It's not set in stone yet, but I have a good idea of which piles I want to convert into BTUs this year. To start the season off I have about half a face cord of red maple from August 2021 already staged up. Also some white birch that I've had since May 2020, silver maple from October 2021 and a touch of sassafras from November 2021. That should cover the fall. Once I'm through that, there's about a week's worth of shagbark hickory to blow through, then it's on to the bulk of my winter mix. This year that'll be sugar maple, elm, Norway maple, and a little apple and ash. Coming into the spring shoulder season, I plan on burning some dead cherry I cut last month, and most likely a lot of white pine from February 2021 (I'll actually be mixing pine in throughout the season, as I have close to 4 cords of it ). That's the tentative plan anyway, subject to change of course. How about you?
This season I have a sloppy mix of: plum cherry maple pacific dogwood doug fir miscellaneous actual fir alder grand fir for the shoulder seasons. I have another stash of dogwood that I’ll probably need to add to the mix, and seasoned maple as a backup. This is my last season of sloppiness. Going forward I’ll be better organized with wood I have seasoned myself.
Gonna be probably... 65% Ash 25% Locust 10 % Misc. Chunklies Gonna try very hard to keep my hands off the oak for this season... for for 23-24, all bets are off!
I have bona-fide shoulder wood. A mix mostly of red maple, with apple, ash, and Elm. All CSS'd for 2.5yrs. Deep winter - I have 4yr CSS'd red oak, and a little bit of black locust.
The mix for my wood boiler is always some sort of fruit salad...probably end up burning 15-20 different types of wood before its all said and done.
Nh blend- oaks, maples, birches, ash, cherry and a lil beech for the house. Hardwood shorts and chunks, softwoods and lumber cutoffs for the garage.
Red oak, white oak, other oaks, hickory, KC, cherry and some surprises. Hopefully hit some elm, because I can’t remember burning any. Some of it will depend on how sales pan out and what piles I’m pulling from, but lots of hickory has been covered for over 2years.
85% chestnut oak 12% red oak 3% random splits could be SBH, mulberry, or maple. Before I started cribbing ends, I kept covering up old wood that is finally almost all used.
I’m jealous Last year I went through a face cord of chestnut oak from December into early January. Some beautiful burning stuff there There’s a ton of it down by my work that’s dead and on the ground. I might have to start working it this winter.
If I was home more often to reload, I’d probably hoard a little cottonwood. Other than the downside of burning fast, I thought it lit off easily and threw good heat, on top of drying in well under a year.
Lots of ash. Elm, some catalpa, birch, Norway maple, and probably some shagbark hickory, ironwood, sugar maple, beech, and honey locust if it gets cold enough. Otherwise those gooder hardwoods will go into some future burning season's stash.
Save that apple for butt cold weather. It's got more BTU's than the oak and maybe a little more than the locust.
I have mostly ash and red oak with a smaller amount of sugar maple and an even smaller amount of pine - all of which has been under a roof for 4 years. Pine maple and chunkies are for shoulder season.
