what a mess

As they damn well should be.

robert

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:41:16 +0000, Martin Brown wrote: ...

Just curious, but if it's the middle of a winter storm, why do you need the freezer? Can't you just put the stuff outside? ;-)

Cheers! Rich

There is a tree that looks pretty dead north of SE95th, directly east of

1. Got a chain saw?

Considering that a UK company owns my electric company and gas company you'd expect that National Grid would bury lines in Rhode Island. Wrong!

They had to fight tooth and nail to get those bastards to bury high tension wires that were directly over a public park.

Yeah, but none of it is ripe. ;-)

Better watch for termites and carpenter ants. They got 'em big enough to use a chain saw down there!

I remember schlepping a big chunk of oak from a diseased tree out of an elderly lady's backyard. Up at the road I was itching all over. Tons of ants had crept underneath my T-shirt and the center of that chunk had lots more of them coming. Yikes ...

Despite my being at latitude 54.5N most of the UKs worst winter storms (strongest winds are usually from the SW and fairly warm). It was 10C and gusting to 100mph when my greenhouse was destroyed one Xmas eve. Snow is pretty rare although forecast for this afternoon but it is 4C and sunny now.

I have a really good picture of a tree across the local power line - amazingly it didn't snap although it did bend all the supporting poles and rip several house interconnects off. Power stayed on too.

Regards,

Not when you have respiratory problems. :(

You can't see the firewood for the trees! After the hurricanes a few years ago, there are thousands of dead Pine trees that snapped off in the high winds. Water Oaks have shallow roots, so a lot of entire trees were ripped out of the ground.

Kinda crappy wood to burn, no?

Nah, you just have to do it right and use a modern stove. We burned pine the first 2-3 seasons and whenever sombody gives us pine we gladly take it. No smoke, fast ignition, lots of fast heat. In fact, sappy pieces seem to pack a lot more BTU than any other wood. I sometimes kept those seperate for really cold days. Of which we have more and more each winter :-(

The only downside are the squished blobs of sap under the shoes, in the driveway, on the carpet ...

People seem to love to burn it for BBQ and smokers. Water Oak is similar to Live Oak, other than the root system.