[AT] Off Topic -- burning wood

[Dave]

I believe this must have been the wood I watched my father cut up for firewood with a circle saw on an 8N years ago. It would sometimes make sparks!
	Dave

> On Dec 21, 2016, at 8:10 AM, Vaughn Miller <vemiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Bois D'Arc is know as Osage Orange here, and is great wood if you are
> burning for heat.  Common in fence rows and field edges it can be miserable
> to saw up.  The tops are very dense and thorny.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
> 
>> I remember when we bought our first farm about 57 years ago, the fence
>> posts were Bois DÁrc posts about 2-3 inches in diameter. You had to get
>> one leg of the fence staple in a crack and hold on to the back of the
>> post to drive it in..    Usually the staple would just bend over.  After
>> the first winter, Dad figured out that Baling wire held better.  If you
>> doubles the wire around the back of the post you could  tighten the
>> fence up as you tied it up.  Over the next 10 years we replaced all of
>> the fences with steel posts.   There is a pile of those old wooden posts
>> still on that place.  They are just as hard now as they were back then!!
>> 
>> Cecil in oKla
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/21/2016 6:10 AM, Dean Vinson wrote:
>>> Don't know whether the pellets would still pop and spark, interesting
>>> question.   I bet that stuff would beat the heck out of the pellet mill,
>>> though... hard as a rock!
>>> 
>>> Dean Vinson
>>> Saint Paris, OH
>>> 
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>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Off Topic -- burning wood
>>> 
>>> Mike M wrote:
>>>> I agree Dean, perfectly safe in a air tight wood stove, only issue I
>>>> can think of is when you go to reload, it could throw some poppers.
>>> Wonder how it would do if you ran it through a pelletizer and fed it to a
>>> pellet stove ?
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Steve W.
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