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OliverGuy

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The talk below made me think of what I burn. A lot is what my real job brings back (small ornamental tree removals and prunings) and what a couple tree services dump at my place. I know many guys here who cut up a big fallen oak or such and have nice clean even sized pieces. I have mulberry, pear, crabapple, redbud, dogwood, ash and many more species. It might be crotches, limb wood, whatever. My dad always said, it all burns! Ornamentals make great firewood by the way. There will be a day when I might not love hauling wood in, cleaning up etc., but i love when my girls ask me to make a big fire because it feels soooo good on a cold night.
 
Your Dad was right.It does all burn!I burn wood in the shop. 'Fire wood',slabs,old palletts,junk lumber,old oil filters,used oil (no 'trash!)......It all makes CHEAP heat.
 
Oh Yes there is nothing like a nice wood fire, and the different kinds of wood give off a different Aroma, I remember years back I removed the wood off an old trailer deck, it was Epetong...(not sure of the spelling) from the Philippines, it had a wonderful smell to it as it burnt..
 
I have a big waste oil furnace here in my shop,,some one asked me what it smelled like,, I said sorta like an old Chevy truck idling in the drive way,,Rilled him up quick,,, all in Fun...
 
I have been burning wood for just over 50 years here. Back when I started, I was working for a tree service who specialized in taking down dead city trees and land clearing for buildings. With a young family and always in need of more money I would bring a pickup load of wood home each day. On the weekends or evenings, I would cut it to length, split and pile the wood to season. From just after Thanksgiving to Christmas I would sell about 30 cords.
I was never able to burn any good wood as that was to be sold. All I burnt was the junk wood.
I can't tell you how much willow, pine and spruce I have burnt.
 

That's what I do too. I burn oak (red, white, post and pin), hickory, walnut, pecan, ash, hackberry, box elder, elm, cedar, pine and what ever else is growing in the fence row. One year I cut up some apple trees that were dying. They had a nice smell to them. Cedar has a nice smell too but doesn't last long. The knotty oak and hickory that we used to throw in the ditch is my favorite, it lasts the longest and puts out the most heat.
 
You're definitely right, where I grew up the fence rows were cherry and soft maple. We burned the heck out of those. I haul straight cherry to one customer now because they like the smell, 18", no bark, hand swept. It's crazy
 
I'll second your "like" for hedge; I was working
on bucking and stacking some just yesterday.
Osage Orange is the more proper name but nobody
calls it that around here. When farmers side trim
around their fields it usually just gets piled and
burned just to get rid of it so it is often free
for the asking. This came from the tree row
across the road that you can see in the distance
in the picture.
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I burn wood for the heat. I could care less if it is pretty. What I do care about is my time and labor. I am not gonna cut two cord of sugar maple when one corn of Oak will give more heat.

I burn the very best variety of wood I can lay my hand on.

White oak, hickory, ash and I have been know to cut up some Osage orange(hedge). But on the hedge, you have to stay right with it. It can danged near melt a stove.

I have a shrader in my basement and a Longwood in my farm shop.

Gene
 
Burn hedge and hedge and more hedge. Stove guaranteed 20 years and that was in 1976. I don't try to over load it.
 
We get nice sized pieces from the local Amish sawmill -- for free. It's mostly Oak, but we also get Ash. Sycamore, Hackberry, Cottonwood, and River Birch. It all burns just fine in our boiler....
 

I used to work with a guy who would toss wood he claimed was "too knotty to split" or "too crooked to stack". Never made sense to me since he had a big hydraulic wood splitter and his "stacks" were heaps of wood here and there.
 
My dad is the fits in it goes in guy when it comes to burning in his rite way. Every so often you have to shut down and pick the metal out of the grates.
 
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