rox
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My uncle, God rest hsi soul, lived in rural Wisconsin and once told us a story about visiting some friends of his who were Native American. He tries to walk in the front door which is open with a blanket hanging over the opening, and there is a long tree trunk sticking out the doorway. So he walks in and sees that the other end of the tree trunk is buring in the fireplace. So he says to his riends, "Hey I think your log is to big for the fireplace." His friends respond, "It won't be by the end of the night"
His friends didn't have a lot of money, and who knows if they even had a chainsaw so they would just drag in tree trunks and large limbs and just gradually feed them into the fire all day long.
Fast forward, we have run out of our bigger olive limbs to burn (we are heating only with wood) and are hitting up the firewood stock that was here when we purchased in 2004. The wood is almond wood. For some strange reason the farm worker for the previous owner cut up line of almond limbs about 20 ft long and 6ft high of firewood, that he had cut only into 1 meter lengths. Now this is the most stupid length imaginable and the only conclusion we can come to is that he was jsut to lazy to cut it to firewood length. From the outside of the pile you really didn't notice that the logs were that long since the backside butts up to a stone wall.
Since my husband cut his hand up with the chainsaw he seems to prefer hand sawing with the Silky saw instead of the chainsaw. So I help him out bringing over some of these old almond limbs for burning in the fireplace. He cuts one with the Silky saw and darn that wodd is sure hard. So we are burning those 1 mter logs "indian style" they hang out our fireplace about 6" to 10" and since ti is just my husband and myself in our home, it is not like anybody is going to trip over them. I honestly couldn't jsutify cutting that hard old wood when actually "indian style" works pretty good.
See i told you this would put a smile on your face. Oh yeas the almond wood burns really well. It burns hot but lasts a long time.
His friends didn't have a lot of money, and who knows if they even had a chainsaw so they would just drag in tree trunks and large limbs and just gradually feed them into the fire all day long.
Fast forward, we have run out of our bigger olive limbs to burn (we are heating only with wood) and are hitting up the firewood stock that was here when we purchased in 2004. The wood is almond wood. For some strange reason the farm worker for the previous owner cut up line of almond limbs about 20 ft long and 6ft high of firewood, that he had cut only into 1 meter lengths. Now this is the most stupid length imaginable and the only conclusion we can come to is that he was jsut to lazy to cut it to firewood length. From the outside of the pile you really didn't notice that the logs were that long since the backside butts up to a stone wall.
Since my husband cut his hand up with the chainsaw he seems to prefer hand sawing with the Silky saw instead of the chainsaw. So I help him out bringing over some of these old almond limbs for burning in the fireplace. He cuts one with the Silky saw and darn that wodd is sure hard. So we are burning those 1 mter logs "indian style" they hang out our fireplace about 6" to 10" and since ti is just my husband and myself in our home, it is not like anybody is going to trip over them. I honestly couldn't jsutify cutting that hard old wood when actually "indian style" works pretty good.
See i told you this would put a smile on your face. Oh yeas the almond wood burns really well. It burns hot but lasts a long time.
