New Firewood This Year?

[byQ]

Have you cut up any wood that is new to you this year? And what do you think about it - easy to get, split, and dry?

The new wood for me this year is Honey Locust. It is not overly common in my parts but it's around. Wow, what a great firewood. I'm use to being able to one-handed toss most firewood 15 to 20 feet but that isn't going to happen with Honey Locust - it's too dense. Also, It splits nicely. I'm still drying it - no rush.

 

[Rebelduckman]

I cut some catalpa this year. Split like butter. Good kindling I hear. I also checked all this years wood today and nothing is over 17%. This consists of oak, hickory, ash, cherry, maple and poplar.

 

[blades]

Honey Locust- up in the top 5% btu wise- Need a good coal bed to get it to preform the best.

 

[Applesister]

Last fall my BIL cut 2 Pin cherries down for me. That was the most awesome smelling wood Ive ever processed. I got about two facecords from both trees. The racks are still giving off some wicked licorice scent. My chickens got to enjoy about 2 summers of their small bright cherries before the 2 trees fell into decline. I thought the dieback in the crowns were a canker problem but the trees were clean. I could not detect the cause of the die back. Feel sad, they are the only 2 Pins on the whole farm.
The wood was also a bright orangy red color with ring stripes in the grain.
I should have set some aside for carving.
I will be burning it this fall and Im looking forward to discovering the scent.

 

[Oldman47]

All woods are new to me. I cut up and split a yard tree ash. What a PITA that was. I also dropped and split some cherry and mulberry along a fence line. The mulberry splits nicely if you just threaten it with a Fiskars. You actually need to wield the Fiskars to split the cherry but it is also quite nice compared to that ash.