(03-04-2020, 10:31 AM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(03-04-2020, 10:23 AM)Rico Wrote: Snakes, in general, usually don't bother me.  I'm no snake expert, but I've seen the shape of the heads on a few of them peeking out of the wood pile and I know they are venomous.  I'm more worried about the dogs poking around over there and getting bit.  

You know anybody that would help me root through the pile and haul off the bad stuff?  Hell, I don't mind rooting through the pile on my own but I need to have somebody haul off the bad stuff.  I mean, I'd pay or work out a trade in some wood...assuming I still have enough 'good stuff'.  It's an enormous pile.  I was actually thinking about going through it this weekend since it's going to be cool and the snakes shouldn't be as active.

I pile up the rotten stuff as well as all of the small branches/brush and burn it all when I can.  I usually wait until after a real good rain and when the wind is down.

If I wasn't in a neighborhood (no HOA fortunately) I would have no issue doing that.  But this rotten stuff tends to smolder and would 'burn' forever...if you can even call it burning.  And the amount of rotten wood that I have back there I just don't have the time for.  I just want the good stuff that I can split for my firepit.

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