What type of wood do you wish you had more access to? For me it is oak. I have access to a lot of very good woods like ash, black locust, honey locust, and mulberry. A lot of my cutting comes from fence rows and my parents and in-laws wooded acres. Unfortunately there isn't a bunch of oak, and the few trees there are are healthy and I hope they stay that way. I even have a nice supply of hickory. Every time I get oak I get a little excited and am all most afraid to burn it. I did just move 1/2 cord into my barn for this next round of low temps. I also really like beech, but get very little of it.
Ha, that's funny. I'd trade Oak for more Locust & Hedge. Far less dry time for the BTUs. I've got access to all the Oak I could ever burn, but it's more work due to weight size & drying time. No complaints though, makes great heat.
I’m with Amateur cutter as I would like to Try some hedge. But at temps that I have, I could surely melt the paint back around here. But if this is about wood I wish I had more of would be Alder! It’s such a calm burning wood I can load in the stove and its not ridiculously warm. I get oak boards out from pallets and they just get the stovereally really warm. The heat is much different. Its as if I were burning coal. Nice to be warm yes but I easily make this house 80’s with softwoods. Likely this year will be me getting more of this alder out of my father’s woods and stacking it up.
I"ve always wished we had more oak here but also would love to have a bunch of hickory and beech. We do have both of those but they are all young trees. I also wish we had not lost our ash trees to the EAB as that has always been a favorite wood here.
I have no Oak on my property, back in Ma. that's pretty much all I ever burnt. I do have a nice Beech ridge outback that's probably 7-8 acres total. I have been cutting down any Beech I find that has Beech bark disease. I hate to cut the nice healthy Beech tree's because of all the nuts for wildlife. But on the other hand I'm not a big fan of the -20° temperatures we've been having lately, so once this weather let's up off to the Beech ridge I go.
I too would like to have some alder in my stacks, there is none in the forest were i cut. Nearest access for me would be like a 180 mile round trip. Your living up in nw washington state i would have guessed there is lots of alder up there.
As blacktail is often seen getting a load here and there. It is everwhere. In places I’ll see chunks of areas where cottonwood grows and then chunks where Alder and poplar or willow grow, they seem to like the soft wet ground where water tends to slightly pool up or saturate. I like doug fir don’t get me wrong but different heat for different purposes. Tomorrow for the game day, I’m having my parents over and I want to pick wood that won’t zap us out of the house but I have one Alder split left! Trust me when I say this but 5 people in the house prompts a very small fire or even a dying one!
There is no Oak here so why wish for it. But there is Ash but only which has been planted mainly in town. So I wish I could find more Ash.
I'd like to have some Russian olive. Not for burning, more for woodworking projects. I've got all the hickory, locust, oak and other good burning stuff you could ask for.....
I’d say I’d like more or all black birch. Smells great cutting and splitting. Ready to burn in 1-2 years c/s/s and has the same if not more btu’s as oak. We have a lot of black birch this burning season and am loving it with plenty of oak mixed in. Next years wood is a good mix of oak, ash, cherry and maple.
Right now I have access to lots of dead standing white oak and kinda wish I didn't as it is all on my property, but that's what is, so I gotta get to it. Reluctantly started today, matter of fact.
