I love silver maple. Major portion of my heat comes from that. Plus I find the biggest nastiest most twisted stuff is the best burning. Hydraulics all the way....
Yep. Or what ever they want. I deliver 1/2 cords to a lady for $100. She loves the smell. Sold some for "holiday"fires back before Christmas in my 6 cubic foot bins. Came out to a little over $400 cord.
Save out a few of those green pieces for yourself, throw them on the grill to make some smoke while you cook salmon. Maple smoke is nice on salmon.
Does the average wood burner who doesn't cut down trees, split, stack, and go on firewood message boards concerned with what species the wood is or where it ranks on BTU charts or what a BTU even is??? Heck I get made fun of by people when I geek out over my favorite woods to burn...Actually I've learned to just stop myself from going on those rants around people who don't burn wood.
You hit the nail on the head here! I sell wood and most people know oak or at least they think they do. When they inquire about my mixed hardwood the first thing they all ask is if there is any pine in it (cause we all know your house would burn down if you ever used that indoors.) A few years ago I had about 12 cords of locust which I kept separate in order to get more $ but I had to educate all of the buyers who asked about it. The average wood burner wants anything that's not pine and that is dry enough to make flames without a struggle.
I don't sell wood, but from what I see from the people who buy it is just like you said - as long as there's no pine, and it's "mixed hardwoods" then that's all they care about. Even around here, cherry firewood gets sold at a higher price for whatever reason. Not like it's some big BTU wood like hickory. Pretty sure people think it's like some novelty wood because it smells nice. I see firewood dealers lying all the time about how great a certain species is that they are selling, but hey I guess you gotta have a decent sales pitch.
