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Juniper smells like cat pee

Normally nothing but locust and hedge. Cleared a lane to out building late last year so have 3 stacked wagon loads of hickory to get burned up. Unique thing about locust is that it can be literally rotted, but burn it…you would be surprised how many btu it still puts out.

In western WI the woods around here consist mainly of maple, oak, ash and ironwood..

You cut and burn wood? Or are you just giving us a biodiversity update for the flora in your area?

PintsofCraft;
Good morning to you sir, if you're in the cooler weather like we seem to be out west here, I trust that your firewood is being put to good use this morning and that you're all well.

Thanks for the thread, it's interesting to see what other folks use and who is still doing that.

We're just south of 673 and while we do have larch trees, a few years back someone in the brain trust decided we weren't supposed to cut them on our firewood permits anymore. That leaves us with Doug Fir for the most part for cold days and then I've been cutting some spruce for kindling and warm days too.

The shop woodstove gets Ponderosa Pine from the property mostly, since it's got a nice short, easy to clean chimney and I just want to keep it from freezing everything solid in there.

Here's a load coming down from the mountain behind the house.



Covered storage at the shop/garage.



Merry Christmas to you and the rest of the firewood gatherers out there this morning.

Dwayne

Tree roots burn well.

some patches of it, live. esp on a hot day.

utah juniper (shaggybark) has a great smell when burning, splits easy, doesn't last long. old timers liked it for cook stoves, you could get the size just right.

too snappy for a fireplace, IMO

just rolled through a town last night where the locals were mostly burning juniper, smelled great.

(and gas was $3.09, cheapest I saw in a 340 mile drive)

anything that will burn in my outdoor furnace....
my favorite would be a well seasoned white pine....easy to cut,split and lift into the stove and last as long as any hardwood tree we have around here in the stove

They’re hell on saw chains

But go right ahead with more valuable tidbits

Old Pallets.

Red Oak and Hard Maple cause that is whats growing on my homestead.

Corn stoves are like pellet stoves with an auger and a small but intense fire box and blowers. It's a whole different animal than wood stoves. My farmer neighbor has one in his family room. Of course he plants 4-5000 acres yearly so...

Lodgepole, Doug fir, and quakie mostly

Not expert on this as I don't go around smelling for cat pee, but what are you feeding your cats??

Around here, the premium firewood is larch.

But there is none in my AO.

Second is Doug fir.

Third is probably lodge pole

With Ponderosa at fourth.

When the day is getting short, and the truck is not full yet, I have been known to toss a spruce into the load.

Doug fir yields more tonnage per cord, but lodge pole splits easier.

My woodshed is stocked up with black walnut and ash. You'd be surprised how much wood the 8 x 12 shed holds. Four stacks, 7 feet high and 7 1/2 feet long.

I think someone is all jazzed up with a serious case of the reindeer jitters!

LOL




Live from the tundra!

Going to have to start hammering the ash around my place.

pine wood at a campfire, poplar wood spring and fall , white oak ,white ash , red oak in a cold winter . but now days my electric floor heat and electric furnace its cleaner and much easier when your older.

South Western Ontario Canada here. Ash, elm and mulberry are my favorite. Mulberry really dense and burns fantastic when I can get it. As the ash and elm disappear I'm gonna have to switch.