Welcome to the club, Zach ! Glad you joined up! Lots of great people here and all are ready to help. Check out the resource page, there's lots of great info there. Check out Backwoods Savage's "Primer on wood burning ", it's a great read. And Dennis has been burning wood for 170 years.
Thank you. I'll keep yall updated on my wood spilting expedition I'll be on this summer. Sent from my SM-S906L using Tapatalk
Definitely mulberry, a very good wood. It dries a little faster than locust and will turn Hawkeye gold.
Ok. I'm ready to start on my creek cleaning project I got this summer to. Sent from my SM-S906L using Tapatalk
I have burnt a lot of black locust over the years and I would guess it will burn for you. Might not be quite as good as if you had split and stacked it but in that hot blast you should make it. I would definitely check the chimney often though.
Another vote for mulberry. If it begins turning an orange color in a couple days, then it's definite. A fresh split does look like locust. Fooled me when I got a downed mulberry tree last year.
Split that stuff up a little on the smaller side and criss cross it in stacks somewhere dry. If you can start a rotation of allowing it to sit in a stack like that near the stove (say 3' or more away) for several days before it goes in it will help dry it out some before it goes in. Do you have any other source of wood around you could use for a few weeks? Scrap wood from building supply place? Scrap pallets you could get from somewhere you could cut up? Maybe get that locust split up and inside out of the weather. Give it a chance to dry some while you burn something else a few weeks. Welcome aboard. And many of us are stacking next season's wood. Others are on a three year rotation. I've never gotten that far ahead. But always good to have next seasons wood split and stacked by spring or early summer. You will like burning dry wood so much better!
Not really gonna start splitting wood for next year this spring. Got a nice red oak log that needs spilt it's about 80 foot long 19 inches in diameter Sent from my SM-S906L using Tapatalk
oak will rot before it ever seasons in round form. getting the bark off will help but it won't solve the problem.
I'm burning an oak that I saw get hit by dry lightning 14 years ago. Harvested it last spring, most of it about a foot off the ground for those years. From the bark in about an inch, it was just punk. After that it's as good as it gets. This guy was about 18" at breast height to give some scale. I'd say yours is prime if off the ground.
Wow, guys. Correct if I'm wrong, but this screams Osage Orange (Hedge) to me. Very stringy, very tough to split.
That's what I thought. But it didn't have anyour of the green balls around the tree Sent from my SM-S906L using Tapatalk
I have split dozens of full cords of hedge and green hedge apples are not under every tree. A brand new crisp $100 bill says its hedge.
