Our fires are for warming up outside on nippy days, cooking a bit, or just socializing around. Happened that I had a big pecan log propped against another one planning to just burn those hard old logs that have been air drying for ten years. Playing around I diced it like an onion with my chainsaw, cut it into chunks about brick length or a bit longer and several times the size. Works great for a beautimus several hour fire and of course can keep throwing chunks on until an hour or two before we need the fire to die. My brother paid to have his new shop built so all we had to do was stand around the fire, drink coffee, and stir trouble! Mike heard one man say he would work for free if he could come stand at the fire awhile. Nice little 28x30x12h shop with two overhead doors lined up and a 12 foot overhang out front to sit under or possibly do a little work sometimes. That plastic garbage can is filled with the chunks and a few are tossed around. The saw noodles so much faster than I split wood that I'd rather noodle and the noodles make excellent tinder.
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Low light, a cell phone, and overprocessing created the boogered up metal, it isn't really.