Some very cold, to us anyway, weather caused me to burned some well seasoned White Oak. It came from a large, standing dead white oak that a friend and former FHC member, Brandon Scott, gave me before he moved to Florida. It's the first I've had in many many years and I'd forgotten how good this stuff is! I put 8 medium splits in the old Buck 80 at 2100hrs yesterday and this morning at 0630hrs it was 81 degrees in the house while it's about 12 degrees with 20mph winds outside. By the looks of what's left in the firebox I won't have to reload before noon today. THANKS BRANDON! I plan to only use the white oak in the coldest of weather in hopes I can get 3 burning seasons out of what I have.
I love oak and don't mind the bigger rounds that give you the perfect no bark pieces. Burning that myself now and loving it! It also was from a score with another member , thanks BRAD.
In our first home we burned wood for 15 out of the 18 years we owned it. In this home we have burned wood for 5 years. I have used every type of wood southern Wisconsin has to offer. I mean everything including soft maple and box elder. And all the standbys: walnut, oak, hickory, black cherry, black locust, elm, mulberry, and hard maple. As an experienced wood burner I will say this to my grave: It’s hard to beat oak. But you have to get it dry.
For all the hype that black locust gets, white oak is still one of my favorites. It’s all around superb firewood.
White oak is my second favorite wood to burn....right next to locust. I've been burning quite a bit of it lately myself. Any of the oak species is great in my book but white oak takes the trophy. Smells. great when splitting and also when burning. 2yr to 3yr seasoned white oak is da bomb....
I'm an Oakhead. Bout to make a cord & half of white oak splits here soon as I start dropping vacation days. Prefer White in the stove, but Red at the processing yard.
Its great firewood no doubt, but I don't have the patience or room to wait that long. Barkless dead black locust for the win!
Mostly ash, thanks to the E.A.B. I do have some hickory that came from smaller hickory trees I took down for a friend who was building a new garage.
Been css white oak nearly exclusively form my timber clearing project. My boiler loves the 4-5” branch sections at four feet length. demands of the week have put me behind but tomorrow I am hitting it. Will edit in a picture tomorrow
I've got cords of white oak drying and a bunch to process still. Hopefully it's ready to burn next year. Until then it's mostly cherry, elm, and soft maple.
Lucky customer. I split up some dead ash and elm 1yr rounds and stacked with some one year dried cherry. Half cord sold in less than 12 hours. Delivered yesterday.
