Firewood in your yard

[crappiemiser]

eversince I started collecting firewood the flow of people stopping by to ask if it's for sale has grown with my wood pile. I live in the city and don't sell firewood so most of the time it just turns in to a conversation, but this morning I had a good one. This 85 year old man knocked on my door to ask about my firewood. I told him it's not for sale but he said your not understanding me I want to know where you cut your wood. Confused I said we'll sort of all over the place. He then said he wanted to give me his number to call him in case the place I get my wood would let him cut. But he only wanted seasoned wood. I felt kinda bad for him but I said try knocking on people's doors that have trees to cut. He then told me about the yellow wood (mulberry) that I had stacked would warp my wood burner and that hickory isn't good firewood. I said good luck and closed the door!

 

[Marine5068]

It takes all kinds.
I'm no wood expert, and never said I was, but I still get weird sayings from even stranger people at times. Like the guy who was an arborist (or so he said) but couldn't tell the difference between hardwood and softwood and even Poplar from Maple. Too funny.

 

[Del_]

I've got my choice of which wood to burn but I burn pine, poplar, Leland cypress etc. because the good stuff can be sold.

It actually hurts me to burn good, saleable wood.

It's like money going up the chimney!

I heat 100% with wood using a Jotul F-600CB.

BTU's to you!

 

[muddstopper]

I live off the main road by a pretty good bit, but they built a new hiway right in front of my house. You cant get to my house from that new road, but you can see my wood pile from the hiway. I have had several folks I know ask me what I am doing with all that wood. Some of the things I have almost said, but didnt. I just reply I am going to burn it when it gets cold out.

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

What wood? Haha Log truck is just under 14.5ft tall when the trailer is loaded.

 

[Marine5068]

I live off the main road by a pretty good bit, but they built a new hiway right in front of my house. You cant get to my house from that new road, but you can see my wood pile from the hiway. I have had several folks I know ask me what I am doing with all that wood. Some of the things I have almost said, but didnt. I just reply I am going to burn it when it gets cold out.

Ya same here. People have no clue what seasoning wood really means or how you need to be so many years ahead etc. But our closest highway isn't near the house, just people that come by to buy or friends that stop in from time to time.

 

[Marine5068]

I've got my choice of which wood to burn but I burn pine, poplar, Leland cypress etc. because the good stuff can be sold.

It actually hurts me to burn good, saleable wood.

It's like money going up the chimney!

I heat 100% with wood using a Jotul F-600CB.

BTU's to you!

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That's fine for warmer climates, but you'd freeze in Ontario if you tried to stay warm using Pine and such.
Burn times aren't long enough to keep the frigid temps at bay.
My oak, maple cherry and other hardwoods will burn for 10 hour burn times which is nice when the temperatures dip below -30C degrees for days on end.

 

[muddstopper]

If it burns, it goes in my stove. Only thing I try to avoid is green whitepine, that stuff will put out a hot fire. Now split that whitepine and let it dry and it will get hot enough to turn the sides of the stove red. If pine was all I had to burn, I would burn all it took to stay warm. That would probably mean burning more wood each year than I currently do and also mean getting up at night and refilling the stove more often, but that beats shivering.

 

[chuckwood]

I've got my choice of which wood to burn but I burn pine, poplar, Leland cypress etc. because the good stuff can be sold.

It actually hurts me to burn good, saleable wood.

It's like money going up the chimney!

I heat 100% with wood using a Jotul F-600CB.

BTU's to you!

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I burn lots of "junk" wood during the early and late parts of heating season. All it means is that it takes more of the junk stuff to get the same amount of heat, you just feed the beast a little more. If it's dry and seasoned it's gonna heat your place just fine. If the pine is dry, it's not going to mess up your chimney.

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

That's fine for warmer climates, but you'd freeze in Ontario if you tried to stay warm using Pine and such.
Burn times aren't long enough to keep the frigid temps at bay.
My oak, maple cherry and other hardwoods will burn for 10 hour burn times which is nice when the temperatures dip below -30C degrees for days on end.

Negative. We heat a ~6000 Sq ft shop with poplar. It doesn't get all that cold here, about -25* is the normal low.

 

[chucker]

If it burns, it goes in my stove. Only thing I try to avoid is green whitepine, that stuff will put out a hot fire. Now split that whitepine and let it dry and it will get hot enough to turn the sides of the stove red. If pine was all I had to burn, I would burn all it took to stay warm. That would probably mean burning more wood each year than I currently do and also mean getting up at night and refilling the stove more often, but that beats shivering.

! WELL SAID!