Today I started trimming branches off a firewood pine tree. I know a lot of people are focussed on the heavy trunk and don’t bother with this, but it makes sense to me to use this lighter wood as otherwise I just have to split heavy wood into small pieces, besides this way I get a box or two of pine cone cluster bombs.
pine cone cluster fire bomb in the making
With the tree work I do, I have a lightweight arborists saw that runs for hours on a litre of fuel. It is easy to use and very efficient on light branch wood. Not that I mess around trimming off all the branchlets, because they grow in whorls, I just cut out the clear wood in between.
Take this branch for example:
Cut off the light fluffy tip material and without fussing any branches in the cone whorl
then the cluster of pine cones as a single piece
Next cut goes above the next whorl to get a nice piece for building a hot fire under heavy chunks. Cut again below the 2nd whorl , toss the twiggy bit on the waste heap or keep it for the outside fire.
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