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I’m really looking forward to burning some other woods again. Ever since the emerald ash borer threat started, over 10 years ago, over 90 % of what I’ve been burning has been ash.



There’s also lots of cherry in their woods, and every time one of those falls, I pounce on that prize. Cherry wood is highly sought after in these parts, and sells for more than double what ash goes for.

I’ve cut plenty of cherry in my time and you are not the first I’ve heard to express it’s desirability.
Other than the smell at times, I could never understand its allure as a firewood.
Doesn’t burn as well as oak nor as well as ash in that regard according to the graph Sawyer provided. Just a bit tougher to split by hand as you sometimes get swirls and twists in a round.
Other than furniture wood, I’m at a loss as to its firewood value.

 

[Jstpssng]

I’ve cut plenty of cherry in my time and you are not the first I’ve heard to express it’s desirability.
Other than the smell at times, I could never understand its allure as a firewood.
Doesn’t burn as well as oak nor as well as ash in that regard according to the graph Sawyer provided. Just a bit tougher to split by hand as you sometimes get swirls and twists in a round.
Other than furniture wood, I’m at a loss as to its firewood value.

The best thing that I can see about cherry is that it stays solid on the stump for years after it dies. We don't have a lot of it up here anyways, and when we do it usually dies before getting any size. Yet on more than one occasion I've cut a tree down for a lunch fire which likely jas been dead for 10 years or longer. Soft on the outside and harder than a nut in the center.

 

[Molalla1]

I’ve cut plenty of cherry in my time and you are not the first I’ve heard to express it’s desirability.
Other than the smell at times, I could never understand its allure as a firewood.
Doesn’t burn as well as oak nor as well as ash in that regard according to the graph Sawyer provided. Just a bit tougher to split by hand as you sometimes get swirls and twists in a round.
Other than furniture wood, I’m at a loss as to its firewood value.

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[DieselnHooters]

I am with you on cherry as a firewood , it is fair at best, even the abundant lowly soft maple is much better in every way.

 

[wolc123]

The biggest reason I like cherry better than ash, is that I need to clean the ashes out of the stove about 1/4 as often when burning it, and it seems to heat better.

I just finished cutting and splitting about 3/4 face cord of ash. That will probably be our campfire wood for this year. I used the Cub, because I wasn’t hauling it to the woodshed, I just left it stacked on the corner of my bucking trailer. I put the side box back on the Cub first, which works good for carrying my saw.

I can’t start filling my woodshed again, until I make the interior wall on the east end. I topped off the west end as much as I could with an about equal amount yesterday.

There’s quite a bit of maple down in my parents woods and hopefully that will be what I fill most of that other half of the woodshed with, late this summer. Maple, like cherry, burns a heck of a lot cleaner than ash. The cherry is a lot prettier though.

 

[shooterdon]

Lots of dead ash here in northern MI. It burns OK but we have better options. Favored firewood here is oak, and maple. Having something that will last most of the night is desirable. With oak and maple there are enough hot coals to get the fire kicked off in the morning without restarting.

 

[Jstpssng]

One thing I learned about ash... it's not the best wood to use in a bean hole. There is a reason it's not called "coal"...

 

[wolc123]

Lots of dead ash here in northern MI. It burns OK but we have better options. Favored firewood here is oak, and maple. Having something that will last most of the night is desirable. With oak and maple there are enough hot coals to get the fire kicked off in the morning without restarting.

Ash lasts thru the night for me, but I still can’t wait till it’s all gone. My wife tops off the stove around midnight, and there is always plenty of red coals left, when I get up at 5:00 am. Problem is, I got to shovel out the ashes about every other day. I can go once a week with those better options.

Like you said, oak and maple are far superior and I really like cherry. I’m so sick of burning ash in the house, that I’m planning on letting lots of it rot in the woods.

 

[shooterdon]

Ash lasts thru the night for me, but I still can’t wait till it’s all gone. My wife tops off the stove around midnight, and there is always plenty of red coals left, when I get up at 5:00 am. Problem is, I got to shovel out the ashes about every other day. I can go once a week with those better options.

Like you said, oak and maple are far superior and I really like cherry. I’m so sick of burning ash in the house, that I’m planning on letting lots of it rot in the woods.

I do not have enough ash on my 20 acres to make harvesting it worthwhile.

If I had 100+ logger cords, I would contract getting the trees felled, limbed and staged for processing. I could likely sell it for $180 per cord. Oak is going for $225-255/cord.

 

[Rockbadchild]

I wish we had that much of a variety of trees in my area …