We had a corner post on my grandfathers farm, made of Osage, that was 24" across and had been in the ground 85 years. When they went to put new fence on the farm, they decided to take it out because the figured it would be rotten. It took 2 tractors and several hours to get it pulled out. It would have lasted another 85. Osage and locust are used for fence posts and will last a long time under harsh conditions. The rest of the woods you mentioned won't last long if you don't get them off the ground and keep them dry.
I think around me, and mostly with what is on our land, I would go red oak, beech, maple, ash, hemlock, poplar, white pine. We have some white and silver birch, a little bit of cherry, and some fir and spruces
I burn one stick of wood a year that my grandfather cut over 50 years ago. Osage - Hedge!! It is the first fire of fall just for fun and remembering Gpa! There are Hedge post in the ground that are over 100 years old! I would put it up against any wood, in the US, for wrought resistance. It doesn't need covered and it is easy to find permission to cut it, in my area! Hedge is king of heat in E. Kansas!
I'm surprised you didn't mention Ash. Here in Wisconsin, it's been hit hard by the ash borer, but , there's tons of it, burns good even on the wetter side . I mix it with Oak, and Cherry, good prepped wood!
In our area Ash is king and still around although the emerald Ash borer has arrived. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Silver Maple in this area either. Mulberry is another common one that has some higher BTUs to it. Lots of Burr Oaks and Walnuts too.
I would have to say locust is my favorite!! Cherry is another one of my favorites too! I have really noticed in the last year that more people are prepping!! My firewood customers have been ordering more wood then they ever have!! Stay safe my friend
Red Oak is my favorite from eastern NH. It splits and stacks easily; burns great but must be dried properly. Next is Shagbark Hickory. Great heat but much more difficult to split and stack. Black Birch is another great heating wood, but much harder to split and stack I separate all my wood by species. Enjoy just about all 700 some shows! Keep on going strong!
Here in the Flinthills of Kansas Hedge, (Osage orange) is the most plentiful wood. Mulberry in also available. But Hedge is by far the best wood that I have access to. It burns hot and long and never rots. There is some Ash, locust and lots of cottonwood as well.
Hi Chris, I have been watching your utube channel for two years. I live in southeastern PA. We have many of the same trees as you do. I will try to name some. All kinds of oak, maple, poplar, locust, walnut, mulberry, hackberry,gum, cherry,sassafras, spruce,pine,fir,catalpia,apple,pear, and probably 50more that I can't think of now. I worked all my life and I love watching you work. You have that get r done attitude.
Down South (East of Mississippi, keeping a Louisiana buffer from texas thank gawd), oak and hickory are king. The water variety (willow, live, blackjack, water, pin, and laurel) are prolific and most often in the way, so they get targeted. Red, white, post and chestnut are opportunistic and most often used for Catchpen boards. We also have pignut, mockernut and shagbark hickory that are targeted at splitting size (8-12” young) in late spring after the sap rises for smoking, though the regional best for smoking is blackjack oak. All of these varieties are firewood friendly though the demand is trendy as winters are not so cold. I currently live about two hours from Chris and enjoy his videos and chop busting with Tony!
@@InTheWoodyard Welcome, forgot to mention pecan as we grow them too but value the nuts over the wood. Would live to visit your yard one day and swap some stacking for yarns and learning. Gonna add firewood to my business model for my farm in retirement. Hey to Tony the knucklehead!
Black Locust is my favorite with the only downside of taking a long time to dry. Mostly available is red oak and cherry in my area and I burn 3+ cords of it each year.
In central Saskatchewan the most predominant wood is Aspen followed by Box Elder. I have hauled white birch from 120 miles away to have stock available for the wood snobs. Ha!
Chris after learning all the spices of trees that I have on my land. I came to the conclusion that the mulberry was the best wood I have a lot of but the most of my trees are wild cheery and a abundance of sweet gum trees. Thanks again for all your info and if it weren’t for you I would have never got as far into knowing the correct trees to cut down.
Way out here in the Inland Northwest the best firewood we have is Buckskin Tamarack which is actually Western Larch that has been killed in a forest fire but remains standing. The bark falls off and the wood dries out slowly over decades. The best of these were killed in the Great Fire of 1910 and are becoming scarce nowadays.
I have sawed up 40 year old black locust logs, they were set in a deck in 1982.. i removed them for the customer and was going to haul them to the wood recycling facility, i gave them a discount on removal and brought them home. The outer lighter ring layers were gone as well as the bark. Just heartwood was left. It was like sawing concrete and had very few rotton spots( in the whole deck) or insects. The rotton spots were very shallow and minimal. Only on the bottom logs that were along the ground. My favorite wood to split is red alder, 😂 Best seller for me is oak (oregon, scarlet and pin )and black locust, usually mix those 2 doug fir is a close second. Oregon cherry, ash, big leaf maple, tamarack, ...you know tree service loads of wood😂
@InTheWoodyard true, and that 40 year old locust was amazing wood still, couldn't believe it. Log deck covered in blackberries and grass 40years of rain and all that mess.
All you need to do is cut or split 🪓 the pine a bit bigger, simple,it's a pretty light wood for sure, so it's quite easy to handle some pieces twice the size for the logs, simple !!! Pine is fine ☺️
Black Birch is king where I am in New England. It’s 26.8 on the BTU scale (more than oak) and it dries fast. Hornbeam is another worthy mention although not as prevalent.
How about black locust? It grows like weeds in my area, but the tree service guys keep it. Once in a while someone gives it away, and it goes fast. I have only got maybe 3 cords in my firewood lifetime. But my favorite wood would be the oaks, then maple. All good heating and especially cooking wood.
I am in southeast Ohio. I have 45 acres of forest. Probably half is hickory, maple and poplar would be next and then oaks and beech. I have a lot of very large Sassafras which is very unusual. most are dieing. They are not a long living tree and make great firewood for campfires and fireplaces.
hi chris on my property i have a mix of eucalyptus it comes in different varieties i also have what is called river red gum it will outlast the average human it was used as railway sleepers in the 1800s and it does not rot but takes along time to dry once again a great video
Red Oak, Beech, and Rock Maple is king here in Central Maine. Although, alot of my customers do like a good mixture of oak, ash, Beech, rock maple, and yellow birch.
I'm a west coast oregon wood cutter. Something good to mention is how much ash the wood makes and how long does it burn. Oak makes a lot of ash, burn time is good. I like Douglas fir and Madrone much better. Good burn time, good heat less ash to scoop out. Good video!!
