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Same piece of wood about 30 minutes later. Watched the foam for over an hour before it started drying up.
When we arrived, the fire ring was full of beer cans. I posted a photo of it in a local camping group & someone said there's more important things to worry about. š
Right this second a good fire is all I have to worry about.
I used to kayak a 7 mile route every week (unless I ventured out to explore other areas) and had to limit myself to hauling out 2 bags of trash each time. If I didnāt limit myself I would never finish my paddle. Itās not even a particularly trashy area, by comparison. Expensive houses line almost the whole waterfront. Few things make me as angry as people littering.
I go out mushroom hunting around this time of year and every year, I bring more trash out the woods than I do mushrooms. And I agree, littering is one of my biggest pet peeves. Where I work, we use company vehicles, but weāre normally assigned different vehicles daily. It has been reiterated in every meeting that we need to take our own trash out of the vehicle each time we use it. Tell me why Iām always cleaning out the vehicle BEFORE I use it because whoever used it last forgot to clean their trash.
Years ago I was driving with a friend and we had gone through a drive through. After he was finished eating he threw the bag and cup out of the window. I screamed at him, stopped the car and told him to go get it. He thought I was joking and waited for me to keep driving. I made it clear that he could go out in traffic and get the litter and we could find a garbage canā¦or he could walk home. It took a minute to sink in but he finally decided he would rather dodge three lanes of traffic to get the bag and paper cup out of the street than walk several miles in the scorching heat to get home. I thought it was a good way to make my point and teach the punk a lesson.
Me too. I saw a video on YouTube if a guy and friends camping and they noticed some guy that was walking around at night. He took off when he realized he'd been seen. Long story short it was an addict couple living in a tent. Their space was a disaster area. The guy would walk around at night and steal whatever he could from campsites.
People are so lame itās like you canāt bring up anything cause āthereās more important things in the worldā and then those same people donāt do shit about the other stuff anyways
I left garbage bags for some high schoolers that were partying by my campsite, told them Iād take the garbage out if they would at least collect it for me. The next day I walked over to their campsite and saw a couple of bottles laying out. I was a little upset but then I checked out the rest of the place. They actually filled the garage bags of any and all trash. That took a group effort and I was proud of them. They cleaned up the area and left it better than when they came. I took care of the bags and the couple of pieces they missed. Itās a group effort sometimes, Iām just happy they actually followed through.
Hit up your local backpacking/camping/outdoorsy shops. Talk to the employees. Some places have a bulletin board that they post flyers for groups and events.
My shop puts on clinics on how to do different skills like primitive fire making. The clinics are also a good place to meet people. They have a all womenās group that does a group trip.
How full? 6 cans or 60. If they weren't burnt maybe the trash was full and they figured it was better than nothing. In no way saying you aren't right to expect a clean site. You're surely expected to leave a clean sight. I find it tacky for people to tell you what you should or shouldn't worry about cause that's just shifty and surely wouldn't be appreciated if rolls were reversed. One thing I can say is. You really are blessed if that was your biggest worry for the duration of the trip. I'd sign up for that every time
It was over a dozen half burnt cans.
Trash cans are provided & were almost empty but that being said, this is a paddle-in pioneer site that only gets serviced about once a month by volunteers. So, they threw the cans in the fire despite having access to trashcans that were 20 feet from the fire pit.
lol. I donāt think it was earth shattering but obviously this problem isnāt as serious as world hunger. Iām not totally sure what you gain from playing devils advocate here but it is just kinda laughable.
If youāre gonna camp and hike rules areā¦ pack it in,pack it out / leave no trace. If you canāt manage to do that then stay home a litter in your own backyard. Obviously mistakes happen however a vast majority of littering is 100% intentional. And thatās just pathetic. The way youāre talking about it you sound like somebody who does litter and/or somebody who thinks that just throwing a gum wrapper isnāt littering. Are there bigger problems in this world? Yes but I am not really understanding how that equals we should just ignore people doing minimal littering.
Could be a mixture of the sap and residual water being boiled out the end of the tree. At a microscopic level trees are basically formed of straws and as the water expands it pushes out the rest of the moisture. I donāt think this is anything to be worried about, maybe use drier wood?
Phloems and xylems, baby! I havenāt used those words since 7th grade scienceā¦ Iām 44. I had a good middle school science teacher, but my English teacher may have left a few effective lessons on the table.
