Finished cutting and splitting in back of wood yard today with my son.i wanted to open an area for more tree service wood.red oak,pin oak,box elder,Norway maple,suger maple,eastern red cedar,mulberry, and a little walnut in the pile
We don’t have much of a variety out here in the PNW. Do you have a preference if you had to pick one or two to deal with all of the time?
I’m not that picky. Anything that is straight grained is good enough for me.i deal with allot of crotchy wood from the tree service. I’m happier when they drop off straight logs as opposed to crotchy yard trees that are a pain to split, that’s more important to me than species
Why cedar over the others? I think of that as more of a kindling/SS wood. Please help me appreciate it more!
I call that fruit salad. My mixed piles have a little bit of just about every type of hardwood that grows around here except for oak, cherry, locust, and hickory. Those woods are kept separate.
The cedar was cut offs from 2trailer loads of posts I bought a few years ago. Used the posts to fence in garden to keep the deer out.i saved them thinking I would use them.but I got tired of tripping over them so I decided to cut and split them for firewood.i would have made kindling out of them but I already have a ton of white pine kindling already made. So I mixed it in with the hard wood
Makes sense— like using lumber cutoffs. But I was wondering why ole preferred it over oak, sugar maple, etc. Seasoning time maybe? Pleasant aroma? Keeps moths away from your stacks? Cedar is almost like cottonwood here…there’s lots of it and people are always looking to give it away. I’d like to like it more.
It was just easily identified in his pile that’s all Whenever we went camping I always had some cedar to keep the kids on their toes around the campfire they called it “Daddy’s snap crackle and pop wood”.
Rats. I misinterpreted your post. Eckie you were right! It’s a good reminder though that I need to go get another giant round or two of cedar and split a few years worth of kindling. Satisfying work.
