Squaw Wood?

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Ok most my Firewood is Big, burns a long time but doesn't want to keep going good. Lately I have been picking up small wood in the yard and mixing in. Burns Hot and keeps things going. We always called it Squaw Wood.

I was thinking when I'm filling my shed for next Winter I might as well go around our property and pick up what I can and go ahead and put it in the shed.

Would you do this? Thoughts.

Oh thinking of getting some Slab Wood from the Sawmill too.

Rockpile

[Maura]

Yea, I’d do it. When it’s falling off the tree it’s dry. Whatever makes for less work later.

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I always cut the limb wood and mix it in to keep the fire burning hot until I have a good bed of coals....James

[terrilynn]

We also do this, when cleaning up the edges of fields and pastures with downed limbs, we also use it for summer campfires.

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Yep - I'd do it too. It's surprising how bits and pieces can flesh out a wood supply. Our wood supply this year is an equal quantity of manuka and eucalyptus - both long and hot burning. But since we have a lot of pine trees around the place, there's usually quite a bit of pickings from the paddocks, especially pine cones. As you say, it keeps the hard wood ticking over nicely. Go for it @rockpile.

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"Squaw" wood. I told Her what the kindling was called there and I thought that we should adopt that name around here. She told me fine but since I was going to do all the collecting anyway, I could call it what I wanted to. She also said I would be Her squaw when it came to getting any firewood. I think I'm not going to mention it again.

[jacki]

My brother has a Wood Mizer sawmill next door to me, and we both heat our houses with scrap from the mill.

He sells mill scrap for $2.50 a wheelbarrow load, which makes it about $20. a pickup load. What is funny is the number of people who turn up their noses at this wood and tell him that it won't burn well because it has been milled. They would rather spend 80 to 120 a cord.

Jacki

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Mar 26, 2016 18:15:15 GMT jacki said:

My brother has a Wood Mizer sawmill next door to me, and we both heat our houses with scrap from the mill.

He sells mill scrap for $2.50 a wheelbarrow load, which makes it about $20. a pickup load. What is funny is the number of people who turn up their noses at this wood and tell him that it won't burn well because it has been milled. They would rather spend 80 to 120 a cord.

Jacki

We get scrap here for $20 a Pickup Load but we have to work it up for the Fireplace.

Dad for years burnt scrap from Barrel Staves. Can't get them here because they are using them to burn out Wine Barrels.

I do get regular Firewood on Public Land.

Rockpile

[gracielagata]

jacki, 80-120 a cord?! Where do you live?! A cord of wood here in rural Spokane is $200+!! (closer to 300 usually, honestly)

@rockpile, We do the same thing for starting the fire. We have a good sized slash pile that in the fall I start busting branches from as it has dried all summer long. Just now for next winter we took a bunch and put it into trashcans to dry better ahead of time. Along with all the scraps from a free maple.

We got our soapstone stove back in 2014, it is the smallest one they make (small house too lol).
That first year our friend sold us 3 cords for 200 each (he gets it from BLM type land as well), as my husband had just had surgery and couldn't do anything. He swore it would barely last us that year. We aren't through it yet. lol
Now my husband is sure to get whatever wood he can for free at work and such from downed trees.
So far a friend brought us at least 2 cords worth of HUGE maple. It is a BEAST. Most of the limbs were bigger around than we are!
And we have small assorted box elder and such that comes from downed trees. I love when it is free.
Should be getting some pine longs from a friend soon, just hafta get over there.

[jacki]

I might be off on the price of wood since I don't buy by the cord. I live east of Eugene, on the wet side of the Cascades, and we do have a lot of BIG trees around here.

There is a picture on mckenziefatwood.com that shows my brother ripping a log with a chainsaw that is too big to fit on the mill. I think that log was around five foot at the but.

Jacki

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Well I was over on Public Land couple months ago. seen several Trees along the road cut down. Seems Forestry had marked them for Firewood Cutters last Fall for Dry wood but Cutters didn't cut them. They are Dead and Hollow Trees, Forestry didn't want them blowing over on the road so they cut them down.

I went asked the Local Forester for a Permit to cut them up. He gave me a Permit until the end of June. It is Hot cutting and dealing with Bugs and Snakes but well worth it having more wood ready for Winter. So far I have cut 3 1/2 Cord have another 1 1/2 cord to cut.

Besides this wood I have other cut. My wife figures we have two Winters worth cut and no sense cutting more this year. But I told her consider my age something could happen where I can't cut no more.

Plus also it is good exercise and can't see a Chainsaw just setting. I can get another Permit this Fall, if I wasn't cutting Firewood my time would be spent Hunting and Fishing which I already do plenty.

Should I not cut this Fall? This is Oak and Hickory so it takes time to dry. Right now I have a shed that holds 4 1/2 Cord I'm going to double its size so it should hold at least a Winters worth of wood.

Rockpile