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[DieselnHooters]

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

Where are you in northern ontario ? to some it starts at lake simcoe , to others it is much further north like north-bay/sudbury

 

[Gordon Gould]

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

We are lucky to have a good variety of hard wood here. In some ways, at least for me, it makes it a little more complicated. I get my fire wood from thinning and taking what is diseased, dead, or misshapen, so end up with lots of different species. I try to put the best wood in the center of the wood shed for late Dec, Jan, and Feb and the lesser quality in the back and front for fall and spring. In this years pile I have Beech, Yellow Birch, Ash, Hop Hornbeam, Apple, Soft (Red) Maple, White Birch, Hard Maple.

I avoid Popple (Aspen), Cherry, and soft wood but some usually creeps into the pile somewhere along the line.

gg

 

[Rockbadchild]

Where are you in northern ontario ? to some it starts at lake simcoe , to others it is much further north like north-bay/sudbury

yeah Barrie is Northern Ontario if you live in Toronto lol ... I am further north then North bay, North bay is 6h from me, I am a 1% ... the most Northern town accessible by road...

 

[Rockbadchild]

We are lucky to have a good variety of hard wood here. In some ways, at least for me, it makes it a little more complicated. I get my fire wood from thinning and taking what is diseased, dead, or misshapen, so end up with lots of different species. I try to put the best wood in the center of the wood shed for late Dec, Jan, and Feb and the lesser quality in the back and front for fall and spring. In this years pile I have Beech, Yellow Birch, Ash, Hop Hornbeam, Apple, Soft (Red) Maple, White Birch, Hard Maple.

I avoid Popple (Aspen), Cherry, and soft wood but some usually creeps into the pile somewhere along the line.

gg

Once Aspen is dry it burns good but it makes a awful amount of ash, I was actually surprise to see the amount of BTU generated by aspen from the chart. I love to cook on a outdoor fire so I wish I could get my hands some of these hardwood like apple, maple or cherry... I have to settle for white birch to cook on. Birch and Tamarack are the only hardwood we have, Tamarack is abundant, white birch is sporadic and the lumber company don't harvest Tamarack at all (it twist and crack too much) and barley any birch they are too small or too crooked so that's what we burn the most.

 

[Jstpssng]

I avoid Popple (Aspen), Cherry, and soft wood but some usually creeps into the pile somewhere along the line

I have pretty much the same list, as well as white birch. I won't waste pile space with soft (red) maple either although it does make good spring wood when you just want to take the chill off. I also plan to cut up some hemlock slabs for next winter... they'll make a quick, hot fire to heat the house up, then switch to hardwood.

 

[goeduck]

When it comes to making ash in the fireplace, our best wood out here is Coastal Douglas Fir, which is technically not a fir at all. It has 75% of the BTUs of hardwood yet I can easily go 2 months of 24/7 burning without shoveling ash out. Grows straight as an arrow and splits easily. The older the tree, the denser the wood.

 

[arrow]

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.
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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. View attachment 859920

Ever wonder how things got named?
I wonder if they called an ash tree "ash" because of the residual it leaves behind according to wolc.

"lobster" is another one. I guess you lob it into the cauldron after it bites you and then stir it.
Another mystery solved by me.

 

[wolc123]

I didn’t want to miss out on some hard maple, that blew down over a trail in my parents woods, so I decided to finish up the other side of my woodshed. That will give me room to store it after I cut it up and split it.


I had to move some old barn beams out (now mostly under the overhang) so that I can finish the other half of the interior wall. Hopefully, I can get that done by this weekend, so that I can fit another 12 face cord inside. I have 7-1/2 in there now, which is mostly ash.

 

[Yogi05]

Ever wonder how things got named?
I wonder if they called an ash tree "ash" because of the residual it leaves behind according to wolc.

"lobster" is another one. I guess you lob it into the cauldron after it bites you and then stir it.
Another mystery solved by me.

Dog wood.
Because of it's bark.

 

[BackRoad]

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"...

OK...what's a bean hole?

(And ya'll get yer minds out of the gutter!)