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Post by ncboman on Jan 1, 2006 21:52:00 GMT -5
Building my supply up as a neighbor turned me loose on his property that was recently logged where a good number of hardwood tops were left. Really attractive thing is the wood is only 1/4 mile down the road. My youngest boy and I cut, split, hauled, and stacked well over 2 cords yesterday and today. Looks like I can get a couple of years supply before I'm done but I'm going to have a real big woodpile in the backyard. I'm sure my neighbors think it's an eyesore but they haven't offered to pay my fuel bills either. ;D So far I still haven't turned my oil furnace on yet. . Anyone else here save money by heating with wood?
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Post by freedomrules3 on Jan 2, 2006 13:17:18 GMT -5
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Post by tailnbone on Jan 3, 2006 17:01:52 GMT -5
I definetly save alot of money burning firewood. My house too is all baseboard heat and I can vouch for it being exspensive. We got to go onto a farmers property a couple years ago and get all the left over tree tops a year after he had it logged out. I was surprised to see how big the treetops were once we got in there. There were some trees that were cut and left behind too. Alot of splitting. The same farmer also had a big oak tree he wanted cut down in the middle of his soybean field. Just driving by and seeing it out in the field my buddy says, we'll have to stop tomorrow and cut up that branch that had already fallen. We both thought we would each get a pickup truck load of wood out of that branch.........we ended up getting 7......just off that one branch. When we finally brought the big giant down it made a hell of a crash. We ended up getting 34 truckloads of wood out of this tree. The base was 6 ft. across about 14 feet up and then branched out everywhere. The old farmer went down to the stump to count the rings.....he made it to 188 and stopped with alot more to go.
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Post by ncboman on Jan 3, 2006 17:58:30 GMT -5
hmmm, I'd have shown that farmer where it says in the Bible not to cut that tree and the promise of blessings in heeding to the Word. I like cutting firewood and especially cleaning up cutdowns and otherwise wasted wood but I can't cut an ancient tree, and have gone out of my way to discourage it.
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Post by tailnbone on Jan 4, 2006 11:19:58 GMT -5
The tree had alot of dead branches and they kept falling in his field. He remembered years ago about pulling his tractor underneath the tree, when it was full of life, to cool off in the shade and escape the blazing heat while working the fields all day. He couldn't do that anymore....less shade plus he'd be taking a chance of a large branch falling on him and killing him. He said there used to be a stand in it too. But the tree was starting to get dangerous to be around. Like all things, death will come sooner or later so we just helped it along. It lived a good life. When it fell branches were flying everywhere. Once it came to rest after the thunderous crash, we toasted it with an ice cold beer. We wouldn't have even thought about cutting it down if it were 100% alive. Just couldn't do that. We have too much respect for trees and the land.
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Post by ncboman on Jan 4, 2006 11:34:26 GMT -5
yeah, I understand. Sometimes that's just the way it goes. Hurricane Isabell blew the top out of an ancient oak down the road from here. The farmer talked to me about getting the firewood and cutting the rest of it down but I convienced him to let me cut it off about 20ft high so it would come back. He said ok. I cut it off and hit it with spray and grow. Last fall while I was in Ohio he took the entire thing down later telling me it was growing back so thick it was shading his field. and so it goes. btw, I have a bunch of pics on my camera of the firewood , buckshot customized, and a bunch of other stuff but I've been lazy about downloading, resizing, and converting them to my host site. soon.
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