Best wood mixture

[Wood Doctor]

I believe it. The one I took down had 4 main trunks to it. 3 were pretty dead and dry. The 4th was so wet water came out of some of the splits while splitting.

Roots usually keep feeding "dead" trees moisture because the roots aren't dead yet. One exception occurs whenever a tree is killed by multiple indirect lightning strikes. Then the roots are fried also, die immediately, and feed no moisture to the tree. So, a lightning-killed tree will dry out in a year because it was literally cooked. Branches from such a tree when cut down after standing dead for a year after being hit will practically shatter as they impact the ground. It's freakish, but it does occur.

 

[tla100]

Ash n silver maple are good combo.

Elm n maple.....ok

Anything with boxelder, just pass.

 

[NSMaple1]

I only think of 2 types. Hardwood & softwood.

I light a new fire every time I burn, so prefer a mix of something like 20/80 soft/hard. Or 1/4 soft. Soft to get it going quick, hard for the rest. This year I have about 95% hardwood, so my electric basement splitter is getting more use that it usually does. But that's OK.