What kind of tree is this?

[Tinhack]

I have a friend that will collect all the Osage orange he can get his hands on for firewood.

I've also read that it can damage a fire box because it burns so hot.

 

[Torvy]

Osage orange trees come in male and female trees, so you are down to just males.

All the best, Peter

Shame! You really don't know that. You would need to communicate with each tree to determine how it identifies.

 

[Dftodd]

I've also read that it can damage a fire box because it burns so hot.

He had it down to a science using that wood. Never any issue.

 

[ponytug]

I've also read that it can damage a fire box because it burns so hot.

All about knowing your stove and how to load it, I think.

Of course, it helps to know that you are tossing in Osage orange in the first place.

I sent some whole dried Scotch bonnet peppers to a friend to use as seeds for the coming Spring planting. A few months later, I got a note telling me that dinners had turned into Russian roulette as he had tossed the Scotch bonnets in with the family store of red peppers for food. Mom would grab peppers randomly... I was never quite sure who got what he deserved: me for wasting great seed peppers, or my buddy for not using them as seeds.

Every stove I have lived with seemed to have a personality in terms of loading, banking, and fuels that kept it going well. Could just be me...

All the best, Peter

 

[RSKY]

I had washed my shoes after the Sunday afternoon cutting up that tree. Spent an hour yesterday morning pulling thorns out of the soles. My favorite pair of Sketcher Slip Ins are no longer waterproof thru the sole. I knew I felt something in my shoes and thought it was sawdust. Was the thorns trying to poke thru the insole.

RSKY

 

[Tinhack]

I had washed my shoes after the Sunday afternoon cutting up that tree. Spent an hour yesterday morning pulling thorns out of the soles. My favorite pair of Sketcher Slip Ins are no longer waterproof thru the sole. I knew I felt something in my shoes and thought it was sawdust. Was the thorns trying to poke thru the insole.

RSKY

That's every day life down here with Mesquite Trees.

 

[Dftodd]

All about knowing your stove and how to load it, I think.

Of course, it helps to know that you are tossing in Osage orange in the first place.

I sent some whole dried Scotch bonnet peppers to a friend to use as seeds for the coming Spring planting. A few months later, I got a note telling me that dinners had turned into Russian roulette as he had tossed the Scotch bonnets in with the family store of red peppers for food. Mom would grab peppers randomly... I was never quite sure who got what he deserved: me for wasting great seed peppers, or my buddy for not using them as seeds.

Every stove I have lived with seemed to have a personality in terms of loading, banking, and fuels that kept it going well. Could just be me...

All the best, Peter

My grandfather built his own wood stove.

This thing was Satan's abyss on steroids

It took 24" chunks, and the fire box was 24" tall, by 36" wide.

It was extreme overkill for their 900 sqft 2 bed, 1 bath home.

Darn thing was heavy!!! it took 4 burly guys to move the flipping thing.

It took a while to warm up.... but once it did I've seen them with the doors and windows wide open and it be -50 outside, with me standing in the doorway cooling off and steam rolling off my body as a kid

My uncle got that stove, had to patch one spot in it. And then had it placed in his basement. He heats his 3,000 sqft home with it, and gets similar results.

 

[NoTrespassing]

I had washed my shoes after the Sunday afternoon cutting up that tree. Spent an hour yesterday morning pulling thorns out of the soles. My favorite pair of Sketcher Slip Ins are no longer waterproof thru the sole. I knew I felt something in my shoes and thought it was sawdust. Was the thorns trying to poke thru the insole.

RSKY

My goodness man, Sketchers Slip Ins for sawing up a thorn covered Osage Orange?!? What were you thinking? Put on some thick soled high top work boots!

 

[ponytug]

My goodness man, Sketchers Slip Ins for sawing up a thorn covered Osage Orange?!? What were you thinking? Put on some thick soled high top work boots!

I had similar thoughts, as much for the steel toed chain sawing side of it...

 

[Dftodd]

My goodness man, Sketchers Slip Ins for sawing up a thorn covered Osage Orange?!? What were you thinking? Put on some thick soled high top work boots!

I had similar thoughts, as much for the steel toed chain sawing side of it...

These were my thoughts as well. Ive dealt with some thorn apples on my grandparents property in vermont.

It was hot out that day. But I ended up going back inside after having one arm throughly cut to shred.

I came back out wearing my winter carhart pants and carhart coat plus thick leather winter gloves.

I was already wearing my steel towed work boots.

I sweated my booty off, but at least it cut down on punctures from the thorns.