Anyone feel different towards burning due to over ash firewood supply?

[Dieselhead]

On the contrary that's kind of the situation I wish I had. I'm "over" trying to scrounge wood - CL ads are few and far between as most just sends up on FB marketplace, but the way FB organizes all those ads is pretty irritating and it's easy to not see a new ad for about a week....by which point that wood is long gone. I do have a neighbor who will drop free log loads next to my driveway which has worked out great but that also comes with certain headaches, like a ton of scrap to get rid of.

The more variety of woods I burned over the years the more I come back to ash just being my favorite overall. splits easy, seasons easy, lights and burns easy. What's not to like?

I do agree though I've made many good memories over the years scrounging wood. Meeting other people, talking with land owners, meeting good and bad tree services. It's certainly an adventure lol

It’s a shame marketplace pretty much killed CL and it sucks so bad. I got so much from CL over the years now it’s dead.

 

[BKVP]

Nope. Still love it!

 

[MRD1985]

It’s a shame marketplace pretty much killed CL and it sucks so bad. I got so much from CL over the years now it’s dead.

I will say that FB marketplace has been slim Pickens for wood the last couple of months, or more. People either want a fortune for what they have, or there’s just junk wood. I check every day. Last year I got a ton.

I can’t even find a a couple cords of log length for less than 100$/cord right now. I am good with wood for a while, but like to replenish what I use as I go to some extent.

 

[heavy hammer]

With storms this past few summers wood has not been a problem to get. Not a bad problem to just burn through it, there will alwayse be more to find or get if willing to put in the work

 

[Woody5506]

It’s a shame marketplace pretty much killed CL and it sucks so bad. I got so much from CL over the years now it’s dead.

It seems like the more i search free firewood, the more the new ads do show up quickly. Must be an algorithm thing. CL was always very simple in that regard, just have it list "newest first" and it was a no brainer.

 

[St. Coemgen]

now that my supply is literally in my backyard and I have so much that I know that some will just rot away I dont feel as connected to the whole wood burning cycle. I want to get it all, but I just feel mechanical to it all at the same time, I use to challenge myself with split size, burn times, stove efficiency ect... now it just feels like I want to, or need to just go through it all as fast as I can and let her rip,

I would suggest you rethink this. You need to think long term as a forest manager. Not as simply a wood burner short term. The Ash borer is terrible. But it is what it is. And if you harvest all that wood (worst case a clear cut) just to burn you are also basically starving the forest soils. It is okay to leave some wood to rot away. It will add important nutrients (macro and micro) to the soil, will improve soil heath, and will help grow the next crop of trees. And snags are important wildlife habitat. That is long term thinking. You can of course take as much as you feel you can. But do not feel bad about leaving some. Selective logging.

Oh... by the way. I have a graduate degree in Natural Resource Management, College of Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife. Hope this helps.

 

[venator260]

Read up on the oak blight, keep on burning.

I haven't heard much made of this, but I'm seeing the effects of it. I went from a few years of burning nothing but ash killed by the EAB to burning mostly red oak and some white oak because they all seem to be dying off now. I'd say the last 3-4 years my dad and I have both filled our storage areas and sold a triaxle or two of logs just in the red oaks that died on the property.