This has been seasoning for three years so I finally moved a f/c to our area that we burn from in the colder months. I put the splitter cover on until I dig out an eight foot cover. Picture 0393 is some ironwood I cut this year, I'll fill the rest of that rack with more ironwood cut from last year,this year and on the top will be more three year old ironwood if we have room.
I don't think since we've been burning firewood that we've burned a f/c of ironwood so this year will be nice.
I've been seeing lots of 50's and 60's up there lately and yes, that will certainly get you looking forward to the cooler weather. I'm ready!
I don't think there's any ironwood around these here parts. I guess I'll just have to feel satisfied with burning white/red oak, beech, and bl. Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
I've only ever had bits and pieces of it.....it's in the woods around here, but I usually do removals of yard trees..... I have one 4' stick thats around 4" diameter and perfectly straight of it in the shop, gonna make a blew handle for my cant hook someday.
It's funny how tree dispersion can change so quick - I'm not too many miles west of you, but I can remember helping to clear cut a piece of property with my grandfather as a teenager for his house build and we had a bunch of ironwood - same town I'm living in now. Next town over we did the same thing for my uncle, same deal.. all of them were pretty small, but definitely abundant. As we figure it, it was a second growth woods. There is a family graveyard on the lot, dates from late 1700s to mid 1800s.
Yup difference in altitudes and weather patterns can make big differences as to how Mother Nature brings things along. Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
I had cut a lot of wood out of a woods on a farm about 2 miles from home, never found one speck of oak, all locusts, beech, sugar maple and cherry, don't remember really ever seeing elm or hickory to speak of. Farmer bought the bordering farm to the east, all kinds of red & white oak, hickory & elm, along with the other species I mentioned prior.
Soil composition matters a lot too. We've got a few ironwood trees on my wood lot. It's great stuff. I have at least 1 smaller one I need to fell and process this fall for future use. IMHO, it's only barely behind shagbark hickory for the best firewood out there.
This two f/c of ironwood will be covered by the end of this week, we'll use some of this for the heating season of 2018 - 2019. We do have more in the area I took from today so I'll be making room for that.
