Whats in your wood pile?

[coog]

I try to be an equal opportunity burner, but in my part of Kansas, Hedge is King. If you have it, you'll burn nothing else. In my part time home of Minnesota, Red oak makes up 90 percent of the pile; sadly due to the Wilt scourge.

 

[066Bigbear]

My pile of firewood is made up of:


FIREWOOD

 

[stihl sawing]

Post oak
Red Oak
Sweet Gum
Wild Cherry
White Oak.

About 75% of it is red Oak.

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

red and white oak
red elm
honey locust
hackberry
wild cherry
And for really cold days Hedge

 

[Marine5068]

Hard Maple (90% of the wood is this)
Red Oak
White (Paper) Birch

 

[EXCALIBER]

Have saw, will cut, it does not matter how big or tree or what type. Wood is wood and man has to have heat!!!:chainsawguy:
Elm
Cottonwood
Pine

 

[dmlefevre]

Red Oak 70%
Silver Beech 20%
Black Birch
White Oak
Maple

 

[SWI Don]

Inside:

Bur Oak
Ash
Mulberry
Honeylocust
Hackberry
Osage Orange

Outside:
Ash
Bur Oak
Hickory
Cherry
Mulberry
Osage Orange


Smoking Stash
Apple
Cherry
Peach
Hickory

I have a load of Mulberry & Cherry to unload & split and then maybe Red Elm hunting.

Don

 

[PLAYINWOOD]

these last two loads ?

far load has 5 yellow birch, 1 elm and 3 cherry sticks. The rest sugar maple.

The closet load has 12 cherry, 1 beech the rest sugar maple

 

[ks_osage_orange]

Hedge
Elm
Hackberry
Mullberry
Pine
White oak
Cottonwood
Locust
Ash (green I think)

I try to make sure I plant as many trees as I take down, even if they are already dead, I seem to have cut a lot of dead standing elm in the past few years. I have planted around 150 on my farm in the past 5 years. I know I haven't cut that many down. It's a lot easier to plant a tree (with a 3 pt. post hole digger), than it is to cut them down and process them for firewood.

 

[caotropheus]

Greetings everyone and sorry for spoiling your North American flora party, but here it goes from this side of the puddle a bit of native Mediterranean or imported and Mediterranean grown species, including fruit trees. I will write some scientific names once in a while for the most curious fellows to search in the net how these trees look like.

Fruit trees:

Plum
Apricot
Peach
Olive
Citrus
Pear

Forestry species:

Cupressus sempervires
Pinus halepensis
Laurus nobilis
Quercus coccifera
Populus alba
Cercis siliquastrum
Ceratonia siliqua
Eucalyptus rostrata
Rahmnus alaternus
Melia azedarach


...Yes, I know, I am a firewood scavenger that takes every oportunity to harvest wood from orchards and private people's gardens :blush: ...

 

[BHWood]

My wood for this year consists of a majority of red oak but also the following:

White oak
ash
silver maple
sugar maple
honey locust
black locust
black cherry
black walnut
cherry(fruit)
catalpa
beech
pine
poplar
sweet gum




A nice variety, dictated by my location in southern Ohio and the whims of craigslist free wood posters.

Brian

 

[wvlogger]

black cherry
maple
red oak
white oak
chesnut oak
pin oak
ash
poplar
locust
elm
birch
beech
shagbark hickory
pignut hickory
black walnut

i try to keep a good variety

 

[Bob95065]

West coast poster here. I have:

California live oak,
Monterey pine
Eucalyptus

I love burning eucalyptus. Being from Illinois I never saw a eucalyptus tree until 1998 when I moved to California. It makes great firewood.

 

[branchbuzzer]

Wink Martindale, tell me what I've "won" for having the most types of wood in my pile!


Prolly a lump of coal or a stick of poplar, I know....

...and no smart-aleck better try and top my list now that a major award is on the line.

 

[Dalmatian90]

Red Maple
Red Oak
Ash

Box Elder occasionally, have some Shagbark Hickory but I haven't cut that section of the property yet.

Try to cut about 2/3rds Red Maple, 1/3rd everything else as part of long-term woodlot improvement -- take out the garbage to give the red oaks and other top notch hardwoods more space.

I also try to leave the Ash. I don't have that many, and while they'll eventually probably get ash yellows or even more eventually Emerald Ash Borers...I figure I let them mature as much as possible. (Plus they're nice as emergency wood).

I have a few Beeches, White Oak, Sugar Maples...those I also try to avoid just because I only have a few and like to try and keep the woods diverse.

 

[homelitejim]

western larch, douglas fir, white pine, anything I can find dead standing or good blowdown. Up here in PNW it is mostly evergreen but occasionally I can find a good oak or birch.

 

[rustyolred]

I have a whole bunch of different species as well. Here goes:


Sugar Maple
American Beech
White Ash
Pin Oak
Shag bark hickory
Black walnut
Red Oak
White Oak
Silver maple
Dogwood
Gum
Chestnut
Paper Birch


I think that is all.

 

[anymanusa]

Honey Locust seasoned well
Red Oak, apparently not seasoned well
Sweet gum, doesn't matter seasoned or not it burns great
Pine, same as sweet gum
Sycamore, haven't had the pleasure of burning it yet.

Coming soon: an old dead standing Red Bud!!! can't wait to cut it down.

 

[OhioGregg]

What I'm burning this winter is mostly White Oak and Hickory, and a little Red Oak.
But looks like next year will be White Oak and a lot of Ash. The EAB has put a dent in the Ash tree population here this summer. So been cutting a lot of it this summer/fall. Looks like will cutting a lot more in the future too, unfortunately.

Gregg,