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smokinj
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JustWood
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krex1010
Minister of Fire
Not sure how to tell you this but . . . there's no firewood there! I see some garbage. More BTUs in a box of toothpicks . . .
ISeeDeadBTUs said:
Bah - don't let perv boiler boy get ya down. It'll burn.
(Just yanking your chain ISDBTU ;-) )
midwestcoast
Minister of Fire
I say soft Maple (red or silver dunno) on first. I don't know from softwoods, so no comment on the second.
I don't see rotten wood or garbage, just free wood. The first is past it's prime, obviously getting punky, but still intact enough to split just fine. I'd have no problem burning that. The softwood doesn't look rotted at all to me.
I don't see rotten wood or garbage, just free wood. The first is past it's prime, obviously getting punky, but still intact enough to split just fine. I'd have no problem burning that. The softwood doesn't look rotted at all to me.
Wood Duck
Minister of Fire
I'd say slightly rotten Red Maple and Aspen. I have seen Red Maple just like, that first wood, and I am burning ome now. Most of the wood is fine, just a few soft spots. The second wood sure looks like the aspen around here. I like aspen. It isn't oak, but it burns hot and starts fast.
(top 2)Looks like the dead standing swamp maple that I have lots of here.
Trees are slowly thinning themselves out.
By the time it falls on the ground it's fairly rotten.
That needs to get burnt soon if it's even still hard and worth it.
I'd keep the rain and snow off it cuz it can be like a sponge.
(bottom 2) look like some sort of poplar / aspen.
Have a few here, have never cut them down or gotten to them to cut them up for firewood before they've rotted .
Trees are slowly thinning themselves out.
By the time it falls on the ground it's fairly rotten.
That needs to get burnt soon if it's even still hard and worth it.
I'd keep the rain and snow off it cuz it can be like a sponge.
(bottom 2) look like some sort of poplar / aspen.
Have a few here, have never cut them down or gotten to them to cut them up for firewood before they've rotted .
Backwoods Savage
Minister of Fire
Thanks guys!! When I split what is id'd as red maple I thought it was gonna crumble after seeing the ends but it's surprisingly still intact.
I've come to the conclusion that my stove + red and white oak = hot house. When the temp on the pipe is around 400 the stove just pumps cray heat. I'm guessing the only way to burn efficient will be to start mixing in some lesser BTU splits to keep the pipe hot and whoa down the heat radiating off the stove.
I've come to the conclusion that my stove + red and white oak = hot house. When the temp on the pipe is around 400 the stove just pumps cray heat. I'm guessing the only way to burn efficient will be to start mixing in some lesser BTU splits to keep the pipe hot and whoa down the heat radiating off the stove.
Backwoods Savage
Minister of Fire
Hareball, we also like to mix the maple with other wood because if you burn all maple that stove get pretty hot. Sometimes though, like this morning, I put in 3 small splits....and the stove is about roasting us out. I just looked and the stove top is still at 500 so we'll be cooking for a while yet.
Even though the maple looks about ready for pure punk it will be okay as long as you keep it dry and off the ground.
btw, when I cut soft maple for deer and just leave the whole tree, within 2-3 years the entire tree will be like that! One of the few that will season in whole log form or whole tree form. Leave it too long though and it is just more crap to rot in the woods.
Even though the maple looks about ready for pure punk it will be okay as long as you keep it dry and off the ground.
btw, when I cut soft maple for deer and just leave the whole tree, within 2-3 years the entire tree will be like that! One of the few that will season in whole log form or whole tree form. Leave it too long though and it is just more crap to rot in the woods.
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