Of all the wood I burn 90%+ is one of the following—-Alder, Douglas Fir, Hemlock or Maple. Douglas Fir and Maple are the two most coveted here but lots of Alder gets used because it’s so readily available. Curious what species makes up the majority of wood others use. Also what would would be considered the best in your area. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Ponderosa Pine is the most available wood here. Cedar (Juniper), Pinon, a little Oak, Cottonwood, and a few others too.
80% Red Oak, White Oak, Willow Oak 20% Hickory, Cherry, Ash Best in my area is Shagbark and BL and I don’t have either in my stacks.
I have available most varieties of Oak, Hickory (I love SBH), Locust, We had lots of Ash, Maple galore, Apple and the list goes on. We have softwoods as well. It really is a great area to be a wood burner. Oak, SBH, Apple and Mulberry would be my fav4. Lately it's been 85% red and chestnut oak and maybe 15% mulberry. Couple years ago it was 90% apple, 10% ash.
It changes for me year to year depending on what’s ready. Last year it was mostly black locust, red oak, ash and cherry. This year the bulk will be black birch, and either beech and apple, or cherry and hickory, or red maple and elm. I haven’t decided which piles out back I want to dig into yet. If I had nothing better to do besides load the stove all day, I’d burn every stick of conifer I’ve got on hand (white pine, hemlock and spruce) just to free up space.
All types of hardwood available around the areas I cut. This year I will be burning mostly ash, elm, cherry, sugar maple, sycamore.
Must be nice Elm, ash, hackberry are the main three. And the same order for preference and availability. Anything else I consider a special treat. (except Cottonwood and Cedar/Juniper)
Also what would be considered the best in your area? 1. Alligator Juniper 2. Gamble Oak 3. Emory Oak 4. Arizona White Oak All of these woods are native to my area. The reason I have Alligator Juniper at #1 is because you're not going to get a hot enough or fast enough fire to start up any of the oak varieties without it. I would also like to give an honorable mention to Southwestern Choke Cherry and Mountain Mohagany, both are excellent firewood.
Didn’t know there was more than one chokecherry…. There is quite a bit of it around here but seldom see anything over 2-3 inches in diameter. I’ve heard of it being used for smoker wood.
Oak, Red & White, Ash, Elm, Hard Maple, Soft Maple, Locust & Cherry. Spruce & Pines do shoulder season duty, which anymore is most of the winter.
80 to 90 percent of what I burn is dead standing Elm. I also burn some Oak, Hickory and Ash. Sent from my SM-G930VL using Tapatalk
As of right now any ugly, small, short, or crotch, on my property. In the current ready stacks, ash, walnut, maple, and cotton wood. probably have about 10 different species in the not ready stacks except oak. Have I mentioned that I really really want to CSS and burn some oak!!!
90% of my wood is red oak with the other 10% being made up of white oak, pin oak and post oak. We have lots of elm in my area but all the locals call it "pizz Elm" due to the very offensive odor it puts off when it is burned.
In order of most used to least.. Red oak, cherry, silver maple, ash. This is mostly do to what's most available. Two years ago ash was #2, thanks to the borer beetle that changed. I would burn all ash if I could find enough.
It fluctuates from year to year based off what I find during the scrounging months. On average though, the top four that end up in my stacks are beech, soft maple (red & silver), ash, and birch (white and yellow). I do have some red oak, and from time to time come across standing dead red oak, however as a scrounger it is unfortunately not one of the top four in my stacks. I'm starting to add softwoods to the mix for the future (just because I have plenty of dead stuff readily available) so that will help with SS wood (mainly hemlock, spruce, and white pine). The random wood that ends up in the stacks are mulberry, cherry, cottonwood, and basswood. As for what I perceive to be the best in my area, that would be red oak, and that is what most people obsess about. With that being said, I wouldn't trust a single firewood seller around here to actually provide 'dry' firewood and you can drive down the road on any given day during burning season and see white smoke pouring out of people's chimneys. These are the same people who roll their eyes when you try to explain to them that oak should be dried for three years after being split and then look at you strangely when you tell them they are better off burning dry hemlock than wet oak.
Although it varies from year to year, a large majority of what I burn is silver maple. There's a lot of them in the city that are at the end of their life, so I can scrounge more of that than anything else. TOH is also in my stacks. A weed that a lot of people don't seem to like, but it does burn ok. I also pick up some softwoods, because, in this area, pine, spruce and fir are thought to burn down houses, and nobody wants it. In my general area though, I would say that oak is the most common firewood. White, red, black and burr. After all, I'm in the middle of the Oak Openings region, and specifically, for me, in the middle of what used to be called the Great Black Swamp. Ash used to be a prime firewood in this area, but I'm near ground zero for the EAB, so there's not any left. Now, my preferences for firewood would be 1. Ash, 2. Mulberry, 3. Oak, 4. Maple, but I'll take whatever I can get...
