What wood is the most available in your area?

Good poll, woodsman! Doing tree removal, the MOST prevalent wood we seem to get stuck doing is pine......followed closely by different varieties of maple, and then the oaks......

Naturally, I'd rather not do the pine all the time, but I end up trying to use the trunks for board wood, and make what's left into firewood (for the maple syrup evaporator or fire pit, because I'm so far ahead on wood).

Auzzie Gumtree said:

i live in Australia in an area covered mainly with Mountain Ash. These are very straight and long. When the first settlers came here they used these trees for the mast for their boats.

This is a hardwood similar in BTU's to Oak. Nice and easy to split as it it so straight with few branches.

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I think if I take a vacation down under, I'm bringin' the saw.

PA. Woodsman said:

Thanks Scotty....I actually got the idea from one of the recent I.D. threads that was once again Silver Maple, and thought how I have been getting a great amount of Silver myself this season, and just got to thinking is there any species in other areas that you seem to be "swimming in it" lol! Last season it seemed like I was getting a ton of Mulberry, this season Silver, and just curious to the pattern of it.

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I'm noticing the same, got 3 cords of mulberry last year as well! This year I'm up to 6 cords of silver maple with another cord coming today from my neighbor.

PA. Woodsman said:

Just curious as to which trees are the most available in your area for firewood, what species you seem to be able to easily get on a regular basis? In my area especially this year Silver Maple is the most prevelant, probably followed by Mulberry, although it seems to change every season.

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In my area of Maryland (near Washington, DC) I'd say that wood is available as follows:

(1) oaks
(2) tulip poplar
(3) maples
(4) pine
(5) hickory

Hardwood. Followed distantly by softwood.

I depends a ton on the property you are one, and even areas within the property.

Oak
Sycamore
Ash
Hickory
Black Locust
Walnut
Cherry
Hedge
Elm
Tulip
Hackberry
Maple
Cottonwood

Those probably account for 70% of the timber around here.

Ponderosa pine, followed by lodgepole pine and assorted firs. I always go for pine first since they seem to be 100 times more fragile than fir and fall over all of the time

Mother Nature puts down more Cherry than anything else on our property. It's almost time I start getting some of the worst of the Ash on the backhill.

1.Cherry
2.Maples
3.Hemlock
4.White Pine
5.Beech
6.Bigtooth Aspen

Our wooded areas around here are mainly Bur Oak.

Lots of Black Walnut, Locust, Cherry and Poplar 'round here.

Oak but wish there was more Ash around

In my area of Northern Kentucky, I would say the top 3 woods I come across for wood scores are :
1) maple (both silver or sugar)
2) white ash (due to EAB)
3) black locust

Naturally we have been cutting mostly white ash lately simply because all our ash trees are dead from the emerald ash borer. However, we have a pretty good selection of trees on our property. Besides the ash we have:

Maple (soft maple. No hard maple on our place)
elm
red oak
pin oak
white oak
ironwood
beech
cherry
popple (aspen)
cottonwood
willow (ugh)
white pine
scotch pine
white birch
sassafras
cedar
apple
and a few other misc trees.

just voted other for Black Locust...Probably more Silver Maple but the Locust falls more often and lots of old stuff on the ground...

Stuff In my current arsenal:
Mulberry
Oak, a whole hosts of different
Hickory
Elm, American and Siberian
Silver Maple
Cherry

Past usage:
Black Locust
Hackberry
Pine
Cedar
Walnut

Stuff I haven't burned but is around
Sycamore
Ash
Hedge
Persimmon
and more...

It has been easy pickin's around since a recent storm.

lodgepole pine is everywhere here followed by larch, aspen (poplar), fir, spruce, white birch which is in bunches but not readily available. Water birch is around creeks but small and bushy. Larch is quite visible throughout the valley especially in the fall when the needles turn color but since its the prized wood around here you have to be keen to find much to buck up. Lodgepole pine rates quite high on the btu charts as far as pines go and since its not hard to get most people around here have that as the main wood in their stacks.