2014-2015. What's in your stack?.....

Pine, Silver Maple, and Cherry for me this year. Probably the same for next year as well. Maybe some Mockernut Hickory if it's ready. After that, the Red and White Oak I cut this spring should be ready. Not the best stuff this year or next, but it's the only wood that would season fast enough for me to have ready. I haven't burned in ten years (college followed by a few years in apartments) so I didn't have time on my side.

Longstreet said:

Pine, Silver Maple, and Cherry for me this year. Probably the same for next year as well. Maybe some Mockernut Hickory if it's ready. After that, the Red and White Oak I cut this spring should be ready. Not the best stuff this year or next, but it's the only wood that would season fast enough for me to have ready. I haven't burned in ten years (college followed by a few years in apartments) so I didn't have time on my side.

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Looks like I have some more back up from the atlanta area on the board!

That's quite the mix mind if I ask where you sourced that ? Id double check that oak... id be shocked if it were ready to burn this year if it was only c/s/s this spring. I Have to imagine it's still in the high 30's on m/c.

What area of town are you in ?

3 cords mostly hickory,oak and pine. This will be my first time burning pine. I heard all my life "dont burn pine!" But yall have convinced me. My brother had a big pine in his yard die. I got about a cord out of it.

Z33 said:

Looks like I have some more back up from the atlanta area on the board!

That's quite the mix mind if I ask where you sourced that ? Id double check that oak... id be shocked if it were ready to burn this year if it was only c/s/s this spring. I Have to imagine it's still in the high 30's on m/c.

What area of town are you in ?

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Sorry, I should have made my post more clear. 14/15 Pine/Maple/Cherry. 15/16 Pine/Maple/Cherry/Hickory 16/17 Red and White Oak (and some other mixed woods)

We are in what I've heard called SmryVinnings. First exit West of the 75/285 intersection.

The pine is easy to find. Enough people removing trees and not wanting to pay for the company to remove the wood. No one wants it for firewood because of "chimney fires". I bet I could burn my entire life just collecting pine from friends/co-workers/neighbors removing pine trees. The maple is from craigslist. The hardwoods are from the neighborhood they are developing off Spring Hill Parkway. They let me take anything that was going into the chipper as long as I was respectful of their operation. I have a little of anything that will grow in Georgia including Magnolia (Has anything burned it, ever?) Vast majority is Cherry, Hickory, and the Oaks. Not sure where my next woods will come from as the clearing is complete but I have a year or two to find it.

Us Southerns have to represent more. We should start recruiting for more Atlanta members. I feel like the wood is out there for the taking, we just need to notify each other.

Z33 said:

Not as much as you fellas up north thats for sure! I go through about a cord a year on average last winter was a solid cord and a half to heat 2200sqft sieve of a house.

We have a heat pump but burn for all of our heat except for the rare occasion when we leave town for a few days. Wood is the only way i can keep the wife comfortable in the winter with out the 250 dollar power bills.

I'm looking forward to the 60 dollar power bills again starting about November.

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Mine was 400+. That's what brought me here and I ended that mess

Ive got my usual mix of 5 cords waiting. The problem for next year is all oak. And for all my years past Oak has been rather scarce for me. If I want next year to be a mixed assortment I need to put up some lighter fare by October 12th. Give some Gray Birch, Aspen and Red maple a spot in the racks. Right now I have Aspen, Black birch, Black cherry, Red maple, Shagbark H, Sugar maple and Beech. About a 1/2-1 cord each.

I've got 3 cords of cherry and 3 cords of mixed hardwood with little sassy mixed in for good measure. Next year will be ash oak maple and hickory 6 full cords of it . My electric before I started burning in feb this year was 875! Yeah I said that, yikes, never again

Osagebndr said:

I've got 3 cords of cherry and 3 cords of mixed hardwood with little sassy mixed in for good measure. Next year will be ash oak maple and hickory 6 full cords of it . My electric before I started burning in feb this year was 875! Yeah I said that, yikes, never again

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wow and i thought mine was bad

Osagebndr said:

I've got 3 cords of cherry and 3 cords of mixed hardwood with little sassy mixed in for good measure. Next year will be ash oak maple and hickory 6 full cords of it . My electric before I started burning in feb this year was 875! Yeah I said that, yikes, never again

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I turned my propane heater off when it $4 a gallon. I cant even imagine $875

I'm really just getting started - moved into my house last November. I burned a bunch of wet wood last year - all standing dead or fallen, but I was burning it as fast as I could split it. Yes, I was one of "those guys" , until I came here!

