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Time To Store Firewood
It’s not too late to lay in a good supfily of firewood
before winter, although it may be too hot now for the
strenous labor of harvesting and preparing the wood.
Commercial firewood companies are usinf the cooler
early morning hours to cut firewood and eliminate the
danger of heat stroke. Austin Moore, Gore, uses a skid
der to stockpile his commercial firewood. Firewood sales
are increasing locally as residents start to plan ahead
for their winter needs. (Staff photo by Kay Abbott).
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Heat Stalls Commercial Harvesting
Chattooga County firewood producers are having a hard
time keeping up with consumer demand due to severe
ly hot temperatures during the last few weeks. The
Xanger of heat stroke has led one businessman to cur
tail wood harvesting until cooler weather. ‘“We work in
the mornings and on cloudy days,"” said Austin Moore
of the Gore Woodyard. “We cflm't want to risk heat
stroke with any of the men.” Moore is shown operating
a heavy firewood processor which saws and splits logs
to the proper size. (Staff photo by Kay Abbott).
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CHATTOOGA
BOARD OF EDUCATION
—SEAT 4-
ELECTION AUGUST 12, 1986
YOUR VOTE AND INFLUENCE
WwiLL BE APPRECIATED
PAID POLITICAL ADV. — PAID FOR BY JOEL COOK
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
With temperatures soaring
to 105 degrees in Chattooga
County, residents are likeqy
more concerned with keeping
cool than staying warm this
winter. But those who will re
ly on wood-burning stoves this
winter need to stock up on
firewood now, according to
Chattooga exgerts.
The BS. Forestry Service
has opened two firewood cut
ting areas on the east side of
Taylor's Ridge. The two
40-acre sites are located at Mac
White Gap and are accessible
by a dirt road just off U. S. 27,
The road entrance is marked
with a sign and the cutting
area has painted boundaries.
In Floyd County, a cutting
area has been opened at
Dunaway Gap, located in the
Floyd Sgrings area near the
Wai'ker ounty line. This area
is open Monday through Fri
day only. :
WOOD DRYING
“Firewood needs to be dried
Unemployment
Rate Rises
In Chattooga
The unemployment rate for
Chattooga County continued
to ease upward during June
but it was not the higiest in
Northwest Georgia and it was
much lower than the June
figure a year ago, according to
the Georgia Department of
Labor.
The preliminary June rate
was 9.5 percent for Chattooga
County, compared to 9.4 per
cent in May and 14.4 in June,
1985.
Catoosa County recorded
the highest unemployment rate
in the area at 10 percent, up
from only 4.5 percent in May
and 6.5 Ipercenl: in June, 1985.
The 10-county Coosa Valley
Area Planning and Develop
ment Commission region had
an unemployment rate of 7.7
percent in June, compared to
6.8 percent in May.
A total of 7,996 people was
working in Chattooga gounty
in June and 835 were
unemployed for a total work
force of 8,831.
In May, 7,902 workers were
employed and 821 were looking
for work for a labor force of
8,723.
In June, 1985, 7,716 were
working and 1,296 were out of
jobs for a total labor force of
9,012 in Chattooga County.
Paulding County had the
lowest unemployment rate —
3.7 percent — 1n June, com
pared to 3.4 percent in May.
In the immediate area,
Walker County’s unemploy
ment rate in June was 8.7, up
from 7.0 in May; Floyd Coun
ty's rate was 7 percent, com
pared to 6.5 percent in May,
and Gordon County’s
unemployment rate was 7.4, up
from 7.2 percent.
Statewide, the unemploy
ment rate was 6.1 percent in
June, up from 5.8 percent in
May.
“The labor force increase
seen in the state was due
primarily to a gain in the
number of new and re-entrants
into the job market,” said
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Time’s Hot To Cut Firewood
four to six months to burn at
an efficient rate,”’ said Fred
Hall of the Georgia Forestry
Commission office fl.xst north of
Taylor's Ridge on Highway 27.
“When woofi is green it 1%0-
duces a wide range of BTU's
(British Thermal Units),
because some of the wood will
hold a lot of moisture.”
According to Hall, species
such as pine, elm and cherry
have a high moisture content
and need a longer amount of
drying time. If wood is cut in
the summer, it should have
time to reach 90 percent of its
air-dry value by winter. To get
even more moisture out of the
wood, it should be stacked off
the ground in an open area and
covered lightly with clear
plastic.
