When I’m driving down the country roads of Western Pennsylvania, I try to identify the wood species. Drives my wife crazy but she thinks it’s cute until I veer off the road. We have a lot of dog wood out here. Too bad that tree doesn’t grow bigger. Good BTU’s.
Finally, a video that actually shows me what is what...What I got out of this is...Hard wood is heavy, with really tight rings...And medium to soft wood is progressively more spaced out rings...Im talking to the wood stove community, you just made it easier to find good wood...excellent job sir❤ Edited: I meant to say is...Hard wood puts out more BTU compared to Medium and soft woods...you just made it easier to find the BTU of the wood❤️
Thanks for watching...all hardwood is from deciduous trees (loose there leaves every fall) ...like oak, hickory, apple, locust, hedge, maple and even aspen...and all soft woods are evergreens...like pine, spruce and balsam.
@@InTheWoodyard What I meant was BTU output From Heavy, Medium Light... for wood burning stoves...I'll fix that in post...But thank you for that, I didn't know that❤️
Love your channel. Very informative. Thank you. I’m in Missouri and I highly caution telling anyone or anyone thinking that Osage orange/hedge is good firewood. Yes super high in BTUs and it burns hot. If I were to use it, I would maybe throw a little piece in to supplement other woods, but don’t chuck your stove or furnace full of it. I hear horror stories of it warping some stoves or furnace fireboxes because it burns sooooo damned hot. Anyway just FYI on that. Approach with caution. So in Missouri we have a lot of silver maple which is a soft wood and not really good for burning unless you are using a fireplace and just want to see the flames. So what kind of maple are you up there calling hard maple? I’ve never quite understood that (since all of our maples are relatively soft). I appreciate your time.
Hard maple/ rock maple /sugar maple...all the same thing. It has about 24 million BTUs per ton...soft maple/red maple/ silver maple ...all the same thing. It has about 18 million BTUs so it is NOT garbage at all... just not as much heat from same amount.... Just. FYI ...ALL deciduous trees are hard wood ...ALL evergreens are soft wood.
Awesome video Chris and very informative. I had an old timer tell me they used to call cottonwood BISCUIT WOOD because it would burn hot and not very long just long enough to cook a batch of biscuits out on the trail when they were heading across the prairies in the olden days. I thought you would get a kick out of that nickname. Keep the videos going I love learning from you and your channel. Have great Memorial Day weekend.
in the pnw which oregon is part of we also have douglas fir which is excellent heat wise, western hemlock, scrub oak, big leaf maple, black cottonwood, oregon ash and the hottest wood we have is madrona
I’m in North Idaho, we burn mostly dug fur and Tamarack/Larch. We have a lot of white birch, which is great as a firestarter, and particularly the bark.
Thanks for the great video Chris! I have a Eucalyptus grove that I use to burn for myself and give away to family and friends. It makes really great firewood and is a cross between Oak and Cherry. A lot of Almond wood gets shipped to southern California from Northern part of the state since that is where almost all of the almonds are grown (probably the most in the world). That also burns great.
Very good description of the woods ive lived in va, ky ,al. some new to me,most are the same however what you called poplar looks very different from what I am used to calling poplar ,the trunk is very pronounced bark and the heart is green when freshly open then dries brown. Very educational thank you
Great video Chris....informative and shows how different species of wood can look. Our Cherry in Utah looks exactly like the Oregon Cherry. Also, Tractor Supply has PigSkin gloves for $9.99 that I have been extremely impressed with. I am going on 3 weeks with no holes. I have tried tons of gloves like you have , and these definitely hold their own . Thanks !
@@InTheWoodyard it’s actually the other way around. Nobody touches the fir because everybody wants madrone. Fir is great firewood but burns hot and fast, especially the genetically modified super fast growing stuff. The market for fir is super fickle and Iv had lots of sales fall thru last second because they probably found hardwood. It’s all full cords here and when most people wait until they’re completely out I pick up lots of sales when the tweakers and other people aren’t available. I prefer it, easy on me, easy to find, easy on the truck
Yeah I don't have madrone in my local inland area to have taken. Around Vernonia area, very little if any madrone wood. But at 30+ million per cord, yea it's nice. Just 2 tone per cord dry LOL.
That was really interesting thank you. I am in Australia and of course the majority of our big wood is Eucalypts, but we have quite a bit of smaller stuff like wattles and mulga that also make great firewood. All typically is heavier and has higher BTU rating than what you generally have over there. We pay for it though, it is very hard wood and typically difficult to process / split. I live in a subtropical part of the country and typically wood is not used so much for heating here, more we burn it for entertainment (sitting around an outdoor fire) / outdoor cooking.
Poplar is really light and the ash will have a more corse grain with more weight. Both split really easy. Poplar will be more yellow in color. Hard for me to descripe ash with bark. All of ours are dead most have lost the bark.
Very common in Central Texas is Live Oak. Most doesn't grow very tall. When farmers clear their fields, they tend to clear cut Live Oak and most people use it for fire wood (or barbeques). Another wood common in this part of the world is Pecan.
Being from Washington State, I have several of your examples here native on my acreage here in the pugetsound basin. The Cherry is actually called Pugetsound cherry, and is also called bitter cherry. Birds like it. The species of alder is called red alder and can get up to 24" in diameter. Also have the vine maple. Surprised he didnt give you a piece of Oregon Ash which is another dense hot wood we have in the pacific northwest. Grows native into Washington State. Really enjoyed your vid.
