I can't tell. Looks to be a hardwood,maybe beech or apple. My guess is that it is pretty good, better than pine and worse than oak.
How much of it do you have?
I can't tell. Looks to be a hardwood,maybe beech or apple. My guess is that it is pretty good, better than pine and worse than oak.
How much of it do you have?
I like Be Green's answer, haha. I will tell you how they smell after I split, pick up, and season for at least 8 months.How does it smell??
Simonkenton: I was doing the same exact calculation in my head earlier today. You are absolutely right, at that rate, we will be breaking even. We do have gas heat, so it wont be our primary source of heat. Having 3/4 of a cord splitted from a 30ft birch recently brought down, plus the fireplace clay liners need repair also. Why not get a woodstove insert? That's happening next week (good timing w the 70f weather, isnt it?). On top of everything, got hook up with the pile in pictures. I honestly think I like splitting, (I found it relaxing) and it's such good workout. Still can't get enough of the popping sound from a clean split....Hi......Ya! Or Bon......Zai! Even at fair cord price, I still find it a lot of fun, haha. I m a grown man in case you can't tell.A 3 hour drive round trip. Call it 180 miles. At 50 cents/mile, avg cost these days, it will cost you 90 bucks just to drive over there.
If you can't haul it all in one trip you are hitting the point of diminshing returns on that wood.
I got one truckload of cherry one time. Nice straight grained, the main trunk, about a 20 inch tree. I split it by hand with the fierce Monster Maul and that stuff gave me an ass-whipping. No more cherry splitting for me.
I hope you have a different species of cherry, or else, you are a 325 pound linebacker for the Jets. I am 6 3 and 225 and I swing a mean Monster Maul.
I will be bring my beloved weapon of choice: Fiskar X27 and probably renting a 20" chainsaw from HD to split them. As the place is about 1.5hr drive one way, that doesn't leave me a lot of time to split on site. Thinking probably will get the saw to halved or thirded the bigger ones for easier stacking in the car. I'm open to any suggestions to process them a little faster but yet safely. Thanks!