The woodpile in the basement – and no, I don’t keep it that close to the stove. The boxwood stove you see in the pic is the old one. We upgraded to a Vogelzand Heartwood last year.
The wood you see here is typical of stuff that is left to rot away after the loggers get done. This is all junk “tops” that are leftover from thinning out a five acre plot. I’ve been burning this stuff for four years now and got at least three more years worth if I can get it up off the ground. A lot of it is getting sorta pithy from being on the ground too long.
Everywhere I go I see these treetops either piled up or just laying in the woods. I also see a lot of nice split and stacked ricks of wood with for sale signs on them – anywhere from 30 to 45 bucks a rick. And you don’t see much of this “junk” round stuff in the stuff for sale. You can’t even give it away. Nobody wants to go through the hassle of dragging this shit out of the woods. Easier to spend the slave labor paycheck on propane I suppose.
I have 40+ acres of woods out here. The tree limbs that snapped off during the ice storm would heat my house for 10 years. I bet that the trees that die a natural death or sloughed off branches would keep this house and two others warm.
Sad to see so much fuel going to waste.
comrade simba 
February 3, 2008 at 4:54 am |
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Yeah it is sad. To me that’s just the kind of stuff I’d be looking for when I keep an eye out for fire wood. Already down to a manageable size without any work. Just gotta go out and gather. Geez what more do ya want?
I suppose the sad part really is that there’s some kind of dark connotation with using discards let alone seeking them out. Somebody declares bamboo flooring green and that’s cool to pay a bunch a bucks for that but somebody goes and uses trash for something new is just a bum or a schemer or a scammer. Worse yet, collecting trash makes you unclean.
Dirty & Depressed _ _ jB
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