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Started by jargo432, March 13, 2014, 09:12:13 PM

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jargo432

Is there any thing better than the smell of split oak?  Makes me go back in time when my dad an I cut and split wood. 
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r.man

I am always surprised when people talk about oak firewood. In my area oak is fairly rare, one of the more valuable trees and not often used as firewood. When I was 20 I was horrified when a co-worker said he preferred to burn oak because an oak tree was considered an asset for its eventual value and the acorns it produced for the animals. For these reasons I have no idea what you are talking about.
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LeeB

r.man, I'm sure you have a sent oriented memory trigger. Substitute whatever smell it is that brings back those pleasant memories. Just as an example, when I was a kid I lived in Singapore. Lot's of Chinese people there, so lot's of chinese food. I really like to cook, and really like chinese food. When I first started cooking chinese, I didn't use sesame oil. The first time I did, it was like someone had opened a portal to the past. The smell brought back memories and visons from the past long forgoten.
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Quote from: LeeB on March 14, 2014, 04:16:51 AM
r.man, I'm sure you have a sent oriented memory trigger. Substitute whatever smell it is that brings back those pleasant memories. Just as an example, when I was a kid I lived in Singapore. Lot's of Chinese people there, so lot's of chinese food. I really like to cook, and really like chinese food. When I first started cooking chinese, I didn't use sesame oil. The first time I did, it was like someone had opened a portal to the past. The smell brought back memories and visons from the past long forgoten.

I've got that scent memory thing for sure.... whenever I smell good food... I remember I was hungry!
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r.man

Oh I have lots of scent triggered memories, one of the most vivid is a boiling truck battery, just no wood oriented ones that I care to remember. Which wood is it that smells like vomit when cut. I managed to forget that one. Maple syrup boiling, hay in the field, the smell of a hot wood stove all bring back a pleasant feeling but for me firewood was a chore. I envy Jargos oak memory because I still process and handle my own wood each year and a pleasant memory would help.
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bedway

The smell of fresh cut grass in the spring

The smell of your baseball glove when you put it on the first sunny day

Great topic, this list could go on forever. :)

LeeB

r.man, I wasn't going to mention it because it's jargo432's fond memory, but red oak can smell like an upchuck sometimes.  ::)
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thecfarm

The smell of a field being dried for hay does me in. I still cut wood,so no big deal, But I bet if I was away from wood for 10 years it would be a big deal.
We have ALOT of oak in this area. The family up above me lived on the cousins land. He chased down all the red oak he could on his cousins land and burned it for firewood because he said it splits easy.  ::) 
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Wick

I also enjoy the smell of split oak, and reminds me of my Dad teaching me to swing an axe as a kid.

Oak is plentiful around here, so we use it as firewood as well. The stuff cut for firewood is unwanted, dead, or dying. Some also from land development, like if someone is building a pond, cabin or house. We don't go around just cutting nice old oak trees. It always amazes me how relatively easy it is to find without having to bother my own land. If your willing to work it up and haul it, it can normally be found.
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Al_Smith

Wet oak sawdust smells about like hog manure . Male mulberry saw dust smells like vomit .

The two most pleasant when they burn has to be black cherry and shagbark hickory although the differ greatly in BTU output per volume.Cedar is pleasant also but it puts on quite a fireworks display and has low btu output .

BradMarks

Got me to thinking.  A smell not likely to be repeated these days, and boy did it smell good, was the red slash of an old growth Douglas Fir clearcut. 8) The smell I didn't like was the sickly sweet smell of ceanothus (deerbrush).

