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Thursday, February 6. 2014

Beech Wood

A good friend left off this load of split Beech last weekend. I have to unload it, which is fine. An excellent gift. Beech is heavy as lead and as hard as nails, so hard that it destroyed saws so foresters left it alone until power saws came along.


All of the majestic old Beeches around here are dying of a bark fungus.



Posted by Bird Dog in Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 04:57 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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THAT ought to keep BDHQ warm for a while...
#1 cas on 2014-02-06 08:22 (Reply)
How does it burn?
#2 DrTorch on 2014-02-06 09:35 (Reply)
Thanks for reminding me that I have a ton or two of pine I need to go cut, split, and haul. A gift.

Fortunately there is a mechanical splitter at the site. I don't much enjoy splitting pine manually. Dang knots are tough - stop a splitting axe or mawl dead in its tracks and rattle an ol' guy's shoulders.

I'll need to wait for a good melt though. Not many of those happening so far this winter.
#3 Knucklehead (Link) on 2014-02-06 11:41 (Reply)
And, BTW, that's a darned good friend who delivers a load of split hardwood as a gift. I hope you sent some nice wine or sumsuch his way.
#4 Knucklehead (Link) on 2014-02-06 11:43 (Reply)
20 years ago, beech was mostly what I burned. Burned great, gave off good heat, burned a little faster than maple and oak, left a lot of ashes. Today you hardly see any beech trees or firewood. That fungus has pretty much wiped them out. Ash is now in danger.
#5 Sean on 2014-02-06 11:55 (Reply)
Did that trailer come from Lowe's?
#6 Fred Z on 2014-02-06 22:46 (Reply)
I hope you have your hot water system tied in with your wood burning oven. Burn that wood. Be thankful you can be comfortable. Be not proud. Pride is like three or four ex-wives coming home to roost. Enough said, my dark, tanned, shell fish eating brother?
#7 W. C. Taqiyya on 2014-02-07 01:06 (Reply)
"Around 1890 the scale insect was accidentally introduced into Nova Scotia."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptococcus_fagisuga
#8 observer on 2014-02-07 19:39 (Reply)

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