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OliverGuy

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Since my post about people passing on my job offers to sit on unemployment yesterday mixed it up quite a bit, I"ll offer a more mellow topic. It"s going to get a little cold again, so will have to keep the wood stove going. Everyone have enough wood and what are you burning now? I swear, I have the strangest woodpile since a lot of it comes from our work or tree service guys. I now have redbud, sycamore, hickory I think (not shagbark, but maybe pignut or something else?) and ash. I don"t normally burn sycamore, but like Dad says, it all burns. I think sycamore is better than cottonwood at least, never burned that.
 
well my wood pile is getting down to the crappy wood ,box elder little pine, do have some oak left in case it gets real cold again,been a long winter.
 
I traded a local Woodchuck for 15 large pickup loads of nice clean cured Oak and Hickory last Summer so my woodpile is still looking real good and have it covered so its dry too.Should have enough for next year also.Nothing like a good woodstove and plenty of good wood in the Winter and good garden in the Summer.
 
I'm on track, & don't think I'll need to use any of next years early. I stretch mine with Bit coal which gives me overnight burns with actual heat output without getting up in the night. We're still averaging 15-20 degrees below normal so I have used more wood this year.
 
Burning cottonwood is like burning paper. Burns fast and just ash. No coals.

When we're clearing an area at the farm, whatever we cut down gets cut up for firewood. Like your dad says, it all burns.
 
Wood pile has been gone for a while. Chainsaw is alway on the back of the feed truck with me. Green hedge and locust will burn good with a hot fire. I am not putting on any weight this winter. Another 5" of snow yesterday and 12 degrees this morning.
 
I always liked that locust and it burnt up my grate in the fireplace, so we bought a stove. I built this log splitter back in 1982. I should've had it 20 years earlier. Hal
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When I used to burn wood I tried to stay with ash. Burns a long time and dries faster than oak, though oak is good too. If I would do it right I could stoke the wood burner in the shop at night and the coals would still be hot in the morning.


My neck of the woods is pretty baren except for farm groves. Groves are mostly soft maple and some ash and toilet paper,I mean cottonwood, with just a sprinkling of walnut. We do have oak along a river north of me.
 
It'll all burn but basswood. I cut some one time thinking it was ash. Might as well have thrown snow on the fire.
 
All red oak this year, though if I had my druthers, I'd probably choose black or honey locust. At one time or another, have burnt most of the local types of hardwoods.......ash, hackberry, hickory, pecan, etc.
 
I think if you cut up basswood and split it immediately, then pile it under a well ventilated roof, it might be OK.I hauled some home once, thinking it was ash also, what a surprise!
 
I burn a lot of silver maple and cherry. Most of it comes from the several trees we lose every year. I have three trees on the ground from last year that I'll be cutting up as soon as our snow goes away.
 
Sycamore, my mom liked seasoned sycamore for the old wood range for summer time cooking. It made a quick hot fire of short duration ,so the kitchen cooled out better than some longer lasting wood. Women had it rougher than men in those days cooking on a wood range, and washing on a wash board. Thank God for modern conveniences.
joe
 
I burn anything that threatens to slap me in the face as I'm mowing around the edges of the field and pastures.

Everything is reaching for the sunlight (including me).

Paul
 
Never tried to burn Basswood (probably never seen it) but tried to burn Chestnut once...it will slowly and reluctantly be consumed if you keep it on a good hot fire, but you could never say it burns...
 
Mostly Ash this year. I just cut it as I need it, as it is all dead standing trees, most with the bark peeling off. Burns good.
 
The Pinto, not the splitter, got my attention. It looks like my first car except the color. Mine was a 75 "Runabout" I loved it at the time and wish I could find one that wasnt rusted out.
 
I ended up giving the darned stuff to my uncle. He was a carver and had been buying the stuff for a pretty good price. I guess it's a premium carving wood.
 
I have plenty left in the pile and half of next years still out in the feild. I burn cherry it grows like weeds in northern Indiana.
 
Seems like I burn more pallets than any thing else along with dry mesquite. Of course any thing, cedar posts,utilty poles,railroad ties if can find, Oya inner tubes and small tires in shop stove.
 
We logged out our woods 11/2 years ago and still cutting up the tops. White Oak, Catawba,Pin Oak, Ash, Black Oak, Elm, Gum, Hedge Apple, Maple, And what ever else was in there. Some burns way to hot and some just sits there. If it will cut I will burn it! I am not like some folks I know that only burn a certain type of wood. I burn it all! But its funny, I have told forks to come and cut all they want, And since we logged it we had 1 guy come and cut 3 pick up loads for him self. I guess they aint got cold enough yet! Bandit
 
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