Firewood

[ohiosteve]

I'm sure many of you folks on here heat with wood as I do, just thought I'd start a thread about firewood since I'd love to hear some tricks and tips from some other parts of the country. personally my favorite wood to burn is black locust, followed by osage orange and then either ash oak or cherry. I've already got enough wood stockpiled for this winter but it's only cut to length and stacked in my wood shed. I will split it before I bring it into the house as needed.
What kinds of wood do Y'all burn and what are your techniques?

[Ouachita]

Technique? That would be cut, split, dry and burn. I love dry wood; keeps the stove pipe clean. Most of mine is red and white oak, some hickory. Dogwood is my favorite, but you just can't get any quantity of it. Most of the fruit and nut trees are great, just don't get as much. I try to stay one year ahead on my wood. Burn 3 to 5 cord a year depending on weather. I don't have any back-up heat source. Wood is it, and I've got loading the wood stove down to an art

[Isomade]

I'm sure many of you folks on here heat with wood as I do, just thought I'd start a thread about firewood since I'd love to hear some tricks and tips from some other parts of the country. personally my favorite wood to burn is black locust, followed by osage orange and then either ash oak or cherry. I've already got enough wood stockpiled for this winter but it's only cut to length and stacked in my wood shed. I will split it before I bring it into the house as needed.
What kinds of wood do Y'all burn and what are your techniques?

I don't have any Bkack Locust, but I do have plenty of Honey locust. I'll pay your gas and an hourly wage to come cut it all down and haul the shyt out of here.

[ohiosteve]

I don't have any Bkack Locust, but I do have plenty of Honey locust. I'll pay your gas and an hourly wage to come cut it all down and haul the shyt out of here.

DEAL. I need a vacation. My old Dodge gets about 8 mpg, so at 1300 miles that will only cost you $560.00 per load on fuel and I'll only charge you $15.00/hr for my time. I Just called my boss and quit my job, he was mad at first but he understood. I'll see you tomorrow afternoon, if you could have some Old Milwaukee on ice that would be great.

[Ouachita]

I don't have any Bkack Locust, but I do have plenty of Honey locust. I'll pay your gas and an hourly wage to come cut it all down and haul the shyt out of here.

DEAL. I need a vacation. My old Dodge gets about 8 mpg, so at 1300 miles that will only cost you $560.00 per load on fuel and I'll only charge you $15.00/hr for my time. I Just called my boss and quit my job, he was mad at first but he understood. I'll see you tomorrow afternoon, if you could have some Old Milwaukee on ice that would be great.

A true business man If Iso don't furnish the beer, I'll have the cooler ready on the flip-flop. I'll trade the cooler full of beer for half the load?????

[Jogeephus]

Got anything to wash the beer down with? I might help you for nothing. On second thoughts a bag of boiled peanuts and a couple of pickled eggs would be nice.

[Caustic Burno]

I'm sure many of you folks on here heat with wood as I do, just thought I'd start a thread about firewood since I'd love to hear some tricks and tips from some other parts of the country. personally my favorite wood to burn is black locust, followed by osage orange and then either ash oak or cherry. I've already got enough wood stockpiled for this winter but it's only cut to length and stacked in my wood shed. I will split it before I bring it into the house as needed.
What kinds of wood do Y'all burn and what are your techniques?

Red Oak and White oak mainly followed by some Hickory.
I hate firewood the only thing that get's hot from it here is me.
Mrs. can go through some, she doesn't like the central heat.
I tell her she would like it much better if she was cutting, splitting stacking and toting that wood.
Chinese Tallow makes great firewood want some.

[bigbull338]

we like oak an red oak an hackberry.we use 90% oak wood to burn in winter.being here in texas we burn 3 to 5 cords of wood.we like to get dry seasoned wood.

[Alan]

Interesting to see things from other parts of the country, I have no idea what a locus tree looks like, may google it.

We have been heating with wood for many years, although we do have central heat. We go through 2 to 3 cords a year. At our place we have so many trees that fall or break during winter storms it's pretty easy pickings. Mostly we burn Fir, Alder, Maple. I also like keeping a couple of years ahead for seasoning. Used a gas powered splitter for the first time last year, I hope I never have to pick up a maul again.

Alan

[Commercialfarmer]

I'm sure that the osage orange and black locus burns good and hot and for a long time, but how in the world do you cut enough to heat you for the winter? That stuff is HARD. I made a self bow out of Osage with hand tools when I was younger and have a lot of respect for it.

[dun]

Interesting to see things from other parts of the country, I have no idea what a locus tree looks like, may google it.

We have been heating with wood for many years, although we do have central heat. We go through 2 to 3 cords a year. At our place we have so many trees that fall or break during winter storms it's pretty easy pickings. Mostly we burn Fir, Alder, Maple. I also like keeping a couple of years ahead for seasoning. Used a gas powered splitter for the first time last year, I hope I never have to pick up a maul again.

Alan

When we lived up there that was what we burned too. There ws a alot of highway projects going on and we could just go and get all we could carry. I finally gave up on alder, prefered maple to anything but used a lot of fir too. We burned 6-8 cord a year in an airtight. Back then splitting it with wedeges seemed like good exercise. Going out almost every week-end in the fall/winter to cut and haul wood just doesn;t seem today like it would be much fun.

[ohiosteve]

I'm sure that the osage orange and black locus burns good and hot and for a long time, but how in the world do you cut enough to heat you for the winter? That stuff is HARD. I made a self bow out of Osage with hand tools when I was younger and have a lot of respect for it.

You're right Osage orange is hard as a rock, gotta be good with a file and keep your chains razor sharp for it but that stuff is one step down from coal. Black locust isn't quite as hard but sure burns good.I split mostly with a maul but also have a small electric splitter inside by my stove.

[john250]

I burn whatever fell down this year, but I do strongly prefer the black locust. I'm not a big fan of the osage orange--so many say it's the best but it just doesn't work that way for me. BL is great if you split with a maul. I've got red and white oak in next winter's stack. It's split and it is going to be way dry by the time I burn it. Maple, around here, isn't worth the effort. When it's dry it's like cotton.
I can't even girdle a honey locust without looking like I was in a knife fight.

[Bigfoot]

Everyones take on heating with wood is different. Personally, I would sleep with tennis shoes on so i would have a running chance of getting out of the house if it caught on fire.

[hillrancher]

We heat with an outside wood water furnice last winter we burned 8 rick the most in a cold winter is 14 rick. We burn anything that is on the fence or fallen in the pastures. Osage orange is the least desired wood. We get more heat out of wood that has been cut for about 90days. We split very little of the wood. If I can lift it it goes into the fire box.
We have the furnice 40 feet from the house no wood smoke inside the house.