It"s a whopping 0 here this morning, can"t imagine what it is up north. My Dad always says "anything will burn", but I sure like my oak, mulberry and redbud I"m burning today. We get a little bit of everything when we cut wood, but he"s right. What are you burning today? I always thought it was strange when my uncle would burn pine in New Mexico, but I guess that"s the only thing there?
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Anonymous-0
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Michael Soldan
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I like to cut dead elms as well, but I mix white ash, ironwood in with the elm. I use a wheelbarrow full of wood per 24 hour cycle, stove goes pretty much non stop throughout the winter..-6*C here last night
Outdoor wood boiler, so pretty much any kind of woods burns fine in it. Right now I'm burning pretty much ash and poplar mix. Ash is dry standing in the swamps and poplar is green standing, but mix them together and I get 12 hours of burn time out of them.
I sell my oak in 16", split pieces. Get $200 per cord for that, or $150 per cord for 50/50 ash and oak mix.
I sell my oak in 16", split pieces. Get $200 per cord for that, or $150 per cord for 50/50 ash and oak mix.
John Harmon
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Not here in Maricopa County Arizona. Burn Ban in effect. Too many people,too many cars,trucks,busses,leaf blowers ,furnaces.industries etc .Air is foul, bad for your health or so the powers say. No fireplace or back yard chiminea wood burning or any other kind of open air flames. Was in effect 4 days at Christmas and is in effect 4 days at New years.Hefty fine if caught which escalates each time you are cited.Air quality particulate count exceeds federal limit so highway funds are in danger of going away. What? They have the worst roads of the few they have here in Arizona in my opinion.I guess I had better shut up. Bah,Humbug!
Black Cherry is my favorite, mostly due to the pleasant odor of it's smoke, oak seems to really give off some btu's and the coals last a long while. We have quite a bit of that in this area, and I have noticed for some odd reason, the wood itself has a distinct odor, different than the same Black Cherry 30 miles north at the other place, burns hot, leaves nice coals, especially when dry, but even if it's moist, the smoke sure is pleasant.
Maple is also another favorite, some of it also seems to have a nice odor to it.
I burn and or mix different kinds of wood, like was said, it all burns. Some has varying moisture content, so to control the fire, sometimes I mix with the real dry, seasoned 2 years.
Dead elm does burn well in my stove, the higher up branches and limbs are super dry, the lower trunk can be punky in varying degrees, but once dried a bit near the stove, it burns fine and seems to last, coals aren't that good, but it does provide good heat. I even burn willow, for starter/kindling, and or big dry chunks to get the fire a little hotter when necessary.
Dry wood is the most preferable, however when you don't have a enough time to put up enough to get ahead, I bring in a cord at a time and dry it down in the area where the stove is. Fortunately I have a large flue and can keep the fire going hot enough to keep the flue temp up and burn efficiently, creosote does not build up, except towards the last 2 flue tiles, never gets hot enough to burn up there.
It sure is a racket, with all the variety of wood, moisture and keeping the fire just right, but one thing is for sure, sure warms a person up after being out in it all day.
Right now it is snowing and blowing, theres some hardwood 4" dia in the stove right now, not sure what it is, came from the tops from a large pile after a logging job was done, up in the air for 2 years, burns nice.
Maple is also another favorite, some of it also seems to have a nice odor to it.
I burn and or mix different kinds of wood, like was said, it all burns. Some has varying moisture content, so to control the fire, sometimes I mix with the real dry, seasoned 2 years.
Dead elm does burn well in my stove, the higher up branches and limbs are super dry, the lower trunk can be punky in varying degrees, but once dried a bit near the stove, it burns fine and seems to last, coals aren't that good, but it does provide good heat. I even burn willow, for starter/kindling, and or big dry chunks to get the fire a little hotter when necessary.
Dry wood is the most preferable, however when you don't have a enough time to put up enough to get ahead, I bring in a cord at a time and dry it down in the area where the stove is. Fortunately I have a large flue and can keep the fire going hot enough to keep the flue temp up and burn efficiently, creosote does not build up, except towards the last 2 flue tiles, never gets hot enough to burn up there.
It sure is a racket, with all the variety of wood, moisture and keeping the fire just right, but one thing is for sure, sure warms a person up after being out in it all day.
Right now it is snowing and blowing, theres some hardwood 4" dia in the stove right now, not sure what it is, came from the tops from a large pile after a logging job was done, up in the air for 2 years, burns nice.
Tim in New York
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Mostly hard maple here in upstate NY, at least this winter. We've had several cycles of tree caterpillars over the last few years. The area where I cut got hit pretty hard and some really nice maples died from the top down. Sad to see, but its great to burn. A little ironwood, red oak, and ash mixed in. Its 16F right now and gonna get colder.
Tim
Tim
Paul from MI
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I'm burning oak & cherry in my add-on. Good hot fire and holds good. I'll burn anything, it's all better than snowballs. 6F this morning.
