What's in your woodshed?

Well, let's see! pine, poplar, Elm, mulberry, Cottonwood, box elder, walnut, White Oak, red oak, sugar maple, cherry, shagbark hickory, little bit soft maple and whole bunch of ash

 

I think those dogs would do anything for you! Hope the nail is better.

 

Years back I had to cut down my grandparents old dying pear trees, six of them. I found the wood similar to apple in heat release, I really liked it.

 

Its hard to pass up better btus when its right in front of you though eh? I would easily step over a pine to get a larch unless the master plan was to keep that dead larch standing for future harvesting. It hasnt happened to me yet but since larch is more precious to us here I tend to try and use lower btu wood during the day and not waste the better stuff on a day time burn. I like pine as it is great to get the house up to temperature, dries in one summer, burns clean, and is also good for in between burns. I find sometimes my timing is off for my over night burn and the stove goes to coals sooner than Id like. My solution is to add some smaller splits of pine to give the house a bit of a temperature boost before getting serious for my all nighter.

 

Good thing you're training early so you have a gooder handle on how to try to remember not to forget what you don't remember.
Preparedness is key, if you want to be gooder at stuff.

 

I don't think, I will remember what you just said

 

A Bradford pear is a strictly ornamental tree so basically no real fruit. I grew up in Quebec, which is much colder than BC, but all us kids raided the big pear tree in the neighborhood. Cold was not an issue. I have a nice pear in my yard and we usually get winters even this far south that reach about -15ºC. A pear is far from an ideal yard tree because the real fruiting trees can make one heck of a mess when the fruit is ripe and starts falling on its own. When the fruit hits the ground it falls apart and starts to rot right away but not before it attracts all of the bees within a half a mile to come get the sugar from the fruit.

 

Yeah not sure what kind of pear trees I've seen in the yards here. I live in a zone 3 growing region maybe a 3.5 so its pretty chilly for southern BC but it is the Rockies after all! I did a bit of reading and found that like you say cold isn't a problem and many pears will grow here. Still haven't seen any big fruit but that could be because the wrong kind were grown or as you and others have mentioned may be a bradford.
Pear tree

 

The maple , ash, some black walnut, now gotta bring the honey locust, 2 weeks work off and on , gotta get more pallets continue with my fence..

 

I likey your fence....