Apple wood is the prize wood around here. Restaurants will buy big apple bins of Apple wood for cooking in their pizza ovens and for the smoke flavor. The Apple wood will produce less tars and burns cleaner. I not sure about the ash content.
Bob
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hi norman, you all got a nice crab and fishing experiance, God bless / thanks for sharing, how far down state did you travel from your place.
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Donāt remember where we were talking about burning but here we are burning a brush pile with about 8 truck tires mixed in.
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I seen some guys turn tires into diesel fuel/ Though i have blazed a few tires in fire too. BRIGHT FIRE.
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Hour and 45 minutes due west for these spots, but I can be at the salt water for other species of clams and oysters in about 30 minutes. Oyster season is getting close but Iām really trying to find morel mushrooms this year, so far I have not had any luck with them though. And once the V10 woodburner is done, there will be many more trips like this for wild edibles!
Dinner tonight fried clams
Pad dry, light flour, eggwash panko bread crumbs and flash fry in peanut oil. 45 seconds each side, fall apart tender delicious
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Old truck tire layed on top a fire ant hill and a few gallons of diesel/kerosene sends a pretty hefty eviction notice around here haha
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You guys are nutz. Tires make premium planters for a lot of plants, especially those that appreciate an early start in the spring. Also premium compost bins. The sun heats up the rubber, transferred the heat into the soil for the plants and boosts temps for the compost. For compost you just keep stacking tires and filling them.Then you can reverse the stack to turn the composing materials. Leaving a 2x4 spacer between the tires in the stack brings extra air into the mix.
We have had a lot of problems with ticks the last five years or so. Didnāt have them before that. I saw on the web that if you take Black Seed Oil or feed it to your pets the ticks will not attach. We have been giving it to the dog, just a small capsule a day buried in a piece of meat. The cold stretch we had this winter may have knocked the ticks down some, so that may factor in, but we have not found one on the dog. Looks very promising.
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I will not disagree TomH about the tires usefulness. Want another? Cut bank erosion management. Slope stack them. Dirt filling in. Drive down any old iron/steel as needed to stabilize. Excellent. Lasts easy for a century and more.
Sloped stairways. Iāve used down to the river made tire steps that were 80+ years old.
Now you come, and convince my Wife, my Sisters about your warming planters.
I tries this to get rid of loader tires a property leaser had left behind back in 2005-06. Three stacked up made I thought exceelant waist high growing pots. No way they said. Ugly.
I took the smaller of the tires out of the 173 he left behind and one sidewall hand cut scalloped and turned inside out to make the old style flower planters.
Oooh. No. Too old fashion for them. Didnāt come from Home-Base, Lowelās, or Wal-mart.
Makes a fellow want to smash down on a Big Red Culture Reset button, eh.
Comeāon aliens! Bring it on! Slap us back to reality, necessities.
S.U.
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Aliens? Eartship you mean?
We remember the fallen from WW2 today, tomorrow is Liberationday. I hope this day will come soon for the people in Ukraine.
Thanks Big Brother 
and Alies
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I have a tire retaining wall as well SU. Only three foot high and 20 ft long. After pounding all the dirt into them I knew for a fact I was never going to build an Earthship. And I was still sub-fifty when I did that. My wife gave up years ago trying to stop me from gathering junk and doing stuff like tire planters. I have the back of the house, down hill a little to rule over and she has the front and one side for her flowers and plants. Her area is admittedly nicer, though when I had a nice pile of scrap steel I found that quite appealing.
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I use tractor trailer tires for shooting berms. If those donāt stop the bullets then the dense woods stop it. Closest neighbor in that direction is a half mile away, but I also live in a holler so I would have to aim pretty high to hit someoneās building. Not that Iād waste perfectly good bullets to shoot into the air anyways.
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There are always more tires.
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Ya around my woods i need 6 foot high birm too target shoot legal, though my back woods is up hill so i shoot at low targets close too the ground, I need too bring a few 20 yard dump trucks out too do any steady target practice though. its barley 400 feet too nearest neyber, so i think i should find a better range for consecutive target shooting practiceing aim.
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Well. Another new year and another new wood for me to learn to use.
English walnut wood.
Iād only ever done just very small amount of broken furniture walnut woods.
I now have two cords of this wood. Was from the center of my deceased brother-in-laws big wood shed buried. Go get it, and take it before that property sale closes 1st of June.
I could only take half. One cord. The other 3-4 years in-shed had on been short one summer PNW not dried down well enough. Mushrooms wood now. My coughing sneezing wheezing body just said to me no-way Jose!
Burning long, long, slow, slow now the better of it. Ashing heavily just as I would have expected from a true hardwood. But funny to me the ash covers in an intact blanket.
Hereās a heads up. My relatively big wood stove is rated for a 2100 square foot house. Barely adequate on fast energy releasing fir, spruce and hemlock conifer woods mid-winter in our mostly uninsulated 1300 square foot house.
True hard woods like alder, local maples I have learned to save for needing less heat shoulder seasons months.
This walnut for sure be the best all-night wood. Rare, rare out here West Coast.
Any you far east of me woodgasing have any on-hands experiences woodgassing with walnut woods? So far it seems like it would be a low tars, and low acids wood.
Regards
Steve unruh
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Steve, I recently cut down a lot of black walnut trees behind my shop. about 3" diameter trunks for coppicing. They do it really well, too. Even if I cut the tree down in the hottest driest time of summer itāll still sprout up about 5 more trunks.
I just need to saw chunk them and try them out. Iāll report back once I have my raw wood system finished for the Mazda. Iāll do a hopper or two of pallet wood comparable chunks and then run the black walnut. I let the trees rest on the ground all winter, branches held them off of the dirt so they should be about as dry as deadfall by now.
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Happy Motherās day to all the mothers out there 
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Had to make a quick trip into Birmingham this morning . I was the only wood burner in this parking lot and I think the only pickup truck 
Take me home country roads
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No disrespect, I kind of understand the only wood burner, but the only pickup truck seems really odd. Even with gas prices high, probably 20% of the vehicles are trucks, but we get more snow and there has been a decline in trucks driving around since fuel went through the roof.
The bright side, or at least one side, is Ford is shipping their F150 Lighting, GM starts next spring, so in 2-3 years, that parking lot could look drastically different.
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Just ordered one of these bilge blowers.
Worth testing to see if it has a bit more CFM than a Seaflo blower. I can always couple them together in series if one isnāt enough. The Seaflo has gotten pretty noisy lately.
Black Round Exhaust Inline Duct Fan, 12V 3in Cabin Ventilation Exhaust Fan for RV Boat Marine Yacht Bathroom Warehouse https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0916B6CYK/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_WM4X4FS7F1Z2WBNYCAKB
They claim 146cfm