What wood species haven't you burned but would like to?

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If you were able to get your hands on any wood species that you don't have in your area, what would it be? I'm very blessed that here in PA. we have so many different species of hardwoods, but one that I wish I had some of would be Yellow Birch; don't have it around my area and only burned it once (actually brought a round home from vacation in Vermont a few years ago).


What would you choose?
 
cumaru... I burn all the flooring scraps i can get... Sooo hot sooo dense
jatoba (brazilian cherry) would be another nice wood in log form
 
i'd like to try some shag bark hickory and maybe some rock elm if someone else will split it:)
 
Any hardwoods at all. We don`t have hardly any out here cept maybe a little arbutus.
 
Locust
I'm eying a tree right now that is hanging over the road that the power company has to come and cut because it is going to hit the lines. I really would like to see how this stuff burns (without the smell I've heard about). I have plenty of oak, both white and red, but I've heard that this is even better.
Only time will tell.
Chad
 
any hard wood grown in the northeastern U.S.
 
Nope, none. I've only gotten about 25 cords in the past 6 months of just about all oak from one lot that I have gotten to cut. Few maple and birch, could almost not cut them and still be OK.
Chad
 
bruce56bb said:
i'd like to try some shag bark hickory and maybe some rock elm if someone else will split it:)
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I want hedge. Will swap as much shag bark hickory as you'd like, and I'll split it, but you pay shipping. Actually, my sister may be driving back east from Iowa next year. Hmmmm... if she leaves the kids behind...
 
branch

thanks for the offer. i would gladly trade hedge for hickory.

in my opinion, hedge is overrated. yes it does have incredible btu's, but they are earned.

hedge is short, crooked, thorny and throws a BUNCH of sparks. it also does not stack well.

i'm just not that big of a fan of it with all the hassles involved in burning it.

bruce
 
I can't complain as I have a ton of Oak, all hand split which is easy for me to do.

I would really like to try Hickory; is it difficult to hand split?
 
oh i don't know some south American super rare rain-forest hardwood , as I have burnt most of the readily available north American hardwoods.
Zebra wood sounds exotic.
 
anything from the French Faux Forest.
 
I'd like to get my hands on a few cords of Madrone, but it's all a few hundred miles away and nobody brings it over the mountains to us out here in the high desert. Rick
 
cannonballcobb said:
I can't complain as I have a ton of Oak, all hand split which is easy for me to do.

I would really like to try Hickory; is it difficult to hand split?
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I haven't split any since I was was a kid - I recall it being a bit stringy, but not too bad until you hit some knots, like maple.
I have a bunch of it, but kind of back deep in my lot so I've been too lazy to tackle any, but it's on the shopping list for this winter.
 
branchburner said:
bruce56bb said:
i'd like to try some shag bark hickory and maybe some rock elm if someone else will split it:)
Click to expand...

I want hedge. Will swap as much shag bark hickory as you'd like, and I'll split it, but you pay shipping. Actually, my sister may be driving back east from Iowa next year. Hmmmm... if she leaves the kids behind...
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SISTER! lol plenty of hedge aroud here!
 
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