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It's going to be a WARM winter

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It's going to be a WARM winter
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It's going to be a WARM winter
October 9, 2019 at 3:51 pm (This post was last modified: October 9, 2019 at 3:52 pm by onlinebiker.)
I don't care how cold it gets outside.


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I have an enclosed trailer I built years ago that I park next to the kitchen door (on concrete pad) each fall - and fill with wood. It holds about 2 1/2 cord. Normally I burn a mix of various hardwoods - and it will get me through about 3/4 of the winter - so I will bring a few loads up with the quad. I shouldn't need to this year.

This year - it's filled with well seasoned - 7 or 8 years old - 80% osage and 20% hard maple.

If you never burned osage - it is the highest BTU per cord (32 million) of any wood grown east of the Missisippi. Heavy, dense and smells nice burning.
Plus - practically no creosote - so the chimney stays clean....

You gonna burn one?
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RE: It's going to be a WARM winter
October 9, 2019 at 4:40 pm
Osage orange also makes great fence posts due to its resistance to rot and insects. Maple smells good burning, too.
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RE: It's going to be a WARM winter
October 9, 2019 at 4:55 pm
It makes great bows too - althogh this was fence row trees - which rarely grow straight.....

Long story short - a landscape company owned the land and cut down a 1/4 mile x 100 yard swath of osage - to plant pine trees.

We had to beg them to let us cart it off.. They were just going to bulldoze it and burn it in place.

In one week I hauled home 12 cords - some in 250 lbs blocks. Ring count 160 on some......

I was not the only one going like a maniac trying to beat their deadline.
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RE: It's going to be a WARM winter
October 9, 2019 at 4:59 pm
I don't have a fire place but I've used quite a lot of pizza ovens and I like using Iron bark, a very common eucalypt from round here.
Smells good, burns for ages, good for smoking meat, cheap.
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RE: It's going to be a WARM winter
October 9, 2019 at 5:16 pm (This post was last modified: October 9, 2019 at 5:16 pm by onlinebiker.)
Never heard of that one. Of course we don't have eucalyptus in this area...

Make your turkey taste like a cough drop?

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RE: It's going to be a WARM winter
October 9, 2019 at 5:19 pm
WHY THE EVER-LOVING FUCK ARE YOU BURNING MAPLE????

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RE: It's going to be a WARM winter
October 9, 2019 at 5:27 pm
(October 9, 2019 at 5:19 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: WHY THE EVER-LOVING FUCK ARE YOU BURNING MAPLE????

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Because it was a bit too close to the house and got damaged by lightning.

I make syrup. (50 gallons last year)

I don't cut a maple lightly....
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RE: It's going to be a WARM winter
October 9, 2019 at 5:30 pm
(October 9, 2019 at 5:27 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:
(October 9, 2019 at 5:19 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: WHY THE EVER-LOVING FUCK ARE YOU BURNING MAPLE????

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Because it was a bit too close to the house and got damaged by lightning.

I make syrup. (50 gallons last year)

I don't cut a maple lightly....

Well...fair dues, I suppose.  Just breaks my heart to see maple go up a chimney stack.  Such a beautiful wood.

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RE: It's going to be a WARM winter
October 9, 2019 at 5:39 pm
(October 9, 2019 at 5:30 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(October 9, 2019 at 5:27 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: Because it was a bit too close to the house and got damaged by lightning.

I make syrup. (50 gallons last year)

I don't cut a maple lightly....

Well...fair dues, I suppose.  Just breaks my heart to see maple go up a chimney stack.  Such a beautiful wood.

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It does burn good.

This year we put up 4 cords of (live) red oak, and at least 6 cord of ash. Emerald ash borer is playing hell on our ash population.

I still have trees to cut - but have to wait till crops are off the field as the trees are on the fencerow.

Probably after deer season - 36 days to go...

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