Now this is how firewood should be stacked .

Now this is how firewood should be stacked .

Where did you find a tree that comes with it's wood already cut and split!

You might have an idea there that will catch on!

WG840

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That is cool!
B

John,
That's pretty darned cool!!!!!

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Shucks...I thought my woodpile looked impressive.

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C & L

C&L, it surely is, but Bullseyes is artistic!

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Smith .. and Wesson .. and me

That picture just made my day. Nope, I take that back. Being that today is 28 March, I am going to go out on a "Limb" and say that picture has made my month!!!

WOW you guys; Makes my little wood shed look puny. Holds around 3 1/2 cords of Alder mixed with Fir & Pine. Keeps the home fires burning here on the Oregon coast.

Wow- you guys burn pine and fir??
I did not know you could. We never burn it down South. Just oak and hickory, and an occasional other hardwood rather that waste it.
How do you avoid creosting your chimneys?


On the OP- that is truly amazing artistry.

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Lee Jarrett

I think a person burns what grows around him. I lived in Ca. where I burned oak, almond, and eucalyptus, all hardwood. In the area of Oregon where I now live, Ponderosa and Douglas Fir are the predominant trees, along with an abdundance of Juniper. Unfortunately, oaks don't grow here, too high an elevation. One takes what one gets.

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Kevin in Oregon

...yep...we burn mostly Aspen and some Pine up here...



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We burn a lot of spruce up here as well as aspen and birch.

I happen to enjoy the smell of a nice spruce fire. The trick to burning soft wood is to always have a hot fire. Better to let the fire build burn hot and go out than have a low fire that smolders all night.

I have a six inch flue and have *never* had a problem with build up in the pipe. On occasion I have noticed creoste "flowers" on the top hat, but those are easy to knock off from a distance with a rod and brush. At the end of every season I get up on the roof and clean the stove pipe and the brush always drops straight down the flue.

So hot fires, take the time to arrange the wood with plenty of air space, and always burn wood that has been properly dried and stored.

...absolutely right...exactly the way we do it...



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"Firewood warms you twice - once when you split it, and once when you burn it."
Henry David Thoreau

I'm getting too old for this!
All I see in those photos is backache.

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What's eucalyptus smell like when it's burning?

I've got one out front that I plan on cutting down. Thought about burning it, but I don't know if I want my house to smell like a Hall's cough drop. By the same token, a neighbor's camphor tree dropped a large dead limb in my yard. Was gonna cut it up for firewood, but as I started cutting it started smelling more and more like moth balls. Didn't want that smell in the house, either.

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now that is a lot of wood. put a smile on my face.