North East UK here. All the Cherry we have looks like that last chunk. I also use Hazel, which is a multi-stemmed bush/small tree which coppices very well, makes poles for all sorts of things, nuts for eating and good wood for fuel. I'm currently cutting down a neighbour's Elder - this tree gives perfumed flowers which are great for Elderflower Champaign or wine, and strong flavoured berries which can be used for a wine. Then there's Horse Chestnut, or 'conker trees' which gives a medium wood which spits, and Sweet Chestnut - provides FANTASTIC nuts you can cook with, and a medium firewood. My favourite wood is Hawthorn, a spiky tree with pretty flowers and berries - and incredibly dense wood, one of the best.
Here in SW WI I sometimes find red elm (rock elm?) it's always a pleasant surprise because you think it's a dead white elm. Red elm is up there with oak as far as BTU's. Nice educational video, Thanks.
Good morning! Yup, warm winter, no snow, lots of dead ash everywhere and a poor economy causes for less wood burning! It will keep though like money in the bank but better it does not deflate! Haa!
28:22 Camel thorn... Very hard... very dense hardwood perfect for a BBQ, fireplace, wood stove, firepit and pizza oven. It has a dark red color in the middel and a light yellowish color on the sides... best firewood in Africa!! Mopane burns a little hotter and longer but it's almost the same than Camel thorn!! Other excellent softwoods is Coastal Wattle and Black Wattle... great all rounders... and last but not least eucaloptys \blue gum firewood 34.5 million BTU's... BRILLIANT! 🪵🪵
Boy that Black Locusts sure brings back memories that is primarily what we heated our house with when I was growing up up. I don’t know how many cords we hauled and split by hand. I used to look at the local trading times for wood splitters and show them to my dad. He always answered I have a wood splitter and he would point back at me 😂
Yes I didn’t realize how I would miss cutting firewood. When he died that orange Monster maul and log jack came home with me. Unfortunately the old O32 Stihl and the rest of his gear burned up when his storage building caught on fire. We don’t heat with wood now but I still use that log jack and swing that same maul when cutting for campfire’s and such.
They grow like weeds here in NJ. Like to use them as kindling, splits so easy and makes a cool orange flame. Also smells good.. Thanks for the video Chris
Have you ever heard of Tamarack. It's very hot burning evergreen. I was told that though we have it in our area(Manitoulin) we done use it cause it will burn out your stove. Keep up the good work.Ray
Apparently you've never seen my yard - vine maple exactly like that, cherry just like that, alder just like that, doug fir, western cedar and hemlock. PNW. I don't know if it's unique to my area but we do have a lot of big leaf maple here - does seem somewhere between the other maples you showed - very interesting.
We have a giant beech with a hollow trunk for about 20' to huge y she has a big curve & stress cracks on the main trunk we bought the property in 1979 & she is the matriarch of my 5 acres sitting on high near a creek. Amazing how she hangs on to life.
Chris I think the last cherry may be a Japanese Yoshio cherry. They are common down here in GA. Just cut and split one up a few months ago. Did not have a strong smell and looks identical to the one cherry you got. Great video keep up the good work!
Ory-gun, use that red alder to smoke some salmon if you still have it, Oregon cherry has lines on it to aid in felling and bucking. Lol also a good smoking wood as is the vine maple. Great video
I really enjoy the wood species videos. Next time I see you I’m going to give you a piece of Almond firewood. Then you can say you have the best firewood around!
@@InTheWoodyard Almond is somewhere between 32-33 btu. It’s the best firewood I’ve ever used. Drys relatively quickly, doesn’t rot, very little ash left over and lasts forever on a fire. In my opinion eucalyptus is not a great firewood while it does have an extremely high btu, you will have problems with all the oils in it ruining wood stoves or inserts. Plus it’s known for chimney fires. Lots of it out west where I grew up but hardly anyone would burn it other than a fire pit.
Besides a lot of those that you featured, I have a lot of Sweet Gum and Sycamore on my acreage in Central Kentucky that has needed to be cut in recent years. Once you learn how to cut, split, season and use them I definitely don't snub my nose when these are available.
First of all Chris, it's legal to transport firewood cross state for obvious reasons. Ash borer bug for example.Ment to say ,illegal. Bad idea to mail in box. Keep up the great videos though. Your number one e daily viewer from Oakville Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 😮😮😮
The intent is good but nature has a different plan than man. Wood is shipped all over the world every day. Bugs do not obey laws or borders. Certain areas do have some restrictions like we had for a few years but it did not stop it at all. Loggers where exempt from the whole "do not cross the lines" from transporting logs where they are processed into lumber so..... I would like to see/know the laws as far as wood movement , no regulators that I know of exist except for at national borders like USA and Canada.
@InTheWoodyard Probably more likely to fruit tree woods to protect Apple trees ect. I know eastern Washington has some serious areas of control. I deliberately avoided them by hundred miles, knowing they have large apple tree plantations. . Yes i definitely wouldn't have taken ash tree from the east to the west. That would be a big no no!
@@InTheWoodyard We call it Tulip Poplar here, also called Yellow Poplar, not the same as Aspen. I wish the Dogwoods grew as tall and straight as oaks. Now there's some dense wood! I've made some mallets out of it. Great stuff.
I live in Kansas city and we have all kinds of trees. We have Bradford pear, cutting it smells really good. We also have a tree called Ginko. The Ginko trees smell literally like dog poop. We also have sycamore trees. And we also have baldcypress or sinkerscypress. Just to list a few.
Other types of wood species that are available in North Carolina: Live oak (very dense), Pecan, Beech, Persimmon, Sycamore, Dogwood, and our Poplars are a light hardwood. Sapwood is white and heartwood is dark green, purple, or even black!
