One of my sisters when to school with him. There is one pushed over now, its near the intersection of Schoolhouse and Bull Valley roads. Not sure the land owner.
We have Cedar aplenty where I live out west. I would say that in totality it's a great softwood. It used to be my goto but oddly enough I now prefer Ponderosa Pine. I've found that Cedar just doesn't have the heat that PP has and people give it away (literally) because of MCAS (Manic Creosote Aversion Syndrome) . Cedar does smell good though!
I've burned a ton of Fir and I think it's better than both but it's harder to get because it's either logged for lumber or it's snatched up quick. Lodge Pole is also another softwood you should try if you can get your hands on it. Love the stuff.
I found one more to knock off my list of "never having burned any"... Blue Beech or "muscle wood" ... It was pretty good sized too, around 9". I have about 20 splits of it, so in a couple, three years, I'll load the stove on a few cold nights and give it a try.. I think thewoodlands burns a ton of this stuff and saves it for the cold nights...
I have burned black locust in a campfire, but have yet to get any for my wood stove this past season. I know where there are a few rounds I have to grab incognito.
Man that is the cleanest wheelbarrow I've ever seen! Do you wax that baby? The op mentioned wanting to try boxelder...here is what you'll have to deal with...a million random branches that grow with no particular rhyme or reason...but it's a good wood to mix in. I cut this 10" one the other day. It took longer to limb than cut into rounds.
Afraid I burn whatever’s going free . So what I burns not optional. Apart from cherry it all goes together so I get a continuous mix.
It's brand new! I bought it about a month ago to haul the wood around easier, I'm getting to lazy to do it all by hand.
I rarely come across woods from my area that I've never burnt, but today on the work order along with taking down and grinding out the stumps of 2 Trees of Paradise and trimming up a Cherry it clearly said there was a small Almond tree to take down. I've never seen an Almond tree growing up in the mountains, they're only suited for the desert, so I thought it must be a mistake. No mistake! I got to take home the wood and have a new one to try out!
The wood that I have to burn is “mixed” hard wood. Primarily maple, oak, ash and some birch. I really never gave much though to the spieces that I was burning at a peticular time. Thanks to FHC I have been putting the oak aside for longer burns and burning more maple and birch nights/weekends. Can’t think of any in wood that I’m curious about burning. In the end it will be ashes...
