This wood has been seasoned exactly one year. Burning pretty good. This is 10 minutes after initial start.
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One year seasoned
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What kind of wood is it?
I cut a big ole Hack-berry in late March that was dripping from the saw cuts. Split and stacked all summer it runs under 15% now.
I cut a big ole Hack-berry in late March that was dripping from the saw cuts. Split and stacked all summer it runs under 15% now.
It was straight grained and split like a charm. Had a sweet smell to it, thick gray bark. It had been down for a couple of months.
I'm burning Cherry that was still alive this time last year, in an EPA stove, it takes off like a rocket, and lasts for hours. Good job it does burn so well, because when that runs out I've only got oak and hickory that's 2 years split and most isn't ready yet.
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TE
It is a possibility that it was a white oak. I did split it all pretty small because I knew I was gonna have to burn it this year.
It being an Open Fireplace, it will be more forgiving. A Woodstove/Insert will control the air flow and moisture will play a larger part.
My Open Fireplace will burn wood that my stove Pukes on
That still looks like a good burn though. No smoke. And that's always a good thing
My Open Fireplace will burn wood that my stove Pukes on
That still looks like a good burn though. No smoke. And that's always a good thing
Realstone
Lord of Fire
That's good to know. I cut one about a month ago. Never heard of a Dwarf Hackbery till I cut this one down. Now I see them everywhere.
The one I cut sure wasn't a dwarf. I got a good 3/4 cord out of it and I left a couple big gnarly chunks I couldn't split. It had grown in a creek bottom and had washed out and fell. The land owner had drug it up ont eh level with his dozer for me.
Realstone
Lord of Fire
The one I cut was no dwarf either, and most of the dwarf hackberry's around here grow as large as the regular hackberry's
This shouldn't be surprising. Most wood burns just fine after being split and stacked for a year.
clemsonfor
Minister of Fire
Even oak will burn fine in an open fireplace that's no biggie. The EPA wood stoves don't burn it as will but still will burn it. Its a factor of air and how much oxygen it gets an open fireplace can get all the air it wants where a stove limits air to allow longer burn times and more efficient heat control.
clemsonfor
Minister of Fire
Compared to how most people burn around here my wood burns like fat wood. A guy called my mother in law the other day and wanted to sell her some wood. She has bought from them before. I saw these guys cutting the wood about a month ago. The split and stacked it and then covered with a tarp top to bottom. Most people have smoke bellowing out of there chimneys all the time.
Just for chits and giggles I threw a few of the hickory slivers from splitting last weekend and that stuff smoked something terrible.
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