Thread: Some of RufflyRustic's firewood

Thank goodness some of that fiddleback firewood got saved!! it's even more amazing cut than in the rough.

That's a nice stash of pieces it all turned into Neil I wonder if I started stashing more bits of fiddleback ironback firewood, how long it would be before HWMNBO realised that the firewood pile has dropped by a third in one weekend

Struth, Wendy - you let this bloke into your house, & he pinches your woodpile & leaves you shivering!

Must be a lot of us woodpile pilferers around. I like to check them out for hidden diamonds, too. During a huge struggle to split one piece at MIL's, I was thinking there must be a better way to use this stuff. So the next piece of the same wood (no idea what it is, Eucalypt spp. is as close as I'll get..) came home with me, and has made some excellent mallet heads. A bit more pedestrian than pens, but still very useful......

Cheers,

Love finding a gem in the wood pile. Once found a bit of eucalyptus with some burl on it myself. Makes you wonder how many nice pieces have been burned.

Hey Dai Sensei

Nice haul, there are some real gems in some wood heaps, Years ago I come over here for a holiday and Dad just grabbed a couple of bits off his wood heap (Jarrah) so that I could practice and they come out beautiful.

Hey IanW I am sure that the piece of Eucalyptus Wood Heapicus that you have will last a life time.

Hey eisbaer, I don't think things like that as it just makes me sad


HazzaB

Very nice timber Neil!
You and Wendy enjoy some good 'give and take'.

Do you think you can save me some when I come up for another visit ?

Bye the way, I have sliced up one of the conkerberry pieces you gave me just last week and it looks beautiful! Thank you again.

Cheers
Vicki

Originally Posted by seasidevicki

..Do you think you can save me some when I come up for another visit ?..

Knowing me, it will be still here even if it takes you ten years to come back

IanW's comment reminded me...we had a load of Murray Red gum firewood, and there was one piece that I failed to split (woodsplitter, not axe) on multiple occasions. I finally got so fed up with its apparent toughness that I decided to make a virtue of a necessity, and made it into a mallet head. It actually has a small crack in it that was present when I cut it, and despite some REALLY heavy slogging, it has never looked anything but indestructible. I often get a twinge of regret burning some bits of firewood, but you can only put aside so many bits. Oh well..

Good save there Neil, well done. Wendy, you will have to be sneaky and start pilfering that firewood pile. Think of the box curly lids you make. At least save the best.

Was on a trip down to the South West of WA years ago and this B&B had some beautiful logs in there firewood pile, black centre, (heart wood) and yellow out to the bark. Could not bring myself to burn it and intended to ask if I could take a few bits home. The SWMBO (at the time) did not want 'to fill the car up with grubby firewood' so had to leave it. Found out as I checked out that it was Yellow Timgle, now a protected species I think, and quite rare. So sad to think other people were jsut burning it.

Cheers
Pops

A long while back whilst travelling through Gidgee country, I saw a farmer clearing using 2 bulldozers and a chain/ball, pushing all the trees/timber into windrows. He would leave them for a while and then burn it

I was rummaging through the Firewood Pile again today and I think I found the matching piece to that flaming crotch piece And another piece which has some pretty amazing grain.

Bring em down