Any firewood you won't take (cut)for free

[fred bergman]

Any firewood you won't take (cut)for free ? I don't take cotton wood

 

[Acornhill]

Pine, black gum


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[Del_]

I don't cut any firewood for free.

I charge.

 

[moresnow]

I burn pine. And like it. Need I say more?

 

[066blaster]

Siberian elm, I'd pay someone to haul that **** away from my house. I swear it contains a flame retardant.

 

[old CB]

Ailanthus, tree of heaven. It irritates the hell out of me to even see the stuff growing. It is a foul thing and stinks.

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

Not fussy.

At home I use mostly birch through the winter, mostly because I'd rather not go home in the middle of work to put wood in the stove. With birch I have no issue getting 12-14hrs on a load. If I load it with spruce or poplar, it's maybe half that.

At the shop, if it burns and will fit in the stove, in it goes. Fall and spring mostly feed it processor trash. In the winter more a diet of poplar. (processor trash goes into my "hobo heater" to keep me warm haha)

What's wrong with cottonwood (poplar)?

Heck a tree service brought buy probably 15-20 cords worth last week and they were tickled to death that someone would take it. Lot of decent saw logs in the pile too. Most was 8-10ft lengths, little bit of smaller chunks, maybe 1/2 a cord or so, that I split up and it's been heating the shop the last few days.

Did end up being logs that stink like dog poo, though that smell went away pretty quickly. Always wondered what makes that smell. Have had some smell like candy too.

 

[panolo]

Don't like cottonwood. Smells like piss, is heavy as hell when cut, leaks water out the stump, and lasts 3 minutes. Not a huge basswood guy either. If someone wants to drop it off and it is all bucked I'll split it and put it in the stack. Or if I am cutting in someones woods and I have to take it all I will. Other than that I let it live.

 

[foeke]

Other than that I let it live.

Maybe we should drop every tree we don't want out of principle. Just give natural selection a hand.



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[James Miller]

Pine because it's easier to let it rot then deal with the mess.

 

[johnnyballs]

boxelder and hackberry....no thanx

 

[hedge hog]

Sweet gum
Doesn’t burn for flip


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[babybart]

Sycamore!
I'll walk over that to cut something else.

 

[Polish hammer]

I will cut or take anything I sell camp fire bundles and mix anything in them. Local tree service sometimes dumps loads off and I’d hate to turn down a load because the next might be all hardwood

 

[Bobby Kirbos]

Unless it lands in my lap already seasoned and stacked, I'll pass on pine. The rest of it I'll take. Poplar and willow may be too fast burning to make good winter heating wood, but they are nice in a camp fire.

 

[landfakers]

I do not take pine. Luckily for me I get 90% oak without much effort so no need to scrounge for pine to keep things warm

 

[TimberWolf530]

Sweet gum
Doesn’t burn for flip


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It's a bi-atch to split, but I haven't had any issues with the way it burns. It's fairly dense, and doesn't smell bad. What specific problems have you had?

 

[muddstopper]

Only wood I cull is wood I have to really work for to get.. If I can get to it and its burns, I'll take it. Pine I leave in log form for a year, that usually takes care of the bark. Popular I wont drive extra for, but if I am there and the Popular is there, I take it home with me. Im burning pine, popular, brddford pair, walnut, red oak, white oak and birch, and I think there is some maple mixed in my wood rack right now. House is warm too.

 

[Marley5]

On my property, I let friends and family cut pine, walnut, poplar,cottonwood and Gum. Lol
Infact any dead evergreen.

Mostly Oaks on property, that's what I stick to unless a shagbark gets in the way.

 

[panolo]

boxelder and hackberry....no thanx

What don't you like about hackberry? It's rated pretty good. I've only cut one and haven't burnt any yet. I get lots of box elder. It dries light and burns hot. People say it rots but split and stacked it seems to keep for awhile. I mix it in all heating season.