r/firewood

Not strictly home improvement but is part of a wider issue with neighbour getting annoyed at any kind of noise, including home improvement such as roof repairs, garage door replacement etc.

Is he being a knob or is his reaction warranted. This took place at 11:30 am on a Friday in a rural uk setting. I cut up some logs and chopped some for 30mins. Yesterday we had the garage door replaced. They slam doors and make comments whenever do make any kind of noise but today it escalated.

*Note - they don’t work nights. He’s unemployed she works from home. He was out front after and I said if you’ve got an issue don’t shout and swear at me over the hedge come round. I was reasonable with them and they backed down a bit but ultimately don’t want me chopping logs ever. He said he remembers when I did it last summer and it annoyed him.

He tried to tell me to buy pre chopped logs.

Got some wood from a friend's backyard, don't know what it is but I like the way it burns! Any ideas what type it is?

five years on …

Just like the title states, I wasn’t aware that stacking near a shed was a big “no no” and now have a rat has pooped all over my wood and I’m sure is nested nearby.

I am needing to clean this off and move this to another spot, any recommendations on cleaning the rat poop safely? And making sure it safe to burn?

I picked up a Stihl MS 250 from a guy for cheap the other week. Put a new chain on it, and took it out to cut a downed tree on the property. What causes the cut to look like this? Are these chains just junk (got them on amazon)?

Just got it finished today. Bonfires are in the horizon.

But as of today I'm ready!

90% Doug fir or Hemlock. A little Maple, Alder, and Madrone scattered about.

Out of frame is my pile of Cedar for kindling and ambiance for making love to my wife on the bearskin rug.

(J/k. I dont have a bear skin rug)

House came with a wood shed so this year I bought and stacked 3m3 of kiln dried pine and Oregon. It's kept a foot/300mm off the house walls. It's stacked onto concrete pavers. Had it in there maybe 2 months and its starting to get some mold growth. The shed isn't airtight but obviously isn't very open to the outdoors. I live in NZ so its winter here.

Should I restack it off the ground and / or remove the shed door to get more airflow?

Any advice would be appreciated!

Thanks to this sub for all the tips on building my own rack. Worked out perfectly. I added a couple of couple of modifications for stability. A stop on the bottom along the side and back of the center cinder block help hold the 2x4 in place.

I got fed up with running out of wood every winter as one rick just isn’t enough. Luckily, we don’t rely on wood for heat. It’s just for our fireplace, but I like to have one just about every night in the winter.

So built the rack on the right. Those dimensions equal a rick almost exactly, and then the store bought rack is obviously a rick. I’d like one more to really be able to stay ahead of the seasoning, so maybe this fall I’ll take that on.

The wood in the tall rack is all what I salvaged off the side of the road after the ice storm down here. A random mix of red oak, red maple, hackberry, magnolia, and lacebark elm. On the left is almost all red maple from a tree that my best friend lost in his yard. Hoping I can let most of that sit for a good 2 years before burning. But we’ll see.

Thanks to all for the help.

Hey, how's it going, guys? I was just carving some useless stuff into a tree trunk, and I was wondering—to your knowledge, have electric chainsaws caught up to the ones with combustion engines? I have a few Makita and Ridgid power tools, and I was wondering if it's worth investing in them.

In your opinion, are they effective?

I do a lot around the house and enjoy a fire during the cooler months. I have some eucalyptus and pine rounds that I can’t be bothered to deal with manually in this heat. Brought in some reinforcements and couldn’t be happier.

Saved these logs from my brothers tree. Anything I can do with them or are they only firewood?