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r.man

I don't live far from you and there is lots of oak being used for firewood here.  I personally have at least 4 tandem loads of oak logs in my yard right now.  Lots of old timers around here don't like burning oak becasue the think it will burn out their stoves. 

timberlinetree

It's black birch for me smells like spearmint. I can bring the smell of pine home from working in it all day and spread it through the house acorting to Marcia :D. Deisel,gear oil and burnt wires smell, those bring back bad memories.
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Roger2561

I don't have a specific species of wood that brings back the memories but with the high price of home heating fuel most of my neighbors are now burning wood.  When I go outside at 5:00am to stoke the OWB for the day there is always a whiff of smoke in the air and it smells so good in the crisp morning air.  That smell brings me back to the '70's when the home heating fuel went through the roof.  Everyone burned wood to stay warm.  Foods do the same.  Growing up money was always tight.  Dad was the sole money maker and with 8 siblings you can imagine how tight money was.  One of favorite memories (there were many) was when us kids would get off the school bus, immediately you could smell the fresh bread mom had baked.  Everything was made from scratch.  Mom would cut off a slice of bread about an inch thick and lather it with butter (made our own) while the bread was still hot.  Man, it didn't get any better than that.  Roger   
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Magicman

Oak that stinks usually is sick and that is bacteria that gives of the foul odor.  I absolutely love the smell of split Red Oak. 

I do not remember the last time that I felled a tree for firewood.  Mother nature puts them on the ground, and I buck them up.
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jargo432

Around here we have a lot of oil well sites. (I work out in the oil fields)  When they build a pad for a well they take a bulldozer and just push the trees in a pile off to the side.  I breaks my heart to see all that wood going to waste.  I've hinted around to a couple of pumpers that I'd like to cut it up for firewood but to date no offers.  (one took my number and said he would ask the ranch forman but I never heard from him)

I also cut up dead trees on my land but it's hard for me to get to them in my pickup.  My land is so thick there's not many places I can get into with my truck.
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Paul_H

My dad was a logger and the smell of old grease and oil reminds me of climbing around on warm sunny days on the old yarding donkeys mounted on wooden sleighs down at the shop when I was a small boy.
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petefrom bearswamp

Quite a few dairy farms around here, so there is a fair amount of olfactory memories for me but not very pleasant.
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LittleJohn

Yes several smells take me back, but the two at the top of my list are:

The smell of White Cedar, reminds me of my grandfather and all the cedar swings he used to build - and I did to for a while when I had free time
The smell of pine saw dust, chainsaw oil and a touch of diesel; reminds me of my father and all the good times that we had cutting and felling logs for firewood and for sawing/milling

Stinny

Holiday tobacco smoke from dad's pipe 50 years ago. Every time I smell it, I think of him...
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Rob5073

I like juniper and pine when split which are more common in the higher elevations of New Mexico.  Mesquite smells good also and there's plenty of that here in Texas.

lynde37avery

fresh cut black birch smell reminds me of my childhood cutting wood with family/friends. the better days.
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Cedar Savage

Diesel smoke on a cold morning, hanging  in the valley.
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Standing in the barn, just having put away the last hay bales of the spring.  The almost overpowering aroma of the hay coupled with the sound of  rain on the metal roof that started just after the last load of hay entered the barn.  I'm sweaty and tired.  The hay is dry and up and finnished, and I just stand there and take it all in with a deep breath.  A perfect memory for me.
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Quote from: Cedar Savage on March 24, 2014, 11:12:21 PM
Diesel smoke on a cold morning, hanging  in the valley.

cold enough morning all all my POS Diesel does is smokes....

thecfarm

My Christmas stocking pulled out of the cedar chest. I still have the stocking but not the chest.  :(
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enigmaT120

I love the smell of hot metal.  When I was a kid my dad had about a '59 Jeep FC pickup, I don't know if it was 3/4 or 1 ton.  He would take us out to the little old junkyards that were around central Oregon (we lived in Madras at the time) and use his torch to cut up scrap metal which he would haul to Portland to sell.  Gas must have been really cheap then.  But that hot metal smell still takes me back, even if it's just from me grinding something.

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When I was a kid (many years ago lol) in the Sierras. Loved the smell of a sawmill the smell of the chip burner. Of course that smell is gone because of the government, heck most of the sawmills are gone too.  Most of the mill towns are gone too. But I can still remember that smell coming down a canyon. ED
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