Starting the season with inferior wood

[c5rulz]

Forced to make firewood out of less than desirable wood today. My logger buddies have two upcoming jobs where I have exclusive rights to the log cut offs but one won't start till the ground freezes and the other is unknown. Both will be very large projects, 120 and 50 acres respectively.

The place I was cutting just sold for $1,000,000 and the new owner didn't give me permission to the logging spoils but he didn't say know either. When he sees the blackberry brush growing in the tops he may change his mind as he wanted the place for hunting.

Anyway starting the season off with a mix of black walnut and found some oak.

This has been laying since last fall and had a fair amount of ground dirt when turned over, hard on chain.

This sold in the last month or so.

Well one load down, 29 more to equal last year. FWIW, this afternoon a tree service was working down the road. I did them a favor and took some birch. The birch and walnut will be set aside for campfire wood rather than heating wood. The tree service guy is going to give me wood chips free next year for my orchard.

 

[CaseyForrest]

As long as it burns, is it really inferior?

 

[svk]

You are a lucky man if that's inferior. Heck we are happy with solid Aspen up here lol

 

[c5rulz]

As long as it burns, is it really inferior?

Yes, black walnut is pretty decent in a campfire, as it has a nice blue flame. In a stove it has less heat, coals up and has a lot of ash.

 

[c5rulz]

You are a lucky man if that's inferior. Heck we are happy with solid Aspen up here lol

For me good wood is oak loaded with the forwarder truck onto my trailer, takes 3-4 min and I have to tell him to STOP!

The boys are going to owe, the 2nd job I mentioned I found for them and it is 50 acres of HICKORY which is not real common around here, the woods haven't been touched since 1978.

 

[svk]

Excellent. Does hickory sell at a premium or will this be for your own consumption?

 

[c5rulz]

Excellent. Does hickory sell at a premium or will this be for your own consumption?

Hickory sure should get a premium, however when I priced red/white oak slightly cheaper than the hickory nobody was willing to pay more. Hickory is slower to split due to how stringy it is. Often oak will split with the ram only hitting it a couple inches, not so with hickory. Often I have to use a hatchet to cut strings.

I used to keep it for myself, but now due to insurance, don't burn wood.

 

[Wood Doctor]

All wood produces about the same amount of heat per pound -- 132 lb generates one million BTU. Some "inferior" wood just burns faster than others while producing the heat and requires more volume to weigh a pound.

 

[c5rulz]

All wood produces about the same amount of heat per pound -- 132 lb generates one million BTU. Some "inferior" wood just burns faster than others while producing the heat and requires more volume to weigh a pound.

True but premium hardwoods weigh more per cord than lesser woods. Black walnut has about 20% less btus per cord. Around here wood is sold by the cord, not pound.

 

[Streblerm]

The only inferior wood to me is wood that has not dried enough yet. I quite like black walnut. It is a treat to split and smells great when burned. I would save the inferior fresh split oak for next year, or maybe even the year after that. By then it should be superior.

I would rather burn lesser wood that was dry than better wood that was only sort of dry.

 

[c5rulz]

The only inferior wood to me is wood that has not dried enough yet. I quite like black walnut. It is a treat to split and smells great when burned. I would save the inferior fresh split oak for next year, or maybe even the year after that. By then it should be superior.

I would rather burn lesser wood that was dry than better wood that was only sort of dry.

This wood won't be sold till next year. The walnut is going to be campfire wood and the oak is heating wood. Also throwing some cherry in the campfire, that smells great when burned.

 

[barton174]

Why is burning wood an insurance issue? Our insurance company (Farm Bureau) doesn't even charge extra for burning wood, as long as the stove is installed per mfg. instructions. Now, they won't let me have a wood stove in my shop, though. I can get around that, now, by just running an extra coil from my OWB into my shop.

Mike

 

[c5rulz]

Why is burning wood an insurance issue? Our insurance company (Farm Bureau) doesn't even charge extra for burning wood, as long as the stove is installed per mfg. instructions. Now, they won't let me have a wood stove in my shop, though. I can get around that, now, by just running an extra coil from my OWB into my shop.

Mike

The issue with the insurance was the fact the wood stove was in the garage which was still OK. However they asked, "are there any combustibles, i.e. gasoline or diesel fuel". Well I don't know about you guys, but there really isn't anything in the garage that doesn't have combustibles in it.

 

[svk]

Why is burning wood an insurance issue? Our insurance company (Farm Bureau) doesn't even charge extra for burning wood, as long as the stove is installed per mfg. instructions. Now, they won't let me have a wood stove in my shop, though. I can get around that, now, by just running an extra coil from my OWB into my shop.

Mike

I'm in the same boat with C5, at least for the hunting cabin. On my hunting cabin being further from town the wood stove rider costs more than an entire season worth of propane heat and they specified I needed the double wall chimney pipes and a new stove. I run propane but if Armageddon happens I will be installing a wood stove because that is going to be the "last firebase" for me and the family. Lots of fish and although the deer population is way down there is still enough to last a winter.