Wood, love all of it
ZOGGER I would trade you loads. In my part of the country there is only elm, pine, and cotton wood. This load was some elm and cotton. I wish we had the good hardwoods like you do. Just buy a duece you wont regret it.
I guess around here our equivalent to your cottonwood would be tulip poplar. Cuts easy, rounds are heavy as heck when green, dries out to a lot less, throws only low to moderate heat. I burn a lot of it, easy to split once it starts showing the least bit of cracks, and good for fall and spring and to get things going again in the morning. I don't get all monstah oaks like that log. That's jan-feb wood. That tree was a fully mature standing dead that was leaning right towards a big pine, right over where the cows hang out in the shade, so I had to take it down. Had to use a long rope and comealong and chains and various other stuff and plenty of various wedges and arcane farmer's backcuts. I beavered away at thing for a long time, then...creeeeaaaaaak! BOOM, it shook the ground, musta been a cord of just broken branch chunks laying around..big fun! I've been taking wood for that tree for two years and change now, and still getting to the thick part of the main trunk.
I don't normally take *anything* that big unless I have to, just too much, too hard to handle with my equipment and my 130 lbs of rampaging snorting neogeezer beef! hahahahaha
I burn a ton of grade B or C wood. If I got to touch it, it goes into the stack. I burn some pine, some willow, etc and nasty old sweetgum, along with the good stuff.
Tell ya whut, know that old saying wood heats ya twice? Sweetgum heats ya three times! Once cutting, another time attempting to split it and working up a real good case of self cussing out for being a tard and cutting any, then finally after loads of work you can burn it.
Yep, still want a deuce, I'll keep looking and scheming how I can afford it...