Scrounged two Tacoma loads late last night After spotting the “free firewood” sign on my drive home from work. I thought for sure it would be gone by the time I arrived, but it appeared untouched. A Police officer stopped in after my third round was loaded. He missed the firewood sign, after a quick conversation I was back at it. The wood was not as heavy as oak or hickory. All the limbs were chipped. Didn’t notice any smell, but it that “just rained/worm scent” in the air.
Basswood? Ash? I was thinking sweetgum from the bark but I don't remember seeing that much grain and rings in sweetgum, but I don't buck much of it up. Ha Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
Bark looks like ash to me! If you split it and its splits nice with little effort you will be sure! Burn a lot of it. Ash is a 'Drier' firewood holds less moisture thus the lighter weight!
My thought was ash too, but didn't quite have as much diamond pattern in the bark as I remembered. Two local state parks are logging all our ash before it dies. At least they will get some money from it before it turns into bug habitat. Beggars can't be choosers, but this tree outfit was all over the place with round length. Some were as long as 26". I'll be making a jig to safely cut this into stove size lengths. Thanks for the quick feedback!
The thinner bark, regular diamond pattern stuff you’re used to is white ash. What I think you have there is green ash - Fraxinus pennsylvanica. Some btu charts list it a bit lower than white ash but I’ve never noticed much difference.
If there logging it why do you have it bucked into rounds? or is this the crooks and cull, since you said top was chipped. Or was that just a random comment about the state parks and unrelated to this wood score?
Sorry for the confusion, state park logging is unrelated to this score, which came off a golf course. Shawn, I concur, green ash seems to fit the bill. I couldn't help myself and got outside for the last 15 minutes of daylight yesterday. It's no red oak, but the Fiskars x27 is up to the task.
Ash! Get all you can and you won't be sorry. This part about government units wanting to cut all the ash they can thinking they can stop the bug is ridiculous. It has been proven over and over and over that it will not stop the bug. But, if they can sell the logs then it does make sense. What they can't sell for logs, they should give to homeowners for heat.
What's the pulp and fuel market like up there? I can sell just about anything down here. Not logs, it will go as pulp, what they won't use for pulpwood, like tops or stuff a bit dead we can chip up for "fuelwood" which is used basically as boiler fuel to make power at all the mills.