I live in North Central Texas (Dallas) I'm getting into the firewood business. All my costumers use fireplaces. What wood should not be burned in fireplaces? A lot of different people putting stuff out on it and I'm confused.
Green wood. Wood that is not seasoned. Wood that is freshly cut from live trees. Wood that has not been split and dried to below 20% moisture content. All wood burns but ONLY fully dried seasoned wood should be burned everywhere in or out side. Ask people what they want or find out what is popular in your area for species..and then supply that! Good luck!
Do you use a pickaroon or hookaroon? Just made one after 40 years of not using or hearing about. ..what an awesome tool... except for near misses of poking legs, lol.
Go job again ! Most of your customers use of firewood is not for serious heating as you say. Each region has its own species. Downeast Maine wood types varies depending on distance from the coast. Snorting splits works well as you said. Along the Maine coastal plain Red/Soft Maple, Paper/White Birch, and spruces and fir regen well. There's some Red Oak, rare Beech, some White Ash and little Yellow Birch and Cherry. So we separate the stacks based on use for the shoulder seasons ( spring, summer, fall ), and for winter heating. Yes, I'm a wood snob compulsive 😵💫. I do often run out to stare and snort my stacks. She has a referral for me for help. 😒
I cut down (18) Black Locust the week before last. It is great firewood, but I much prefer the Honey Locust myself. Don't have the thick bark falling off to clean up and it burns even hotter!🔥 Either one really needs mixed with other hardwoods or you risk a glowing hot stove or pipe!
There is tree i loved when i was in BC for 6 months, it's arbutus, the barck is LIKE birch, it peels like birch, i think it would be considered in ironwood familly
Musclewood,blue beech is a cool species. Twisted swirly grain. Understory species , highly shade tolerant just like hard maple. Musclewood is dense when u cut it but leave it on the forest floor like white birch come back in a year and its basically rotten Away already. Other WI less known species not mentioned: sycamore non native, northern catalpa, holly, dogwood, chinese elm, canadian yew, Mountain ash, hemlock, tag alder, glossy and common buckthorn, prickly ash,pear,plum,apple, tamarack, eastern larch, eastern red cedar, river birch,yellow birch, honey locust, ginko,( urban tree, has red berries, theres alot in Stevens Point) winterberry holly, Mulberry, black willow, choke cherry, striped maple, fire cherry, white blue and blackand norway spruce, Douglas, frasier, balsam fir, austrian pine, and the most unique is probably Kentucky coffeetree and horse chestnut, American and Chinese chestnut, red elm, slippery elm, rock elm, honey locust, American elm, english walnut, and butternut which makes beautiful light brown lumber . Hackberry smells way worse than red oak or cottonwood. It smells like piss. Plus Alot more species that i forgot also. Better than having only spruce and aspen to burn . I love the huge Diversity of trees in Wisconsin including urban trees And they all 🔥 burn. I used to know all 95% of their scientific names also
I have 40 acres of woods and I cut and sell everything that falls or dies no matter what it is. It's about 150 ricks a year to keep up. I just sell the trash wood cheaper and always sell as much as I can cut.
This type of video is awesome for us noobs! This is my kind of game show. I try to identify the species before you announce it. I'm getting better but I have much more work to do in this arena. 🧐😵💫😂
Here in Georgia, we have a lot of Sweet Gum and Pecan. Lots of Cherry that looks different from yours. Yellow Poplar, Red Maple, American Beech, River Birch, Live Oak and Water Oak are some of the trees here.
Yup, lots of kinds of wood! We have several kinds of white oak...some that I know of in our area are White oak, Swamp white oak and Burr oak...I am sure there are more that are native here.
@@InTheWoodyardThat's interesting as you have a few different oaks. I think we have just the native white oak and red oak but I think the red is probably imported.
It’s so funny; Osage makes arguably the best stick-n-string bows where it’s native and our hop hornbeam / ironwood here in WI is our best bow wood. And they both burn super hot. Who woulda thunk. I’d love to get my hands on a hunk of HH / IW for a bow, but I can’t seem to find anything :-(
Great Video! When you refer to Hard Maple is that Sugar Maple? There are a lot of Maple species, but being from Canada we hear Sugar Maple mentioned more often.
Yes, it is! Also called rock maple, sugar maple, hard maple. Most other maples are soft maple like red, yellow, silver maple, , striped maple, big leaf, box elder...
I commented on Bert's video with the removal of the Cottonwood you have in today's video that stinks. I really believe it is Lombardy Poplar that is a fast growing hybrid and is common in housing additions and for wind breaks. They grow very fast but have a short life span and are prone to disease.👍
We also have southern and northern red oaks.quite different, and cherry bark oak ,post oak,scarlet oak,white oak,swamp white oak,chestnut oak,shumard oak,willow oak,,overcup oak,swamp chestnut oak,bur oak,blackjack oak,overcup oak ,shingle oak,water oak,pin oak,chinqaupin oak ,and other non native species...I'm sure I've forgotten......this year I've seen more carpenter ants in my tree removals then ever before in 30 years also this week while doing estimates at customer s houses the cicadas are all singing at same time it's most incredible sound...like electricity mixed with tree frogs..very loud ...it supposed to happen every 17 years or something but we just had that few years ago so not sure why but there were millions of them on this neighborhood of trees singing..they leave a shell of themselves and fly off like butterfly s..cocoon...the copperhead s love to eat them...when we had them last time it's like haveing giant hornets buzzing all around hitting you in the head ..while working it's very difficult..because in your mind you automatically think bees ..and there very large swarms
Typically, the ornamental cherries like Kwanzan or yoshino have that smooth bark. More of a fragrancy, hue of cherry blossom vs the traditional black cherry smell. The black cherries can get large and are really red inside.
