Whats the most uncommon wood you have in your stacks?

I missed out on some flowering dogwood last year, and was disappointed at not getting to try it. According to the USDA numbers I found, it's denser than oak or locust and has an extremely low MC even when green. Only trouble is it grows slowly and never gets very big. I think it might be he closest us Easterners can get to mesquite without buying bags of boutique charcoal.

 

I have some grapevine the diameter of a beer can...use it for smoking though...but it is still in my stack.

 

Yep, dogwood is very dense, and good firewood. Trouble is it's hard to split. I had some a while back that liked to chip more than split, like trying to split a rock

 

Missing out on dogwood is something to howl about.

 

Standard stove fodder here also..oak,cherry, tulip,locust,and some syc...

 

The strangest I have is redbud. Not uncommon, but nothing I'd drag home.

This one happened to be in my yard and was a victim of last Decembers ice storm. Only about 5" at the base. I figure I'll get one nights burn out of the whole tree when it's time comes.

 

Wow 14 years. In rounds for 14 years or split?

 

Lilac... I've had some each during each of my burning seasons so far. I really like burning it. I also have "white brush" which is probably Russian or Autumn Olive.

 

Hackberry is about the funkiest I got.

 

We have a lot of leyland cypress from the front yard, kinda like a real funky cedar or juniper. I cut down a row of them about 50 feet long. It's planted here locally as a fast growing privacy tree but over 50 years becomes a huge tree. It was a solid two foot at the base and then would branch off as it went up. Very smelly and resistant to splitting. It is being mixed with doug fir that was cut at the same time and is the log in my avatar.

 

have some branches from a japanese ginkgo tree from the girlfriend's grandmother's house.

 

Most uncommon wood in stacks- DRY

 

Stacks have got a bit of Dogwood, Persimmon, Hedge and Shingle Oak.

 

Got a few sticks of it here as well
Some splits of a knarly old pecan crotch

Muscadine vine - no shortage of it here, I may just load the stove with it one day

 

Some Red Elm (not real common now around here compared to 20-40 years ago thanks to Dutch Elm Disease) & Apple from removing very large old tree from local homeowner last September.

 

Hawthorne. My neighbors front yard. Have no idea how it will burn but pretty easy 50 feet from it to my stacks

 

Hackberry for me. First year burning it so I suppose I will see how it does. The BTU rating isn't really all that bad from what I've read.

 

Hackberry, from my experience, is pretty good burning wood, IF you can get it split