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Name your firewoods

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  1. SD Steve

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    Hardwoods are Ash, Elm, Silver Maple, and little cottonwood. Pretty good stuff this year. My pines are an assortment of Norway spruce, ponderosa pine, and Colorado spruce.
     
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  2. chainsawsoldier

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    In no specific order:
    Red Elm
    Siberian Elm
    Pin Oak
    Red Oak
    Black Locust
    Honey Locust
    Silver Maple
    Hedge
    Hackberry
    Mulberry
    Walnut
    Crabapple
    Eastern red cedar
    Some yard trees that weren’t identified
     
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  3. The Wood Wolverine

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    Tim, is that on purpose^^? :yes: As you probably know red oak is my #1 favorite so I've become selective when I scrounge. The only species around and sometimes available to me are SBH and I'll always take mulberry when I can. Locust is a rarity but I'd take it too.
     
  4. campinspecter

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    In my teen years I lived in a rural farming area and cottonwood was plentiful so it was used a lot in the kitchen cook stoves, but it was bad for flying embers and caused some house fires due those flying embers landing on shake roofs.
     
  5. Eddie Hughes

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    Outdoor chiminea
    Cedar
    Pine
    Oak
    Conifer of some sort
    Spot of driftwood
     
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  6. Canadian border VT

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    This year; red maple, sugar maple ash and white birch

    next 2 years 80% yellow birch
     
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  7. Casper

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    Beech, hickory, red oak, ash, maple, cherry and some black locust.
     
  8. SD Steve

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    You guys and your Oak.......boy am I jealous. I know I've said it before, that only White Oak will grow here on the prairie, and they are very few and far between. In fact there is only one that I know of in my small town.
     
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  9. Dumf

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    Prefer not to use oaks --they take at least 2-3 years to season stacked.
    We buy a couple of cords of "good" wood from inland-- beech, yellow birch, rock maple-- to fill in with the lower BTU woods we have.
    He brings it green in late winter so it's good to go by the next January.
     
  10. leoht

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    Most of my hoard will sound strange to my American friends.
    Stringy bark (eucalyptus)
    Yellow box (eucalyptus)
    Sugar gum (eucalyptus)
    Blue gum (eucalyptus)
    Red gum (eucalyptus)
    Blackwood (Acacia)
    Golden wattle (Acacia)
    Lemon scented gum (eucalyptus)
    Cherry
    Oak

    Cypress pine
    Monterey Pine (Only used for kindling)
     
  11. Chud

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    What kind of trees are in the wind breaks?
     
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  12. metalcuttr

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    No Bubble Gum?
     
  13. FreedomFamilyFarms

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    I keep this updated in the Apple Notes app

    Lower case s: Seasoned when stacked
    Lower case g: Green when stacked
    Q120: Stacked quarter 1, 2020

    It’s not 100% but pretty good for knowing what’s in there.
     
  14. SD Steve

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    Most wind breaks( we call them shelter belts) are cottonwoods. But some of them are ash trees, some might be a mixture of pines or spruces, with cottonwoods and box elders. I even know of a small shelter belt that is almost all red cedars.
     
  15. Chud

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    My grandparents farms were north and west of Sisseton. Never paid attention to the trees when I was last there.
     
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  16. TurboDiesel

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    There are a lot of red oaks here and they seem to be dying. Sometimes they uproot, some are standing dead, some break off like they just had a big rotten spot. A few we had taken down at mom's house that were leaning towards the house.
    And yes i like oak, but i just take any BTU's that are free and easy. I get lots of maple, cherry, ash and an occasional hickory.
    I could get tons of tulip poplar (and pine) but its just as much work and very few BTU's.. With 40 acres to cut on, i can be choosy...
     
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  17. sirbuildalot

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    Definitely different than I’m used to here in the Northern US. Cool selection of wood.
     
  18. SD Steve

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    Cool!! Sisseton is about an hour east from where I live.
     
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  19. Dstrick

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    Now add black locust too.
     
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  20. Sean

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    In descending order of amounts. Larch, doug fir, lodgepole pine, spruce, birch, cedar. Normally Larch is a wood I find harder to find dead since its our highest btu wood and everyone wants it but I seem to have come upon lots of it in the last year or so. I normally keep it for overnight burns since its so precious but its going to make it into my daytime loads this year. I have some apple but thats for the Kamado Joe grill for smoke wood!