I was at a lumber yrd delivering yrs ago the owner had a piece of lumber as black as could be asked him said it was from Africa was very dense heavy dnt remember name of it
In central California, almond wood is very popular. I think it’s equal to oak. I grew up on an almond and walnut ranch and we burned almond all the time. When I moved to the mountains, I burned oak, I thought they were about the same.
iron wood would kill my sawchain, so hard! upstate ny area they generally are not too big but still brutal on chain sharpness. lotta ash here its got the beetles in it so a lot of dead stuff, not a lot of BTU's but hey it burns!
When I’m driving down the country roads of Western Pennsylvania, I try to identify the wood species. Drives my wife crazy but she thinks it’s cute until I veer off the road. We have a lot of dog wood out here. Too bad that tree doesn’t grow bigger. Good BTU’s.
you covered all the genus we have up here in southern quebec except for hemlock and tamarack, exciting video I got wood watching it
Yup, we have those here too, I just did not have any to show, it is not cut much here.
Finally, a video that actually shows me what is what...What I got out of this is...Hard wood is heavy, with really tight rings...And medium to soft wood is progressively more spaced out rings...Im talking to the wood stove community, you just made it easier to find good wood...excellent job sir❤
Edited: I meant to say is...Hard wood puts out more BTU compared to Medium and soft woods...you just made it easier to find the BTU of the wood❤️
Thanks for watching...all hardwood is from deciduous trees (loose there leaves every fall) ...like oak, hickory, apple, locust, hedge, maple and even aspen...and all soft woods are evergreens...like pine, spruce and balsam.
@@InTheWoodyard What I meant was BTU output From Heavy, Medium Light... for wood burning stoves...I'll fix that in post...But thank you for that, I didn't know that❤️
So,I live in the state of Oregon (pronounced ory gun) . Great information. Thanks
So the second o in Oregon is supposed to be a u ??? So why not change it to an U ???
Wow Chris! Obviously you have decades of experience with wood identification. What a unique treasure of knowledge you have. Chuck in Florida.
Love your channel. Very informative. Thank you.
I’m in Missouri and I highly caution telling anyone or anyone thinking that Osage orange/hedge is good firewood. Yes super high in BTUs and it burns hot. If I were to use it, I would maybe throw a little piece in to supplement other woods, but don’t chuck your stove or furnace full of it. I hear horror stories of it warping some stoves or furnace fireboxes because it burns sooooo damned hot. Anyway just FYI on that. Approach with caution.
So in Missouri we have a lot of silver maple which is a soft wood and not really good for burning unless you are using a fireplace and just want to see the flames. So what kind of maple are you up there calling hard maple? I’ve never quite understood that (since all of our maples are relatively soft). I appreciate your time.
Hard maple/ rock maple /sugar maple...all the same thing. It has about 24 million BTUs per ton...soft maple/red maple/ silver maple ...all the same thing. It has about 18 million BTUs so it is NOT garbage at all... just not as much heat from same amount.... Just. FYI ...ALL deciduous trees are hard wood ...ALL evergreens are soft wood.
Awesome video Chris and very informative. I had an old timer tell me they used to call cottonwood BISCUIT WOOD because it would burn hot and not very long just long enough to cook a batch of biscuits out on the trail when they were heading across the prairies in the olden days. I thought you would get a kick out of that nickname. Keep the videos going I love learning from you and your channel. Have great Memorial Day weekend.
That is a good one...thanks!!
Great video Chris!I try & burn mostly "Deciduos" wood!
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You like drinking different beers...Your stove likes different logs🤣
in the pnw which oregon is part of we also have douglas fir which is excellent heat wise, western hemlock, scrub oak, big leaf maple, black cottonwood, oregon ash and the hottest wood we have is madrona
Sounds like nice stuff!
I’m in North Idaho, we burn mostly dug fur and Tamarack/Larch. We have a lot of white birch, which is great as a firestarter, and particularly the bark.
Yup, all wood burns!
We have a few black birch if you peel the bark it has a strong wintergreen smell supposedly good btu
Sounds nice!
It’s very helpful you showing the difference in wood. I’ve been burning pine in the fire pit. It burns very good and easy to start.
Great to hear! Yup, pine is fine but it can be an active fire...lots of snap crackle and pop!
Thanks for the great video Chris! I have a Eucalyptus grove that I use to burn for myself and give away to family and friends. It makes really great firewood and is a cross between Oak and Cherry. A lot of Almond wood gets shipped to southern California from Northern part of the state since that is where almost all of the almonds are grown (probably the most in the world). That also burns great.
Thanks for watching, those are all great kinds of wood for firewood!
I'm in N E Indiana, where I found a nice amount of Mulberry logs in my towns compost branch and limb pile. Nice wood.
That's awesome, mulberry is a good wood to burn!
Very good description of the woods ive lived in va, ky ,al. some new to me,most are the same however what you called poplar looks very different from what I am used to calling poplar ,the trunk is very pronounced bark and the heart is green when freshly open then dries brown. Very educational thank you
Thanks for watching!
Nice tutorial and helpful info. Love the smell of Cherry too. Elm....not so much. LOL! Cheers Chris!
Glad you enjoyed it Sir Gord!
