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What is shoulder season wood

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  1. Ashwatcher

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    For me its maple and cherry---ash up next, then the big guns for all night burns...
     
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    For me
    It's birch :D
     
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    I knew you would have easy answer for this one:thumbs::D
     
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  4. Grizzly Adam

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    I wouldn't want to be burning it this time of year, i like my house to be cool enough that i can be inside it.
     
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    Kind of strange, this should be shoulder season but, I opened the windows to warm the house up today:loco: :crazy::wacky:
     
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    Just put less in. I burned some last week...just didn't pack it full.
     
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    This year I use mostly maple all winter with a mix of ash if needed. Ash will be my over night mixed with hickory. Then if it gets cold hedge. By this time next year should have about 5 cord of hedge to use when I want.
     
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  8. Grizzly Adam

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    Seems like when i do that i have less of a fire and more of a smoulder. I can put in 3-5 pieces of maple and have a lovely little fire. Works better for us, anyway.
     
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  9. NH mountain man

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    Very True, if it's too hot I can't sleep.
     
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    I generally don't light a fire unless it gets down into the upper twenties, I use mostly small diameter stuff. Under 3" limbs I've cut, once it gets down to the lower teens to single digits we're burning oak, hickory and cherry. When it gets down to below zero and stays there for a while we burn shorter blockier splits and build up 8 or so inches of coals from oak that just keep the heat going through the night. When it gets down to 15 to 20 below zero I set the alarm at 3:00 to reload the stove, just to save the pipes, we leave the water running a little then so the pump kicks on. At that point it seems you just can't bring wood in fast enough. I think Stinney would agree.
     
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    Mostly pine and douglas fir. When it gets colder, mostly douglas fir and pine.

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    Makes it less complicated :):thumbs:
     
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    Whatever seasoned softer wood I have in the stacks thanks to Mother Nature and cutting a few undesirable saplings.

    This year, it's sycamore, cherry, Aspen, tulip, maple and sassafras.

    Here's the main stack.... Lots of small rounds too...

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  14. NH mountain man

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    Nice stack!:thumbs:
     
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    Right now it's Norway maple, ash, a little beech and black birch and red oak. When it gets colder it'll be oak, black birch, beech and Norway maple. There's some shagbark hickory in the next stack so that'll get into the mix about January. That is unless temperatures stay the way its been lately, then I'll get into that sometime next fall.
     
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    Uglies are my current shoulder season wood.
     
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    What is "hedge"? I've never heard of it.:confused:
     
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    Hedge is A hard wood and it is HOT. Around here we use to use them for fence posts but the ground would where out first. Look up Osage Orange. Here it is in the rack , the orange stuff. If you ever get any make sure the chain is sharp because it will not be after you cut a tank of gas. It will look like you been cutting rocks
     

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    Thanks, I will look it up. It's interesting hearing about different wood. Thanks.
     
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    Red Pine for me - couple splits of ash on top, so's I don't be catching my chimney on fire... ;):D

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