Hello all. Recently joined, as i have seen many times people state they habe been following and reading just hadn't joined yet, well i am another haha.
In anycase we heat our house with wood, and im busy building up our stash as ots seemingly never done. We arr blessed with a beautiful wood lot of 5 1/2 acres 95% hardwoods, heavily wooded with beech, yellow and white birch, limited red oak, rock and red maples, white ash, back cherry, common serviceberry, many apple trees and a few other popples and other softer woods. All of these i have good experienced with.
My parents land is the land with best of the best i guess you could say. Loaded with black birch, and eastern hop hornbeam which we dropped some and are very impressed by the shear strength and hardness even green. It is a rare example of truely being as good as they say haha. These trees were about 45 ft tall and 16" in diameter so a rare bird for a hornbeam. Said to be the best firewood in all the land here in Vermont but beings a bormally smaller and very slow growing tree theres very limited info on these trees as far as forewood goes. I droppes them in mid july and im impressed with the amount of checking going on so far but how long does thos stuff normally take to season? Anyone else have over a cord of this stuff? I mean where you can actually use it required instead of only 15 degrees below?
In anycase we heat our house with wood, and im busy building up our stash as ots seemingly never done. We arr blessed with a beautiful wood lot of 5 1/2 acres 95% hardwoods, heavily wooded with beech, yellow and white birch, limited red oak, rock and red maples, white ash, back cherry, common serviceberry, many apple trees and a few other popples and other softer woods. All of these i have good experienced with.
My parents land is the land with best of the best i guess you could say. Loaded with black birch, and eastern hop hornbeam which we dropped some and are very impressed by the shear strength and hardness even green. It is a rare example of truely being as good as they say haha. These trees were about 45 ft tall and 16" in diameter so a rare bird for a hornbeam. Said to be the best firewood in all the land here in Vermont but beings a bormally smaller and very slow growing tree theres very limited info on these trees as far as forewood goes. I droppes them in mid july and im impressed with the amount of checking going on so far but how long does thos stuff normally take to season? Anyone else have over a cord of this stuff? I mean where you can actually use it required instead of only 15 degrees below?