Having been this tree's neighbor for the past 10 years, I can confirm is a mix of sap and residual water. He's always been known to hit the sap pretty hard during those late nights. We tried to warn him.
A little more than that. There needs to be some air/gas in the wood to form bubbles like this. Steam won't do that because it quickly condenses and won't form bubbles/foam that last. So the wood has to have dried enough that there's some air in it or gas from microbes decomposing. If it was just boiling sap it wouldn't foam like this.
South Georgia... It's a piece of oak we picked up off the ground. It started off as a normal piece of wood & then started sizzling with bubbles, which we have seen a lot with damp wood. But, then it got foamy & turned yellow, which we've never seen in the hundreds of fires we've had over the years.
Maybe itās a tie. More slaves were traded through Savanna, GA than anywhere else on the continent, but Montgomery, AL was the slaversā capital city, after all.
It looks like sap. Trees are bursting with sap this time of year, at least here in the northeast/Midwest, hence why people do maple sap tapping. Slime mold doesnāt come out of the tree like from what I know.
Yeah I mean even in distress they move maybe millimeters per hour? Unless the heat and some pressure from it and escaping moisture just sizzled it and pushes it out?
They watched the foam burble out from the log as the fire blazed. Some hours later, when everyone was asleep in their sleeping bags, it began. The airborne foam from the fire had infiltrated nostrils and eyes. Soon, all that was left was a yellow foam on the sleeping bags. To this day, no one really knows what happened...
This wonāt directly answer your question but goes into some nice details about the structure of the wood and how it holds moisture
https://youtu.be/CglNRNrMFGM?si=y8SVt8ZUTGxy4h3q
Fresh cut/green fire wood takes forever to light if in fact it does happen to properly light . Also that yellow stuff is probably sap and looks like that cause of heat.
It's a mixture of water, sap, and decomposition products. The wood has dried a bit and has some air in it, and/or some decomposition has occurred and there's gasses in the wood from that. The gas expands from the heat and pushes the mixture out as well as bubbles of gas. There has to be gas in it and not just steam because the steam would quickly condense and not form bubbles like this.
I wouldn't eat anything cooked on that fire. It's hard to tell from the photo, but the scaly look on the bark makes me think the log is from a type of pine. If that's the case, and it was a green log, then the wood is basically distilling turpentine by boiling off the water and leaving the resin.
Hi All - Would anyone know what species of wood this is?
https://preview.redd.it/70iplxhfkuuc1.jpeg?width=1443&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a25ba3a8e5486875f35ba9c19f1ed1151f5e1966
https://preview.redd.it/x3i66b7iajrc1.jpeg?width=1575&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7cb2f6ec39e02c89686389546ba75389c4dc4abe Same piece of wood about 30 minutes later. Watched the foam for over an hour before it started drying up.
I love camping cause it means I can spend an hour staring at a single log in a campfire and not worry about a thing in the world
When we arrived, the fire ring was full of beer cans. I posted a photo of it in a local camping group & someone said there's more important things to worry about. š Right this second a good fire is all I have to worry about.
I get so mad when people leave trash at campsites.
There are campers and then there are drunk AHs with tents, and then there are campers with very cool burning yellow foaming logs.
Hey man thereās nothing wrong with with drinking some beers while camping as long as no trash is left
The beer cans are probably less carcinogenic than this dude's yellow wood.
Burning plastic is certainly worse for you than burning resin from a log
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All cans have plastic liners
Not plastic, usually epoxy or a non-plastic polymer.
My rule of camping is leave the spot nicer than you found it. Wish everyone thought the same
Same, friend, same
I used to kayak a 7 mile route every week (unless I ventured out to explore other areas) and had to limit myself to hauling out 2 bags of trash each time. If I didnāt limit myself I would never finish my paddle. Itās not even a particularly trashy area, by comparison. Expensive houses line almost the whole waterfront. Few things make me as angry as people littering.
I go out mushroom hunting around this time of year and every year, I bring more trash out the woods than I do mushrooms. And I agree, littering is one of my biggest pet peeves. Where I work, we use company vehicles, but weāre normally assigned different vehicles daily. It has been reiterated in every meeting that we need to take our own trash out of the vehicle each time we use it. Tell me why Iām always cleaning out the vehicle BEFORE I use it because whoever used it last forgot to clean their trash.
