Let’s talk about firewood

[mtmuley]

Old Faithful for 35 years.View attachment 410781

Lose that bar guard. mtmuley

 

[BuzzH]

Shut up Buzz. You can even take a thread about firewood and #*^@#* it up. Congratulations. mtmuley

Am I wrong?......No.

 

[INMT]

Been running this MS 360 for 15 years. It was a trails saw for 10+ before that. Bought it from GSA auction for $250. One of my best buys ever.

To many cords to count and trees dropped for friends.

 

[mtmuley]

Am I wrong?

Yeah. Wrong. In your mind. mtmuley

 

[INMT]

Lose that bar guard. mtmuley

Or switch to a Stihl!

 

[mtmuley]

Or switch to a Stihl!

Saws are kinda like rifles, or bullets or scopes. I have two Stihls. Comes down to feel I guess. I've had my 038 30 plus years. Buzz will be along shortly to correct all this. mtmuley

 

[Hem]

Lose that bar guard. mtmuley

The guard and the hat stay nit- picker.

 

[mtmuley]

The guard and the hat stay nit- picker.View attachment 410798

Yes. mtmuley

 

[INMT]

Agreed. I learned on a 036. Still shoot my 20 year old 7mm REM Mag.

Change and me don’t always get along!

 

[brymoore]

Pair of Husky 372s raising hell on a level deck.

 

[BuzzH]

Saws are kinda like rifles, or bullets or scopes. I have two Stihls. Comes down to feel I guess. I've had my 038 30 plus years. Buzz will be along shortly to correct all this. mtmuley

Thats the problem with getting firewood, it makes you grumpy.

I do stand corrected though it seems to heat you up one additional time just talking about it.

 

[mtmuley]

Hey Buzz, just checking. mtmuley

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[antlerradar]

Whoever told you that either hasnt heated with wood or a liar.

It heats you up cutting it, then putting it in the back of the truck. When you get home e, you get warmed up unloading it, then splitting it, stacking it. Then when you go to burn it, you get heated up again hauling it into the house, and in our case, hauling it downstairs, then into the wood stove.

I've often wondered if there is more than a gallon of sweat into a cord of wood by the time you get into the stove?

Truth

 

[antlerradar]

Here in CO I have about half a cord of white oak I brought back from IN last fall......might as well be made of gold around here. At the new place we have a mixed, leftover pile of about 2-3 cords that I will burn through as I can. With the central chimney stack/double sided stove I will be heating mainly with wood and backing up with propane when we moved back. Wood around there is almost free and I like the process. I will be putting up a wood shed and getting a splitter. Splitting by hand is cute for a little bit but NOT for volume for me.

Don't take offense, This is kind of a public service announcement. Taking fire wood from IN to CO in not a good Idea. Uninvited pests can make the trip with the wood to a new home. It worries me that some one is going to bring camp fire wood from the Midwest and bring the Emerald Ash Borer with it.

 

[Addicting]

Don't take offense, This is kind of a public service announcement. Taking fire wood from IN to CO in not a good Idea. Uninvited pests can make the trip with the wood to a new home. It worries me that some one is going to bring camp fire wood from the Midwest and bring the Emerald Ash Borer with it.

Our ash is long since dead, it’s been dead for 20 years. There are no more larva to bring.

Plus if your headed west you wouldn’t take ash. Oak, Hickory, or Osage would be the best.

We can legally haul logs across state lines. We can haul green lumber anywhere we desire.

What makes firewood any different?

 

[INMT]

Our ash is long since dead, it’s been dead for 20 years. There are no more larva to bring.

Plus if your headed west you wouldn’t take ash. Oak, Hickory, or Osage would be the best.

We can legally haul logs across state lines. We can haul green lumber anywhere we desire.

What makes firewood any different?

Because it can harbor invasives. Just don’t do it. Burn it where you harvest it. Plenty of wood out west no reason to transport it.

https://invasivespecies.mt.gov/misc/Firewood-SAP-Key-Findings_FINAL.pdf

 

[Addicting]

Because it can harbor invasives. Just don’t do it. Burn it where you harvest it. Plenty of wood out west no reason to transport it.

https://invasivespecies.mt.gov/misc/Firewood-SAP-Key-Findings_FINAL.pdf

So do the other methods I mentioned, yet they happen every day in commerce. That’s ok, just don’t burn it by a camp fire. Got it…

 

[BuzzH]

Our ash is long since dead, it’s been dead for 20 years. There are no more larva to bring.

Plus if your headed west you wouldn’t take ash. Oak, Hickory, or Osage would be the best.

We can legally haul logs across state lines. We can haul green lumber anywhere we desire.

What makes firewood any different?

Colorado - Don't Move Firewood

It is against the law to bring out-of-state firewood into Colorado from areas infested with regulated forest pests like imported fire ant, spongy moth,

www.dontmovefirewood.org

 

[INMT]

So do the other methods I mentioned, yet they happen every day in commerce. That’s ok, just don’t burn it by a camp fire. Got it…

As @BuzzH and I pointed out, most western states restrict bringing firewood in. No need.

 

[Addicting]

As @BuzzH and I pointed out, most western states restrict bringing firewood in. No need.

Meh…

I will care when it doesn’t go down I80 or by open rail car to a mill out of state. Where it will sit in a huge pile waiting to be processed. Cut offs will be sold as scrap wood or fire wood. Oh and now it’s local from the mill. Maybe that doesn’t happen much there but it sure does here.

Hell, It was put on a log truck in Oregon and ship it to Ohio to build an ark. People only care when you call it firewood.