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I was just horsin’

in my massive fuel hoard is:
White oak
Hickory
Red oak
Cherry
Walnut
Hackberry
Boxelder
Maple
Ash
some locust

We have shît-tons of poplar, black tupelo, suckamore- none of that chit it worth sawing. Like fuggin styrofoam. Drive the wood buggy passed it and give to the finger. Patooey

The old man frowns upon me sawing up cherry. I just laugh at him. lol

Mr “Im gonna buy me a sawmill” and make some cherry paneling. Bulllllllllllllllllllllsheeittttttt 🤜🥱🫤🙄

Living in the PNW, we're pretty much locked into conifers. Western Larch


I think hedge (osage orange) provides the greatest heat yield.

Split as we go...


That was a Holiday sampler pack.

An old cedar and pine fence post included on a kindling special.

Nice axes 1minute!

Red oak is the favorite, but we burn anything that is wood from a fallen tree. Pecan and hickory are good. Surprisingly we have an elm that burns real hot but is hell to split. My brother has a hydraulic splitter that can handle it. Splits hard the whole way.

I try to cut fallen or nuisance trees if possible. Even sweet gum.

Free on my buddy’s farm. A bit of white oak, cherry, shagbark hickory, walnut, and a lot of ash. Elm and sycamore down by the crick. +1 on elm being an absolute bastard splitting by hand. I think the guy that invented the first log splitter must have been dealing with elm. 🙄

Cottonwood.

Another vote for madrone.

Sam I’m sure you & I got fancy axes, mauls & splitters but honestly those Fiskars are outstanding…am I rite?

Here in Western VA White oak , locust , Ash or cherry mainly.

I don’t split anything. If really big I’ll saw it into quarters.

I can get rounds in my furnace door 18-22”

Im tossing chunks in there the size of engine blocks and microwave ovens.

Stuttgart brought me some maple big as wash machines. Gonna have to apply reduction methods to that chit.
Same Stuttgart that some douche on here said I sould “help him drag his 83 lb doe” in a jet sled 145 yards. Puleeeze nigra

My meagre woodlot. Some mesquite. But mostly live oak

Great firewood, and small and a bit green it's good in the smoker. I wish we had it on our side of the hill.

Slummy If I could find hickory I’d first cook up some pork chops for the lady - she really likes them that way.

We do a lot of open fire cooking - more than most Vermonters.

We had some logging done last winter, the tree tops are mostly still where they fell. Mostly white oak and walnut with some pig nut hickory and red oak. I cut about 7 small pickup loads of firewood and hauled it home before the ticks got bad in the spring. Right now I'm burning oak, walnut and dry hedge in the fireplace. Helps with the propane bill in really cold weather.

Morewood,

There are some madrones a bit to the southeast of us about 15-20 miles. But they don’t get anybigger than about 4 or 5 inches in diameter.

Mesquite will really junk up a chimney or stove pipe. I would use it wood stove but only one log at bedtime

That stuff was hard to come by our west. Closest i got was Big Sur. I liked it’s flaky orange bark. Beautiful tree.

That log on the right almost looks good enough to be a peeler log. Straight and about the right length.

Had a friend of mine, Humboldt County, in the 90's worked for a guy getting peeler logs for veneers for fancy Italian sports cars and the like. Big bucks for the right log.

Those hollow handled Fiskars will rattle your hands.



I spend 2x as much time chopping ice and that axe is a rubber handled fiberglass Channellock.

2-3 years old and is a favorite.