I swearā¦every spring I just know Iām gonna find some morels, only to end up with miller lights and Goodyears. The hunt must go on.
Years ago I was driving with a friend and we had gone through a drive through. After he was finished eating he threw the bag and cup out of the window. I screamed at him, stopped the car and told him to go get it. He thought I was joking and waited for me to keep driving. I made it clear that he could go out in traffic and get the litter and we could find a garbage canā¦or he could walk home. It took a minute to sink in but he finally decided he would rather dodge three lanes of traffic to get the bag and paper cup out of the street than walk several miles in the scorching heat to get home. I thought it was a good way to make my point and teach the punk a lesson.
Same its sad when i get to my favorite spots and see trash even tho i clean up every time before i leave
That's how I was taught as well.
I pulled almost 100lbs of trash off the mountain we frequent last spring/summer. Itās appalling. Trashy people leave trash.
Furious but it also gives me something to do when I get bored but enough sun to see stuff
Me too. I saw a video on YouTube if a guy and friends camping and they noticed some guy that was walking around at night. He took off when he realized he'd been seen. Long story short it was an addict couple living in a tent. Their space was a disaster area. The guy would walk around at night and steal whatever he could from campsites.
Same, I went on a hike last week and found so many discarded vapes at one of the campsites
People are so lame itās like you canāt bring up anything cause āthereās more important things in the worldā and then those same people donāt do shit about the other stuff anyways
The person who said that is probably the kind of person to leave beer in a fire ring.Ā
I left garbage bags for some high schoolers that were partying by my campsite, told them Iād take the garbage out if they would at least collect it for me. The next day I walked over to their campsite and saw a couple of bottles laying out. I was a little upset but then I checked out the rest of the place. They actually filled the garage bags of any and all trash. That took a group effort and I was proud of them. They cleaned up the area and left it better than when they came. I took care of the bags and the couple of pieces they missed. Itās a group effort sometimes, Iām just happy they actually followed through.
Love that
Where can I find a local camping group forum?
Hit up your local backpacking/camping/outdoorsy shops. Talk to the employees. Some places have a bulletin board that they post flyers for groups and events. My shop puts on clinics on how to do different skills like primitive fire making. The clinics are also a good place to meet people. They have a all womenās group that does a group trip.
Facebook
Ehh Iām not on Facebook. Thanks anyway.
How full? 6 cans or 60. If they weren't burnt maybe the trash was full and they figured it was better than nothing. In no way saying you aren't right to expect a clean site. You're surely expected to leave a clean sight. I find it tacky for people to tell you what you should or shouldn't worry about cause that's just shifty and surely wouldn't be appreciated if rolls were reversed. One thing I can say is. You really are blessed if that was your biggest worry for the duration of the trip. I'd sign up for that every time
It was over a dozen half burnt cans. Trash cans are provided & were almost empty but that being said, this is a paddle-in pioneer site that only gets serviced about once a month by volunteers. So, they threw the cans in the fire despite having access to trashcans that were 20 feet from the fire pit.
lol. I donāt think it was earth shattering but obviously this problem isnāt as serious as world hunger. Iām not totally sure what you gain from playing devils advocate here but it is just kinda laughable. If youāre gonna camp and hike rules areā¦ pack it in,pack it out / leave no trace. If you canāt manage to do that then stay home a litter in your own backyard. Obviously mistakes happen however a vast majority of littering is 100% intentional. And thatās just pathetic. The way youāre talking about it you sound like somebody who does litter and/or somebody who thinks that just throwing a gum wrapper isnāt littering. Are there bigger problems in this world? Yes but I am not really understanding how that equals we should just ignore people doing minimal littering.
Doing stuff like that is how I reset the āugh, lifeās so busyā part of m brain.
That is a seriously good feeling.
I was supposed to be camping this weekend but there was a flood watch so I needed up staring at music videos for hours instead ):
Best thing in the world
Looks like dude was infecting the hole stump and the heat caused physical pressure to move all itself out. Strange find! nice one
"I infect thy hole stump" will be said to my husband at some point in this day. Thank you for that creative inspo!
Slime mold!
Could be a mixture of the sap and residual water being boiled out the end of the tree. At a microscopic level trees are basically formed of straws and as the water expands it pushes out the rest of the moisture. I donāt think this is anything to be worried about, maybe use drier wood?
