Where’s the firewood at?

Not as long as it will take him to split and stack it!!

 

Half cord of cherry cut from my friends building lot. I would rather have 1 cord of lodge pole but didn’t get time this year to harvest it. (The white dust is diatomaceous earth to keep the bugs down).

 

Black oak and red oak are in the same "family" Pin oaks also are in this grouping. Main way to tell diffs is the blacks, reds and pins all have sharp pointed leaf lobes while the white family has rounded lobes on the leaves. There are some odd-balls like the "water oak" and the "Chinkapin oaks with the latter looking like an exaggerated white elm leaf.
The "mandrone" is a new one to me -- I will look that one up!

 

Looks like the "mandrone" is right up there on heat content (BTU's) with the oaks -- some say even better! Good stuff

 

I have a soft spot for pin oaks, my mother planted one in our yard when I was born. It's a slight bit taller than I am now though.

Madrone is the best I've ever burned. Can be hard splitting in some conditions. Also a very slow growing tree so can be hard to come by in good supply. Where I am a lot of times people selling madrone have poached it unfortunately.

It's a beautiful tree as well.

 

It’s our favorite round here. It’s funny, a small community where I’m at and we all eyeball the same madrones, waiting for them to drop that last green leaf, then go to harvest it and it’s gone. But we usually can drive straight to the house of who we think cut it and demand a beer for cutting our tree.

 

Beautiful indeed! Especially the large old growth ones. So grand and gnarly!

 

Genus Quercus spp

 

Thanks -- I looked that up -- wish I had not-- way too many scientific names -- I think I will stick th the red, and the whites.
Waaay too much detail on some of the websites I found. 235 different species all over the world

 

Nice haul. And any Stihl man is a friend of mine.

 

Stihl is the only way to go --I have 3 -- 2 inherited from my father-in law, who BTW taught me everything I know about using a saw

 

Heading camping near Crested Butte last fall

 

Stihl for me. It's the Toyota of the Saw world. Not the fastest, not the highest reving, not the lightest, doesn't start on the first pull, but always reliable.

 

We had to remove one at our job due to rotten tops overhanging a building that was 6' through at the butt

 

I like big butts, and I cannot lie.....

 

Do the madrones in your area not keep leaves on all year ?

 

I'm still using an early 90's 026. Grabbed it from CL after I purchased my house 3 years ago, best $250 I ever spent.

Now that I'm not house-poor I keep telling myself that it's time for an upgrade, but the damn thing just keeps going.

 

They do, I was referring to the burned and dying ones

 

I was on a beer break!

 

I grew up using a 026! I love that thing! My parents still use it round the yard. Now I don’t know if I could live without my “hopped up” 461 magnum! That puppy barks!