Wood I.D. Please

#2-Ash, #1-Looks like soft Maple to me.

 

#2 is ash for sure, #1 might be maple but bark looks a bit too smooth for sugar. (disclaimer:unless it is branch wood)

 

#1 Maple, I can't tell what type.
#2 Ash
All good wood for burning. Even "soft" maples burn real clean and have decent BTU's. I've got WAY too much red maple in my forest and I'll burn any and all I can get my hands on.

 

I burn a fair amount of Red Maple too. Gooder stuff.

 

I have been burning maple so far this year and am very happy with it! Glad I did not listen to some "old timers" around my area who told me it was not even worth splitting up!

 

Hah! I even split up tulip poplar. Very low BTU's, but it grows like a weed and is dry and ready to burn in 3 months. As long as the firebox is hot enough, the stove devours it and makes plenty of heat.

 

That's the same old timers that will tell you not to burn pine or that you want your wood a little bit green so it won't burn up so fast.

 

I concur.

Soft maple, maybe red maple, and then ash.

 

I don't see enough sugar or red maple to say for sure. #2 is ash. The bark doesn't look as deeply furrowed as I've seen in my stacks, but that really doesn't matter. An ash, or any other tree, growing on one hillside can look different from the same kind of tree growing on the other side of the same hill.

 

Or that you don't have to season ash, just cut and burn, I tried that and could not keep a fire going, I think gas companies started those myths!!!

 

Then those same people will blame the lone piece of pine that got in the stove for the chimney fire.

 

Kindling, SS and mixed with "better" woods. It "does work."

 

Poplar is good for that. I liked my basswood so much, I'm going to have a lot more for ss next year.

 

I like tulip, I've been mixing it with soft maple all season and getting 24 hr burns pretty regularly. Of course that's more about the stove than the wood. I wasn't a big fan of soft maple when I had a non cat stove and would've never wasted my time with tulip. Now it typically makes of half of my seasons wood.

 

Basswood is good wood if you want a quick , hot fire. I burnt a few wheelbarrow loads last spring and early this fall in my englander 28 3500 add on furnace. Would get a couple of splits burning and let it go out-perfect inside temp

 

As long as the is FREE (well, FREE and not rotten), it's gettin' in my :stacke:. Nice to have different kinds for different burning conditions!

 

See a lot of #1 always referred to as pizz maple. It's almost the same as red but has a different bark. It dries and burns fine.