Paul from North East Iowa, Like that ASHH. Years back, I always thought cutting and splitting was just a lot of work, and it is , bit now I am starting to really enjoy it. Thank you for Sharing, appreciate all the content, Stay Safe and God Bless
Ash is my favorite… in New Jersey…. People are cutting it all down because of the ash bore beetle…you can get truckloads for free delivered… easy to cut and spilt…. Almost all dead and dried when cut… and burns good.
In my area of Illinois we are fortunate to have a wide variety of hardwoods. My favorites to cut/split /burn recreational is Cherry and Walnut. We have so much Osage Orange but hate it!! Hard to cut/split and work with in general. Oak is by far considered the most desirable here also.👍🏻👍🏻GNI
I agree with your opinion. Only one I would add to the top 5 is ash. It's ability to burn wet, not seasoned makes it probably the best emergency wood out there.
Great video Chris as well as great information. Interesting to see what species are available to people in the area they live in as well. Around my area in Michigan Oak, hard and soft maple, ash, elm, cotton wood, pine, honey locust (if you can find it), poplar, and black locust are some of the more common woods. Most all the fruit trees Pear, apple, and walnut tress can be found as well just not in a huge abundance.
Here in Southern Brazil we have a lot of eucalyptus and our winters are very mild, the coldest day so far was 30 degrees, prepping in tropical places is so much easier.
I have burned cedar before and didn’t have a problem with it. I know a lot of people will say that it will build up creosote. That may be true, especially if somebody’s burning green. I got in a pinch one year and ran out of oak before season end. I had cedar post that were stacked up. I got maybe a half a rick out of it. It was about the end of March or first part of April. At the end of season I cleaned my stove pipes as usual, and didn’t notice any different build up then with oak. It’s not the hottest wood in my area, but I prefer white oak because the red oaks have a much higher BTU and my house gets too hot. I split my wood about the size that you do and use three pieces to build a fire. That is our primary heating source, and I may do that twice a day, sometimes only once. Much of the time I only use 3 to 6 pieces a day. I do prefer pine for kindling. I cut it about 8 inches long and split it about 1 inch thick.
@@InTheWoodyard You’re welcome. This video wasn’t in my playlist but UA-cam thought I needed to watch it. I’ve been trying to watch your older videos in order you posted them but I knew if I didn’t watch this after they started it that it would show I’ve watched it and I’d miss it later. I shortened my name to In The Wilderness instead of Voice In The Wilderness. I’ve been trying to comment a little more to help your page out.
Chris another wood to add to the prepping list that I found to last year’s after the tree is dead and bugs won’t eat it is Mulberry and the BTU’s are 25.8 not too flimsy.
Good morning Chris over here on the west side of the state of Wi we have hard maple, red oak, box elder, in abundance. Then it’s ash, popular, pine not as abundant. Then it’s elm ,birch, cottonwood, white oak and one species I’ve never seen before. There’s only one in the whole woods. It’s smooth and lite gray in color. Keep on cutting
Wood that last longer in storage... Locust and white oak. However I have a couple different twig stoves that you can cook with. My favorite is just a stack of bricks with 3,3/4" nuts to rest a pan on. We use it in the front yard and have made pasta, chilli, and breakfast over it. My camping stove is tiny but can boil water with just a 3"x3"x3" cut like a swedish torch. Now cooking wood I use silver maple for heat and cherry to smoke. Most cut to 3-4" cookies to split down to fit into my stoves. Then I can use them in my grill ect...not really prepping but it's really nice to not eat just pb&j if the power goes out
Here in VT we get hard and soft maple, more soft. Ash, beech, cherry, white birch, yellow birch. Yellow birch is excellent heating wood. For "prepping" I would choose red oak, which I get very little of.
In eastern Pennsylvania Black Locust lasts a long time. It’s used as fence posts because of it’s rot resistants. It also produces a lot of BTUs. The only be draw back is it “pops” more than other wood so it’s not good for fireplaces without a screen. It’s great for wood stoves.
Where I am in Australia, (not sure on chords) but I’m cutting around 25tonnes of Ironbark per week. I looked it up and.. Ironbarks tend to have some of the highest heat outputs, reaching BTUs of up to 48.7 million per cord. Great firewood but also hard on chains. Subsequently I use only tungsten tip chains.
You can't beat Aussie hardwoods like ironbark, greybox and redgum. The sandgropers also say that jarrah is pretty good. As long as the apocalypse doesn't last more than a few hundred years our firewood stacks should be good to go.
@@thefirewooddoctor Some rough sums with what you provide, 1 cubic metre is just over 35 cubic feet. So per load we are putting out about 7 cords per load. Or 25m3 I only buck/block the logs and 2 or 3 people split.
I’m in the UK and my favourites to burn are red pine (like napalm!), holly (dense and burns for ages) and beech (lovely hardwood than gives plenty of heat). One tree that is always dismissed here is leylandii - a conifer that grows rapidly, causes neighbour disputes and generally gets out cut down when it’s got too big for the garden. It makes fantastic firewood (but takes 2 years to properly season), it’s cheap as no one wants it, but pound for pound in weight it’s as good a heat source as anything else out there
Grandpa always said locust was the best because it didn't rot as quick as others. It was what he looked for when making fence posts. It also had pretty good btus.
Why was the BTUs of IKEA furniture not included in the video??? After all...about 99% of the population will be burning this for heat their first winter! My "Lucille" baseball bat to protect the woodyard, is built from good Ole Ash!👍
Chris, We burn all boxelder for making maple syrup split small so it burns fast and hot. Oak, Maple, Ironwood and Ash for selling to customers. Elm and reject pieces for heating the shop. Great meeting you at the frenzy!
Once again, another great video. Most popular in the Prescott AZ and most of the mountains (AZ is not all desert). Is shaggy bark and alligator juniper because it’s here. We also have scrub oak. Oak costs 30-50 percent more and burns longer but juniper is hotter. Most prevalent tree and largest is ponderosa pine. They are huge but they are also filled with pitch, they burn nice but do cause a lot of build up in the stove pipe and I love using it, just burn a little juniper with it and your fine. Ponderosa up here can get over 4’ thick and 150’ tall. That’s a lot of wood and a lot ends up in landfills, sadly. They are one of the tallest trees in the world topping out at 275’ and the best smelling tree in my opinion and one of my favorites to build furniture out of. Come visit AZ.
Checking in from the hills of East Tennessee. We are in the middle of Hickory, White and Red Oak predominately. Love all of those and keep a lot of scraps to go in my smoker. Have tried lots of other things, but will never accept any sweet gum again, like live oak, impossible to split!