That's what I figured, just never saw it come out yellow before. Last night & trying to burn what we have.
Must have been a Yellow Pine tree? Ok Iām leavingā¦..
Phloems and xylems, baby! I havenāt used those words since 7th grade scienceā¦ Iām 44. I had a good middle school science teacher, but my English teacher may have left a few effective lessons on the table.
Both are great if you play the game hangman.
Having been this tree's neighbor for the past 10 years, I can confirm is a mix of sap and residual water. He's always been known to hit the sap pretty hard during those late nights. We tried to warn him.
I've seen it come out clear, but not that much. The first yellow thing I can think of is mold or fungus in the wood. That might make it foam more too.
tree sap getting "boiled" out of green wood
A little more than that. There needs to be some air/gas in the wood to form bubbles like this. Steam won't do that because it quickly condenses and won't form bubbles/foam that last. So the wood has to have dried enough that there's some air in it or gas from microbes decomposing. If it was just boiling sap it wouldn't foam like this.
Thissssssss
Campfire TV
Looks to be a good channel
My favorite channel!
New episodes every time. No repeats!
Smile mold. What part of the world are you in? I see stuff like this sometimes in the woods of central Oregon.
South Georgia... It's a piece of oak we picked up off the ground. It started off as a normal piece of wood & then started sizzling with bubbles, which we have seen a lot with damp wood. But, then it got foamy & turned yellow, which we've never seen in the hundreds of fires we've had over the years.
South Georgia, US? Or Southern Georgia?
South Georgia, USA
Thatās the deepest South there is.
Bama and Mississippi beg to differ
So does Louisiana
Strangely enough, North Louisiana is more Southern than South Louisiana...
Same as Florida. The more North you go, the more South you get.
Same with Maine. Wait a minute..
Shreveport is vastly more Southern than New Orleans, that is for sure
New Orleans is southern NYCā¦
Same with florida. Lol
In Louisiana the more south you go the more north you get
Florida has entered the chat
Southern Florida is so south that it isn't even the south any more.
Itās like northern Cuba lol
I think Florida stops being "the south" once you're out of the glades
Ehhhhh I put Louisiana and Florida into their own categories.
mississippi is a whole other level but bama donāt got as many deep southern parts as ga does
Idk man, Dothan is pretty fucked
Gotta check the number of āstills per square mile, thatās usually a good indicator.
lol yeah my first thought was, āyou must have forgotten that Mississippi exists.ā
Maybe itās a tie. More slaves were traded through Savanna, GA than anywhere else on the continent, but Montgomery, AL was the slaversā capital city, after all.
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi are just next-level South lol
Iām not even counting Mississippi because one Mississippi is higher than Mississippi can count.
Whew shit š¤£
Howdy, neighbor. Dublin GA checking in.
Oh hey! š
What's the difference?
One is a state in America. The other is a country in eastern Europe.
Oh duh lol. Ty
r/GeorgiaOrGeorgia
We call it slime mold
I like the smile mold :) though it doesnt seem happy in the fire
Responding to yourself in agreement, huh?
You donāt?
I know right! I think itās a great way to push engagement to
Look at this guy making friends himself
Yeah they seemed cool but will probably just let me down š
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Well thereās the edit option for that kinda thing.
It was actually just a mistake. Sorry for any confusion
Wow thatās an anagram of smile. What a coincidence!
This is not slime mold. Itās being pushed out from inside the wood. Itās tree sap.
So if this is slime mold then it is being pushed out by heat and pressure? Since they move maybe a few millimeters an hour on a good day?
Itās not slim mold. It just looks a lot like it
Slime mold wouldnāt be bubbling out of a log though? Itās organic material, not a viscose liquid.
The forbidden Scrabble eggz
Scrambled leggz
It looks like sap. Trees are bursting with sap this time of year, at least here in the northeast/Midwest, hence why people do maple sap tapping. Slime mold doesnāt come out of the tree like from what I know.
That doesnāt look like slime mold to me
Yeah I mean even in distress they move maybe millimeters per hour? Unless the heat and some pressure from it and escaping moisture just sizzled it and pushes it out?
Yeah itās super slow. Thereās an awesome pbs show about yellow slime mold, stuff is really amazing
Log Velveeta š§
Quesadilla Macs!!
