My wife and I recently moved to a house with a nice modern Quadra-Fire wood stove. It takes up a bit of space in the family room, and we actually considered removing it for a standard fireplace. That is, until we got the electric bill for the first cold month using the heat pumps. We managed to heat the house for the entire month of January using almost no electric heat! Plus, I'm sure you all know how much more comfortable it is with wood heat vs. heat pumps, and now so do we! The downside is that I spent just as much purchasing firewood as I would have spent on electricity, and nothing was dry & seasoned like advertised. I'm on a quest to get two years ahead of our wood needs and collecting as much nearly-free stuff as I can. We're already up to a half cord split/stacked and I probably have double that waiting for a borrowed gas log splitter I'm getting tomorrow. I don't think I'll need the gas splitter often, but I arranged that before buying a 8 lb Fiskars maul. It's shocking what can be accomplished with the right hand tool. That's a long introduction for my question. Somewhere while collecting logs, we managed to get a few nice straight logs about 8" diameter with a small bark pattern with dark brown wood, but a small white ring just inside the bark. In checking the wood ID thread, the wood looks almost like one of the examples of a white poplar, but I think the bark was way off. Any thoughts on what this might be? I'm in the woods northeast of Atlanta.
Possibly pecan??? Calling T.Jeff Veal he's a fellow Georgian. Welcome to the FHC Daeven Nice to have you join us!
I can see tree of heaven though I’ve never seen the dark interior. Then again my heavenly trees arent in Georgia.
I would put a small amount of money on tulip poplar that's still really green if you are somewhere near Forsyth county.
Bark looks very "hickory-ish" to me....but the hickories we have dont have that dark of heart wood. The toh's I've cut haven't been that dark inside, but they have been smaller...2 liter bottle size give or take a bit...
Thanks! It's a Quadra-Fire 4300. I believe the newest versions have "Automatic Air Control," but mine is a bit older and has two manual intake vents.
I think we got it from a house that supposedly had a couple of oaks and a hickory cut down. Now that others have said tree of heaven, the description makes sense - not as dense as oak, splits very easily, etc. There's no obnoxious smell to the wood, but it sounds like that might be normal. I can't find any good pictures of TOH that match the wood. I don't know my woods yet and I would have guessed something like walnut or hickory based on wood color, but the shape is so uniform and I didn't think that was possible with either of those.
Welcome to the club. Lots of great folks here sharing knowledge and humor. I've never dealt with TOH as far as I know. 1 tree that we did cut that looks similar was redbud, it's kind of heavy, though. Wish you had some leaves. Doesn't really look like black walnut or hickory. Are you around Hall Co? I'm about 2-3 hrs south in Washington Co.
i dont see any center pith characteristic of black walnut Heres a link to a thread i posted last Summer on TOH. Is This Ailanthus (Tree of Heaven)?
Heres a thread i posted last Fall. Turned out to be pecan. I didnt cut so no way of seeing the wood itself. Only time i can say ive seen one in person. Mystree Hickory?
You'rs is probably controlled just like my 4100 quadrafire insert is. New ones are AAC, but mine has the 2 " choocher valves". I've found that you really only ever use the top valve. If you need a little more air to start the fire, just crack the door open a bit. Welcome to FHC
I'm not good at this game, but perhaps Mulberry? Don't know, might be too dark and not enough yellow for mulberry.
