Firefighter938
Feeling the Heat
A steady diet of hard maple. I have some black walnut I'm going to move up to the house just to change things up a bit and maybe save some of the maple for next year.
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Are you burning Black locust exported from the states or does Hungary have its own species? Is it considered an invasive weed there?
I know as soon as the Americas were discovered colonists started exporting locust.
And what type of Chestnut do you refer to? Chinese?
I got into some sugar maple last night, it wasn't ready for last winter (after 1 yr seasoning) So it went back in the stacks for this year.
It's still leaving dark residue on inside of stove when I turn air down.
Burns fine if I keep stove temps up.
Still surprising though, 3 years cut down this October.
3 year Oak burns beautiful. Maybe 3 yrs is the charm for Sugar maple?
It's still leaving dark residue on inside of stove when I turn air down.
Burns fine if I keep stove temps up.
Still surprising though, 3 years cut down this October.
3 year Oak burns beautiful. Maybe 3 yrs is the charm for Sugar maple?
St. Coemgen
Feeling the Heat
Well... I will give two answers (almost nothing here is simple or normal):
1) Black locust is of course a non-native invasive species. But it grows very well in Hungary and has in fact replaced many native Beech forests that were logged. One reason I use it for wood it to encourage its harvest removal and to encourage native forest rejuvenation.
2) Black locust (native to north America of course) is called "White Acacia" in Hungary (they seem to have completely missed the point that the species is pseudoacacia, or "false acacia"). And there is actually an "Acacia" honey produced in Hungary from locust flowers that is very popular here and exported. So, when the EU listed black locust as an invasive species to be removed, the Hungarian government's reponse was to declared, by legislation, that "White Acacia" was a national "Hungaricum" and put it under national protection. One spokesperson from the "Interior ministry" has stated that calling it an "American species" is "American propaganda". The government here is odd.....
Side note: I am not totally unhappy that there is some black locust here, since it makes for great fence posts and wine cordon posts (my wife, being Hungarian, owns a bit of vineyard land that I "manage" for her).
Sweet chestnut introduced into Europe from Asia Minor. I also harvest the nuts and eat them.
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kennyp2339
Minister of Fire
I've got three big knotty pieces of red oak in there now, as I was loading them in I remembered trying to split them and my splitter bogging down trying to get through them, who's laughing now knotty red oak?
embers aplenty
Burning Hunk
Loaded her up for the night with box elder, locust and white oak. Their is always the morning load. Might be some sycamore and elm on tap.
Hills Hoard
Minister of Fire
Ashful
Minister of Fire
blacktail
Minister of Fire
Warmed up the stove with a mix of small chunks of everything when I got home tonight...fir, alder, maple, birch. Just filled it for the night with 2yr old big leaf maple and western hemlock. 39° outside. 600° and the rear secondary tube is glowing.
Firefighter938
Feeling the Heat
Much of the same for me. Hard maple and honey locust. I did burn some white pine yesterday along with some uglies. Its suppose to get colder this week, but still be in the 20s and 30s. I am hoping for an early spring and saving a lot of this years wood for next year.
Ashful
Minister of Fire
I just grabbed some sycamore, walnut, and mulberry. 15 degree temps with 40mph wind gusts ensure I have no draft issues.
Two nights in a row I loaded the 26 bricks at 9 PM. Both nights the stove leveled out at 450-475 and at 9 AM the next morning was at 250. Both days I have just let it sit until three in the afternoon and it has held 150-200 both times keeping the joint comfortable in the 30-45 degree days.
At this point in the day I'm hoping I have enough in the box. 
I didn't plan for the wind like it is today and I'm thinking my chunks of poplar and one piece of oak might not be cutting it today. Weather app says it feels like 3
because the wind is blowing at 20 MPH.
I didn't plan for the wind like it is today and I'm thinking my chunks of poplar and one piece of oak might not be cutting it today. Weather app says it feels like 3 because the wind is blowing at 20 MPH.
Moved about a half cord of ash into the basement today. They say the deep freeze/polar vortex is making a return this weekend for -15 to -20 for overnight lows before wind. Locked and loaded.
Pennsyltucky Chris
Minister of Fire
I'm getting ready for that cold, too. We just dipped into the mid-20's, won't be north of 30 until next Tuesday. So I brought about a half cord of red oak and elm into the garage. I'm currently burning some of the elm. I thought I would use it while I'm awake and before it dips into the single digits.
I've got around 3-4 cord of red oak c/s/s, but its not ready for this winter, maybe next year. It should serve you well. I have about 75 large splits of white oak that are good to go, I might go through them fast this weekend, hopefully we are on the way out of winter soon after.
