Whats you favorite wood to cut/burn.... -Stove Pics-

[teatersroad]

Cedar and juniper smell the same and have fiber like bark , but that is about all the have in common. These are most common junipers in my area:

One-seed Juniper - Juniperus monosperma

Western Juniper or Sierra Juniper - Juniperus occidentalis

Kinda rare but huge for the lack of rain compared to your area. Alligator Juniper - Juniperus deppeana

In your neck of the woods. You have the western red cedar(Thuja plicata), it is not actually a cedar (Cedrus), but belongs in the Cupressaceae family, along with cypresses. There might be some range over lap between them.

danke schoen.

i did cross my eyes when that info. (juniper is a cedar) was parsed. now my cedar is not cedar

doug fir is actually not a fir too (right?). had to see where sandia park was. a misconception about the nw is rainfall. here in central oregon (the high desert) it's about 10" a yr., little further east 6-8. lived on the coast, 100" easy. the cascades create a pretty big rain block.

regards

 

[gallegosmike]

We avg. about 22-24" of precipitation a year. It is quite a bit compared to what your getting! Ive been in central oregon before, some of it looked like new mexico! LOL And there was high mountain areas just like where I live at.
I wish that the area where I cut firewood at got the same amount of rain as my local area. The trees would nice and tall, not tiny little waifs that I cut.

 

[mechanizm]

What is your favorite wood in your area you like to cut/burn? I also enjoy seeing pics of different stoves from around the world....

i bought a used vougelzang frontiersman with the chimney for a hundred bucks. the best wood i ever burned was my furniture. good fast burning and my house seems a hell of a lot bigger.

 

[kevlar]

douglas fir is one of my favorites as well as birch but pine makes up a lot of my wood just due to its abundance.

 

[madman39]

I've burned a lot of locus and I have liked that, but shag bark hickory is the king for me! I just hate cutting it!

 

[merc_man]

I mostly burn ash, hard maple, hickory, oak, and cherry I love the smell cherry wood puts out. and sorry don't have any pick of my wood stove yet.

 

[pro94lt]

Favorite is red oak especially one that has been struck by lightning, it burns and lights better than anything I've ever burned. Anybody like sweet gum?

 

[RTK]

In my neck of the woods the best all around is Almond wood.

 

[stihl sawing]

Favorite is red oak especially one that has been struck by lightning, it burns and lights better than anything I've ever burned. Anybody like sweet gum?

It does alright, Don't last as long as oak and ashes are real fine. Prefer oak but if it's all ya got it's a heck of a lot better than propane or gas.

 

[jeffbecky1]

Dutchwest stove and any hardwood

I have a Dutchwest stove and burn any hardwood I can get my hands on. I have black cherry, locust, beech, oak, ash, hackberry, and some bradford pear from my neighbor's driveway. Those pear trees break easily on windy days and whenever we get an ice storm.

 

[Trigger Man]

I like rock maple and beach , not sure what you guys call it in your areas. I run a forced air wood furnace so the less trips downstairs the better.

 

[Trigger Man]

i'll sneak my $.02 in here before someone complains and this gets moved.

i like to burn with zero draft. i allow the secondary burn tubes to do the work. it produces very good heat and in a very efficient manner.
harder woods require more air to burn so,
MAPLE is what is working best for me right now.

heres a pic of my little stove from an old thread.
notice i too have a saw over the stove.

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the telescoping pipe running straight up to the chimney makes sweeping a snap! i pull the baffle bricks out from the inside and sweep directly in to the firebox.

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Do you use your coey's? what gauge?

 

[RTK]

Almond Wood? That's nuts.

Actually, that sounds pretty interesting.

And no need to post it's not truly a nut, 'cuz doug fir's not a fir and western red cedar's not a cedar either. or that the nut is a part of a plant and not a type of plant. we're cool

Well here in the central valley of california we do not have many choices. Apricot, walnut, cherry, and oak. Of all mentioned almond burns about the hottest, longest and leaves the least amount of ash. It also is the most plentiful.
Everything you guys mention and use are pretty much foreign to me except for pine, but it's gone in a regular fire place almost after it is lit, smells good though.

 

[teacherman]

When it's really cold, I like hedge, or osage orange, as it is known. Also oak or well seasoned locust. My favorite medium cold weather wood is red elm. Something about the way it burns and smells is just right.

I have a few tons of hackberry, (see thread "Groundie") which will be all eaten up by borers by the time it is seasoned.

Oh, my stove is a steel Majestic with a fan, which was given to me about eight years ago.

One thing that helped me was I ran a 1.5" PVC pipe from behind the stove, into teh basement, and out the side of the house. Combustion air. Cap it when not in use. Holds down the drafts.

 

[volks-man]

Do you use your coey's? what gauge?

coey's?
you mean those old guns? i have shot the one on the right, its a 20ga magnum.
the one on the left is a 12ga and i haven't ever pulled the trigger.
they are both cheap guns, as best as i can tell.

just fooling around, i'd rather shoot the .22 rifle.

now ask me about my pistolas...................

 

[Trigger Man]

coey's?
you mean those old guns? i have shot the one on the right, its a 20ga magnum.
the one on the left is a 12ga and i haven't ever pulled the trigger.
they are both cheap guns, as best as i can tell.

just fooling around, i'd rather shoot the .22 rifle.

now ask me about my pistolas...................

Most Canadians call them single shot shotguns cooey's, there was a company that made guns in Canada that was called Cooey. sorry I mis-spelled it in my first post. I think Winchester made a model here in Canada that had "cooey " stamped on the barrel. Never really got into pistols , there's too much red tape to use one and own one.

 

[eric_271]

This is the stove i have at home. Hearthstone Phoenix. This pic is from Hearthstone's site. Mine is about 16 or 17 years old and is not showing any sign's of needing rebuilt yet and is all we use for heat until it gets down around 0 degrees outside with a lot of wind.

 

[clearance]

Clear Douglas fir. But also burn alder, maple, whatever.

 

[litefoot]

Doesn't matter which is my favorite. All I get out here is pine, russian olive or cottonwood. None of these are particularly desirable, but what do you do?

 

[J.W Younger]

My favorite to cut is sweet gum, the saw drops tru it like a hot knife tru butter.
Favorite to burn is hickory with oak 2nd.