As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Until one starts burning wood, one never really sees a tree in the design God made them complete, like an egg in a meal.
Living trees are bounties of life in squirrels, birds and insects span their branches, as people value them for shelter from sun or to climb on for fun. We see them as life, and not as the nutcase greens who create fictions on what trees are, as trees are part of the life cycle and even more so in death.
I appreciate the woodwrights and always have. Wood is something I love working with, and to know grains, to know hardness and softness, to know why ash is for bats and elm for coffins is a remarkable world that humans gravitate to in using woods God designed for so many unique purposes.
I look at trees now in burning them differently. When I say trees, I mean dead trees, not living trees as wood behaves differently when you cut up a living tree that was downed or needed to be removed. My preferred trees are widowmakers. The trees that have lost their bark and are standing there bare as perfect bird perches and homes to termintes.
I once gave my brother hell for going through our lot and busting down trees that were dead. I said, "What the hell are you doing that for? Birds pefer to set in dead trees and they homes to squirrela and woo ducks." He stopped, but that is how dense he always was. He was like the ground owl brother in law bitching about turkey shit on his lawn or the shelled sunflower seeds from birds. He could get no enjoyment in his dirty soul as the residues reminded him of the flight inside.
In burning wood, you need twigs. God provides the correct amount in the dead tree to the volume of wood.
You need brarnches of larger sizes, those are there too in abundance. Larger limbs........they are there too.
Wood that needs to be split so it burns longer.......that is there too.
Stumps, burl wood and knots which burn extremely slowly for night heating.......they are there too in the correct amount. Trees simply from their stump to their twig tops are all proportioned to heat a child of God's home in perfect order.
God made trees perfect, softwood or hard, because even in softwood trees and hardwood trees, there are still softer woods and harder woods, which burn faster and slower, all in the same tree.
It is the greatest tragedy these self important dupes of the environmentalists who are funded by the 1% to destroy humanity, that they are so blind and never see the complete beauty of nature in any form, and especially in trees.
When I drive around for whatever reason, I'm always noting which trees are dead and dying, what the species is and factoring in moving them home. I covet the limbs that are 1 inch to 3 inches. For the barrel stove they are the kind of feed the stove likes and the reality is, you can generate far more heat from a pile of twigs than you can from a block of wood, due to surface area and oxygen content available. They are the most easy and convenient forms of fire making and I use up a great deal of them and always fear not having enough, as you can put them under logs or blocks to burn, you start the secondary fires with them and they just fix things nicely if the wood is not burning readily, you add some limbs and the heat increases and that which is difficult bursts forth into flame.
My only regret in burning wood is I like seeing dead trees in a wood lot as it gives it character. I know most people are nuts about getting reminders of their impending death from view, but I like dead wood as it leans on other trees, lays on the ground, it provides definition and birds can hop on the branches to study what meal God has placed there before they pounce. Lots without dead trees look empty to me.
My available days of dry days now from summer to fall is filled with rendering dead wood to life. You have to make hay when the sun shines and you have to make wood when it is dry. This year God was good as always in providing some dry days, but we had far too many wet days in wind driving snow from all directions in my covered up wood that the fun of dampened wood prevailed until the 20 below freeze drying started helping out. I would simply prefer it being warm and dry. Then again two years ago, we had no snow and it was tinder dry, so burning was something with precaution. We started late in the season and I was educated that it is better to start early and keep horse hair plaster walls warm and the cement stone basements warm as the thermal mass makes live so much easier on the Richard and Stephanie furnace.
As I type this, it is 5 below zero. It was 15 below last night, yet I burned at 2 AM and turned off the alarm as I had napped two hours before going to bed. I was exhausted and it was a chill in the house when I got up, because the furnace had not been running that much, due to the thermal maas. As soon as I got the fire tindered again, the house immediately warmed. It is quite warm in here now, and I'm not burning that much wood. Am hoping that I can do a later burn that will suffice as it is supposed to be in the 20's above for the next few days. I take my rest when I can in weather like this, and the trees are helping out immensely in returning their carbon to the world, so the earth can breathe it in and store it as coal, oil and methane, which are good for heating too in the natural cycles of this planet being lied about by the few to dictate rationed death to the masses.
You should be enlightened a bit more about wood now.
This is another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Nuff Said
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