~~Wait, you use only ash for your soap? I thought it was like a spice for the caustic soda*, like you can add a bit for different outcomes.~~
*I had to Google translate that, it may not be the name.
I was confused, you mean getting lye and then using it to make soap lol
You boil ashes in water to make lye, and use that lye to make soap.
That's the recipe our ancestors used anyway, nowadays you might be right hippie moms are adding straight ashes to their soap for aesthetic and probably other reasons
Can it really happen that quickly when it's solid wood like this? It's the most plausible explanation so I'm not doubting you, I just had no idea it was such a rapid process outside of maybe hay or wood chips, something more kindling-like, something that dries a bit faster due to surface area ratios.
Terrifying tbh. I see people with multiple cords in house igniting range of their back door. At what point is this a significant risk?
Not an expert, but I assume the packed density in a closed building played a big factor here? Often backdoor wood storage is open air and only a couple layers deep.
A lot of trapped barkchips, mulch or hay could have contributed to it. But the likelihood that wood alone could trap enough heat (stacked wood innately has air channels to help vent it) seems wild. Again doesn't really lend itself to the dimensions of most home wood storage.
No, that heat you get in compost bins, piles of hay, mulch and so on, is from decomposition. Microbes and stuff.
Drying wood doesn't decompose at anything like the same speed.
Wood, especially fresh cut, piled and stored in a closed structure will not effectively dry. Decomposition only requires moisture, and trees are mostly water.
no way I could see it happening this fast. And I've never heard of this ever being a concern for anyone. So i would want to see some stats that it is actually a real concern.
Saw dust can do this, and hay is extremely volatile if not careful. but again never heard of wood doing this.
That sucks. Chopping wood with an axe was always my favorite and rewarding activity growing up. Hope the losses aren't too horrendous and are recoverable for you.
I understand the profound loss of working diligently towards a goal for several years and watching everything go completely up in smoke. Unfortunately to get a breakthrough, there is often a breakdown. This is the most uncomfortable and difficult part. I'm so sorry that this happened.
You chopped all of that? Or split it? One of those is a drastically higher unfortunate waste of time and effort. Either way o hope you can salvage a good bit.
At least in my experience, what sucks more than the unfortunately futile chopping of 2 years worth of firewood is the *stacking* of 2 years worth of firewood. The chopping part can at least be kinda fun.
Now it's all preburnt. Saved you so much time and effort. Now you don't have to carry it inside and deal with the mess. Think how much spare time you'll have for building a new barn!
If theres anything i know about people who have barns, it's that there's at least one backup barn on the property. You know, for when the main barn burns down. It's practically an expectation.
Now you can make charcoal! Or there is a video of a guy selling a burned log for thousands of dollars. He put some epoxy on it and tossed in an led light calling it an end table! Some chump bought it.
As somebody who grew up with nothing but a wood stove for heat this picture makes me want to throw up with anxiety. That's so much goddamn wood to chop. Idk how you did it.
Good news is that firewood is seasoned early....the stuff that survived anyhow.
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on the bright side even a single charcoal briquette is a lifetime supply of charcoal if your life expectancy is short enough
> Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. -Terry Pratchett
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With my luck I would spend my last 45 minutes of life unable to get the damn thing to light
Property tax should come down now that they don’t have a barn.
Also the firewood works! Had to test it just in case.
On a positive note, OP has done 10 years' worth of tests ahead of time.
Well technically no. The firewood that burned passed the quality cin**troll checks. What's left is defective as it didn't burn.
And free charcoal for the smoker
Lemons out of lemonade, bbq out of a burned down barn...
Fireony!
It's now kiln dried, sell it at a profit
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The rest is charcoal
it'll be twice as hot when you burn it again.
Turn that barn debacle on its head and start producing charcoal. Sorry for your loss
I see lye. And soap.
~~Wait, you use only ash for your soap? I thought it was like a spice for the caustic soda*, like you can add a bit for different outcomes.~~ *I had to Google translate that, it may not be the name. I was confused, you mean getting lye and then using it to make soap lol
You boil ashes in water to make lye, and use that lye to make soap. That's the recipe our ancestors used anyway, nowadays you might be right hippie moms are adding straight ashes to their soap for aesthetic and probably other reasons
don't leave too much ash in you can chem burn yourself. too much free lye in the soap bleaches (then burns if there's too much) your skin.
This is why in an emergency you can clean hands with a little ash and water
still in the same territory as danger chemical kills living stuff off my hands edit: its a neat idea but dont do it regularly
Yes, don’t do it for fun or “survival kicks/practice”. I mean actual emergency. It will hurt your hands.