“The actual heating value
of air-dried wood is determin
ed by its weifht, not its
volume,” he said.
A cord of pine wood will
have less heating value, even
after drying, than a cord of
heavier hickory or oak. A cord
equals 128 cubic feet of wood,
or a tightly tpacked pile of wood
measuring four feet high, eight
feet wide and four feet long.
Labor Commissioner Joe Tan
ner, adding that jobless rates
historically climb as summer
approaches.
AIDS Hotline
A center for testing people
for Acquired Immune Defi
cience %yndrom (AIDS) has
been set up for this area at the
Floyd County Health Depart
ment in Rome, according to the
Georgia Department of
Human Resources.
Of the 3,000 Georgians
tested for the disease, which af
fects mainly homosexual men,
19 percent have tested
positive.
More information on the
AIDS testing program at
Rome may be obtained by call
ing the toll-free state AIDS
Hotline at 1-800-551-2728.
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Evening Worship .. ........6:00p.m.
Wednesday Night .. .......7:00p.m.
USE CAUTION
Hall urged firewood cutters
to use extreme care as drought
conditions prevail in local
forests.
“Chainsaws are bad to start
fires,”” he said. ‘“Hot carbon
comes out of the muffler and
may smoulder for hours before
blazing up.
“This is the season when
you have ‘kill burns.’ If you
want to clear an area by burn
ing, the fire will kill the
undergrowth and larie trees as
well. ?;x cold weather, fires
mostly kill the undergrowth.”
Hall added that residents
can often make agreements to
cut firewood on private land.
. He added that the arrange
ment can benefit both the lan
downer and the woodcutter.
“Finding a cutting site
close to home can save time
and money,” he said. “You can
help a land owner clear a
harvested area after
[)ulgwooding. Sometimes, the
andowner will want the edge
of a field cleared up "
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TREE VALUE
Residents who cut their
own firewood should consider
the value of the trees th?' cut,
according to forester Julian
Beckwith of the Georgia Ex
tension Service.
“Cutting low-value trees ac
tua:llf' improves your woodlot
by allowing the remaining trees
to grow faster,” Beckwnfi said.
“To start with, cut low value
trees — small, crooked, partial
-3' rotten, low vigor, diseased
ying and dead trees for
firewood. Many wooded acres
can yield a quarter cord of
firewood year after {'ear while
growing a valuable timber
crop.”
It takes two dozen six-inch
diameter trees to make a cord,
or one dozen eight inch trees.
Three 13-inch trees or just two
16 inch trees could provide the
same amount of wood.
“You should know, though,
that those two largest trees
could have a value for furniture
or veneer as high as $75
The Summerville News, Thursday, August 7,1986 ... ..
| apiece,” Beckwith said. “‘Bur
| ning them would be just as
senseless as burning the fur
! niture they could have made."”
SALES HIGH
Commercial harvesting of
firewood has been greatly af
fected by the heat and dro:fiht
in the county, although sales
i have been high. Austin Moore,
who og:rates Gore Woodyard,
| said that the heat has made it
dangerous for his workmen to
harvest enough firewood to
meet the current demand.
| “The heat is probably our
| biggest problem right now,”
| Moore said. “We're probably
| the largest groducer of
. firewood in Northwest Georgia
and there's a lot of physical
' labor involved in the work."”
‘ “We've been working in the
morning and when it's cloudy,
| but only takes one heat stroke
| to hurt a man. We're holding
| off on a lot of things until it
| gets cooler.”
| According to Moore, sales
| are already picking up as
residen wt.s plan ahead hodmflght'
“We're nudhw woe
now,” he said. “We could use
100 or more acres of hard
wood.”
ECONOMICAL
It is most economical to
buy wood in Fobnua or
March for the next year, Moore
said, not only because it gives
the wood more time to season,
l!;ut because it is cheaper to
uy.
‘‘People can still save about
$25 g)er truckload if they btg'
in the summer,” Moore said.
“You fit more heat from dry
wood than green and it burns
so much better.”
According to Moore, oak
and hickory are the heaviest
and best woods for burning.
“The better the trees, the bet
ter firewood you have,” he said.
“Once someone tried to give
me 40 acres of timber if I would
just cut it. I saw that it
wouldn’t make good firewood
that would be satisfactory to
:iny customers, 80 I turned him
own.
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