has to say more than "Gonna make a trip to get Firewood at such and such time!" and I'm already planning the lunch we're having and packing to get going! :lau
Doing my chores up in advance so we can slip away and get on it. Good times!

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
 
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Do you stack your wood like this for any particular reason? We used to stack our wood row after row tightly together. After 20 years of providing the perfect habitat as breeding grounds for pack rats and squirrels, we finally got tired of our wood pile being the Rodent Motel and just this year began stacking our wood just as you are doing here. COMPLETELY foiled the vermin!!
 
Do you stack your wood like this for any particular reason? We used to stack our wood row after row tightly together. After 20 years of providing the perfect habitat as breeding grounds for pack rats and squirrels, we finally got tired of our wood pile being the Rodent Motel and just this year began stacking our wood just as you are doing here. COMPLETELY foiled the vermin!!

You got it, we get European wasp nests and rodents otherwise. Also more even air circulation means more even drying :)
 
Working on splitting the remains of a 50+ year old Black Acacia. Dense wood. First cousin to Koa. Tried to re-purpose it for woodworking projects but no takers. So now I have a couple of cords worth to breakdown and I think my little 5 ton log hydraulic log splitter is fearful. Burns very hot and is aromatic.

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Husband is starting to split and collect the wood he has been chopping down for this winter. Sure glad he has the Mule to tote it back to the pile!
 

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