Got cedar? I do...

[Thislilfishy]

Friend alerted me to a bunch of dead standing cedar that was cut down a year or two ago on his job site...got some permission and went to work. My official first scrounge....this stuff smells great!

 

[NordicSplitter]

Cedar is awesome. I had a friend drop off an untreated Cedar Transformer pole all cut at 18" rounds. It was about a full face cord worth and boy did that stuff burn HOT!

 

[Thislilfishy]

Yeah this stuff is super dry. Going to mix it with other wood, I think a full load of this would turn a stove into a mound if molten iron.

Ian

 

[Highbeam]

We have western red cedar here in the pnw. Huge trees and it has lots of good qualities. The eastern folks have something else they call cedar. What kind of cedar is your cedar?

 

[Thislilfishy]

I am not certain, it starts at one large trunk and about 2' from the ground separates into four or five main trunks. All of which stay tight together and grow pretty much straight up. All the smaller limbs completely entangle together. Don't know if that helps ID it. I have one in my front yard, I'll take some pics tomorrow.

 

[Michael Golden]

Drove through Ontario and couldn't believe all the new in that city. Your picture reminded me of all the new development, the new housing developments went on for ever it seemed. Really neat city, and big city!

 

[Thislilfishy]

I assume you mean Toronto. Yeah, it's sprawled half across the lower end of Ontario. Fortunately I live a fair bit north from there. I do a lot of work in the city, and lived there for quite a few years. I really dislike going down there now. Just too many bloody people and too much traffic. I like my quiet home, a few friends, a nice bonfire....and lotsa beers, and no complaining neighbours.

Ian

 

[Applesister]

I didnt know we had an Eastern cedar. My best friend collects some type of cedar from her boyfriends farm to add to Christmas wreaths. The needles are short( 1/2") and pale mint green and they have blue berries that look almost like bayberry. Very pretty mixed with other evergreens.
We have Arborvitae, I dont even know if I spelled it right.

 

[Brewmonster]

We have western red cedar here in the pnw. Huge trees and it has lots of good qualities. The eastern folks have something else they call cedar. What kind of cedar is your cedar?

Cedar? So many trees go by that name. There are trees in the genera Thuja, Juniperus, Chamaecyparis, Cedrus, Libodecrus, Cedrela, Cupressus, Cryptomeria (and others) that are, in various contexts, known as cedar. In my yard I have Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana). In South Jersey there's Atlantic White Cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides). My house is made from logs of Northern White Cedar (Thuja occidentalis). I could go on. The point is that common names confuse more than they clarify. Cedar is one of the worst.

 

[EncoreInMass]

I have what I believe is White Cedar (T. occidentalis) in the woods behind my house...dozens of them standing in the woods long dead...they of course don't rot. The first year we lived here we had maybe a cord of firewood and hand no idea we would need at least 3..so I logged the woods. That cedar is amazing. Bright red through the center and smells fantastic. It burns incredibly hot. I wish I were a woodworker as some of them are 40' and at least 2' diameter.

 

[PDXpyro]

Western red cedar here, and I'd take it as 30% of my stash any day. Seasons fast, burns hot, the best kindling ever, and otherwise well-suited to quick shoulder-season fires and as a quick-starting boost to the coals in 24/7 times.

 

[Applesister]

All I know is you arent supposed to plant cedars next to apple trees.

 

[Thislilfishy]

This is the type of cedar I cut up, any ideas what it is? I need to get this one taken down as well. It was heavily damaged in last summer storms when about 15' of the main trunk snapped off.

 

[firefighterjake]

Eastern white.

 

[Thislilfishy]

Eastern white.

Thanks, actually I have two if these that need to come down.

 

[Wildo]

The best kindling!

 

[BoiledOver]

Yeah probably excellent kindling. I do batch burning in a gasser so weigh out what is required to bring storage up to temp. Grabbed two splits, one of red oak and the other white cedar. The cedar was slightly larger, not by much. The red oak weighed 5.5 pounds and the cedar, 2.7 pounds. twice the btu's in red oak per size than cedar.

 

[Paulywalnut]

When it's real dry it burns great and will start a fire also.

 

[Thislilfishy]

When it's real dry it burns great and will start a fire also.

Doesn't burn so good when wet...

Wife kindly loaned out my meter to the neighbour. Figured what the heck and split a couple rounds and loaded up the wood stove for an afternoon burn. No burny burny without wide open draft. Ah well, cut and split for mixing with next years wood. I really thought it would be dry, light, bowling pin sound when knocked together, but bark doesn't peal off easy. See noobs, you really are guessing without a meter!

Ian