For this year, I have a little better than 1-1/2 cords silver maple, 1 cord aspen, and 1 cord red maple, which has been split since spring, and top covered since earlier this month before the really rainy weather hit.

I also have 2 cords of ash c/s/s, and probably a little over a cord of ash and black locust still in log form awaiting processing; which I plan to burn in 2-3 years. Next year, a second helping of maple and aspen is probably on the menu; but after that, things start looking up. I have a couple years worth of standing dead and fallen black locust and ash still out in the woods to grab.

For this winter I’ve got 3 cords ready, about 1/3 of that is hickory and the rest is ash.

I'll be sad to see the last of my hickory go, after that I've just got ash, silver maple and some pine for the next 2 years.

I'm in Michigan so it will again be a little ash with a bunch of ash with some more ash mixed in. I have roughly 20-25 cord and more to split that my neighbor brought down yesterday. Tough to beat a cord or so of dead ash drug into the yard in limbless tree form by the neighbor you helped get through last winter

I also have 3 or so cord of red and white oak stacked alone and some cherry, maple and elm mixed in but probably 90% of 17%MC or better ash with so much more to CSS

Red and White Oak, Pignut Hickory, Black Locust are the bulk of my stacks (and for my MIL's stove) for the next couple of years. A few more cords of Silver Maple, White Ash and Cherry. I need to stack mass quantities of Red Oak this fall...

Ram 1500 with an axe... said:

That's a great mix, how far are you ahead?

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Unfortunately not as far ahead as I'd like to be. I have a little shy of 1.5 cords for 15/16. I have 32 rounds in my driveway, mostly maple (some rounds of mystery wood, I may need to post here for an ID), that I am working on with an 8lb maul. I do a few a day. I got them last weekend when they cleared a lot down the street and there were rounds everywhere. I live in the country (you may have guessed) and there was a half dozen guys scrounging with me. Otherwise I woulda had me a dozen cords.

Z33 said:

Not as much as you fellas up north thats for sure! I go through about a cord a year on average last winter was a solid cord and a half to heat 2200sqft sieve of a house.

We have a heat pump but burn for all of our heat except for the rare occasion when we leave town for a few days. Wood is the only way i can keep the wife comfortable in the winter with out the 250 dollar power bills.

I'm looking forward to the 60 dollar power bills again starting about November.

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I am with you on that one except here it is propane.

Chestnut oak, maple and elm here for the cold months. I also have some cottonwood and aspen for fall and spring. About 8 cords ready, with another 6 in the wings. Still trying to get ahead after last year. I burnt 2 cords more than expected. Lots more work to do, but I have 3 huge chestnut Oaks waiting to split. They were standing dead for a few years, so hopefully once split they will be ready for next winter. They have been bucked for about 6 months.

2014-2015 Will be the Year of the Locust !

I got me 3 cord ready to go. 1/2 Honey ( 3 yr seasoned ) the other Black Locust. Also have little maple to start off the season with. If I get hit with a cold cold winter there's a few more cord of honey locust, oak and Shag hickory with 2 + years I could dip into. And yes 98.7 percent of it is without bark.

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Ram 1500 that's some clean dry lookin wood you got there. Nice.

Rossco said:

Allot of Larch, some fir and good old 'Beetle kill' pine.

Couldn't really comment on actual Cord amounts. I have four 10 x 6 x 16" rows of splits that I hope will make the season.

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I believe that's a little more than 2.5 cords.

Pennsyltucky Chris said:

I believe that's a little more than 2.5 cords.

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Thanks for that

That's just the split stuff. Going on what CSS Amounts too, I may have another 2 cord of rounds piled on the other side of the pine wall. Them 4 rows don't include the pine wall that separates the rounds / splits. Also have half a truck of paper dry pine rounds that I need to spilt. Ah think I will have a beer.

Thanks again

Mine is in my avatar or part of it anyway. I got a full cord of cherry and a full cord if rock maple stacked behind the barn to kick things off

1 cord of willow and aspen. 4 cords of ash and red maple ready to go.