Paul
Paul
chevytaHOE5674
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I burn mostly hard/soft maple, and ash UP here. Also burn a little box elder because it grows like weeds around the farm and i cut a lot of it down.
fixerupper
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Propane! I got rid of the wood burner last summer. I've been involved with burning wood my whole life but now my body doesn't like me when I run a chain saw and wood splitter.This morning it's -30F and I do miss that warm, even, wood fired heat. Jim
steve terplak
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In upstate NY, we burn hard maple, poplar and this year we have been burning beech.
anyone else burn beech? i have found it to burn hot and last a decent amount of time in the outdoor furnace.
anyone else burn beech? i have found it to burn hot and last a decent amount of time in the outdoor furnace.
parisspringstom
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Oak and Hickory both keep a hot fire here in southwest Missouri. 7F
We're burning almost exclusively oak. Got a nice big pile outside and I nice warm fire inside. We're looking at quite chill temperatures for at least a week.
I've been enjoying my holiday vacation here. My business is dead this time of year and the farm work is light, so the holidays have been a time to just take it easy. Monday that'll change, though.
Christopher
I've been enjoying my holiday vacation here. My business is dead this time of year and the farm work is light, so the holidays have been a time to just take it easy. Monday that'll change, though.
Christopher
Alder, maple and ash (and madrona, if you can find it) are the "woods of choice" in the Pacific Northwest. We burn mostly fir, which is inferior as a firewood, but just the blowdowns from our place keep us in plenty of wood. We don't burn that often- usually only when its "cold" (20 or so- LOL for you Frostbite Falls guys). Main heat is heat pump, and with juice at 4.27 cents a kilowatt, that's pretty hard to beat. Everything we have is electric, and our two month bill for February and March last year was $288.65 plus tax.
Dan from WI
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-28 static here this morning. Outdoor boiler burning some nice dry Hickory all winter.
chevytaHOE5674
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There are alot of broken off beech trees around this part of NY for some reason.
Beech bark disease. Causes the trees to die and then they snap off part way up the stem with the wind.
just another old geezer
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the guy who said "any wood will burn" never tryed burning Box Elder. Had a H*ll of a time keeping butternut going also. let these rot in the woods now.
chevytaHOE5674
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(quoted from post at 08:58:12 01/02/10) the guy who said "any wood will burn" never tryed burning Box Elder. Had a H*ll of a time keeping butternut going also. let these rot in the woods now.
I burn plenty of box elder. Season it for two season and it burns great. Been burning it since i was a kid.
Russ from MN
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- Bemidji MN
We burn whatever is dead or in our way, Ash, Elm Birch, Poplar, Tamarack. Cut some Ash and Tamarack here in Bemidji but most of our wood comes from up north by the cabin. It all burns if it's dry, next summer I'm going to build another shed up at the cabin so I won't be digging wood out of the snow.
douglas carroll
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It's a bonechillin 45F here in central cal, I'm up to a bag and half of wood pellets a day. ripped out the almond orchard last week, plowing it up today. It'll feel good to come back to the pellet stove when I'm done.
flying belgian
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7:00 was -28 here in Mn.
old
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- Camdenton Missouri
Don't know how cold it is out today but a bit latter I'll be firing up the shop stove and if it gets warm enough be out there working for a bit. But either way it is cold here at the Lake of the Ozarks of Missouri. The wood I'll be burning is oak, walnut and a little bit of elm
teddy52food
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We burn it all the time. It has to be dry like any other wood.
Any wood will burn??? Just try burning Chestnut (if you can get it hacked apart)...it will lay in the middle of a good hot fire and slowly, reluctantly, be consumed, but you"d hardly call it burning...
Was it Robert Frost who wrote a poem about the virtues of the different woods as firewood, and ended with a line something like "...and Chestnut burns not at all!..."??
Was it Robert Frost who wrote a poem about the virtues of the different woods as firewood, and ended with a line something like "...and Chestnut burns not at all!..."??
E.B. Haymakin'
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All that global warming, ecological destruction-all to keep lousy humans warm-egad. Yeah, I hope the coal fired power plants are smokin the boilers or there are going to be alot of froze dead southerners in this cold blast.
hoosier boy
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Burning a lot of cherry this year cause the big wind storm mostly blew the cherries down last year. I have lots of woods so dont need to fell trees, just take whats down.
nm has abundant types of wood available, here on our farm i burn apple wood, elm, box elder, black walnut[ if not marketable wood] also burn tons of pine its cheaper and heats the house, i laugh at people who think its a bad wood, the trick is first make sure the wood is seasone, [or know your supplier] and keep your chiminy clean, brush it twice a year and you will never have any problems, thats cause by guys tricking the tourists by selling them green wood or rental cabins that never have there chiminey cleaned, i used to live in a cabin befor i got married that had no heat other than a wood stove, only had 2 rooms,new wife imformed me that a farm house was a house, with central heating and rooms not divided by a blanket lol also i buy local juniper ceader and oak, i heat with wood as it usually cost half as much as buying propayne for the same time period, some times i just have too much to do and buy wood as i cant keep up with the cutting
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