I confess to scrounging, hoarding and occasionally even buying firewood. I'm not picky about it either. I got to thinking and was surprised at the sheer number of different species I have in my stacks, just for this year's woodburning. Just wondering what everyone has in their woodshed (or woodpiles, or stacks) for future heating needs. I've got white pine, red pine, ponderosa pine (yup, in Vermont), butternut, black cherry, pin cherry, sugar maple, silver maple, red maple, Norway maple, box elder, white birch, black birch, black locust, white oak, chestnut oak, basswood, balsam fir, hop hornbeam, beech, shagbark hickory, white ash, aspen, apple, American elm, sumac, buckthorn, honeysuckle and cottonwood. Some are just big shrubs, but yielded firewood. Some of those may be one small tree' worth of wood, but it counts. What you got?
All oak in the shed and on 1. rack, hard maple, hickory, and poplar in the shoulder season racks. My property holds mainly oaks, hickory, maples, and sassafras.
Wow Jon_E, quite a smorgasbord you have there We have white, red,& pin oak, maple(hard /silver), cherry(wild), walnut, elm, pecan, hickory(shag/American), Chinese chestnut, black locust, Osage orange, quaking black cottonbeech, aaaand lilac(from a clean up)...
All of mine comes out of my woods, which is mostly red/sugar maple, white ash, black locust, black cherry, and aspen poplar. There's also a stand of red pines that were planted on the east end of the property. The only type not currently represented in my stacks is the poplar. I burned some of it last year, made a nice shoulder season fire, but it smells terrible burning and I found it a PITA to keep dry. I've had a much more pleasant experience with the pine.
Probably most of you folks have more variety than we do. In the woodshed (picture is from when I had just started putting wood in for this winter. 3 rows are stacked there now). If I can remember correctly, there are some ash, pin oak, ash, red oak, ash, soft maple, ash, elm and probably a bit of ash. In the stacks still outdoors, there are more of the same plus some pine, a little beech and some birch. I think that about covers it here except to say we have more ash and more ash to cut this year.
No shed. But, have the following species in the stacks: white oak, red oak, black cherry, american elm, black walnut, mulberry, sassafras,, silver maple plus a tiny bit of hickory, popple, spruce.
Let's see, there was a very small amount of either big tooth aspen/poplar, white pine, maybe some spruce, red maple, white/red/pin oak, and now some ash, with a small amount of sugar maple.
ASH, maple, beech, red/white oak, pin oak, cherry, pignut hickory and black locust-2yrs up on the 3yr plan...
Well, ya see one member said quaking aspen, yet it has the appearance of a misplaced black cottonwood, but then again it could appear to be a beech..... Sooooo, not sure what it's worth BTU wise.... It burned pretty well in the firepit this summer/ early fall- shoulder season wood, at best.
This year-- mostly ash from my dentist's father's grove, mulberry and walnut from a job I did with Sinngetreu, pear and mulberry I removed for the old lady's aunt and uncle, maple from my yard tree, and some more mulberry and locust I scrounged from the wood dump.
I have red and silver maple, ash, black locust, cherry, black birch, walnut, white and chestnut oak, white pine, shagbark hickory, poplar, elm, and some kind of magnolia. Then some limited chunks of lilac, rose of sharon, and rhododendron with their remaining branches being turned into kindling.
Ash, elm, boxelder mostly. Also crabapple, mountain ash, cottonwood and spruce mixed in. Soon to be much more ash. Nearby neighbor called and said he is bulldozing down a windbreak at his place and I can have as much as I can get before spring.
Thats some mix alot of you have. White and red oak, cherry, elm, walnut, hickory, locust and soft maple here. I will start a stack of pine now also, they say these BK stoves like it. So will my back.
That's an impressive array of species. Only have white oak, red oak, red maple here. Oh, and some Northern Idaho Energy Logs and Redstone blocks
Lets see.....black locust, white and red oak, ash, shagbark & bitternut hickory, american & red elm, wild & choke cherry, sugar & silver maple, walnut, beech, and probably a few others.
At least 90% red oak, with a smaller amount of white pine, tulip poplar, white oak, cherry, and sycamore.