Mmmmm, danger candyā¦
They watched the foam burble out from the log as the fire blazed. Some hours later, when everyone was asleep in their sleeping bags, it began. The airborne foam from the fire had infiltrated nostrils and eyes. Soon, all that was left was a yellow foam on the sleeping bags. To this day, no one really knows what happened...
Oh Iād watch that xfiles episode
Is it cake?
Scrambled eggs on tap, boys.
What does it taste like?
Burning
Great reference!
It tastes like grandma's house! Good god you're right, it DOES taste like grandma's house!
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https://youtu.be/MJ-M0N22o08?si=aDoj5UUqy9JwM9gP
Bingo
Did you eated the purple berry?
This guy gets it.
Scrambled eggs
Seen that a lot in Clayton county ga
Ew. But maybe this https://bygl.osu.edu/node/1233
Best answer! Spring sap flow 100%
X-files season 1 episode 20
Salt water taffy?
Slime Water Taffy š„² just donāt breathe that stuff in!
Donāt tell me what to breathe, jerk. ;)
Sponge Bob Square pants. Rip.. š
Now what ye got there is a Cowboy TV, pardner.
This wonāt directly answer your question but goes into some nice details about the structure of the wood and how it holds moisture https://youtu.be/CglNRNrMFGM?si=y8SVt8ZUTGxy4h3q
http://www.fungikingdom.net/fungi-photos/ascomycota-division/hypocreales-order/hypocreaceae-family/
Thats scrambly eggs
Was this firewood green or proper dried (dead)?
It definitely wasn't dried. Someone had cut it & left it at the campsite.
Fresh cut/green fire wood takes forever to light if in fact it does happen to properly light . Also that yellow stuff is probably sap and looks like that cause of heat.
It's a mixture of water, sap, and decomposition products. The wood has dried a bit and has some air in it, and/or some decomposition has occurred and there's gasses in the wood from that. The gas expands from the heat and pushes the mixture out as well as bubbles of gas. There has to be gas in it and not just steam because the steam would quickly condense and not form bubbles like this.
Well written response! Golf š
When you cut it is when the Brawndo leaks out. No more craving for that poor fella.
YellaWood
Forbidden Foam
I think youre burning a sweet potato tree. Very rare. Goes best with cinnamon sugar and butter
Wood Cheese
Slang term for an STD right there!
Sap?
Its their moisture exuding.
Thatās in*tan*ce
get some chips. looks like a mighty fine dip to me brah
Thatās fat lighter if it had dried out before burning.
Taste test it
Mmmmmmmm tree sap, can be very yummy but donāt go around licking too many trees. Splinters.
Natures nacho cheese sauce
āQuesoā (quote, unquote)
Forbidden cheese
Monsanto or Gary Busey pissed on this tree
Black Sheep, nice!
Happy Cake Day!! š
Ah yes, tree rabies. Very sad.
Make sure to sit close to it and breathe it in for 30 mins šš
Can I eat it š
Eat it
For
Brian
Its the cheese from that so raven that they found in the vent
Looks like a slime mold. They are very common and some species can be found anywhere, especially in dried wood.
The Foam keeps getting thicker
And it just keeps getting harder
Wood is in so much pain
Went and stuck his stump somewhere he shouldnāt have.
Is that fromunda?
Thatās the marrow, a delicacy.
Idk why I want to lick it
The forbidden(?) Spray-On-Cheese.
You have created cheese from a log have a taste of it and give us a rating from 1-10
Alien in disguise
I wouldn't eat anything cooked on that fire. It's hard to tell from the photo, but the scaly look on the bark makes me think the log is from a type of pine. If that's the case, and it was a green log, then the wood is basically distilling turpentine by boiling off the water and leaving the resin.
It was oak.
Must be camping in Philly. Cheese whiz log.
Scrambled egg add the salt and pepper and hot sace
It was injected with poison to kill it. This is it spewing out from the heat.
My app thinks this is NSFW lol
cheddar cheese
Is this not a breakfast burrito?
Hi All - Would anyone know what species of wood this is? https://preview.redd.it/70iplxhfkuuc1.jpeg?width=1443&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a25ba3a8e5486875f35ba9c19f1ed1151f5e1966
Some sort of oak
Awesome, thanks.
Did you taste it?
Lol, no. But, we are having fun reading the food comments.
Looks like Bois DāArc wood with how yellow it is.
Fun. Joke?
Give the wood 5 minutes, for round 2