@@InTheWoodyard LOL! You are the second buddy that calls me that. :)) All the best my leige! 🤣
Great video Chris....informative and shows how different species of wood can look. Our Cherry in Utah looks exactly like the Oregon Cherry. Also, Tractor Supply has PigSkin gloves for $9.99 that I have been extremely impressed with. I am going on 3 weeks with no holes. I have tried tons of gloves like you have , and these definitely hold their own . Thanks !
Thanks, I will check them out!
I am also from Oregon. We have madrone hardwood, and Douglas fir which is sometimes described as a hardwood
Yup, I hear that madrone is good wood but Doug fir is king out there.
@@InTheWoodyard it’s actually the other way around. Nobody touches the fir because everybody wants madrone. Fir is great firewood but burns hot and fast, especially the genetically modified super fast growing stuff. The market for fir is super fickle and Iv had lots of sales fall thru last second because they probably found hardwood. It’s all full cords here and when most people wait until they’re completely out I pick up lots of sales when the tweakers and other people aren’t available. I prefer it, easy on me, easy to find, easy on the truck
Yeah I don't have madrone in my local inland area to have taken.
Around Vernonia area, very little if any madrone wood.
But at 30+ million per cord, yea it's nice. Just 2 tone per cord dry LOL.
@@BGWenterprises Iv wondered what silver madrone actually weights because it’s way heavier than fir
Good info on the wood Chris, I remember him bringing that wood over to your truck and not one person got the wild cherry right
Yup, I had no idea either!
That was really interesting thank you. I am in Australia and of course the majority of our big wood is Eucalypts, but we have quite a bit of smaller stuff like wattles and mulga that also make great firewood. All typically is heavier and has higher BTU rating than what you generally have over there. We pay for it though, it is very hard wood and typically difficult to process / split. I live in a subtropical part of the country and typically wood is not used so much for heating here, more we burn it for entertainment (sitting around an outdoor fire) / outdoor cooking.
Sounds great! A lot of wood here is burned for fun too!
Great video showing some interesting comparisons.
I’d like to see tulip poplar and ash side by side. Bark seems similar.
I would like to show you but we do not have tulip poplar here.
Poplar is really light and the ash will have a more corse grain with more weight.
Both split really easy. Poplar will be more yellow in color.
Hard for me to descripe ash with bark. All of ours are dead most have lost the bark.
Thanks. Saving this video along with other tutorial videos you have done.
Great to hear! Thanks for watching!
Very common in Central Texas is Live Oak. Most doesn't grow very tall. When farmers clear their fields, they tend to clear cut Live Oak and most people use it for fire wood (or barbeques). Another wood common in this part of the world is Pecan.
Yup, nut trees are all good firewood!
Being from Washington State, I have several of your examples here native on my acreage here in the pugetsound basin. The Cherry is actually called Pugetsound cherry, and is also called bitter cherry. Birds like it. The species of alder is called red alder and can get up to 24" in diameter. Also have the vine maple. Surprised he didnt give you a piece of Oregon Ash which is another dense hot wood we have in the pacific northwest. Grows native into Washington State. Really enjoyed your vid.
Thanks for watching!
great rundown, i'm trying to get as good as you are at identifying these, but I got a long way to go. Thx!
Thanks! Keep practicing, that is what I do..always trying to figure out what kind it is.
North East UK here. All the Cherry we have looks like that last chunk. I also use Hazel, which is a multi-stemmed bush/small tree which coppices very well, makes poles for all sorts of things, nuts for eating and good wood for fuel. I'm currently cutting down a neighbour's Elder - this tree gives perfumed flowers which are great for Elderflower Champaign or wine, and strong flavoured berries which can be used for a wine. Then there's Horse Chestnut, or 'conker trees' which gives a medium wood which spits, and Sweet Chestnut - provides FANTASTIC nuts you can cook with, and a medium firewood. My favourite wood is Hawthorn, a spiky tree with pretty flowers and berries - and incredibly dense wood, one of the best.
We do have some ...but not much hawthorn here..great firewood.
Here in SW WI I sometimes find red elm (rock elm?) it's always a pleasant surprise because you think it's a dead white elm. Red elm is up there with oak as far as BTU's. Nice educational video, Thanks.
Yup, all elm burns, just like all other wood BUT it does not like to be split!!!!
Cotton wood and poplar are the same tree
Great vids and just found your channel. I'm also from WA state and would say "Or uh gun" fast for Oregon. CHEERS!
Thanks for stopping in!
G’morning Chris ! Excellent identifying action today ! Dog puke is the most best ! I still have the piece of Osage you gave me. GoodNightIrene
Morning! Dog puke! Nice thought as I eat !!
very informative. out here were i am at central coast california we have Madrone. its a very nice burning wood.
Thanks! Very cool!
Good morning Chris!!😀😀
You have a pretty good head start on wood for this year.
Take care my friend!!😀😀
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Good morning! Yup, warm winter, no snow, lots of dead ash everywhere and a poor economy causes for less wood burning! It will keep though like money in the bank but better it does not deflate! Haa!
28:22 Camel thorn... Very hard... very dense hardwood perfect for a BBQ, fireplace, wood stove, firepit and pizza oven. It has a dark red color in the middel and a light yellowish color on the sides... best firewood in Africa!! Mopane burns a little hotter and longer but it's almost the same than Camel thorn!! Other excellent softwoods is Coastal Wattle and Black Wattle... great all rounders... and last but not least eucaloptys \blue gum firewood 34.5 million BTU's... BRILLIANT! 🪵🪵
Thanks for the info!
We have several cherries 🍒...a dozen weeping ornamental cherry ,wild 🍒....and few others..I mix them all together..had about 7 kinds last year
Nice!