NC here, “all wood is good wood” and has a useful purpose. Junk wood good for kinlin or cool days, cedar for logs to stack on, pine is plentiful and most prefer not to use in a woodstove, hickory for BBQ and oak is most popular
Any wood except pine is good. Pine leaves creosote in you chimney. This can cause a chimney fire which is very bad. It can spread to the rest of the house.
Wrong, wet/green wood causes creosote build up with any wood. Half of the USA Canada /Alaska and most of Europe burn almost exclusively with pine and or spruce and none of them have problems unless the wood is not dry, just like hardwoods.
I’m in the Hudson Valley New York and most of the ash here is now gone.For about 10-15 years About 30% of the wood I was burning was dead standing ash from the Emerald Ash Borer…
@@JohnDiMartino I live in northwest New Jersey. We have been lucky until last year the ash trees started to show signs of ash borer. Next few years will be the worst. 50% of the trees in my neighborhood are ash.
I have 17 years old birch, alder,spruce, pine and aspen in my shed. None has change powder. Out I have same assortment been 2 years piled and no dust there. I have a big shed and these farthest piles seem to be never burned.
My favorite heating wood is probably Red oak(good heat & smell) & my favorite wood to sell for firepit / camp burners is Black birch(beautiful heartwood and presentation). Most popular in my little corner of PA is probably Red Oak & Locust(for heating). Red & Rock(Chestnut) oak are everywhere in the mountains that surround me. Even some Blue Beech on the mtn tops... couples usually carve their names on the bark. If you have to buy wood, any of the mega hardwoods like oak, hickory, locust, hedge etc are great choices, otherwise if your in a pinch, various species can usually be mixed to provide a decent fire.
I live in central Arkansas, yes, I am a Hillbilly. Lol On my yard I have mostly Oakwood. Red Oak, Live Oak, White Oak, Post Oak, Water Oak, the worst for splitting. Simular to the dreaded Elm. I have Hickory, which is very available in my area and great for smoking, however most of the Smokers in my area perfer White Oak for the milder flavor. Another favorite, which is plentiful is Cherry. I love Cherry. Saws easy, splits well, smells wonderful! I love Elm. It is dense like Oak. We have Sweet Gum and Black Gum. A little hard to split dry so saw it and split as green as possible. Hackberry is very prevalent here as well. It drys fast, burns hot, leaves very little ash but won't keep long. Pecan is another favorite around here for smoking and very plentiful. Our Pine is very fine. We have several species. The old growth is the best due to the tight grain. It is super rich in resin snd great for campwood as well as wonderful kindling. This stuff burns so hot you can make a Horseshoe over it! I feel very fortunate to live in this state with all the wide varieties of wood. Here is a link to the most popular trees of the 185 species we have. www.progardentips.com/most-common-trees-in-arkansas/ Great video Chris. Super informative. Well it's off to the woodyard for me and another 110° heat index day!
The best type of wood to burn is whatever is in your hands just before you put it in the stove. Burning the best type of wood available in your area when temps are mild out is a waste. Burn the junk types or the punky woods in warmer temps or I'm at home times and the best types when the temps hit -30 to -50 farenheit aprox same range in Celsius with a 70 mile 100 kilometer winds like we seen many times this last winter in northwestern Wisconsin. Seen way too many times that the Minnesota cabin people last winter did this completely backwards and were trying to heat the cabin to over 40 f inside while burning a face cord of of kindling or craft grade birch a day or they ran to a big box store that only had mulch chips left. We had 600 face cord dry beginning of last winter added 400 more by Christmas for the upcoming winter all was gone by 2nd week of January 2022. Contacted 4 sawmills for slabwood in the area 3 veneer mills for cores 3 furniture manufacturers for edgeings and cutoffs in my area. Then rented greenhouse space that they were not using to dry firewood in to keep up with some of the demand. The demand has not let up. We are running 6 bandsaws and one 54 inch circle saw 3 homemade firewood processors a dyna that I rent every 2 or 3 weeks yes it has a drinking problem just like your eastonmade lol. We recycle pallets also up to 5 semi loads per week so I have around 500 different types of firewood mixed in piles sold as rainbow mix burns in different colors. Everything is used for something might sit for a few months examples school kids bundle or bag the kindling scraps 50 cents each on common woods 2.00 each on sorted smoking woods cherry apple maple so on same goes on bark 50 cents on filler grades 2.00 on clean pine topping grades white pine separated from red pine flakes so on. Stockpile as much wood as you can now because this fall when the sheep realize that propain is up and natural gas is stupid high you will be very popular with whatever type of wood you have to sell that's dry
In central Michigan here, theres still plenty of dead ash to be had but it is slowly starting to phase out. Cherry, maple, and oak will be the choice firewoods once all the ash is finally gone but for now, ash rules.
Chris, this is Dana (TowMe) aka Millie’s Dad. This is our new firewood channel. Agreed oak is king, yellow birch , beech, gray birch, black birch. Thanks for the info.
Useful info, thanks. I'm in the UK but we have some of the same species. I really like Hawthorn for burning - I can't find the btu/cord in any lists but the 'what's good firewood in the UK' lists all say it's excellent and I agree. Apart from the thorns which are a nuisance!
My father one winter proved you can burn white ash right off the stump. We cut it down and I split 2 arm loads of it (the sap/water was running out of it) I said this won't burn. He said build a good fire in your wood stove its time to put more in, put this ash in. I did what he said and he was right. We burned ash all afternoon and it burned hot too not smoldering.
I'll have people call me towards the end if winter in a panic that they are out of wood. I'll tell them- I don't have any seasoned wood left , but I can get them a load of ash. It will absolutely burn fresh cut at 40% moisture. It won't have quite the btu output, but it is great in an emergency.
Black locust is my king. It's not nearly as available as oak, but it burns long and hot. I will scroung a downed BL whenever possible. One tree not mentioned is tulip poplar. It burns fast and leaves no coals, but it growns fast,dries fast and grows tall and straight.
Great video Chris, Florida checking in. Live Oak is very very hard to work with by hand, impossible to split by hand and even in Florida heat dries in about a life time...burn hot once lit but if you are thinking you will cut down a Live Oak with an ax, use a bucking saw to cut to length and the maul to split it....um nope...effort v heat. Prior to the end of fossil fuels, live oak...after yellow pine.
