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Not yur typical shoulder season wood

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  1. coal reaper

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    But only because they are short.
     

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  2. Backwoods Savage

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    Doesn't matter what the season so long as it burns and gives heat. Looks good.
     
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    Lookin like locust.....good chit:D
     
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  4. coal reaper

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    Match madness champion!
     
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    Very nice & long burning wood there :yes:

    My shoulder season wood didn't make it past the 1st round:
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    Spring & Fall shoulder wood, Cold day wood, Windy day wood, sub-zero day wood.
    it's my all season wood.
     
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  6. 460magpro

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    burn what ya got:thumbs:
     
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  7. weatherguy

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    You ever burn anything other than birch Dave?
     
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  8. bogydave

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    When I had too, I burned spruce. Since I started using the state firewood permits ($10/cord)
    With the state permit, I've become kinda a wood snob.
    Spruce & birch at the cutting area, I work a little harder getting only birch but;
    with birch having 23.6 mil BTU / cord & spruce having 18.1 mill BTU/cord
    ALASKA Fire wood BTU, .jpg
    That way I get the best bang (BTUs) for my $$-buck.

    I use the other wood I scrounge up (& birch uglies) for the outside fire pit.
    In the fire pit stacks I have cottonwood, aspen, spruce & alder (+ birch uglies)
    & I make the splits smaller
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  9. Jon_E

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    No tamarack/larch available there? That chart seems wrong, based on half-a-dozen other references. Tamarack should be somewhere around 20 MBTU/cord unless you have a completely different species in AK.
     
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  10. bogydave

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    In Alaska, the Tamarack just about all died off in the 70s , Larch beetle infestation.
    There's a few in the wild , most are in yards.
     
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    If I were you, I would NOT burn white birch!!


    :D :p
     
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    Nice fire pit area, why don't you put a roof on :D
     
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    When the wife wants warmed up... It d0esn't matter what kind of wood is there, it gets burned:yes:
     
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    on the "to do" list :)