My firewood hoarding ear came through again

Silver maple looks correct, what you’re calling Hawthorn looks like apple/crabapple

 

You may be right and that makes sense. I am now leaning towards crabapple. I didn't see any thorns like I do on hawthorn. Both apple/crabapple and hawthorn are in the rose family. Since they are related it makes sense that the wood is similar. I've burned apple and it was great. I hope crabapple burns good too.

Makes sense that it's a fruit tree wood since it is getting a little punky in spots and it smells awful. Seems like the fruit tree wood smells the worst when it starts to rot. I'm thinking of cherry in particular.

 

Jonathan Y

Thank you for the shoe info and review!

 

The Wood Wolverine

I got 3 more loads as promised and I gave him a $50 tip. Thanks for the reminder. I even got some mulberry in one of the loads!

The last two loads were less exciting: spruce and punky box elder. Here's the spruce -- some nice looking logs what will burn like diesel soaked cardboard once seasoned. The punky box elder will get tossed into the woods. That is nasty stuff.

 

You won today my friend! Wow. Mulberry is awesome firewood if you haven't ever had it before. Hopefully he remembers you... a lot more.

 

The Wood Wolverine

I've never burned it but I've heard it's good. And the rounds feel as heavy as hickory. Looks like a 2-year-to-season kind of wood.

Mulberry, right? (see next post -- having trouble adding a photo by editing the post)

 

Or could it be hedge (osage orange)? It is dead but not a bit rotted. And extremely heavy.

 

Looks like mulberry to me!

 

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After about 10 hours I've got three cords split and stacked (4' x 12' x 8' stack) and another cord laying on the ground around the splitter. I'm about half way through the logs, so it looks like the trees guys left me 8 cords total. My best free wood score of all time!



I know that 4' wide stacks are not the fastest way to season wood, but I've got 35 cords or so ready to burn. So I'm in no hurry. After 4 of 5 years, even 8" rounds of white oak will be fully seasoned.

I've been stacking at least 8 feet high since it keeps the pallets dry and they don't rot as fast. I've got pine pallets going on their 5th year and they are still fairly solid despite sitting right on the ground. I'm going to extend the stack with another row of pallets and go for 10 feet high: so the final stack will be about 8' wide x 12' long x 10' high. I love the sight of a big stack.

 

Thats quite the stack! Nice. Congrats on your record score. Ever think you top it?

 

80% through mega tree-service load and the stack is about 15' L x 7' W x 10' to 11' high. 8-ish cords and counting



I stacked the normal length splits in the middle and used the IBC tote cages on the ends for the short and odd-ball splits.

When it comes time to burn this stack it is going to make for a scary game of firewood jenga.

 

Do you use a step ladder to get it that high?

 

Nice score!! And nice stacking job, quite impressive. In my more temperate than Michigan climate (Southeast Tennessee) Maple is one of my favorite woods to burn. For all of the above reasons and it doesn't have me laying on the couch in my underwear as fast as Oak and Hickory.

 

The Wood Wolverine

I load it in my tractor and have my wife raise me and the wood up about 5 or 6 feet in the air. I would recommend this method to no one.

It's not as bad as it sounds. I use pallet forks and a pallet, so I've got something of an aerial work platform. It's high risk / high reward, but not suicidal.

 

The free wood score is fully split and stacked. Maple, oak, mulberry, apple, spruce, and a little basswood. I estimate 8 cords. I love splitting and stacking wood, but I don't think I'll be looking to do any more for at least... a week or two.

Who wants to play firewood Jenga?









As I was chucking the final pieces about 11 feet up, it occurred to me that, if I were to end up at the bottom of a firewood avalanche, the prognosis would not be good. And then I thought: what a glorious way to die.

 

ME!

 

“As I was chucking the final pieces about 11 feet up, it occurred to me that, if I were to end up at the bottom of a firewood avalanche, the prognosis would not be good. And then I thought: what a glorious way to die.”

I shall now live by those words, sir.

 

More interesting will be seeing how that stack settles as it seasons.
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