What is it

[stihlfanboy]

Just gonna start a thread where I can ask what this tree is anytime. Got 400 acres of mixed hard and soft woods I cut on. Gotta sort out the hard and soft woods for my firewood customers. And frankly after 3 years I still suck at it. I can tell ash, maple, brich, and most of those. But I suck at softwoods. So what is this. Got two blow downs in my way of a dead oak. I'd like to say cotton wood just cause there's so damn meny of them here.

 

[svk]

Look more like aspen than cottonwood but hard to tell from your pics.

 

[ncpete]

easier to tell if you also have pics of the leaves.

 

[stihlfanboy]

The two I cut were dead blow downs but here's as close I can get to the branch on the live ones by it.

 

[svk]

Probably aspen. Cwood usually has a lot more forks and limbs

 

[stihlfanboy]

Yeah there pritty straight. Got a few more to cut. Kinda stringy bark. How's it burn?

 

[svk]

Burns great just not for very long. Once dry it has a mild, sweet smoke (which one of my neighbors really likes, says it reminds him of being "up north") and is great for sauna heat or fire pit. I use it when I'm home for the day or to get a fire going.

In my indoor boiler I can get 1.5 hours on small splits, 4 hours on large splits. Hardwood will last for 8-12 hours.

 

[stihlfanboy]

Well just walking around looking I found 3 more blow overs and one standing dead of them. I got a guy that will buy all my soft wood. Also found a creepy abandoned camp site. Little nervous to pick the collapsed tent up... Frist time on this side of the woods. Completely different from the side that's been logged.

 

[cantoo]

Looks the same as our poplar here. I cut a whole wack of it last year, never got around to blocking it up until now. It was stored up off the ground in a sun and windy location. Still rotter and is less than fine, won't be selling any of this. It'll be going into my OWB this winter. If I ever cut anymore it will be blocked up, split and stacked in my skids right away. The rounds are 36" long for my OWB. Not all are as bad as the one in the picture. If you plan to sell it you better process it quick and make sure your customer has a dry place to store the wood and use it in one year. Lots of people use it for campfire wood, it lights easy and burns out fast when you are done with the fire.

 

[svk]

That stuff looks to have been rotting on the stump.

If you cut aspen blocks and leave them off the ground in full sun, even the big ones will be fully seasoned in two summers.

 

[cantoo]

Svk, lots of them in the bush are blowing over from the wind, I left those ones for now. I was very surprised how rotten some of them were. Some of them are still pretty good but lots are well on their way to mush. I cut the bark on some of them when I cut them and they don't show near as much sign of rot. Just ran my saw along the logs as I cut them into lengths. I also used my loader forks to rip up the bark abit and those seem pretty good too. Logs were piled on scrap logs to keep them off the mud. We got craploads of snow last year and these logs were buried for most of the winter. End turned black and you can see the black crap under the bark on lots of them. I burned a bunch of it last year and they were really good in the owb, light as a feather though. I had planned to have them processed early this summer but I ran out of room and piled a bunch of big ash in front f them. I noticed how black they were getting so I moved logs around and got them cut up. Water is just running out of them.
More pics.

 

[Jed1124]

Poplar. Aspen and cottonwood are types of poplar. Loggers refer to them all as popple but there different charactoristics of sub species. Soft decidous tree. Short hot burns with a short shelf life. Burn it quick or it will punk out. Could be mixed in with confers like pine and spruce if being sold for firewood.