Boy that Black Locusts sure brings back memories that is primarily what we heated our house with when I was growing up up. I don’t know how many cords we hauled and split by hand. I used to look at the local trading times for wood splitters and show them to my dad. He always answered I have a wood splitter and he would point back at me 😂
Your dad made you tough!
Yes I didn’t realize how I would miss cutting firewood. When he died that orange Monster maul and log jack came home with me. Unfortunately the old O32 Stihl and the rest of his gear burned up when his storage building caught on fire. We don’t heat with wood now but I still use that log jack and swing that same maul when cutting for campfire’s and such.
Nice seeing the different kinds of wood.
Thanks for watching!
Great information Chris if Only you had a picture poster if only. It sure wood be nice to have.
Yup, it would be a lot of work and the kinds of wood would be huge...a lot we do not have. I myself just use google when stumped.
Hi Chris. We have a few sassafras trees here in southern pa. Close to Gettysburg. I haven’t seen a lot though. Keep that tundra running.
I cut some last year in Indiana...nice wood. Will do!
They grow like weeds here in NJ. Like to use them as kindling, splits so easy and makes a cool orange flame. Also smells good..
Thanks for the video Chris
Have you ever heard of Tamarack. It's very hot burning evergreen. I was told that though we have it in our area(Manitoulin) we done use it cause it will burn out your stove. Keep up the good work.Ray
Yup, it is usually called larch....it is not an evergreen, it looses its needles every fall. It is very good firewood, burns hot!
Apparently you've never seen my yard - vine maple exactly like that, cherry just like that, alder just like that, doug fir, western cedar and hemlock. PNW. I don't know if it's unique to my area but we do have a lot of big leaf maple here - does seem somewhere between the other maples you showed - very interesting.
Thanks for watching!
Nice job Chris. As for me, the more I know-the more often I am fooled. The fire lets me know that I was wrong. GNI
Yup, some are very hard to know, I found that doing wood ID as a team helps, others see thing I miss!
Great job Chris!👍👍
Thanks!!!
Your beechwood that’s similar to ironwood, I’ve seen a few of those trees and now I know what they are. Thanks Chris. Keep on cutting
Big difference though beech gets HUGE iron wood or blue beech does not.
We have a giant beech with a hollow trunk for about 20' to huge y she has a big curve & stress cracks on the main trunk we bought the property in 1979 & she is the matriarch of my 5 acres sitting on high near a creek. Amazing how she hangs on to life.
Chris I think the last cherry may be a Japanese Yoshio cherry. They are common down here in GA. Just cut and split one up a few months ago. Did not have a strong smell and looks identical to the one cherry you got. Great video keep up the good work!
Thanks for the info!
Ory-gun, use that red alder to smoke some salmon if you still have it,
Oregon cherry has lines on it to aid in felling and bucking. Lol also a good smoking wood as is the vine maple.
Great video
Thanks for watching!
Good id Chris,I appreciate it
Thanks!
I really enjoy the wood species videos. Next time I see you I’m going to give you a piece of Almond firewood. Then you can say you have the best firewood around!
Sounds great! So it has more BTUs than live oak (36.6) eucalyptus (34.5) Osage orange (32.9)??
@@InTheWoodyard Almond is somewhere between 32-33 btu. It’s the best firewood I’ve ever used. Drys relatively quickly, doesn’t rot, very little ash left over and lasts forever on a fire. In my opinion eucalyptus is not a great firewood while it does have an extremely high btu, you will have problems with all the oils in it ruining wood stoves or inserts. Plus it’s known for chimney fires. Lots of it out west where I grew up but hardly anyone would burn it other than a fire pit.
Besides a lot of those that you featured, I have a lot of Sweet Gum and Sycamore on my acreage in Central Kentucky that has needed to be cut in recent years. Once you learn how to cut, split, season and use them I definitely don't snub my nose when these are available.
Very cool! we do not have sweet gum or sycamore here.
First of all Chris, it's legal to transport firewood cross state for obvious reasons. Ash borer bug for example.Ment to say ,illegal. Bad idea to mail in box. Keep up the great videos though. Your number one e daily viewer from Oakville Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 😮😮😮
The intent is good but nature has a different plan than man. Wood is shipped all over the world every day. Bugs do not obey laws or borders. Certain areas do have some restrictions like we had for a few years but it did not stop it at all. Loggers where exempt from the whole "do not cross the lines" from transporting logs where they are processed into lumber so..... I would like to see/know the laws as far as wood movement , no regulators that I know of exist except for at national borders like USA and Canada.
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Probably more likely to fruit tree woods to protect Apple trees ect.
I know eastern Washington has some serious areas of control.
I deliberately avoided them by hundred miles, knowing they have large apple tree plantations.
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Yes i definitely wouldn't have taken ash tree from the east to the west. That would be a big no no!
Great info and demo. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
I have a crap ton of those Black Cherry trees on my property in mid Michigan
That is awesome...I love cherry firewood!
In Virginia, we have holly trees, dogwood, and lots of poplar and gum (hate splitting gum!) that you didn't mention.
Yup, different area, the only one of those we have is polar/aspen.
@@InTheWoodyard We call it Tulip Poplar here, also called Yellow Poplar, not the same as Aspen. I wish the Dogwoods grew as tall and straight as oaks. Now there's some dense wood! I've made some mallets out of it. Great stuff.
I live in Kansas city and we have all kinds of trees. We have Bradford pear, cutting it smells really good. We also have a tree called Ginko. The Ginko trees smell literally like dog poop. We also have sycamore trees. And we also have baldcypress or sinkerscypress. Just to list a few.
Sounds stinky there!! Good thing all wood burns!
