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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #60 on: February 02, 2014, 09:21:25 PM »
Ash
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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #61 on: February 02, 2014, 09:26:58 PM »
Rock maple, beech, yellow birch.  But like an old farmer told me years ago "young fella, come the middle of march you'll be thankful for a dry piece of spruce!"
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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #62 on: February 02, 2014, 10:05:23 PM »
Or a green piece of anything.
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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #63 on: February 03, 2014, 10:21:01 AM »
!. white oak...availability

2. white oak..splitting ease

3. white oak..coaling excellence

always wanted to try Osage orange, they say it burns a blue flame. Folks use to call it their 'yule' wood, burned at Christmas time.

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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #64 on: February 03, 2014, 05:59:35 PM »
I live in SE Pa. where all the best burning woods grow. I've never had any Osage which everybody loves, but I have burned dozens of species and these are my 3 favorites:



1) Black Locust

2) White oak

3) Hickory

4) Ash and hard maple deserves a mention too.

I sell everything else; walnut, cherry, beech, etc. Nothing wrong with them it's just that the others burn hotter and longer.

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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #65 on: February 04, 2014, 08:20:50 AM »
Another good site:  www.woodheat.org
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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #66 on: February 04, 2014, 09:49:07 AM »


Presently I am stuck with burning Ash  :-\  simply because two trees fell and I utilized the tops and crooks for firewood.  I have to carry a bucket of white powdery ashes out every few days. 

 You must have a different species of ash trees than we do here in the big corn field .I've been burning about a face cord of ash a week nearly all winter .I haul out about two coal buckets of ashes a week .

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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #67 on: February 04, 2014, 11:26:07 AM »
Cherrybark Oak, Water Oak, and lastly - White Oak.

Presently I am stuck with burning Ash  :-\  simply because two trees fell and I utilized the tops and crooks for firewood.  I have to carry a bucket of white powdery ashes out every few days.  Not so with Oak.
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Agree with you MM. Also more ash to carry out when I switched to burning white ash from mostly red and white oak. But ash wood has some other positives like less seasoning time, and easy to catch on fire.
This last week I've been going through a pallet of split elm, and find I have clinkers to remove instead of the powdery ashes.
Clinkers remind me of my youngster days when folks had a coal burning furnace and using the tong grapple to remove the clinkers and carry them in a metal basket out to spread on the driveway.
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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #68 on: February 04, 2014, 12:17:09 PM »
... But ash wood has some other positives like less seasoning time, and easy to catch on fire.

Not to mention it splits if you look at it too hard. Splitting ash by hand is actually enjoyable (as opposed to American Elm, which is at the opposite end of the splitting spectrum).
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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #69 on: February 04, 2014, 02:18:15 PM »

 
Clinkers remind me of my youngster days when folks had a coal burning furnace and using the tong grapple to remove the clinkers and carry them in a metal basket out to spread on the driveway.
Oh do I remember those days in the 60's 12 tons of coal a year and I shoveled it all and must have carried clinkers every evening all winter long .The coal bin probabley held 7-8 tons and it took several loads per year to heat that big old farm house built in 1919 without any insulation what so ever .

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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #70 on: February 04, 2014, 03:19:57 PM »
About the only places local that burnt coal was black smiths and small scale smelters in the area as we had an iron ore deposit that was actively used. But that was all before my time and before WWII. Always been wood here for heat, had all kinds and still have and didn't have to go underground or haul it by train. ;D
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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #71 on: February 04, 2014, 10:46:54 PM »
My dad loves pin oak and I sell to a guy that only wants green pin oak. Just wondering what you guys think of pin oak. I think its smells bad but other then that its not to bad.

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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #72 on: February 04, 2014, 11:29:20 PM »
Should be nothing wrong with it for firewood.
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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #73 on: February 05, 2014, 01:30:44 AM »
My three are White Oak, Red Oak, and Black Walnut...But sometimes I have to settle for Boxelder, Black Cherry, and Poplar.   I might have a chance at some Black Locust...is it worth it?


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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #74 on: February 05, 2014, 06:05:26 AM »
I like black locust, burns hot and down to nothing. Burned black locust for 2 1/2 months and cleaned 1 1/2 garbage cans of ash out of the boiler, burned bur oak for 3 weeks and cleaned 1 1/2 garbage cans of ash. I find dead locust (standing) is much harder and burns hotter.

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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #75 on: February 05, 2014, 08:30:19 AM »
My Dad told me that during his early years Black Locust was the species of choice for the wood cook stove.
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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #76 on: February 05, 2014, 12:40:23 PM »
Whatever is lying on the ground.  I have choice of red and white oak, sugar maple, black locust, honey locust, red elm, beech and white ash.

1st is black locust 

2nd is sugar maple or honey locust

3rd everything else

Truthfully, except for black locust I usually go for whatever is easiest to bring out of the woods/ shortest pull.  Red oak is a staple, white oak is a bonus.  I have a hell of a time splitting the hickory around here...stringy as all get out and fights all the way.  I have several girdled honey locusts that are great firewood once seasoned.  Love/hate seeing sugar maple on the ground.  I will grab red elm tops for rounds.  Black Locust is the only wood that I will go out of my way for.
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Re: Whats Your Big 3 of Firewood?
« Reply #77 on: February 05, 2014, 07:40:56 PM »
I'd have to say oak, yellow birch and beech. Lately I've been burning a lot of ash. I will burn maple too but only if they blow down....it's kind of a sacrelige to cut down a perfectly good maple...lol
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« Reply #78 on: February 05, 2014, 09:04:37 PM »
And not even a perfect one, could be on the lawn and one live limb left and yet it stands proudly.  ;D
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« Reply #79 on: February 05, 2014, 09:08:35 PM »
rthorp14,welcome to the forum. Must own land? How do you get your firewood out of the woods?
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