I use a lot of Ash because it is very available to me and I like that it seasons faster than other wood I have available. Next I cut Maple another wood I have a lot of, then Oak a wood I have some of but not a lot. Most of the Oak I have is too big for me to handle. I like all three but mix in some Red Pine, and other types of wood. My favorite wood to burn is Ash though.
My favorite is oak because I can sell it for more than what I’d save using it to offset on my home heating gas bill. Although I do love ash because it is one of the easiest to dry and it is mostly bark less. Too bad it is almost gone niw
Awesome informative video Chris. Red Oak and Sugar Maple most available here in south eastern Ontario. Red is my fav and would be the wood of choice to prep. Would be awesome to take a trip and come meet you in person one day. Cheers Chris . 👌🏻🔥🇨🇦
In Oregon, Madrone is the best firewood in Oregon. 30.9 BTU. Madrone is also called Madrona and Arbutus. Madrone is not easy to find in my area, but more prevalent in Southern Oregon. Oregon White Oak is 28.0 BTU. Douglas Fir is 26.5 BTU. So my personal choice of best firewood is Douglas Fir. It's everywhere, easy to split. Fast to season, very resistant to rot. BTU's I quoted found online at World Forest Industries BTU chart. Nice video Chris!
Oak is king here in south jersey as well. White, Chestnut oak, red and pin mostly. Cherry, maple, locust we cut as well. We have a lot of pitch and white pine but not many people burn it. None that i know of anyway.
In my area, oak is King! It might not be technically THE BEST but doggoneit, people love it. And it's great to learn that if you store oak properly, it'll last a long time! I've got alot of oak up on pallets in my woodshed, so it's great to learn I don't have to burn (at least right away). Thanks again for taking the time to shoot this video! See you tomorrow morning at 5:30! Split all you can Can all you split Sit on the can And that's it!
Here in Southern Indiana there is a large hardwood industry. White oak is king. We have 90 acres and heat 2 homes with our own wood. We have the typical mix of oaks, hickory, cherry, maple, tulip poplar, and ash. I have been burning mostly ash for the past 3 or 4 years as it died off and most of it is now gone. One tree most people never mention on youtube is BEECH We have lots of it. Most forest management people think of it as a nuisance tree because it casts a broad area of shade and retards the grow of more desirable timber species. So they recommend thinning the beech from your wood lot and using it for firewood. That is what I am starting to do this year. Unfortunately, on 90 acres, we have enough blow-downs from storms that I almost get enough oak and hickory every year to fulfill our needs. Right now I have 4 large oaks down. They are not resting directly in contact with the soil so I will have a year or two to buck them up. When a cottonwood comes down, I ignore it.
Olive,almond and holly oak, mullberry is good but spits like chestnut , we also have ash and eucaliptus here in Andalucia (southern Spain ) Good Night Irene
We had a corner post on my grandfathers farm, made of Osage, that was 24" across and had been in the ground 85 years. When they went to put new fence on the farm, they decided to take it out because the figured it would be rotten. It took 2 tractors and several hours to get it pulled out. It would have lasted another 85. Osage and locust are used for fence posts and will last a long time under harsh conditions. The rest of the woods you mentioned won't last long if you don't get them off the ground and keep them dry.
Yup, locust is probably the next closest to osage.
I love this kind of information. I'm sure it takes a lot of time to gather this info. Thanks for your contribution to the community.
Thanks, yup, about 50 years!
I think around me, and mostly with what is on our land, I would go red oak, beech, maple, ash, hemlock, poplar, white pine. We have some white and silver birch, a little bit of cherry, and some fir and spruces
Sounds like a bunch of good wood!
We have plenty of red oak in northern Indiana and I have an abundance of locust and love it. Plenty of cherry too.
Those are all good wood!
I burn one stick of wood a year that my grandfather cut over 50 years ago. Osage - Hedge!! It is the first fire of fall just for fun and remembering Gpa! There are Hedge post in the ground that are over 100 years old! I would put it up against any wood, in the US, for wrought resistance. It doesn't need covered and it is easy to find permission to cut it, in my area! Hedge is king of heat in E. Kansas!
That is a nice thing to do! I like it!
That’s such a great tribute! Thanks for sharing as it warmed the heart!
I'm surprised you didn't mention Ash. Here in Wisconsin, it's been hit hard by the ash borer, but , there's tons of it, burns good even on the wetter side . I mix it with Oak, and Cherry, good prepped wood!
Yup, my bad!!!
Red & White oak, Hickory, ash and locust for starting. I dry all my wood for 2 years.
Nice stuff!
In our area Ash is king and still around although the emerald Ash borer has arrived. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Silver Maple in this area either. Mulberry is another common one that has some higher BTUs to it. Lots of Burr Oaks and Walnuts too.
Sounds like you have great wood!
Good stuff Chris!!! I like birch and it's rare for me to find any at the tree dumps around here.
Yup, not much here either!
I would have to say locust is my favorite!! Cherry is another one of my favorites too! I have really noticed in the last year that more people are prepping!! My firewood customers have been ordering more wood then they ever have!! Stay safe my friend
Yup, locust is awesome wood for sure!
Red Oak is my favorite from eastern NH. It splits and stacks easily; burns great but must be dried properly. Next is Shagbark Hickory. Great heat but much more difficult to split and stack. Black Birch is another great heating wood, but much harder to split and stack I separate all my wood by species. Enjoy just about all 700 some shows! Keep on going strong!
Thanks for the info and for watching ....other Chris!
I got some White Oak from a tree service My new favorite... fell apart in the splitter . I got some Bartlett pear nightmare splitting !
In central Poland, the most popular types of wood are pine, oak and beech.
Sounds great, my moms family came from Poland! The Molepski family!
I agree Oak is the best especially red oak for me. But I also love black locust and mulberry, cherry and ash😀
yup, those are all good woods!
Here in the Flinthills of Kansas Hedge, (Osage orange) is the most plentiful wood. Mulberry in also available. But Hedge is by far the best wood that I have access to. It burns hot and long and never rots. There is some Ash, locust and lots of cottonwood as well.
Yup, both osage and mulberry are great firewood! We have almost none here.
Hi Chris, I have been watching your utube channel for two years. I live in southeastern PA. We have many of the same trees as you do. I will try to name some. All kinds of oak, maple, poplar, locust, walnut, mulberry, hackberry,gum, cherry,sassafras, spruce,pine,fir,catalpia,apple,pear, and probably 50more that I can't think of now. I worked all my life and I love watching you work. You have that get r done attitude.
Thanks so much John!
