Gabriel82

@sime42 I've talked with the guy who works in forest and is responsable/decides things in a big forest area up in the "hilly"/mountain area. Will have those oak logs in february,if weather is good of course. No more soaking wet for me . The offer is around 500 euros(2500 RON) for a 4 cubic meter truck. Small load. Usually the wealthier people buy a trailer truck 30-40 cubic meters. But those ones also have big 500-600 square meters villas. So heating for them means either quality hard wood logs or bituminous coal,maybe with some wood briquettes too... Never understood the "attraction" of big houses or expensive cars! But I wouldn't say NO to a 7-10 days vacation at Vama Veche Black Sea or even Greece islands! Man has to relax too ,not just work like a slave from dusk till dawn until we die off at 70-80 years old. Although I know people that stood on their feet and worked from 4 AM to nightfall untill they the day they died at 85 years old... I burn this wood in ceramic tile stoves, traditional around here in Romania. Cheap to build too if you ever should need one. About 400-500 euros the cost of work if you find a good experienced builder(they are hard to find lately, too old or allready died...) plus the materials cost(another 500 euros or at most 1000 euros if the stove is big and with fancy with granit parts). I like them hot and working, don't care much about fancy rocks 🙄😁 As for Makita EA6100P ,I think I bought the last one in the country... It was that hard to find... Makita no longer makes gasoline chainsaws for about 2 years now... Was so mad about it that I was almost about to get a XP395... But same guy that sells me the wood logs told me to calm down ,that chainsaw is for forestry professional experienced men. Not hobby. I might hurt myself or cut my legs off. I agree with him now 😁 I did butchered some trees anyway with this Makita anyway. In summer hot weather it exhausted me but I was a bit too dark dressed for 38 degrees celcius... And I cut all day in direct sunlight... was helping a friend with his firewood, he is working too much all the time and didn't had the time for this,not even saturday or sunday... this is how things are around here: work nonstop just to stay alive 🙄

@sime42 I would tend to agree with you. Only been in Uk once in Bristol and one evening went to some local store 5 minutes away walking distance. On the way back it suddenly started raining good, soaked me well and stopped just about when I was trying to unlock the door where I was staying... What was that all about?! Here it either rains for some time or doesn't for weeks or months... Plus it's 30-40 Celcius and sunny from 7:00AM to 21:00PM. Will never visit Uk again. 🙄 Some british dude told me once it rained for weeks non-stop when it heard me complaining about the short shower I took in those 5 minutes... Anyway. I like it hot and sunny for sure now! Here's some photos of "pure Romania"

Hello everyone. Gabriel is my name ,I'm from Romania ,been burning various wood species for some years now.But I want to try some quality oak wood this year and if someone with more experience can answer my dilemas here,please do so. So far I've burned only birch, hornbeam and some tilia wood for starting the fire. I buy wood by bulk in cubic meters m3 logs, cut them myself in 30-35cm long slices, split them myself the coming week or if weather is bad(too cold or rainy) in the coming 2 weeks. I dry/season them for at least 1 year in a airy metal shed painted dark brown ,but would like to paint fully black for an even higher temperature inside(should help with drying). Haven't measured temperature inside it in summer sun/heat but around here ,Buzau county ,plain area summers are hot ,35-40 celcius in shade(wouldn't want to be wearing black and stay in sun all day...). Anyway, how long do you folks that have burned oak ,recommend to season oak? It will be freshly cut(green) will be split in small pieces 35 cm long 7x7 cm wide(aproximately) in the coming 2 weeks. Problem is ,my metal shed is still full to the brim because I also bought and burned out of curiosity about 2 tons of wood briquettes ,so I barely burned half of a 2 year "leftover" wood(birch and hornbeam) wich was in the shed ,I took it out of the shed to make room for the next load of wood. Stored it outside around the metal shed, covered it very good with plastic foil, been outside like this in full sun until last fall when I began burning it along with those wood briquettes. Due to too warm winter ,I will have no room place to store this fresh oak but outside covered with plastic foil(with some room for water vapours to go their own way ,not to mould the wood. My question is: will 18 months(more or less 2-3 months) be enough to dry fresh oak in summer heat 35-40 celcius weather low humidity in air(maybe 60-70% or less when drought hits these places). Of course split small and no water/rain will ever get to that oak. As a note ,that tillia tormentosa was a 70 year old tree wich a neighbour wanted me to cut it and since it grew so well that damaged his concrete fence and almost his freshly bought house, he never wanted to ever see it around his yard again. So he even load it in his truck and took it to my home(1-2 km away). I burned it after about 1 year of seasoning split small and besides leaving about twice as much ash (burned in ceramic tile stove ) it was surprisingly good ,so good I still have about 1 cubic meter more or less from that tree. Combined with wood briquettes really left me with a lot of unburned wood (the whole shed full of birch and hornbeam ,now seasoning for the second year,ready for the next 2024-2025 winter...) . Not complaining but I ran out of space to store split wood now... This is my chainsaw, think I have some photos from when I finnished cutting the tillia made by the guy who asked me to help him. As for my wood in logs, I have no pictures... Don't have time for that... Maybe I'll go make some with those stored split in the shed... Thank you everyone!