So what's on the menu this season for your wood burner?

I finished moving a cord onto the porch and I'm seeing Hickory, Black Locust, Black Birch, Cherry, Oak, and Silver Maple, with a side of Poplar. Then I topped off those stacks with a few garden cart loads of White Pine (my favorite). I figure the garden cart holds about 6 cubic feet of wood per load. I also brought a load of chunked up pine cookies into the house to top off the stacks in there.

Sorry, no pictures. the batteries are dead in the camera. I keep forgetting to pick up batteries when I'm in town.

 

My main flavors this year are 3 yo oak and hickory and some 2 yo ash. Also have a little bradford pear ready.

 

whatever I can get my hands on that is dry. I'm looking good for 17/18 though. I have a source, but he's kind of a tool to deal with.

 

5 cords of red oak some cherry beech and silver, I've been rummaging looking for some lower btu stuff for filler or shoulder stuff. Looks like ill split small stuff for small quick fires.

 

I'm looking at ash, silver, bit of cherry , birch, and black walnut. Next season is going to be straight 50/50 ash and silver

 

Almost 3.5 cords of Oak on the l/h side of the shed. Almost 1/2 cord of Pine in the back of the r/h side, with almost 2 cords of Red Maple in front of that, with the rest being Ash, and about 1/6 cord of Pine in the front.
Total should be about 6 cords. All set.
Next year will be mostly Ash, with almost a cord of Oak, and the rest is Red Maple. I'm hoping to have at least a cord left in the shed after this winter's done.
I'm really curious to see how the Ash burns, since this will be the first year I've used it.

 

I think the only "staple" missing from my usual menu is ash. I split 2 cords of that this spring, so that should be in the rotation again next year.

For this year, I've got a cord of red pine, 2 red maple, and around 5 black locust; but I only plan to burn about a cord of that. If I needed it, I've got a ton more red maple I could dip into, too.

 

Various flavors of Oak, some Pine, Ash, a lil Elm and some Honey Locust as needed. There may be a little Maple and some miscellaneous mystery wood scattered throughout too...

 

We'll burn Ironwood (American Hophornbeam) Oak,Sugar Maple,Beech,Yellow Birch and some Cherry.

The higher btu wood will be saved for the coldest months.

We also will burn between 50-60 bags of pellets, we burn both stoves once bogydave sends down that real cold weather.

 

I have not completely made up my mind yet where I'll be dipping from. More that likely I will be burning a smorgasbord of cherry, ash, elm, beech, red & white oak, pignut hickory and black locust....might have a bit of walnut in the mix too.....oh and I have some 3 or 4 year old shagbark too......told you I hadn't made up my mind, I really don't keep anything separate.

 

I should be in the new house by December, hopefully, if there are no building delays!! I've got 2 cords of 3 yo red oak, 1/4 cord of elm and 1/4 cord of ash. Also have a 1/2 cord of boxelder if I need it for the spring shoulder season. Should be all I need for 5 months of burning...... I hope. I have plenty of other dead standing oak stacked but it will only be 2 summers dried.

 

Sounds like you got about all the bases covered! Will there be any imported nonnative cuisine?

I almost forgot about the leftovers! I've got maybe 1/2 cord of ash from last year that I didn't end up burning.

I like to run a mix in my stove too - more of the hard stuff if its really cold.

 

We are buying 4 cord of Yellow Birch/Oak. Kind of a strange thing to do when we own 45 acres of wood lot but we have none cut/dry.

Working on next years now as we cut a road to the back of the property to access better wood. Mainly Spruce and White Birch so far. If we don't find any hardwood worth cutting we will buy a load of logs in the late Winter/early Spring for my father in law and I to buck and split. Will sell a few cords to offset the cost of the logs.

 

The usual. 3-4 year old, top covered red oak. I'm spoiled

 

No and I sure don't need any of that stuff that they talked about on another thread that causes fertility.....wouldn't mind having some Grand babies though....all we have so far is grand horses, dogs and cats.

 

Well, I'll start with silver maple and cherry then, as the weather gets colder, I'll start in on the ash.

As the nights get colder I'll mix ash with some 5 year old black oak.

For those really nasty temps I'll throw in some black and honey locust, well ages at 4+ years.

As the weather improves it'll be back to ash, silver maple and cherry.

Next thing you know it's time to clean the stove and pipes and get ready to do it all again.

 

Just like every other year-maple, birch, ash, some oak, shoulder season will be spruce, hemlock and probably the occasional basswood.

Now the stove top menu will include chili, beef stew, perhaps some soup.....

 

Back on the meds hey Eric VW? Wood chuckin' wifeys got this...you'll be toasty and snug my friend.