Down South (East of Mississippi, keeping a Louisiana buffer from texas thank gawd), oak and hickory are king. The water variety (willow, live, blackjack, water, pin, and laurel) are prolific and most often in the way, so they get targeted. Red, white, post and chestnut are opportunistic and most often used for Catchpen boards. We also have pignut, mockernut and shagbark hickory that are targeted at splitting size (8-12” young) in late spring after the sap rises for smoking, though the regional best for smoking is blackjack oak.
All of these varieties are firewood friendly though the demand is trendy as winters are not so cold. I currently live about two hours from Chris and enjoy his videos and chop busting with Tony!
Thanks so much for the great info and for watching!
@@InTheWoodyard Welcome, forgot to mention pecan as we grow them too but value the nuts over the wood. Would live to visit your yard one day and swap some stacking for yarns and learning. Gonna add firewood to my business model for my farm in retirement. Hey to Tony the knucklehead!
Thanks for the overview of all wood. I agree with burning what you have in your area!! Have a Safe Day
Thanks, you too!
Black Locust is my favorite with the only downside of taking a long time to dry. Mostly available is red oak and cherry in my area and I burn 3+ cords of it each year.
I was gonna mention black locust also, I have a bunch of it. Burns nice once dry.
Yup, locust is great!!
Yes!
My new favorite is Beech. I like Mulberry, Osage Orange, Hackberry, Elm, Locust, Sycamore, and Cherry , Walnut
Sound like all wood is good.....that is because it is!!!
In central Saskatchewan the most predominant wood is Aspen followed by Box Elder. I have hauled white birch from 120 miles away to have stock available for the wood snobs. Ha!
Yup, birch is "pretty wood"! ha!
Chris after learning all the spices of trees that I have on my land. I came to the conclusion that the mulberry was the best wood I have a lot of but the most of my trees are wild cheery and a abundance of sweet gum trees. Thanks again for all your info and if it weren’t for you I would have never got as far into knowing the correct trees to cut down.
Thanks, it is a life long thing, I am still learning a lot!
Way out here in the Inland Northwest the best firewood we have is Buckskin Tamarack which is actually Western Larch that has been killed in a forest fire but remains standing. The bark falls off and the wood dries out slowly over decades. The best of these were killed in the Great Fire of 1910 and are becoming scarce nowadays.
Yes! Larch (tamarack) lasts a long time!!
I have sawed up 40 year old black locust logs, they were set in a deck in 1982.. i removed them for the customer and was going to haul them to the wood recycling facility, i gave them a discount on removal and brought them home. The outer lighter ring layers were gone as well as the bark. Just heartwood was left. It was like sawing concrete and had very few rotton spots( in the whole deck) or insects. The rotton spots were very shallow and minimal. Only on the bottom logs that were along the ground.
My favorite wood to split is red alder, 😂
Best seller for me is oak (oregon, scarlet and pin )and black locust, usually mix those 2 doug fir is a close second.
Oregon cherry, ash, big leaf maple, tamarack, ...you know tree service loads of wood😂
yup, it all burns!
@InTheWoodyard true, and that 40 year old locust was amazing wood still, couldn't believe it. Log deck covered in blackberries and grass 40years of rain and all that mess.
All you need to do is cut or split 🪓 the pine a bit bigger, simple,it's a pretty light wood for sure, so it's quite easy to handle some pieces twice the size for the logs, simple !!! Pine is fine ☺️
Great point!
Black Birch is king where I am in New England. It’s 26.8 on the BTU scale (more than oak) and it dries fast. Hornbeam is another worthy mention although not as prevalent.
Yup, I wish we had some Black birch here, it sounds like great stuff!
How about black locust? It grows like weeds in my area, but the tree service guys keep it. Once in a while someone gives it away, and it goes fast. I have only got maybe 3 cords in my firewood lifetime. But my favorite wood would be the oaks, then maple. All good heating and especially cooking wood.
Yup, locust of any kind is GREAT firewood, more heat than oak and hickory!
oak, hickory and ash are the most sought after around here in NH!
Yup, oak is on almost every ones list!
I am in southeast Ohio. I have 45 acres of forest. Probably half is hickory, maple and poplar would be next and then oaks and beech. I have a lot of very large Sassafras which is very unusual. most are dieing. They are not a long living tree and make great firewood for campfires and fireplaces.
I have never had any sassafras here, I would like to cut and try it too!
hi chris on my property i have a mix of eucalyptus it comes in different varieties i also have what is called river red gum it will outlast the average human it was used as railway sleepers in the 1800s and it does not rot but takes along time to dry once again a great video
Thanks Hank!
Red Oak, Beech, and Rock Maple is king here in Central Maine. Although, alot of my customers do like a good mixture of oak, ash, Beech, rock maple, and yellow birch.
Yup, all good woods!
I'm a west coast oregon wood cutter.
Something good to mention is how much ash the wood makes and how long does it burn. Oak makes a lot of ash, burn time is good. I like Douglas fir and Madrone much better. Good burn time, good heat less ash to scoop out. Good video!!
Nice! What kind of oak, our red oak burns real complete if dry.
Paul from North East Iowa, Like that ASHH. Years back, I always thought cutting and splitting was just a lot of work, and it is , bit now I am starting to really enjoy it. Thank you for Sharing, appreciate all the content, Stay Safe and God Bless
Yup, same here!
Ash is my favorite… in New Jersey…. People are cutting it all down because of the ash bore beetle…you can get truckloads for free delivered… easy to cut and spilt…. Almost all dead and dried when cut… and burns good.
Yup, good choice!
In my area of Illinois we are fortunate to have a wide variety of hardwoods. My favorites to cut/split /burn recreational is Cherry and Walnut. We have so much Osage Orange but hate it!! Hard to cut/split and work with in general. Oak is by far considered the most desirable here also.👍🏻👍🏻GNI
Yup, oak is on most lists!!
I agree with your opinion. Only one I would add to the top 5 is ash. It's ability to burn wet, not seasoned makes it probably the best emergency wood out there.
Yup, you are right!
Great video Chris as well as great information. Interesting to see what species are available to people in the area they live in as well. Around my area in Michigan Oak, hard and soft maple, ash, elm, cotton wood, pine, honey locust (if you can find it), poplar, and black locust are some of the more common woods. Most all the fruit trees Pear, apple, and walnut tress can be found as well just not in a huge abundance.
Yup all good wood!
Here in Southern Brazil we have a lot of eucalyptus and our winters are very mild, the coldest day so far was 30 degrees, prepping in tropical places is so much easier.
Thanks for sharing!
Here in Western Washington Fir is king for firewood.
