{"id":8380,"date":"2018-10-28T00:29:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T00:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=8380"},"modified":"2018-10-28T00:29:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T00:29:21","slug":"oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=8380","title":{"rendered":"Oak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people told me that oak was by far the best wood to burn for heat. In 6 years of heating with wood, we never had that luxury. This is about to change as <a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=8212\">a massive oak on our land came down of its own volition<\/a>. I finally went after it this week end. It&#8217;s pretty hard to go through given it&#8217;s odd position but the rapid yield makes up for the hard work. Now I have to say I never carried such heavy logs, likely a sign of the wood&#8217;s density. I had to split it on the spot to get pieces I could move. Besides its density, it splits relatively easy and makes an unusual very dry almost gun-like sound upon impact. I&#8217;m a fan already.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>We meet again<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_4767.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8381\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_4767.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Good spot to spend an afternoon in spite of the crappy weather. I had to make a path so I could turn the ATV around further.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_4768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8382\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_4768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I can&#8217;t wait several months of seasoning to try oak, so I brought a piece inside for a quick dry. We&#8217;ll throw it in the fire box for a special occasion :).<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_4781.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8383\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_4781.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people told me that oak was by far the best wood to burn for heat. In 6 years of heating with wood, we never had that luxury. This is about to change as a massive oak on our land came down of its own volition. I finally went after it this week end. It&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=8380\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oak&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[182,283],"class_list":["post-8380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-sustainability","category-wood","tag-oak","tag-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}