09-13-2012, 05:59 AM
If a hostile neighbor files a complaint with the county against you then this can become complicated. Even if you have a 20 acre agriculture-zoned lot, a permit can be needed in order to legally bring wood (cut up trees) onto your property as firewood. Unless someone files a complaint then it is a non-issue, but the county sends an inspector and one must deal with hassles from that if a complaint is filed. If your woodstack is made of trees cut on your own property then even if it a huge jumbled mess, unsightly and filled with rats, there is no problem. Bring one load of wood onto your land from elsewhere without a permit, however, and even if it is neatly racked and roofed in a proper manner then it may be a problem (...but only if someone is filing complaints, otherwise not).
Wood seems readily enough available around here if one is willing to use a chainsaw and haul the cut loads in a pickup truck. Between friends who want fast-growing trees cleared back away from a house, lots that are being cleared with D9s, and so on- maybe even tree trimming services would be a source if one contacted them. Some tropical woods have irritating saps or resins, so it is good to know one type of tree from another. Odd bits of lumber from construction efforts are also frequently available. Do the peanut butter test on anything before loading and moving it to make sure you are not unwittingly introducing LFA (little fire ants) along with the load.
In my experience finding wood is not difficult but managing it after one has it is another matter. In much of Puna there is so much rainfall and it is so warm that unless the wood is up off the ground, racked, stickered ("stickers" are spacers placed between tight-fitting pieces of wood to create spaces for air flow), and roofed over (actual roofing with a good overhang and space for air flow, not just plastic or tarp pulled down around the stack) then it quickly turns into a mushroom farm. If one does all this, facilitating a good dry woodstack, then anti-rat measures are also necessary to maintain it without vermin exploiting the resource as luxury condos. All that being done, if you are as lucky as me then you may have still have to deal with a hostile neighbor filing a complaint with the county objecting to the woodstack. Even when it is hundreds of feet from any property line and obscured from sight by thick stands of vegetation! Not to discourage you, but honestly (having lived 20 years in Alaska) there is rather more to it here in Hawaii than up there -all still worth the bother, but more involved.
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MSP's wingsuit segment from "Seven Sunny Days"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0tU3Hy7et8&feature=related
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Wood seems readily enough available around here if one is willing to use a chainsaw and haul the cut loads in a pickup truck. Between friends who want fast-growing trees cleared back away from a house, lots that are being cleared with D9s, and so on- maybe even tree trimming services would be a source if one contacted them. Some tropical woods have irritating saps or resins, so it is good to know one type of tree from another. Odd bits of lumber from construction efforts are also frequently available. Do the peanut butter test on anything before loading and moving it to make sure you are not unwittingly introducing LFA (little fire ants) along with the load.
In my experience finding wood is not difficult but managing it after one has it is another matter. In much of Puna there is so much rainfall and it is so warm that unless the wood is up off the ground, racked, stickered ("stickers" are spacers placed between tight-fitting pieces of wood to create spaces for air flow), and roofed over (actual roofing with a good overhang and space for air flow, not just plastic or tarp pulled down around the stack) then it quickly turns into a mushroom farm. If one does all this, facilitating a good dry woodstack, then anti-rat measures are also necessary to maintain it without vermin exploiting the resource as luxury condos. All that being done, if you are as lucky as me then you may have still have to deal with a hostile neighbor filing a complaint with the county objecting to the woodstack. Even when it is hundreds of feet from any property line and obscured from sight by thick stands of vegetation! Not to discourage you, but honestly (having lived 20 years in Alaska) there is rather more to it here in Hawaii than up there -all still worth the bother, but more involved.
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MSP's wingsuit segment from "Seven Sunny Days"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0tU3Hy7et8&feature=related
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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