Folks do that up to camp at the fire pit, of course it is direct proportion to the quantity of beer involved.
Right on. I too have to laugh sometimes about the wood snobs. While it is true that it takes about the same amount of time and work to put up the lower btu trees as it does the higher ones, I will still cut some occasionally and have no problem burning most of it. Willow is about the only thing here that I would turn down but also some of the cottonwood is not too great; usually the ones growing in really wet spots are not very good and full of water. So go ahead and get the tulip, or yellow poplar. I'd burn it if we had some here. As it is, sometimes we'll cut a popple but right now we have so much ash and elm that are dead we are mostly sticking to that. However, I do have a large birch down and that will get cut up this year.
I was offered a 36" dia. Willow to cut down and take, I never had a chance to touch the stuff before. Why do you say, you would turn down Willow, asking because I don't want to end up with something I don't want. I'll take your advice. Thanks!
I have some hemlock that I processed back in May. Never used it before. Yeah. It dries really quick and burns fast and hot. Great fire starter!
Almost all of the wood I cut was poplar; I wanted to get light into the garden in the little valley and it wax a small grove of popular. Still have some of it to cut to finish the "more light on garden" project. The dead red oak is still sitting in the woods and I need to get it to the house.
Agree. People will pass on pine,poplar,silver maple, etc..but these help save the good stuff for extreme temps and get the fire going for the hard stuff. A lot of people pass on the silver maple around here and I swoop in and take it all. Grabbing a couple loads of pine tomorrow that no one wanted.
Burning it now, but I am not a wood snob. Popular is great shoulder season wood. I am glad we are having a longer than normal shoulder season. cause I got 4 cords of it stacked on deck. I burnt 14 cord last year. this year I am still on cord 1! So since I refuse to un- stack it off the deck! it will get mixed with ash and burnt this season! your setup is gorgeous!
Interesting. I have a bunch of tulip poplar in my pile (the rest is oak, ash, and maple) and as I was cutting it last weekend, I wondered whether it would be worth it. It seems to act just like a sponge - when it's wet you can't split it by hand. When it's dry it explodes with a splitting axe. So if it's green tulip poplar, you'll need a powered splitter to get it split so it can dry out. Just for fun I think I'll bring in some of mine and see how dry it will get next to the wood stove.
Shoulder season is fall and spring when it is not really cold out and you have a fire to just take chill and damp off but not need real heat.. For me it's from 25 degrees to 55 degrees. I assume it changes a little based on your temperatures and location
You're speaking the truth my friend, it's all relative. When it gets above 85 deg. I don't don't do well. I can't take the heat.
Hell, that's the ocean temp in early summer! but we are all in it. Morning temps now are in the low thirties ( some 40's), kids still wearing shorts to school.
I'd gladly take a bit of Tulip Poplar in my stacks. A lot of it grew back in WV where I lived as a boy. Don't know of any around here. Burning a bit of sassafras today; it may get about as much love as the poplar, but if it is dry, who cares. Looks like your stove is enjoying it.