Now mix that with maple, Madrona and Oak if you can find it and you have a good mix
That is what I hear!
I have burned cedar before and didn’t have a problem with it. I know a lot of people will say that it will build up creosote. That may be true, especially if somebody’s burning green. I got in a pinch one year and ran out of oak before season end. I had cedar post that were stacked up. I got maybe a half a rick out of it. It was about the end of March or first part of April. At the end of season I cleaned my stove pipes as usual, and didn’t notice any different build up then with oak.
It’s not the hottest wood in my area, but I prefer white oak because the red oaks have a much higher BTU and my house gets too hot. I split my wood about the size that you do and use three pieces to build a fire. That is our primary heating source, and I may do that twice a day, sometimes only once. Much of the time I only use 3 to 6 pieces a day.
I do prefer pine for kindling. I cut it about 8 inches long and split it about 1 inch thick.
Nice, thanks for the info!!
@@InTheWoodyard You’re welcome. This video wasn’t in my playlist but UA-cam thought I needed to watch it. I’ve been trying to watch your older videos in order you posted them but I knew if I didn’t watch this after they started it that it would show I’ve watched it and I’d miss it later.
I shortened my name to In The Wilderness instead of Voice In The Wilderness. I’ve been trying to comment a little more to help your page out.
Chris another wood to add to the prepping list that I found to last year’s after the tree is dead and bugs won’t eat it is Mulberry and the BTU’s are 25.8 not too flimsy.
Yes! I had some just this year, good stuff!
Good morning Chris over here on the west side of the state of Wi we have hard maple, red oak, box elder, in abundance. Then it’s ash, popular, pine not as abundant. Then it’s elm ,birch, cottonwood, white oak and one species I’ve never seen before. There’s only one in the whole woods. It’s smooth and lite gray in color. Keep on cutting
Sounds like beech or blue beech/iron wood.
Wood that last longer in storage... Locust and white oak. However I have a couple different twig stoves that you can cook with. My favorite is just a stack of bricks with 3,3/4" nuts to rest a pan on. We use it in the front yard and have made pasta, chilli, and breakfast over it. My camping stove is tiny but can boil water with just a 3"x3"x3" cut like a swedish torch. Now cooking wood I use silver maple for heat and cherry to smoke. Most cut to 3-4" cookies to split down to fit into my stoves. Then I can use them in my grill ect...not really prepping but it's really nice to not eat just pb&j if the power goes out
Yup, all wood is good!
Wise words and totally agree, it's whatever you have 👍
yup! thanks!
Here in VT we get hard and soft maple, more soft. Ash, beech, cherry, white birch, yellow birch. Yellow birch is excellent heating wood. For "prepping" I would choose red oak, which I get very little of.
Those are all good woods!
In eastern Pennsylvania Black Locust lasts a long time. It’s used as fence posts because of it’s rot resistants. It also produces a lot of BTUs. The only be draw back is it “pops” more than other wood so it’s not good for fireplaces without a screen. It’s great for wood stoves.
Yup, we have it here too, great wood!
Hello Chris.
Your correct all wood is good.
Here in Ireland we have a lot of willow. Oak. Birch..pine.
Does the job.
Yup, it all burns!
Great run down of firewood BTU. Thanks!
Thanks!
Great stuff Chris 👏 Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks!
favorite wood for me her in maine is standing dead cherry . second would be ash. ash splits wicked easy and dries fast.
Yup, both are wicked good wood!
Hackberry here In Tennessee is a pretty big deal also cherry and white oak
Thanks!
Where I am in Australia, (not sure on chords) but I’m cutting around 25tonnes of Ironbark per week. I looked it up and..
Ironbarks tend to have some of the highest heat outputs, reaching BTUs of up to 48.7 million per cord.
Great firewood but also hard on chains. Subsequently I use only tungsten tip chains.
You can't beat Aussie hardwoods like ironbark, greybox and redgum. The sandgropers also say that jarrah is pretty good. As long as the apocalypse doesn't last more than a few hundred years our firewood stacks should be good to go.
I've got an iron bark fire burning right now as it's 5' outside and going down to 0' tonight.
A cord measures 128 cubic feet. Not sure what that is in cubic meters.
@@tbonemc2118 I am the same. Currently 3’ c (37 F) and will be below 0 before long.
@@thefirewooddoctor
Some rough sums with what you provide, 1 cubic metre is just over 35 cubic feet. So per load we are putting out about 7 cords per load. Or 25m3
I only buck/block the logs and 2 or 3 people split.
I’m in the UK and my favourites to burn are red pine (like napalm!), holly (dense and burns for ages) and beech (lovely hardwood than gives plenty of heat). One tree that is always dismissed here is leylandii - a conifer that grows rapidly, causes neighbour disputes and generally gets out cut down when it’s got too big for the garden. It makes fantastic firewood (but takes 2 years to properly season), it’s cheap as no one wants it, but pound for pound in weight it’s as good a heat source as anything else out there
Yup, my brother heated his house one year with all red pine in his boiler!!
Good advice all wood is good wood.
You got that right!
Grandpa always said locust was the best because it didn't rot as quick as others. It was what he looked for when making fence posts. It also had pretty good btus.
Dale, you come from good stock, grandpa was right!
Why was the BTUs of IKEA furniture not included in the video??? After all...about 99% of the population will be burning this for heat their first winter! My "Lucille" baseball bat to protect the woodyard, is built from good Ole Ash!👍
Ha! Good one!!
Chris, We burn all boxelder for making maple syrup split small so it burns fast and hot. Oak, Maple, Ironwood and Ash for selling to customers. Elm and reject pieces for heating the shop. Great meeting you at the frenzy!
Thanks, same here, fellow maple syrup lover!
Once again, another great video.
Most popular in the Prescott AZ and most of the mountains (AZ is not all desert). Is shaggy bark and alligator juniper because it’s here. We also have scrub oak. Oak costs 30-50 percent more and burns longer but juniper is hotter. Most prevalent tree and largest is ponderosa pine. They are huge but they are also filled with pitch, they burn nice but do cause a lot of build up in the stove pipe and I love using it, just burn a little juniper with it and your fine. Ponderosa up here can get over 4’ thick and 150’ tall. That’s a lot of wood and a lot ends up in landfills, sadly. They are one of the tallest trees in the world topping out at 275’ and the best smelling tree in my opinion and one of my favorites to build furniture out of. Come visit AZ.
Yup, I cut some of the pondo and pinion when I was in NM last December, check out the videos on my channel!
@@InTheWoodyard I try and find the time and check out ones from last year.
