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Got it done just before the first day of summer. Tamarack split and stacked in the shed plus a little extra off to the right. Five 15 inch layers in the shed and we typically use about 3 and 1/2 of those. Chopping blocks should be good for about a month if we run short. Had a pack rat invade the shed last winter, so there's a Victor snap trap hanging there on the left shed post just above the roll of wire. If he/she shows up again, I'll be on it like stick on a skunk That is just sage brush and western juniper in the background. Have to go about 40 miles for tamarack, but it's worth it due to its cutting a splitting ease. There's just a little more extra stacked beside the shed. Going to quit measuring in cords and switch to acres. I think I have about 5 seasons worth in that pile. If the back goes out, I'll have a few seasons before I have to vacate the premises. The two right most layers are ponderosa pine and reserved as Cookie's campfire wood. Tamarack is great stove wood, but unsuitable for fire places and campfires due to its popping and cracking that launches firebrands for several feet. We can cut standing dead (ponderosa and lodge pole pine, grand fir, Doug fir, or tamarack in the forest) or western juniper on the more arid BLM (that's Bureau of Land Management) lands. One spends about 30 minutes limbing a juniper though and then gets about 5 rounds out of the remaining trunk. A fee of $5.00 per cord with I think a family limit of 12 per year. Commercial permits cost about the same but with unlimited opportunity. Overheard our largest commercial guy a few months ago as he was taking a phone order. His assurance to the guy making the order was that he does about $500,000 in business a year. After I clean out the Blaze King, it'll be time to exercise the fly rods. Have a good one,
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love tamarack for wood stove. Yep the ponderosa works good for cooking
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I remember visiting my great uncle/aunt in the summers when very young. We'd see him for about 5 minutes and he spent the rest of the time cutting wood.
They used wood for everything, cooking and heating.
I hate summer.
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My back hurts looking at that.
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I'm not quite there yet....LOL
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Wood you like to see my splinter group? How do they stack up? Log in and post cutting remarks that don’t go against the grain. Please buck me up. Don't pile on and bark at me, or I will get a splitting headache.
Life is like a purple antelope on a field of tuna fish...
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Wildhobbybobby:
Lots of stuff there that I'd leave in the woods. Any odd shapes or sizes that screw up the stack get left. Neighbor's wife, however, brings everything in including the face cut wedges and any large knots we knock off. For Christmas last year I got her a nice foxtail brush and dust pan so she could sweep the sawdust from the forest floor. Looks good there. We're a bit short on hardwoods in this area.
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Wood you like to see my splinter group? How do they stack up? Log in and post cutting remarks that don’t go against the grain. Please buck me up. Don't pile on and bark at me, or I will get a splitting headache. I'm stumped on what to say. Log jam.
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That takes me back a bit.
Used to do roughly 10 cords of birch per year, one year in advance.
I miss it, but not the aches !
Went to propane 9 years ago, when we bought our own business.
In fact, when we moved in January, I left behind 2-3 very well seasoned cords of mixed campfire wood - birch, tamarack & a little black ash, as I could not get it out of storage, due to the sugar snow in the yard.
Hard, but rewarding & "essential" work for the old school, rural crowd.
Paul.
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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Been helping a buddy split a bunch of maple every Saturday for the last few weeks. We've done about 4 full cords so far and have enough wood for 20 more. The smallest pieces we're handling are the size of the biggest ones in your first pic. Damn, it's heavy.
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Good looking wood piles of tamarack 1minute; dad always referred to them as western larch while growing up just north of you. Definitely the choice burn for wood stoves (and stays for range fencing).
Nice to see some good sized rounds as well. It seems like finding big standing dead tamarack on the Mal-whore NF has become a challenge between commercial cutters and restricted cutting areas on the NF. Always enjoyed September wood cutting....usually good for a few grouse on the side in the Blue Mtns.
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The smallest pieces we're handling are the size of the biggest ones in your first pic. If one is going larger than the chopping blocks he's getting into serious wood. At 73 yrs, rounds like that are getting a bit difficult to throw around. Stay cool,
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I've got mine in @ 4 cord of aspen, spruce & ponderosa. I'm going to get 1 more load for insurance. Feels good to have it done before the 4th of July.
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I have all wood piles stacked up. I am in the NC mountains and I have white oak, locust, and ash with a little black walnut. I love to cut and stack firewood, it just makes me feel good. This is my backup wood pile in the carport. Sixteen feet long and four feet high, two stacks side by side. My wood shed holds twice this much.
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I'm so glad I don't burn wood anymore!
I have a lot more time to do other stuff but I do miss the wood heat.
Paul
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Yep, I'm with you on both counts Paul !
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We love to burn our Norwegian wood stove. It really gets a workout.
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