The 4300 Qadra Fire. Is that a step top model? Those are really nice heaters from what I've heard. Sent from my SM-G930VL using Tapatalk
Mulberry. Bark and color of wood are off for TOH plus it smells like rotten peanut butter. I have alot of TOH and have cut a bunch.
Welcome to FHC. You'll like it here. We like beer, dogs and pics. Lots of pics. This is some great reading material for starting out. Primer on Woodburning by Backwoods Savage Top left. Click on the 3 bars and select resource tab. You probably want to take a gander at some of the other reading material in here. Have a great day.
I guess bark can be different from region to region, but here in SW VA, mulberry bark can practically be mistaken for Osage. Here’s an internet pic of TOH bark Daeven -
Nice. I lived in Oakwood, worked in Gainesville about 3 yrs, back in the mid 80's. Drive up Hwy 53, go thru Braselton. Still go up that way sometimes
Welcome to the FHC Daeven I’m no help in ID of southern woods.. I have heard good things about Quadra fires.. first stop buying wood from people that don’t what dry is.. a moisture meter in fresh split will tell you. 2 it looks like tulip poplar to me. This is a light wood Which is a low btu wood 3. All wood has same BTU per pound so until your better at identifying put light wood to use in fall spring and heavy wood like oak in January
On second thought, it's possibly catalpa. Had some this summer. I see some green/yellow on the edge of your split. What we had...
The TOH bark looks like it has ridges but it really doesn't it just coloration, I have 2 in my front yard and about 10 across the street. Ive never dealt with Catalpa but after seeing that post it might be that.
I've made a bunch of progress on my newbie hoard. My wood shed build was a bit backwards - I built a nice roof with less that acceptable walls and a floor that was little more than pallets. Then I put a bunch of firewood under that roof. I ended up removing most of the firewood, added the 4x4 posts, beefed up the side/back walls, added the lattice, reinforced the floor, added a middle wall, and then restacked the wood in an orderly fashion. The shed is 11.5 feet wide and 6 feet deep, and will hold 2.3 cords when full. A couple more trailer loads will fill it up, but I'm already thinking about building a cheaper wood storage system on the other end of the yard.
Very nice wood shed! I'm a little late to the guessing game, but I've cut a few mulberry and I don't see that at all. It's yellow when fresh cut and ages to a red. If you fresh split it, you see yellow. Definitely don't see black walnut either. Never touched TOH. While the end and bark look like T.J.Veal's pic, the open split wood does not. 90% sure, Tree of Heaven ID Oh, and welcome to FHC!
Crap! The wood shed is full! Now what do I do? I recalculated the size, and it comes out to 3 cords including a bit of air space between the rows. I've been prowling Facebook Marketplace for free firewood and happened across a guy who cut a bunch of white oaks down on his property. They were already cut into nice logs, and he said I was the only one who followed through on showing up. It wasn't super close - 25 miles, but I made two trips. I pretty much filled up a 5x10 utility trailer with a 3500 pound axle. It worked out to being about 1/3 cord per load. I'm guessing it was a bit more than a ton of wood each. Along with the trailer, that was a bit much for a front wheel drive Lexus RX350, but it was very stable. The guy still has more wood, but without some work, I have no where to put it!
Looks like there's plenty of room behind the shed, on the side of the shed too! Sounds like you have a hoarding problem! Welcome to our world!
