Nice, that is what I have mostly in the trunk. I went through one round of cherry up front, but moved back for the 16” long rounds and easier splitting.
I think what T.Jeff Veal is referring to is the logs with bark that look like silver maple which is the more linear and smoother scalier bark. In the last picture it would be the logs in the foreground, though they also look like sugar maple at quick glance. Its hard to tell from your photos of the full rounds because of picture clarity and you cant see the grain, but at first I was thinking silver maple, now thinking Jeff is right about white oak. Oh, and I'm trying hard not to be jealous of your scoreWas that just sitting there on the side of the road??? That is a great feature in your town! *edit- I think I also see some honey locust... and one large round of ash in first picture upper right
The last photo leftmost round and the shorty with the strips of bark to the right of it is white oak? That is what I thought might be cherry in addition to the branches and the one I have a close-up of the split. I think. The first photo behind the sticks is where I filled up most of the trunk. The big ash round I thought was cottonwood, but I seem to be getting less confident of my identification skills. On the plus side, with the three year plan it will all eventually be ash. This is the community firewood drop off aka “honey dump” at a gas station a mile or two from where I work. It was all about cleared out until I checked this morning. It’ll be hard to wait until next week for another pick-up... well trunk-up.
Yeah, always trust my Id's over yours haha! No just kidding, you're there in person and can see much more than we can on a screen. It's very possible that what Im seeing as ash is what you ID'd as cotton wood. Splitting it will tell you everything. Also what I'm thinking looks like honey locust may actually be cherry which I also see, but thought maybe you had both in the pile. As you said though, it's all good... and in general you've got some great hardwoods there! I checked out my dump the other day and looks like they started clearing out some of those yard waste bags, but still no sign of any real wood. On the good side I spotted me some old dried downed Black locust branches in the 9 to 10 diameter range. they're on the side of a freight line RR track near industry. I will return there to cut it up one day ...possibly on a Sunday when no one will be around. I have a few spots now of downed seasoned wood marked out for myself where I can cut and burn after leaving the fresh splits indoors for a few days. Right now I'm still working on cleaning up older yard scores on my property which I just finished bucking up...Now the fun part, Splitting
Both pics look like red oak to me. The bark doesn't look like the light gray flaky bark in the pile picture
Isn’t it good, Norwegian wood? I was doing some splitting and rearranging, getting ready for a new oak pile. The Norwegian maple is piled between two Norwegian maples. Morbidly ironic if you are a tree.
Someone hit up my red oak stash, but I still managed a trunk full of 4yr fat splits. After my pass, it is mostly short and uglies left. There were some big red? pine rounds too wet and spongey to split and probably EWP also not splitting easily.
im not sure what you mean by this??? Nice little load to start your week on a happy note. I sure would be smiling!
I have a tube stove insert, so was planning on leaving these splits chunky, but giving them four years to season. Since there is no cat to worry about, I think it is worth it for increased burn time. I could be convinced otherwise if this is a terrible idea.
Even split super thick? I’ll post a pic of my new thick stack later. I think I can put off until year four, but I guess we’ll see how my consumption goes this winter. I have several “short face cords” of red oak split thinner that will be first in line.
That depends on where your stacks are. Sunny with lots of wind? 3 years will be good. A fourth year would be needed if its shady without much wind.
NOT white oak. I would say silver maple as well. But it's just an ornamental around here so I don't see much of it. I also at quick glance thought I saw white oak, but if this was what was in the previous pic, it's not white oak.
