bfason
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I bought a "newspaper roller" and it rolls my old newspapers into logs for burning. This works out pretty good, unless we're cooking over the fire. Just a thought.
Also, last winter several of my RV friends and I got together and looked in a local newspaper for firewood, ordered a rick of wood and it last the whole weekend for all of us. We had a little left over and just stacked it at the campsite for the next campers to use.
Have had campers leave wood for me and just thought I would pass it forward, so to speak.
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JJBIRISH
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snowyowl.13 wrote:JJBIRISH wrote:I have bought plenty of de-barked fire wood, some seasoned, some not… as the demand for shredded bark grew some companies striped the bark that they used to leave on the slabs…
They sell the bark, the de-barked slabs, and the de-barked logs that aren’t suitable for making lumber out of…
There are not many loggers hauling trees hundreds of miles around here… It is far cheaper to bring the mill to the trees than to transport the logs very far…
While I haven’t seen it I understand confiscated wood is burned immediately, just not for your enjoyment, and not left to sit around for the week or the weekend… if it can’t be burned immediately they treat it to minimize risk…
I really want to be there to see the guy that refuses to turn over the wood if it is confiscated… I think it would show keyboard testosterone is really ineffective in the real world…
It seems to be the case more and more the disregard for others people are willing to exhibit about many things… it is a sad commentary of how people live today… rights without responsibilities
When you mention slabs and logs being used for lumber, it sounds like you are talking about soft wood and mill byproducts. The firewood I referred to is all hardwood cut specifically for firewood.
Not exactly,
There are a lot of saw mills around, and a lot of Amish mills that use mostly hemlock, but some of the non-Amish mills process both hard and soft woods… I think about half the mills both Amish and non-Amish have closed in the last couple of years...
We also had a firewood producer, that sold only seasoned firewood, shredded bark, multi-colored mulch, mushroom compost, and landscape supply…
his splitter would do 5+ full cords of wood per hour with a single operator and someone keeping the table loaded with logs… it was more efficient if the bark was stripped first although that wasn’t necessary…
the splitter could be moved under it own power in the yard or towed to any location, with the conveyer it can load split wood straight into a tri’axle and never touch the wood… the splitter itself could be loaded with up to 5 ten foot logs up to 22 inches and split into 4-6-or 8 pieces each cut… the cut was made with a auto advance conveyer and a hydraulic chain or cut off saw… trouble is he is now out of business and his equipment was auctioned this summer…
When I was doing lot clearing I heated with wood because I was paid to remove it, otherwise its not worth it except for the ambience at the campfire… my BIL sold wood to hundreds of customers but IMO it needs to be handled to many times to be worthwhile…
Almost all but the Amish de-barked the logs…
I remember when I was paid to haul away sawdust, shredded bark. Mushroom compost, and slab wood… slowly it turned to I could get it for free, to free if I loaded it myself , to paying for it, to waiting in line to get a load, to having trouble getting it at all…
Here are some pictures of smaller firewood processors that can do maybe 1.5/2 cords per hour… I don’t have any pictures of the bigger ones, or the bark strippers…
 
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This may be a controversial thought...but, we are fighting a losing battle here. Even if ALL transportation of raw wood was stopped, the EAB would still spread. It will continue to spread until it runs into some natural predator or limit such as a climate related factor. We have not been able to stop the insect world ourselves in the past, we will not win this one, either. I'm not advocating hauling firewood, just saying our efforts will ultimately be futile.
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We will never stop crime either but you still have to keep fighting it… it seems to be another battle we are losing…. Should we just give up??? I don’t think so… We can slow progression and aid in recovery and work on sensible ways of eradicatetion…
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Deus Ex Machina wrote:
So yes, if I have a load of wood that contains NO ASH, I will tell the "firewood police" where to go. They will not confiscate my wood for thier profit.
I'd like to be there with a camera when you (1) call the DNR agent the "firewood police" and (2) when you tell them they will NOT confiscate your illegal firewood!
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Suprised to see Machina getting piled on. I appreciated several of Deus Ex views.
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BigPackFan
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RVMusician wrote:....just saying our efforts will ultimately be futile. Would you give up on someone with an often fatal illness? After all, it's most likely futile.
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Mrs. Mik
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antiquedrose wrote:Suprised to see Machina getting piled on. I appreciated several of Deus Ex views.
If he's getting "piled on" it's because of his very selfish attitude when it comes to the firewood ban.
As long as folks continue to think that way, trees will continue to die because of these pests and folks who think they don't need to obey the law.
When all the trees are gone, where is the oxygen we need to breathe going to come from? Where is the firewood going to come from?
Continuing with that "me, me, me" attitude is exactly what's destroying the things we love.
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Belgique
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At a VA State Park this week I bought their firewood rather than use my daughter's who lives about 10 miles away and has a huge pile of very seasoned wood...just trying to be a good citizen. The wood they sold me was wrapped with a label that said it came from NC...about 100 miles away...and it wasn't seasoned!!!
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Gale Hawkins
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I guess I must have busy reading WM and motor oil theads in the pasted and missed all of these interesting fire wood threads. 
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