Here in PA we have tulip poplar I have 5 of them in my back yrd burns fast like paper light in weight easy to split
Yup, very similar to our aspen/poplar.
Other types of wood species that are available in North Carolina: Live oak (very dense), Pecan, Beech, Persimmon, Sycamore, Dogwood, and our Poplars are a light hardwood. Sapwood is white and heartwood is dark green, purple, or even black!
Yup, you have some great kinds of wood that we do not have!
Great video Any way I can send you a pic of some wood I have to see if you can tell me what it is ?
Yup...take close up pictures of the wood inside and the bark too....email to my at chrisinthewoodyard@gmail.com
Lotta variety ya had there Chris!👍🏻👍🏻GNI
Thanks 👍
I’ve got mulberry and lilac, they are both very dense and heavy.
Yup, mulberry is good stuff!
Hi Chris, nice to see your video!
Hey, thanks!
Good morning everyone yes need good wood to burn good video Chris ( Ty Ron
Yup,. thanks Ron!
I live in North Central Texas (Dallas) I'm getting into the firewood business. All my costumers use fireplaces. What wood should not be burned in fireplaces? A lot of different people putting stuff out on it and I'm confused.
Green wood. Wood that is not seasoned. Wood that is freshly cut from live trees. Wood that has not been split and dried to below 20% moisture content. All wood burns but ONLY fully dried seasoned wood should be burned everywhere in or out side. Ask people what they want or find out what is popular in your area for species..and then supply that! Good luck!
Very educational video.
Thanks JAMES!
Mr Chris : What do you find the hardest wood to split ? Here I find it to be Pinn Oak or Water Oak in SC. Gum can be a pain as well....
Usually nasty crotchy elm.
Do you use a pickaroon or hookaroon? Just made one after 40 years of not using or hearing about. ..what an awesome tool... except for near misses of poking legs, lol.
Not to much, mostly when splitting for grabbing and moving wood.
GREAT, GREAT VIDEO. THANK YOU, THANK YOU
Thanks for watching!
Go job again ! Most of your customers use of firewood is not for serious heating as you say. Each region has its own species. Downeast Maine wood types varies depending on distance from the coast. Snorting splits works well as you said. Along the Maine coastal plain Red/Soft Maple, Paper/White Birch, and spruces and fir regen well. There's some Red Oak, rare Beech, some White Ash and little Yellow Birch and Cherry. So we separate the stacks based on use for the shoulder seasons ( spring, summer, fall ), and for winter heating. Yes, I'm a wood snob compulsive 😵💫. I do often run out to stare and snort my stacks. She has a referral for me for help. 😒
You sound totaly normal to me...keep sortin'!
I cut down (18) Black Locust the week before last. It is great firewood, but I much prefer the Honey Locust myself. Don't have the thick bark falling off to clean up and it burns even hotter!🔥 Either one really needs mixed with other hardwoods or you risk a glowing hot stove or pipe!
YES! Black locust is nice AFTER all the bark is off...messy!
There is tree i loved when i was in BC for 6 months, it's arbutus, the barck is LIKE birch, it peels like birch, i think it would be considered in ironwood familly
Interesting!
Musclewood,blue beech is a cool species. Twisted swirly grain. Understory species , highly shade tolerant just like hard maple. Musclewood is dense when u cut it but leave it on the forest floor like white birch come back in a year and its basically rotten Away already. Other WI less known species not mentioned: sycamore non native, northern catalpa, holly, dogwood, chinese elm, canadian yew, Mountain ash, hemlock, tag alder, glossy and common buckthorn, prickly ash,pear,plum,apple, tamarack, eastern larch, eastern red cedar, river birch,yellow birch, honey locust, ginko,( urban tree, has red berries, theres alot in Stevens Point) winterberry holly, Mulberry, black willow, choke cherry, striped maple, fire cherry, white blue and blackand norway spruce, Douglas, frasier, balsam fir, austrian pine, and the most unique is probably Kentucky coffeetree and horse chestnut, American and Chinese chestnut, red elm, slippery elm, rock elm, honey locust, American elm, english walnut, and butternut which makes beautiful light brown lumber . Hackberry smells way worse than red oak or cottonwood. It smells like piss. Plus Alot more species that i forgot also. Better than having only spruce and aspen to burn . I love the huge Diversity of trees in Wisconsin including urban trees And they all 🔥 burn. I used to know all 95% of their scientific names also
Yup, lots of kinds of wood and they ALL BURN!
The Alder is fantastic for smoking fish. It's the go to fish smoking wood on the West Coast.
Nice!
Trees I haven't seen anyone mention that I have in southern Indiana are sycamore, red bud, buckeye, honey locust, willow, and bald cypress.
We do have willow and honey locust...honey locust is great firewood...willow not very good at all, it burns like tissue paper!
I have 40 acres of woods and I cut and sell everything that falls or dies no matter what it is. It's about 150 ricks a year to keep up. I just sell the trash wood cheaper and always sell as much as I can cut.
Interesting. Persimmon wood is good for making gavels or burning, smaller kind of tree.
Nice, we do not have it here as far as I know.
This type of video is awesome for us noobs! This is my kind of game show. I try to identify the species before you announce it. I'm getting better but I have much more work to do in this arena. 🧐😵💫😂
Glad you like them! We did a few others a couple years ago..winter live tree ID and log ID with my brother Ken up in northern Wisconsin.
Here in Georgia, we have a lot of Sweet Gum and Pecan. Lots of Cherry that looks different from yours. Yellow Poplar, Red Maple, American Beech, River Birch, Live Oak and Water Oak are some of the trees here.
