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do u have piles?; wood piles, that is
Topic Started: Oct 11 2013, 12:48 AM (195 Views)
bachophile
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this year's wood pile. 5 cubic meters (1.5 cords for the metrically challenged) of olive/citrus mix. waiting for temps to dip so we can light the wood stove.
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Mikhailoh
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Hmm. Not a lot of olive or citrus in Ohio. How do they burn?
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Olive sounds so exotic. I always imagine the smoke smells like olive oil, and kind of wafts airily about creating a sophisticated ambience.

Reality is always so disappointing.
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VPG
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Did someone say olive oil?
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Jolly
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I've got about the same amount of pecan stacked.

No piles for me.
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jon-nyc
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Got my flue cleaned a few weeks ago. I might buy a little wood myself.
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bachophile
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Mikhailoh
Oct 11 2013, 02:22 AM
Hmm. Not a lot of olive or citrus in Ohio. How do they burn?
olive and citrus are hardwoods so they burn long and slow, but harder to ignite.

most important thing is seasoning. when i get wood i make sure it was cut and dried at least a year previously, and the longer the better.

smells lovely.
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Aqua Letifer
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bachophile
Oct 11 2013, 06:31 AM
Mikhailoh
Oct 11 2013, 02:22 AM
Hmm. Not a lot of olive or citrus in Ohio. How do they burn?
olive and citrus are hardwoods so they burn long and slow, but harder to ignite.

most important thing is seasoning. when i get wood i make sure it was cut and dried at least a year previously, and the longer the better.

smells lovely.
Best way to do that, in my experience, is to just cut a hell of a lot of wood, and then tarp it up to keep it dry throughout the year.

Behind where my dad used to work, there were just acres and acres of untamed forest. Once every couple years or so, we'd borrow his friend's woodsplitter and spend a good week or so getting the pile back up to size.
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Mikhailoh
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Oct 11 2013, 04:10 AM
Got my flue cleaned a few weeks ago. I might buy a little wood myself.
There's a great zinger in there if I but had the time to find it. :lol2:
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Copper
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My neighbor has a wood pile that he hasn't touched in years.

It produces a good size termite swarm every few weeks during the summer months. He keeps it right up against my fence. He is on my west so the prevailing wind keeps the termites coming this way.

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Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day,
I paused and said, 'I will turn back from here.
No, I will go on farther—and we shall see.'
The hard snow held me, save where now and then
One foot went through. The view was all in lines
Straight up and down of tall slim trees
Too much alike to mark or name a place by
So as to say for certain I was here
Or somewhere else: I was just far from home.
A small bird flew before me. He was careful
To put a tree between us when he lighted,
And say no word to tell me who he was
Who was so foolish as to think what he thought.
He thought that I was after him for a feather—
The white one in his tail; like one who takes
Everything said as personal to himself.
One flight out sideways would have undeceived him.
And then there was a pile of wood for which
I forgot him and let his little fear
Carry him off the way I might have gone,
Without so much as wishing him good-night.
He went behind it to make his last stand.
It was a cord of maple, cut and split
And piled—and measured, four by four by eight.
And not another like it could I see.
No runner tracks in this year's snow looped near it.
And it was older sure than this year's cutting,
Or even last year's or the year's before.
The wood was gray and the bark warping off it
And the pile somewhat sunken. Clematis
Had wound strings round and round it like a bundle.
What held it though on one side was a tree
Still growing, and on one a stake and prop,
These latter about to fall. I thought that only
Someone who lived in turning to fresh tasks
Could so forget his handiwork on which
He spent himself, the labor of his ax,
And leave it there far from a useful fireplace
To warm the frozen swamp as best it could
With the slow smokeless burning of decay.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Red Rice
HOLY CARP!!!
Yeah, I miss having a wood fireplace. Only gas fireplaces in my condo.
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I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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