I have two favorites ash and cherry👍👍
Yup, good choices! Enjoy the ash it will all be gone soon!
Checking in from the hills of East Tennessee. We are in the middle of Hickory, White and Red Oak predominately. Love all of those and keep a lot of scraps to go in my smoker. Have tried lots of other things, but will never accept any sweet gum again, like live oak, impossible to split!
Sounds great!
Chris! you forgot the BeSt wOOd of all ... BASSWOOD or LINDEN! THE KING OF ALLJUNK WOOD FR HEAT... LOL
Yup, it is nice campfire wood, lots of action adding wood!
NC here, “all wood is good wood” and has a useful purpose. Junk wood good for kinlin or cool days, cedar for logs to stack on, pine is plentiful and most prefer not to use in a woodstove, hickory for BBQ and oak is most popular
That sounds good!
Any wood except pine is good. Pine leaves creosote in you chimney. This can cause a chimney fire which is very bad. It can spread to the rest of the house.
Wrong, wet/green wood causes creosote build up with any wood. Half of the USA Canada /Alaska and most of Europe burn almost exclusively with pine and or spruce and none of them have problems unless the wood is not dry, just like hardwoods.
@8:48 mark, fully seasoned with salt and pepper and other spices?
Kidding.
Gotcha.
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"Dance with the one that brings ya." Forget this prepping B.S. Irene don't care. 😁
what??
@@InTheWoodyard It's cut what you have growing. It's what you and others say.
THX.
Ash borers are really bad in my area right now. With the abundance of standing dead dry ash, I’m good for at least the next 5 years.
Yup, but soon the ash will all be gone!
I’m in the Hudson Valley New York and most of the ash here is now gone.For about 10-15
years About 30% of the wood I was burning was dead standing ash from the Emerald Ash Borer…
@@JohnDiMartino I live in northwest New Jersey. We have been lucky until last year the ash trees started to show signs of ash borer. Next few years will be the worst. 50% of the trees in my neighborhood are ash.
The best wood is any wood that you can get your hands on.
Yup!
I have 17 years old birch, alder,spruce, pine and aspen in my shed. None has change powder. Out I have same assortment been 2 years piled and no dust there. I have a big shed and these farthest piles seem to be never burned.
Wow, that is great, hickory and box elder here turn to powder fast!
Hi Chris, I live in North West Ireland and the best wood I can get is Ash, I also get a lot of Larch and Pine which is fine, love the channel.
Thanks for sharing!
Hey Chris. Craig from Pa and my favorite is locust. If it’s seasoned for a full year ,it’s hard to beat . Thanks Chris… always good video
Good choice!
My favorite heating wood is probably Red oak(good heat & smell) & my favorite wood to sell for firepit / camp burners is Black birch(beautiful heartwood and presentation). Most popular in my little corner of PA is probably Red Oak & Locust(for heating). Red & Rock(Chestnut) oak are everywhere in the mountains that surround me. Even some Blue Beech on the mtn tops... couples usually carve their names on the bark. If you have to buy wood, any of the mega hardwoods like oak, hickory, locust, hedge etc are great choices, otherwise if your in a pinch, various species can usually be mixed to provide a decent fire.
Sounds like you have a great variety!
😊we used to burn red pine at our camp/fort in NH😊
All wood burns!
G’morning Chris ! Loved the all the info. We like it all, love burning oak/ash/elm. I sell allll the others.
GoodNightIrene
Sounds great!
I live in central Arkansas, yes, I am a Hillbilly. Lol
On my yard I have mostly Oakwood. Red Oak, Live Oak, White Oak, Post Oak, Water Oak, the worst for splitting. Simular to the dreaded Elm. I have Hickory, which is very available in my area and great for smoking, however most of the Smokers in my area perfer White Oak for the milder flavor. Another favorite, which is plentiful is Cherry. I love Cherry. Saws easy, splits well, smells wonderful! I love Elm. It is dense like Oak. We have Sweet Gum and Black Gum. A little hard to split dry so saw it and split as green as possible. Hackberry is very prevalent here as well. It drys fast, burns hot, leaves very little ash but won't keep long. Pecan is another favorite around here for smoking and very plentiful.
Our Pine is very fine. We have several species. The old growth is the best due to the tight grain. It is super rich in resin snd great for campwood as well as wonderful kindling. This stuff burns so hot you can make a Horseshoe over it!
I feel very fortunate to live in this state with all the wide varieties of wood.
Here is a link to the most popular trees of the 185 species we have.
www.progardentips.com/most-common-trees-in-arkansas/
Great video Chris. Super informative.
Well it's off to the woodyard for me and another 110° heat index day!
@@jakebredthauer5100 Yes sir. Been toting wood since I was a kid. I don't call myself a prepper. I just stay ready so I don't have to get ready. Lol
Yup, cherry is my favorite too!!!!
The best type of wood to burn is whatever is in your hands just before you put it in the stove. Burning the best type of wood available in your area when temps are mild out is a waste. Burn the junk types or the punky woods in warmer temps or I'm at home times and the best types when the temps hit -30 to -50 farenheit aprox same range in Celsius with a 70 mile 100 kilometer winds like we seen many times this last winter in northwestern Wisconsin. Seen way too many times that the Minnesota cabin people last winter did this completely backwards and were trying to heat the cabin to over 40 f inside while burning a face cord of of kindling or craft grade birch a day or they ran to a big box store that only had mulch chips left. We had 600 face cord dry beginning of last winter added 400 more by Christmas for the upcoming winter all was gone by 2nd week of January 2022. Contacted 4 sawmills for slabwood in the area 3 veneer mills for cores 3 furniture manufacturers for edgeings and cutoffs in my area. Then rented greenhouse space that they were not using to dry firewood in to keep up with some of the demand. The demand has not let up. We are running 6 bandsaws and one 54 inch circle saw 3 homemade firewood processors a dyna that I rent every 2 or 3 weeks yes it has a drinking problem just like your eastonmade lol. We recycle pallets also up to 5 semi loads per week so I have around 500 different types of firewood mixed in piles sold as rainbow mix burns in different colors. Everything is used for something might sit for a few months examples school kids bundle or bag the kindling scraps 50 cents each on common woods 2.00 each on sorted smoking woods cherry apple maple so on same goes on bark 50 cents on filler grades 2.00 on clean pine topping grades white pine separated from red pine flakes so on. Stockpile as much wood as you can now because this fall when the sheep realize that propain is up and natural gas is stupid high you will be very popular with whatever type of wood you have to sell that's dry
Thanks for the info JEFF! Sounds like you have it going on the right way up there!!! Keep cuttin!
