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Donald Lehman

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Cut firewood today again. Dropped a dead maple and a dead ironwood. They were just a TEENY bit drier than the hemlock. Lol!

There's a reason they call it ironwood. About the only other species we have around here that aproaches the density of ironwood would be apple.
 
We call it "hard hack" here. Doesn't get real big before it dies, but burns like coal.
I finished off my woodshed with standing dead Beech. It also makes really good deep bed of coals in the boiler. and produces heat for a long period of time. I always try to save these two species during the day to stoke the boiler overnight.
Loren.
 
I seem to have gotten myself cutting into a grove of Locust. I have never burned it before. Thorns hurt but, have any of you had any experience with how it burns and heats?

Greg
 
Cut yesterday, we still have a lot of standing dead ash. And they seem to be harder to cut this year. Maybe from standing another year.
 
Locust burns really hot and is sone of the best rated firewood you can burn. Tractor tires are natural magnets for those 4" long thorns and apparently the pods seem to be good eating as I've seen deer chomping on them.
 
Still beating on my pile of floodwood. The pine and the few hardwood sticks have shed most of their bark, and partially dried out. The hemlock still has most of its bark, and is just as wet as it was when it was pulled out of the river two years ago. Heavy!!!!
 
I don't think there is a better firewood than Ironwood (Hop Hornbeam). Ash is great but no where near as dense, Oaks take much longer to dry, Elm too and Elm never makes coals, Maple, Birch and Cherry are good but still lighter and the Birches will rot inside the bark if you don't split it pretty quick. Ironwood's only down side, IMO, is that it's not as numerous as I'd like.

We used to have Locust back where I grew up. Great stuff for firewood as I recall. Better for posts though.
 
(quoted from post at 17:21:59 09/24/14) I seem to have gotten myself cutting into a grove of Locust. I have never burned it before. Thorns hurt but, have any of you had any experience with how it burns and heats?

Greg
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Locust is good firewood. burns hot, and makes a really good bed of coals.

Gene
 
Got my wood shed filled, enough for the syrup season next spring, still splitting as we had to have the tree service in with the bucket truck as some were to close to the buildings. what I have to split now is birch which I hate 24" dia.
 
the locust you are talking about with the thorns is honey locust, according to the experts there is a male and a female and one doesn't have thorns, but it is one of the best I have ever burned, lasts long and burns hot
 
Solid Beech is as good as Maple.....however,
if Beech stands dead for only a short time it will become "punky" and won't be worth a darn!
Ironwood (Hop Hornbean) is my absolute favorite firewood. According to the NYS Dept of Environmental Conservation Dept. Hickory has the best BTU value of wood found here followed very closely by Ironwood.
Red Oak is very good but has to be cut and and split for a year in order to season properly.
Ash is pretty good and can almost be burned green as it has a low moisture content.
White Birch looks really nice on the hearth (my wife calls it the pretty wood) but doesn't have a lot of heat value. The bark contains oil and will get a fire going very quickly. Yellow Birch, on the other hand, has heat value right up there with Maple and Beech.
 
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