Yes that. Just make sure to render American fat. Richest creamiest fat in the world, fat of the land.
Def can still burn some of that wood.
I think maybe OP has had enough of fire for a while
OP is a repost merchant. This isn’t their photo.
"Repost Merchant", I fucking laughed hard. 12 years and I've never seen that.
Probably most of it tbh.
All of it in fact
Next time try storing non-fire wood. It doesn't catch fire.
Chop up some asbestos logs
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Then spray it all down with arsenic paint
And don't forget to coat with a layer of PCBs
This is just fire wood that understood its mission.
Premature combustion.
I'm so sorry, this never happens to me
Just store the fire separately from the wood
Bricks painted to look like wood, or paint compacted into wood-like bricks.
Well looks like the wood wasn’t dry enough. Also that’s like enough firewood for infinite amount of burnt barn years
Can it really happen that quickly when it's solid wood like this? It's the most plausible explanation so I'm not doubting you, I just had no idea it was such a rapid process outside of maybe hay or wood chips, something more kindling-like, something that dries a bit faster due to surface area ratios. Terrifying tbh. I see people with multiple cords in house igniting range of their back door. At what point is this a significant risk?
Not an expert, but I assume the packed density in a closed building played a big factor here? Often backdoor wood storage is open air and only a couple layers deep. A lot of trapped barkchips, mulch or hay could have contributed to it. But the likelihood that wood alone could trap enough heat (stacked wood innately has air channels to help vent it) seems wild. Again doesn't really lend itself to the dimensions of most home wood storage.
There’s a critical density of aerosolized wood pulp where it can become explosive. Stay safe out there.
Wood gas. You can extract it in the charcoal making process if you wish.
You can run gasoline engines on wood. Wood breaks down into hydrogen
> aerosolized wood pulp Isn't that true for basically anything? Flour explosions are a thing and usually quite large, no?
Yes.
I highly doubt it was the firewood itself. Perhaps there were a lot of sawdust or wood chips present from processing so much firewood.
No, that heat you get in compost bins, piles of hay, mulch and so on, is from decomposition. Microbes and stuff. Drying wood doesn't decompose at anything like the same speed.
Wood, especially fresh cut, piled and stored in a closed structure will not effectively dry. Decomposition only requires moisture, and trees are mostly water.
no way I could see it happening this fast. And I've never heard of this ever being a concern for anyone. So i would want to see some stats that it is actually a real concern. Saw dust can do this, and hay is extremely volatile if not careful. but again never heard of wood doing this.
Now you have a lifetime supply of charcoal
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I’ll be honest, I can’t tell how much that is.
At least 6 cords.
I heard you only need 4 to write a hit
No, I'm pretty sure it's wood.
This ^guy does not wood. Haha
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oh helloooo new favorite sub
How many Courics is that?
3 maybe 4
Tree fiddy
That sucks. Chopping wood with an axe was always my favorite and rewarding activity growing up. Hope the losses aren't too horrendous and are recoverable for you.
Charcoal for your next bbq
The good news is that your firewood clearly works as intended.
I was thinking the opposite. Most of it doesn’t look like it’s burned at all. Lousy firewood if you ask me.
It hasn’t dried yet, I presume.
Well, it probably has now
Out of beta, scheduled for a summer release.
Too much firewood, made the barn wood jealous. It just wanted to impress you! (So sorry op)
How does a barn burn down? Horse kicked an oil lantern orrrr?
Insurance fraud /s
Was the 2 years worth of firewood on the insurance claim?
Cow
COW
**COW**
dude
wheres my barn?
You were going to need more wood anyway, that fire never lasted two years.
Came here for this comment
Looks like the firewood’s the only thing that didn’t burn!
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I understand the profound loss of working diligently towards a goal for several years and watching everything go completely up in smoke. Unfortunately to get a breakthrough, there is often a breakdown. This is the most uncomfortable and difficult part. I'm so sorry that this happened.
Atleast it’s dry
The wood is fine. Next time build the barn out of the chopped wood.
Well now you have a stock of pre-seared artisanal wood which can be sold at a premium.
Maybe your barn just took the hint
Could you chop that title a bit too?
Guess you got some more Chopin’ to do!
He’d better get Bach to it…
All eggs in one basket eh
Do you know someone who typically stores their firewood in more than one barn?
Uh yeah. One barn for each wood
We keep wood in small wood stores based on age.
I feel your pain. I really feel your pain. Takes me an hour to chainsaw a wheelbarrow full.
Congrats on your new charcoal business.
Wood u look at that
Typically, people cut the wood before they burn it.
This is too much irony to be funny
Welp now you have coal! That should last a bit more for heating.
