Most of the apple I get is all gnarly, but if you've got straight splits of it, then even better. I save the apple for the very cold days when you're hanging around the stove room. It has great colors of the ghost flames.
Probably an empty Sam Adams beer bottle I set down and swore I'd remember to bring back into the house that I'll find sometime in mid-January.
A little over a cord: 50% ash 50% red maple Lots of seasoned pine Luckily this will get us through our 2 weeks of cold weather . I'm just hoping to have a fire on Christmas morning.
My stash for this winter is 60 percent ash 30 percent silver maple 5 percent basswood and honey 5 percent cabinet shop scraps Typical NW Iowa stuff Sent from my VS988 using Tapatalk
This winter, I will begin burning my father in laws firewood hoard. He passed away rather quickly this past spring of cancer. He got me into cutting firewood years ago, and we would cut together most years since then. Most recently on the fence row removal project, which would have been winter before last and the last time he cut firewood. When he knew he was dying, he told me he didn’t want mother in law heating with wood cause “she’ll burn the house down”, and if I wanted to sell his hoard, I could. I told him I could never sell firewood that he had handled and stacked with his own hands. Way too sentimental and I’d never get the price I’d think was fair Not sure exactly how much there is, but the majority has been seasoned outside for a few years and now in his barn and stacked for one year. I think there’s easily at least 4 years worth of firewood, and I’ve been letting the kids use what they need of it to make their bundles cause it’s what he would want them to do. From what I’m seeing, it looks like there will be a lot of white oak and beech this year. Not sure what the rows in the back hold, but I’ll find out as I unstack each piece that he so carefully stacked.
I am going to working out of the middle of my big pile. It's been stacked for probably about 5 years and it is a mixed bag. I know there is red oak, bl locust, ash and cherry. I will also be burning more sycamore and spruce.
What’s in my 22-23 stacks : Firewood, a few bugs, probably a few mouse nests & some raccoon crap for topping.
As I think the kids would say these days, this got me right in the feels. It sounds like your FIL had some very admirable qualities.
Mostly white ash along with some soft maple and elm. Then there is red and white oak for the long winter nights.
Hopefully oct-nov a mixed cord of assorted soft maple, pine, black cherry, sass and a tad of birch will get me through. Then it will be mostly red/white oak, mixed with some of the above, with maybe a touch of BL used, so my BL Fan membership card isn't revoked by buZZsaw BRAD. Everything is minimum 3 year dry. Except the black cherry. That's 1.5 year.
BL baby! Keep on hoarding the stuff and no revokation (is that a word? It is now) Hoard on my friend!
Beech, red oak, black oak, black and honey locust, norway maple, poplar, cherry, ash, mulberry, juniper, pine, spruce, and two assorted stacks of black locust and maple still leftover that were allocated for last year.
70% Ash 5% Honey Locust 20% Maple 5% Hackberry All CSS spring of 2020 while staying a lot farther away than 6' from everybody.
It has been a number of years since I stacked the wood I will be burning this winter but I would guess it is mostly oak and elm. When you are on the multi year plan and are old, remembering what wood is in what stack becomes a challenge