Those all sound like great wood for fire!
You forgot Doug Fir and Hemlock - both very common here in the PNW. Also, Alder is very dirty burning. FYI
I did not forget it...we do not have Doug fir here and hemlock is mostly in northern Wisconsin I have not much hemlock and I did not have any to show.
Very interesting how tne bark and wood varies so much between species.
I didn't think that white oak was native to America?
Yup, lots of kinds of wood! We have several kinds of white oak...some that I know of in our area are White oak, Swamp white oak and Burr oak...I am sure there are more that are native here.
@@InTheWoodyardThat's interesting as you have a few different oaks.
I think we have just the native white oak and red oak but I think the red is probably imported.
It’s so funny; Osage makes arguably the best stick-n-string bows where it’s native and our hop hornbeam / ironwood here in WI is our best bow wood. And they both burn super hot. Who woulda thunk.
I’d love to get my hands on a hunk of HH / IW for a bow, but I can’t seem to find anything :-(
Good luck with your search!
Thanks professor...
No just a guy with a saw that like wood. Thanks.
Red Pine gets made into brown paper bags. The larger logs (bolts) are cut into lumber.
Yup, telephone poles, card board, lumber and here in THE paper valley...toilet paper, diapers, kleenex, paper toweling, feminine products.!
Very interesting video
Thanks!
The little comment you snuck in today’s video (morning wood) was hilarious!
I was hoping someone would catch that...good ear Ricardo!
Great Video! When you refer to Hard Maple is that Sugar Maple? There are a lot of Maple species, but being from Canada we hear Sugar Maple mentioned more often.
Yes, it is! Also called rock maple, sugar maple, hard maple. Most other maples are soft maple like red, yellow, silver maple, , striped maple, big leaf, box elder...
@@InTheWoodyard Thank you! Always enjoy your videos
We also have 10 kinds of hickory, and pecan..and mockernut ,pignut hickory
Wow, that is a bunch!
I feel like Chris Farley in almost hero's learning how to read......"do you want my head to explode"!!
HA!
I love your channel and videos!!! But I have a phone app that tells me species. Also works for flowers, plants, brush etc.
Nice! I am old school and I like to know how to do it myself!
I commented on Bert's video with the removal of the Cottonwood you have in today's video that stinks. I really believe it is Lombardy Poplar that is a fast growing hybrid and is common in housing additions and for wind breaks. They grow very fast but have a short life span and are prone to disease.👍
Maybe so, I was not there for that job??? You are correct, Lombard poplar is fast growing tall, straight and dies easily.
In lebanon we have
A different kind of oak very very dense
Olive wood
Olive is suppose to be very good firewood, better than a lot of others including oak.
We also have southern and northern red oaks.quite different, and cherry bark oak ,post oak,scarlet oak,white oak,swamp white oak,chestnut oak,shumard oak,willow oak,,overcup oak,swamp chestnut oak,bur oak,blackjack oak,overcup oak ,shingle oak,water oak,pin oak,chinqaupin oak ,and other non native species...I'm sure I've forgotten......this year I've seen more carpenter ants in my tree removals then ever before in 30 years also this week while doing estimates at customer s houses the cicadas are all singing at same time it's most incredible sound...like electricity mixed with tree frogs..very loud ...it supposed to happen every 17 years or something but we just had that few years ago so not sure why but there were millions of them on this neighborhood of trees singing..they leave a shell of themselves and fly off like butterfly s..cocoon...the copperhead s love to eat them...when we had them last time it's like haveing giant hornets buzzing all around hitting you in the head ..while working it's very difficult..because in your mind you automatically think bees ..and there very large swarms
Wow you all have a mess of oaks there! the cicadas are here inn late summer usually but never more than a few at a time screeching at each other!
Typically, the ornamental cherries like Kwanzan or yoshino have that smooth bark. More of a fragrancy, hue of cherry blossom vs the traditional black cherry smell. The black cherries can get large and are really red inside.
Thanks for the info!
The Toronto maple leafs. Go Chris
Thanks for watching!
We have trees that the Pa. Forestry call cucumber trees. They are a member of the magnolia family. Good firewood.
Very interesting!
Morning wood still the best. Smells great when on fire
okay
Definitely a go to video when referencing different species. GNI
Thanks Bill!
I’ll take some red pine, pine is fine😊
Yup, it burns great!
I was at a lumber yrd delivering yrs ago the owner had a piece of lumber as black as could be asked him said it was from Africa was very dense heavy dnt remember name of it
Probably ebony, maybe dark teak??
No river birch in Wisconsin?
Yup, I just did not have any, not a lot of it here.
Sassafras smells good we have it here in pa
Yup, like root beer!
Some rarer finds from the northeast:
Pear, Tulip, Apple, Larch
And my favorite: Sassafras.
I love the smell!
In central California, almond wood is very popular. I think it’s equal to oak. I grew up on an almond and walnut ranch and we burned almond all the time. When I moved to the mountains, I burned oak, I thought they were about the same.
Almond wood is 32.9 BTUs and red oak is 24 so almond is way better ...like more that 25% so...
@@InTheWoodyard we had white oak and black oak Sonora, California, I looked it up. It’s 24 and 27 BTUs.
iron wood would kill my sawchain, so hard! upstate ny area they generally are not too big but still brutal on chain sharpness. lotta ash here its got the beetles in it so a lot of dead stuff, not a lot of BTU's but hey it burns!
I cut quite a lot of iron wood, it cuts nice.
Thorn apple same thing as crab apple?
No, but very similar..all apple wood is good firewood!