When stacking this season (3 face cords on my porch) I did more "veins" in the stacks (something I've never really considered before). I have a lot of red oak, sugar maple and beech that I am burning. I mix in "veins" of ash and cherry with the harder stuff. Makes it easier to start fires as I work my way through the pile. I'm sure y'all do this and not sure why I haven't done it before. And it's always nice to have cherry on hand as I love the flame and smell.
Not me. If I see primo splits as I load the wood furnace, I'll set them aside for nights that dip in the teens. I've been currently doing this with some mixed in SBH. I don't get small scores of random species though. My wood gets are typically large amounts of the same kind. I've been cutting chestnut oak on the same property since 2018.
I see that. That's another situation I take for granted; I get a wide variety in my scrounging. Fortunate to have this.
Creative License belongs to the stacker. I stack by BTU. Pretty easy to do when ya primarily only have three species of wood. Pine over there. Oak over there .' and Swamp maple over there.
I stack by drying time. I try to season 2 years minimum. That being said, I am burning through a pile of mostly ash but has some red oak, apple, black locus and hickory. I am putting off burning anything but the ash but realize the ash is needed to get the higher btu’s burning quickly.
