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| Clear skies, lots of sun, not terribly cold and no wind! I'm pulling my toboggan up this trail. |
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| This is good as it gets. A heaping toboggan load of standing dry wood all from one tree |
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| Primo white, solid, dry, balsam fir |
I hit the jackpot on firewood today. The dead balsam fir I cut down had all the hallmarks of a great firewood tree -- no needles, cracked bark and boy, was it ever. The tree was surrounded closely by other living balsams so I cut it right where it stood, taking off four feet at a time letting the tree slide down vertically.
It made a heaping load in the toboggan -- too heaping, actually. I had to unload it and make two trips.
This is what great balsam fir firewood looks like. White wood with no green wood spots. That one tree will last us several days.
Incidentally, this is a carbon-neutral fuel. Had this dead tree fallen down and decomposed it would have released the same carbon as our burning it to heat our home.
2 comments:
What do you do with all the ash from the burning wood? Does it make good fertilizer for the yard or garden or maybe deter predators like bear or wolves around the home? Just curious what you do with all the ash.
Mike S.
We use it in place of sand on the driveway. It is excellent for this but you must not put it near the door to the house as it will get tracked inside. I have also tried using it as fertilizer along my bush trails, thinking it might enhance things like white clover that I planted there for wildlife. It had no observable effect.
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