Creating a Firewood Database

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Burning Hunk
Aug 28, 2022
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Nova Scotia, Canada
I know I'm relatively new here but I was wondering if I could make a suggestion. There are a lot of posts regarding wood ID's and myself being unfamiliar with some firewood, it would be nice if we had some kind of sticky with a firewood database. Just us simply posting pics of our splits in green state, seasoned, bark on/off, species, etc so that others could reference it - perhaps look through and see if they can I'd their firewood. It's tough without bark and leaves sometimes, so if we're posting lots of pics and we know the types it might prove useful. Might be good for conversation and discussion as well.

Just throwing g it out there.
 
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I know I'm relatively new here but I was wondering if I could make a suggestion. There are a lot of posts regarding wood ID's and myself being unfamiliar with some firewood, it would be nice if we had some kind of sticky with a firewood database. Just us simply posting pics of our splits in green state, seasoned, bark on/off, species, etc so that others could reference it - perhaps look through and see if they can I'd their firewood. It's tough without bark and leaves sometimes, so if we're posting lots of pics and we know the types it might prove useful. Might be good for conversation and discussion as well.

Just throwing g it out there.
Id go so far to measure bark pieces and depth, that would be cool.
Strange things trying to ident a tree via bark. Many trees look so much different than each other right next to each other, and others change their bark from young > old (like we do). Where I'm at, it's pretty easy to tell what most trees are, but quite often I sit there scratching my head and cant tell because the leaves are too high for me to see.