Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

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Appears to be walnut that just doesnt drop walnuts. Trimmed the offending branches and I'll let it stand as I'm not really interested in it as firewood. I did remove a bunch of thick vines that seemed to be choking it so may it will come around next year and continue to grow.
 
Its mulberry. 99% sure since iv never found an ash in the tree line. Tons of mulberry and cherry though.

Most of the field lines and tree lines around me are elm, box elder, ash. Never seen a mulberry in person and the only cherry I see are in stands of timber.
 
pretty sure it's not red,white or black oak.
Pin oak it is:laughing:.
Funny thing is I have some pin oak out back, I never paid attention until this summer when I was landscaping out back, then I was trimming a few branches and was like, that aint red oak or whit oak o_O.
 
Most of the field lines and tree lines around me are elm, box elder, ash. Never seen a mulberry in person and the only cherry I see are in stands of timber.
Stuffs a big weed, We have quite a bit around here, I have one just into the woods in the back yard, if I don't get it in the next year it will be intertwined in other more mature trees as it reaches for any light it can get. Much like box elder to that extreme:chainsaw:.
 
Had to fire up the owb tonight. Water temp was at 42 and is up to 73.8 after 40 minutes. Got some bone dry elm rocking in there now. I smell like a campfire. Not gonna lie...that's pretty awesome. Thinking about heading to town as smoke smell is like sex panther cologne. 50% of the time it works 100% of the time!
 
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Not my photo, but one hell of a scrounge.
 
Pin oak IS a red oak.
Yes it is a red oak, just not red oak o_O :laugh:.
But it's related to Osage Orange. Heavy and dense. Better firewood than most people think.
I wasn't aware of that, explains why its so dang tough. I know one member made some falling wedges with it.
There are a bunch of rounds at a job I did a few yrs ago, I left them as it's pretty heavy wood :yes:.
I prefer dead standing wood if I have the choice and I leave behind the green wood whenever possible unless I'm getting paid to take it or someone asks for it.
If I had to choose a live tree to cut for firewood here it would be black locust as it's the easiest to limb out, split, and quickest drying. Most of the mulberry I come across is a lot of work for firewood. Regardless, if I'm in a scrounging scenario then I'd be more than happy to have mulberry :).

Thinking about the denser species here I'm reminded that most of the hardest woods will shoot some awesome sparks when you open the door(I combat this by opening the draft first for a bit). I'm wondering if you guys in Australia deal with that on your dense wood too, and how about the softwoods.
 
Yes it is a red oak, just not red oak o_O :laugh:.
I wasn't aware of that, explains why its so dang tough. I know one member made some falling wedges with it.
There are a bunch of rounds at a job I did a few yrs ago, I left them as it's pretty heavy wood :yes:.
I prefer dead standing wood if I have the choice and I leave behind the green wood whenever possible unless I'm getting paid to take it or someone asks for it.
If I had to choose a live tree to cut for firewood here it would be black locust as it's the easiest to limb out, split, and quickest drying. Most of the mulberry I come across is a lot of work for firewood. Regardless, if I'm in a scrounging scenario then I'd be more than happy to have mulberry :).

Thinking about the denser species here I'm reminded that most of the hardest woods will shoot some awesome sparks when you open the door(I combat this by opening the draft first for a bit). I'm wondering if you guys in Australia deal with that on your dense wood too, and how about the softwoods.
Mulberry will put on a good spark show when you open the stove. I dont have any now but if I come across it I'll take it all.
 

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