I apologize this topic has been done too often before, but I was just curious as to what type of wood species people have access to or favor for their woodpile? I have mine listed from what I have the most of to the least. The bottom half of my list is probably only 20% of my firewood. Most of my wood is from what comes down, so although I do favor what I cut, I also take stuff that falls over my driveway or trails which explains why I have quite a few different species. I'm getting ready this year to cut a dead White and Scarlet oak, so my oak collection will go up. - Scarlet Oak - Red Oak - Black Cherry - Silver & Hard Maple - Beech - Sycamore - Hickory - Tulip - White oak - Big Tooth Aspen - Red Elm - Sassafras - Sweet Birch - Hemlock
Currently have: water oak pecan sugarberry (a.k.a., up north known as hackberry) loblolly pine black cherry willow oak sawtooth oak Have to take down two large loblolly pine trees.
White ash Elm Oak (red, pin and white) cherry blue beech pine spruce beech That is probably it for now. We're getting low on wood. Only about 4 years worth left now.
LOL couldn't resist Like the saying I got when I said I was going out cutting with the chain saw & gonna make some saw dust fly. What I got in response : "If you are making saw dust, "sharpen you chain" ! " here we make chips fly" . LOL
Red oak. (About 3/4 of my stash) Beech Black birch Ash Hickory Sycamore Cherry White oak And a few pieces of Ailanthus.
I think this is interesting. You live in Ohio, as I do, and I don't have any of these trees you burn available to me. I don't have one locust, pear, mulberry or Hackberry on my property and have never burned any of them in my lifetime. Wish I had the locust from what I hear, and the rest are pretty good also. My friend has lots of Hackberrys which are easy to pick out in his woods.
Ironwood (Hophornbeam) Sugar maple Beech Hickory Ash White Birch Nothing else left until I do more cutting. Mostly the same to cut, but have some apple, tulip, pine, basswood that needs cutting. Have only the one large basswood and would rather like to keep it, but it is right at the junction of my road and vegetable garden; has grown so big I haven't enough light in the garden. This Spring it's farewell to a few dozen trees (mostly but not all smaller)or stop gardening.
Hey Fanatical1, yes the trees I posted are available year after year here in SW Ohio. I'm a scrounger, and I always get Locust scores, both flavors too
Nice you have all that Locust. I know we have some of the trees you have, but just none on my property. I don't have many Ash either, but have burned a bunch over the years. I have Persimmon trees which are really great firewood, but have not cut or burned any yet and I wont cut down any live ones. They all have their purposes, I think my Sassafras trees make great kindling.
Let's see, Honey locust Elm, Chinese, American and maybe some Red Silver maple Ash Mulberry Pin oak Apple Sugar maple Black locust Russian olive Hedge posts Maybe 1 0r 2 others that I can't think of right now.
all kept segregated: red oak white oak white pine swamp maple cherry big tooth aspen mixed ( not much left ) cherry, golden birch, grey birch, poplar, norway maple, beech, a few unidentifieds I have some oak rounds in a pile, work in progress buried under snow.
Ash Maple Mulberry Hedgewood LOTS of black walnut Pine Pear White Oak Box elder And one lonely remaining split of split of elm. O wait that's in the stove this morning....
