Wood ID if you wood please.

Stopped by my hard wood hook up today before the snow decides to cover it all. This is what I typically arrive to:



Bucked it up and filled my truck bed. Snow was coming down hard by the time I finished. Left a bit for the next guy. Can anyone tell what it is?

 

Looks kind of like Cottonwood to me.

 

Agree with cottonwood.

 

Any split yet? That bark does looks like cottonwood.

Good for shoulder season but can be "fun" to split.

 

Sass?

 

Willow

 

Looks like cottonwood to me as well but some western species look different than here in the east.

 

The woman I get it from says she gets a lot of willow. Some of the stuff I have split in the past oozes juice when the splitter presses into it. Ill take a video of splitting it this weekend. Right now it is helping my truck drive through the snow.

I see both cottonwood and willow are worse on the BTU chart then the lodgepoll and ponderosa I have up here, am I wasting my time picking this stuff up?

 

Its neat how a bed full of firewood gives you that control eh? Theres times where I like the ride so much with a box full of wood that I feel like keeping it there for awhile!

 

Yeah, if its cottonwood, and it appears to be, you'd be better off with pine. That said, of you just have to buck and split it without much hassle, you can't go wrong with that.

I burn basswood in the shoulder season. Yeah, it's half the btu's of the good hardwood I cut, but if it's easy to get, I'll take it. I also don't like to cook us out of the house when I don't need that much heat, but want a fire.

 

It is more work for me sometimes because I have to leave work to get it and also spend the diesel to haul it up the hill. Im going to be more carefull what I pick up now.

 

That doesn't look like the cottonwood i have in SW Iowa. I don't even use cottonwood in my outdoor fire pit.

 

Looks like willow to me, but I have cut very few of them. As part of a hoarding venture to get some maple and walnut I got a truckload of willow. Light to carry, but seems to cause 3x on filling up stove trips. I burn it in shoulder times and on weekends when I am near the stove a lot. Off property hoarding can lead to some non prime BTU's, but this group is creative enough to make it work

 

Let's agree on one thing, it is BTU's

 

looks exactly like the cottonwood we have here in north N. It only grows along creeks and rivers. Most people might burn some the first couple of years after moving here (after all, it's still BTUs), but after that, they head up to NF to cut ponderosa and fir. Much easier to cut/split the pine and fir and the fires are much better, too.

 

that should be NM instead of just N. Dang, I hate typing on a touchscreen!

 

I would say it is some sort of pine, but you seem to have ruled that out.

 

Looks like jack pine to me....