What Are We Burning This Season?

[Ben Stark]

We have a mixture of ash, yellow birch, maple, and oak, with some beech, cherry, and various softwoods too. Basically, if a tree species grows around where I live, it’s probably in my woodpile LOL.

 

[Toasty-Yote]

In order of estimated BTU, I would say, black cherry, apple, buckthorn, box elder, hard maple and sumac.

 

[thewoodlands]

I just looked at the long range forecast for our area, if it holds, we'll continue heating with White Pine until the end of the month. Last year we saved just under five face cord of hardwood by burning twelve face of pine and pellets.

 

[spuldup]

This year is mainly cherry, maple, and apple. Also cut one large quaking aspen for shoulder season wood.

 

[Plink in NM]

Cedar (juniper), ponderosa, pinyon. Looking for hardwood for winter but it's hard to find around here.

A lot of wood sellers here (ABQ) offer offer elm which I use almost exclusively and it can't be beat if it is at least 2 years dry, what I use is 3 years dry.

 

[mari]

A lot of wood sellers here (ABQ) offer offer elm which I use almost exclusively and it can't be beat if it is at least 2 years dry, what I use is 3 years dry.

It's fine if your sense of smell isn't very good 🙂

 

[joop]

We have a mixture of ash, yellow birch, maple, and oak, with some beech, cherry, and various softwoods too. Basically, if a tree species grows around where I live, it’s probably in my woodpile LOL.

same here

 

[xshmoox]

Have mostly hickory with a little ash sprinkled in for early winter then a mix of red/white oak for the colder days. Good thing is where I put it on the porch in the fall for winter is about 20 feet from my insert right out the door and it’s south facing so it gets blasted by sun most of the day. I can keep approximately 1.5 cords on the patio walls

 

[zmender]

A lot of wood sellers here (ABQ) offer offer elm which I use almost exclusively and it can't be beat if it is at least 2 years dry, what I use is 3 years dry.

Curious, what's average humidity in ABQ? Can't imagine it takes too long to dry wood.

 

[Plink in NM]

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Have mostly hickory with a little ash sprinkled in for early winter then a mix of red/white oak for the colder days. Good thing is where I put it on the porch in the fall for winter is about 20 feet from my insert right out the door and it’s south facing so it gets blasted by sun most of the day. I can keep approximately 1.5 cords on the patio walls

Curious, what's average humidity in ABQ? Can't imagine it takes too long to dry wood.

Although humidity can get high on occasional days, it usually averages teens to 50%. There are stretches of single-digit days as well. If firewood is split it will dry to "burnable" in less than a year, but if left 2-3 years the moisture will barely even register on a meter, if at all. I grew up in PA and I can remember having split oak still "sizzle" at 2 years old or more.

 

[Plink in NM]

It's fine if your sense of smell isn't very good 🙂

I burn in a Quadra-Fire Expedition II and it's sealed up...no smell at all.

 

[NorthernFireplaceFool]

I have a 1/3 of a cord left of some punky stuff that dried out under cover this summer and I've been taking in a stove load at a time till the snow flies. Once that hits I have a few cord of 2 year old maple that came out of the 100 year old tree that tried to destroy my neighbors house two years ago! I have some 1 year old maple from last spring that I could use if push comes to shove but I'd like to save that for next winter. I also get a fair amount of dimensional scraps from work I put through for for kindling/burning down coals.