[AT] firewood

[Ralph Goff]

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From: Mark Greer <greerfam at raex.com>
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Quiet?


> Where did he get all that small diameter wood? My firewood is mostly stuff
> that needs split and split again and split again. I spend as much time
> splitting as I do cutting.
> Mark

Its all poplar wood here Mark. That in the picture was all dead fall wood
pretty well and his farm has many acres of it still. As a person ages those
logs just get heavier and heavier. I can recall years ago when he had some
huge logs in that woodpile that took at least three of us to pick up and get
on the saw. We do grow some big poplar here if they are left long enough
without drought or fire. I have some pictures of a tree I helped remove from
a local churchyard. A huge black poplar or maybe cottonwood that must have
been over 4 foot diameter. The tree must have been 80 years old at that
time. Not the greatest firewood though.

Ralph in Sask.
http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/