So what's on the menu this season for your wood burner?

The appetizer course will feature an abundant sampling of cherry, ash and maple with perhaps a taste of Bradford pear-
The main course will include a staple of ash and beech (one of my most fave burns) and if totally hungry for heat, a full diet of 3 yo white, red and pin oak reinforced by the heavy hitters of shagbark and pignut hickory with honey locust waiting in the wings if necessary...yeah, spoiled here too fox9988 but we earned it...

 

There is irony after all...you'd be the same up north my good man---we'll keep you though and like you just as you are

 

Speaking of Beech, think BeechNut will be able to scrounge anything together to burn this year?
Too bad Kimberly isn't close to the 'nut, she's needin to ride his gravy train for a bit...lucky sumbeech

 

She'll find a gravy train if it's out there!

 

Looks like I'll be almost exclusively ash this season. I took down several dead ash last year and processed it right away. Moved it into the shed over the summer. There's 5-6 cord in there. A little dark out there right now for pics. I hate seeing the days getting shorter.

 

Right. I hate it getting light later, and getting dark earlier, but am NOT sad to see these 80s-90s temps go away!

 

This year will be mostly ash/locust for real cold months and ash/cherry and silver the rest of the time, all 2 yr C/s/s. I do have one full cord of 2yr white oak that will tempt me but I will try my bestest to resist another yr, I wanna see what this 3 yr oak is all about.

 

All Red Oak here 10 cords top covered. Will use around 3+ this season. I do have two cords of White Pine but use it for kindling and small splits to get the Oak going faster.

 

I'm mainly scrounging for dead standing locust and maples right now. I've got some dead standing pine and cedar eyeballed for October and November burning. By my estimate, I'm good to go thru February while I let my oak season for 17/18 and try to get on the infamous 3 year plan.

 

Let's see, a lot of beech, a gooder amount of sugar maple, some shagbark hickory, some ironwood, American elm, box elder, and basswood.

No Cherry this year. I'll probably miss that and cut some down this fall for next year.

I'll burn the box elder, and basswood for shoulder season, mix the elm in when I need a little more heat, and break out the heavy hitters of sugar maple, beech, ironwood and shag when it gets butt cold outside.

 

This year looks like a steady diet of silver maple in the day (I have way too many shorties to go through this winter) and white oak for the night time loads. My goal is to burn up as much of the shorties and uglies as possible this year - no more tree service rounds in my future!

 

Hopefully you don't have the issues with the White Oak that I did...3 years CSS and STILL wet!
I think it was because it was cut live in the early summer though...

 

1 cord of white pine c/s/s for 1.5 years. Then transition to the gold standard - red oak, c/s/s 4 years, top-covered for 3.

 

Eric make sure those tires are seasoned! 3 years in the stack!

 

I think they would be better fresh off the car! Lightly seasoned by the wind and heat of driving daily. Just don't park in puddles! Would hate for them to be too dry.

 

Gona burn western juniper, douglas fir, ponderosa pine, larch, even got a tiny bit of elm, and poplar.