Today was a lucky day, happened to check kijiji just as I got home and saw a fresh add. Scooted over to fill up the truck with what the homeowner called "Mayday" though I am not sure. A bit of digging reveals that to be Prunus Padus, also called European Bird Cherry or Hackberry (not to be confused with the more common North American Hackberry). I can't find anything about this species for firewood but I imagine as a cherry species it will probably be quite good. Here is the pile I was choosing from: This brings up a continual annoyance. City arborists seem to only buck logs to either 10 inches or 20 inches, with no in-between. I can't really complain, they are not cutting to make firewood. But someone has to take the wood. 10 inch splits mess up my stacks and my stove is only 17 inches so big splits are no good. Anyways, I'll get off my soapbox. Here is the truck all loaded up - I took only the moderately sized peices without any rot. Now that I am over two years ahead it is nice to be a bit more picky. And here they are stacked at home: One test split with the fiskar went like a dream. This wood flies apart.
Don't blame you for skipping the shorts, but they do burn well and my stove doesn't care in the least. My stacks are the opposite of a work of art and I'm sure that makes a difference as well. Since I allowed myself to get behind again my stacks will be extra ugly.
Looks like some good stuff. I hear ya on tree service/arborists bucking length. Rare they get it close. The score i just worked was like that. I ended up taking all the shorties after i cut my 16" rounds.
Just me today. Not too heavy. Got it loaded pretty quick, the real slow down was choosing through the pile. Way it goes with the tree services. I am tempted to go cut some lodgepole just for even length straight stacks. But the yard is getting pretty full now, wife has mentioned it.
Rough estimate is maybe 50/50? A bit of that hardwood portion is aspen though so pretty equivalent to softwood, arguably inferior to lodgepole. The other hardwoods are a random mix of whatever I can scrounge. Fair bit of apple, crab apple, some birch, maple and some unknown! I can cut about all the lodgepole I want at a public forest nearby.
