- Oct 17, 2012
- 535
Long time 'stalker' first time poster.
Recently moved to the mountain area near Melbourne Australia. It gets a little cold here so I have installed a couple of wood heaters. This led me to this wonderful site and also the art / hobby / obsession of wood collecting.
One of the neighbours has just had 13 trees chopped down. The aborist took some of the better lengths but i managed to get ~ 20 cubic metres (~ 6 cords.) The majority of the wood is Messmate which is an Australian hardwood Gum. It has a similar BTU to white or red oak ~ 750 gsm very heavy.
The pictures of the wood is how the arborist leaves it around here. They chop it into fire sized thickness's which then you have to split. I manually split all my wood (X27 and X25) and this splits beautifully as long as you go with the grain and start on the outside and work in. This was one of the first loads i made, i now have to split and stack hope to use it next winter (our burn time is May - October.) I will probably burn 4 cords a year.
Recently moved to the mountain area near Melbourne Australia. It gets a little cold here so I have installed a couple of wood heaters. This led me to this wonderful site and also the art / hobby / obsession of wood collecting.
One of the neighbours has just had 13 trees chopped down. The aborist took some of the better lengths but i managed to get ~ 20 cubic metres (~ 6 cords.) The majority of the wood is Messmate which is an Australian hardwood Gum. It has a similar BTU to white or red oak ~ 750 gsm very heavy.
The pictures of the wood is how the arborist leaves it around here. They chop it into fire sized thickness's which then you have to split. I manually split all my wood (X27 and X25) and this splits beautifully as long as you go with the grain and start on the outside and work in. This was one of the first loads i made, i now have to split and stack hope to use it next winter (our burn time is May - October.) I will probably burn 4 cords a year.