In central Michigan here, theres still plenty of dead ash to be had but it is slowly starting to phase out. Cherry, maple, and oak will be the choice firewoods once all the ash is finally gone but for now, ash rules.
Yup, ash will all be gone soon!
Chris, this is Dana (TowMe) aka Millie’s Dad. This is our new firewood channel.
Agreed oak is king, yellow birch , beech, gray birch, black birch.
Thanks for the info.
Hello there Mr. S'more!!!
I have aspen poplar thats been stacked in the woodshed outta the rain for 4 years. Its not powder and no bugs.
That is great! Dry is the key!
Here in ny locust is plentiful and heats well.
Yup, great firewood!
Nice introduction, very well explained,
thanks!
My favorite wood is black locast hard to come by in my area but i graab it every chance i get no matter if i have room for it or not
Yup, we have it here too, great wood!
This was some good information! I like your take on burn what you have in your area
Thanks for visiting!
Useful info, thanks. I'm in the UK but we have some of the same species. I really like Hawthorn for burning - I can't find the btu/cord in any lists but the 'what's good firewood in the UK' lists all say it's excellent and I agree. Apart from the thorns which are a nuisance!
Yup, hawthorn is great firewood, I think it is something like 25-27 on the BTU scale.
Oak and locust I like the best here in southern pa.
Both good choices!
Lilac and sumac 👍
Sumac does burn but explodes a lot!
We have a lot of Live Oak here in Myrtle beach SC BEAUTIFUL Tree !!!
Sounds great, good wood!!!
My father one winter proved you can burn white ash right off the stump. We cut it down and I split 2 arm loads of it (the sap/water was running out of it) I said this won't burn. He said build a good fire in your wood stove its time to put more in, put this ash in. I did what he said and he was right. We burned ash all afternoon and it burned hot too not smoldering.
Nice, that is good to know!
I'll have people call me towards the end if winter in a panic that they are out of wood. I'll tell them- I don't have any seasoned wood left , but I can get them a load of ash. It will absolutely burn fresh cut at 40% moisture. It won't have quite the btu output, but it is great in an emergency.
Yeah it will burn if you get a good fire going first. Correct in not as much btu output compared to if it was dry.
Black locust is my king. It's not nearly as available as oak, but it burns long and hot. I will scroung a downed BL whenever possible. One tree not mentioned is tulip poplar. It burns fast and leaves no coals, but it growns fast,dries fast and grows tall and straight.
Yup, sounds like you have good stuff!
Great video Chris, Florida checking in. Live Oak is very very hard to work with by hand, impossible to split by hand and even in Florida heat dries in about a life time...burn hot once lit but if you are thinking you will cut down a Live Oak with an ax, use a bucking saw to cut to length and the maul to split it....um nope...effort v heat. Prior to the end of fossil fuels, live oak...after yellow pine.
Sounds like tough stuff!
Black locust is probably the best in my area.
Great wood!
I like black locust !! don't know the BTU value, but it burns HOT
It is as good as hickory! And better than most oak!
I use a lot of Ash because it is very available to me and I like that it seasons faster than other wood I have available. Next I cut Maple another wood I have a lot of, then Oak a wood I have some of but not a lot. Most of the Oak I have is too big for me to handle. I like all three but mix in some Red Pine, and other types of wood. My favorite wood to burn is Ash though.
Enjoy the ash, soon it will all be gone!
@@InTheWoodyard Not in my life time.
My favorite is oak because I can sell it for more than what I’d save using it to offset on my home heating gas bill. Although I do love ash because it is one of the easiest to dry and it is mostly bark less. Too bad it is almost gone niw
Yup, that makes good sense!
Is there a quiz tomorrow?
This was a very good video.
Yes, 5:30 am sharp, be here!!!!
Awesome informative video Chris. Red Oak and Sugar Maple most available here in south eastern Ontario. Red is my fav and would be the wood of choice to prep. Would be awesome to take a trip and come meet you in person one day. Cheers Chris . 👌🏻🔥🇨🇦
Yup, both good woods! Come on down, but bring gloves, you will work!
In Oregon, Madrone is the best firewood in Oregon. 30.9 BTU. Madrone is also called Madrona and Arbutus. Madrone is not easy to find in my area, but more prevalent in Southern Oregon. Oregon White Oak is 28.0 BTU. Douglas Fir is 26.5 BTU. So my personal choice of best firewood is Douglas Fir. It's everywhere, easy to split. Fast to season, very resistant to rot. BTU's I quoted found online at World Forest Industries BTU chart. Nice video Chris!
Thanks Steve!
My favorite firewood species that are readily available in my area of western NY are: red oak, ash, cherry, and locust.
Yup, you gotta burn what you have!
Oak is king here in south jersey as well. White, Chestnut oak, red and pin mostly.
Cherry, maple, locust we cut as well. We have a lot of pitch and white pine but not many people burn it. None that i know of anyway.
Yup, white pine is goffer wood, put it in and goffer more!!!
In my area, oak is King! It might not be technically THE BEST but doggoneit, people love it. And it's great to learn that if you store oak properly, it'll last a long time! I've got alot of oak up on pallets in my woodshed, so it's great to learn I don't have to burn (at least right away). Thanks again for taking the time to shoot this video! See you tomorrow morning at 5:30!
Split all you can
Can all you split
Sit on the can
And that's it!
Yup, same here with the oak!
Here in Southern Indiana there is a large hardwood industry. White oak is king. We have 90 acres and heat 2 homes with our own wood. We have the typical mix of oaks, hickory, cherry, maple, tulip poplar, and ash. I have been burning mostly ash for the past 3 or 4 years as it died off and most of it is now gone. One tree most people never mention on youtube is BEECH We have lots of it. Most forest management people think of it as a nuisance tree because it casts a broad area of shade and retards the grow of more desirable timber species. So they recommend thinning the beech from your wood lot and using it for firewood. That is what I am starting to do this year. Unfortunately, on 90 acres, we have enough blow-downs from storms that I almost get enough oak and hickory every year to fulfill our needs. Right now I have 4 large oaks down. They are not resting directly in contact with the soil so I will have a year or two to buck them up. When a cottonwood comes down, I ignore it.
Sounds like you are doing it right! Keep cuttin!
Olive,almond and holly oak, mullberry is good but spits like chestnut , we also have ash and eucaliptus here in Andalucia (southern Spain ) Good Night Irene
Thanks Ben!