The Old Folks Home

[pennyJo1960]

I missed out .. again...what happened to Latestarter???

he passed a while back now

 

[Cynthia12]

he passed a while back now

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[Cynthia12]

Ok...I do remember now. Just went and read the thread on his death. I remember he was always very nice in his posts.

 

[pennyJo1960]

He was very nice I agree

 

[Alaskan]

@Alaskan. What what wood do you all up there use to heat with? I've seen some on those 'reality' shows showing Alaskans heating with spruce and pine. It's also showing two inches of creosote buildup on their pipes. Yikes is all I can say!

Mostly just spruce here.... no pine at all where I am.

Very rarely there is birch to burn, or cottonwood, or aspen.

So yes, huge creosote buildup... you have to thump the pipe on occasion to check how bad it is getting... and a cleaning before the season start, and twice in the middle of the season, is safest.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Wow that is awful lot I know we had a wood stove in Juneau didn't recall it was that bad

 

[microchick]

@Alaskan how many cords do you burn through in a winter up there? We usually do 7-8. Last winter was colder so closer to 8. We had about two cords left over. We will burn that first and then work through what we harvested this year. Most of it was wood from trees we fell last fall about this time so it's pretty well seasoned already. We save the honey locust for sub-zero nights.

This year very little hickory which is unusual as the bulk of our timber is Hickory but it seemed that every tree we dropped last fall was red or white oak. We have oak wilt going on here which takes a couple of trees a year. Those trees get marked for dropping this winter and we will process them next spring.

 

[getaclue]

My new tag came in. It was part of my birthday present. I got a whole new tag, not just the sticker.

 

[pennyJo1960]

"Tag" Clue ? not sure what that is, morning all cloudy cool day here

 

[superchemicalgirl]

2 important things of note:
1. we had to turn the wood stove on today, cold (didn't even hit 60) and very damp from rain.
2. I ate the most delicious apple I have ever had today. Wild tree.