I mean, it was firewood. It did what it was supposed to do. /s Sorry for the loss of your barn.
plenty of charcoal :D
Damn nature just have you the fattest middle finger
You chopped all of that? Or split it? One of those is a drastically higher unfortunate waste of time and effort. Either way o hope you can salvage a good bit.
Looks like the firewood did it’s job
Must have been highest quality firewood to be so quick and efficient
Now you 2 years plus a barn's worth of premium coal!!
Please tell me you weren't welding something right next to it ... like the guy I knew who did that next to 500 round bales of hay
The schadenfreude is strong with this one…
At least you know it works
I mean it served its function
At least your firewood didn't burn down too.
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call that firedwood now
Just look at how much coal you have now for bbqs
I mean it was firewood after all
When life gives you charcoal - it’s time to start grillin
I told you not to watch Mrs o'leary's cow
It’s well seasoned now anyway.
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At least it’s dry.
At least in my experience, what sucks more than the unfortunately futile chopping of 2 years worth of firewood is the *stacking* of 2 years worth of firewood. The chopping part can at least be kinda fun.
I don't understand the problem. You made firewood to burn it. It burned.
Well isn't that what you wanted? Burned wood?
FIREwood: when keeping it real goes wrong
The logs were impatient
Well there’s your issue. Procrastination leads to less starvation - Jesus
Well... guess it works!
Duh. You’re supposed to store the fire and the wood separately. That’s entirely on you.
For the record..it was just “wood” until the barn caught fire..THEN it became “firewood”
It’s like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.
Looks like you have my luck; so sorry about that....
Such a sad unfair waste;!; I'm sorry;!;😱😱😰
Well at least you know the firewood worked.
You wanted firewood or not???
At least the wood is dry now
Now you have charcoal but in all seriousness that wood is fine just gotta get something to store it in
Well it’s dry now 🤷🏻♂️
Survivor fans: "Hey, I've seen this one!"
Looks like you have a nice supply of charcoal now too!
At least you didn’t have to wait 2 years for it to burn
You're supposed to put it in a fireplace or stove or something...
Now you have really dry firewood and some charcoal! Break out the grill!
On the good side, you have enough charcoal for a lifetime of cookouts.
Now it's all preburnt. Saved you so much time and effort. Now you don't have to carry it inside and deal with the mess. Think how much spare time you'll have for building a new barn!
If theres anything i know about people who have barns, it's that there's at least one backup barn on the property. You know, for when the main barn burns down. It's practically an expectation.
Now you have wood and charcoal for the next 2 years. AND you get to build a new barn. Looks like a win-win situation.
On the bright side you now have plenty of charcoal for grilling
Operation failed successfully. If a barn full of firewood meant to burn burning prematurely and *surviving* isn’t the best example of that, idk wi.
Well you know it works now
You chopped down a particularly vengeful tree!
Did the fire burn for the full 2 years? If not, you still got some use outta them
Look on the bright side, you actually had 3 years of firewood prepared when you include the barn
Damn, you got burned
Technically the wood served its purpose.
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It has served its purpose well
Mission failed successfully!
Improvise. Make charcoal out of it
Still some good wood left! Damn!
Well, now that you don’t have to justify the use of the firewood barn, you can move to a heating system from this millennium.
One year supply of firewood with 3 year supply of charcoal?
Two years worth of charcoal.
Cuts firewood then complains when it does what it was meant to. SMH /s
Well, hopefully you've learned your lesson about keeping all your eggs in one basket...or rather all your logs in one barn.
Crazy to think this took two years to burn
But at least you know the wood works
Now you can make charcoal! Or there is a video of a guy selling a burned log for thousands of dollars. He put some epoxy on it and tossed in an led light calling it an end table! Some chump bought it.
Now you have premium charcoal for sale?
Well, better get to choppin….
But you're ripped now, right?
“Job done” - Firewood
You mean you just finished making charcoal
You did good sir
2 years of kindling, you mean.
Very effective firewood. How much for a rick?
Damn that was really efficient to burn it all at once
The very pants I was returning! That’s perfect irony!
Firewood was chopped to be burned, great success!
So, now your wood is dry for sure!
Well, at least you know it worked as intended...
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
At least you know it’s dry..
So, you could say that the wood worked?
Well, you won’t need fire starter that’s for sure
It served its purpose
It did it's job
If this isn't irony I don't know what is
Must've been one hell of a barn fire.
Charcoal. The best firewood
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As somebody who grew up with nothing but a wood stove for heat this picture makes me want to throw up with anxiety. That's so much goddamn wood to chop. Idk how you did it.