bigfellascott wrote:bladeracer wrote:bigfellascott wrote:That looks like a good little setup you have there BR, what type of wood do you burn where you are?
I had to check with Rose
She says most of what we burn is difficult to identify with certainty after laying in a paddock for a decade or two.
Mostly eucalypts, some blackwood, occasionally some pine and oak, and probably some others as well. Anything that falls goes through the stove eventually.
We saw it into ute-lengths, cart it up to the shed, stack any green stuff to dry, then cut the dry stuff into stove-lengths with the swing saw. Then split them and stack them in the wood shed with the snakes and spiders. Every week a heap gets barrowed down to the stack at the back door.
Yep I'm the same mate, I wouldn't have a clue about a lot of the wood I burn either, to me it's wood and it will put out some sort of heat so burn the bloody stuff
I get pine offcuts from the local mill, they come in handy when you want to get a fire going quickly and they put out good heat (they don't burn real long but it's great for getting the fire cranked up quickly) and it's free so we just get the backhoe to drop a load in the ute and off we go.
We have to be very careful with the wood we burn(or at least know exactly what it is) as some trees can have nasty effects if ya breathe the smoke including hallucinations or in extreme cases death.