Love the videos, get a large truck tyre,remove the inner walls,place on a flat concrete surface, fill with your rounds, and split away, fill your bags from the tyre,🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Good vid for the beginners. And some good info for the experienced people. Aspen, poplar, cottonwood burn Great after seasoning. Or if it's standing dead. It sure beats burnin snowballs !
Thanks for the interest. Honestly I'm pretty much sold on the Douglas Fir as a staple but add Pine/Spruce during the warmer spring/fall months and Birch during the colder winter months. Birch is great for keeping that overnight fire!
@@rockymountainfirewood3873 we are experimenting with some aspen for shoulder season burning, but we love the birch as well! Half of my shed is spruce this year, but it was on the property so a trade off of conveinence
I'm in southeast Pennsylvania we have ash oak cherry maple alot of hardwood down here I use pine as a starter I hate how some folkes act like burning pine inside is the ultimate sin lol
Right? Actually lodgepole pine around here is great because most of the trees are dead standing beetle kill and get a good 17MBTU per cord or so. Nothing to brag about but does the trick. Thanks Matt stay tuned.
Hahaha man. It's crazy how different our areas are. If I tried to sell anything softwood for firewood it would not go over great. It's all about the oak, maple, ash, and cherry around here. From Southern Ontario, cheers and happy burning.
I've just come across your channel, and i was having a look at your equipment. You have one wedge. Get at least two more and use a sledge hammer to drive them instead of using a maul which is too light for this type of work. Since you do a lot of firewood, there are many occasions where you come across big, thick, knotty rounds/blocks that only open up with the sledge and wedges. Having said that, i suspect that you know this already. By the way, it was an enjoyable and informative video. P.S. Yes, Spruce, even though it's a softwood, can be tough stuff to split, mainly because of all the knots.
Norwegian wood Awesome book Lots of information!.Being hear in ne pennsylvania Have a lot of mixed Hardwoods to choose from Take care videos are awesome Thankyou
Depends on the size of stove and who's handling the wood. I buck to 30 cm if it's elderly or less burly people handling the wood. It's lighter and more manageable for them. As for size to split, it's best to vary it. Larger pieces take longer to dry but if properly dried, they'll burn longer and are ideal for overnight.
Great video and info. Sir, what about Bradford pear trees? I’m cutting one down in my front yard and wanting to know if it will be good firewood? Thanks
Good question. I actually burn mostly Douglas Fir, but maybe 1/5 Lodgepole pine which I find not too sappy. Typically once per year I'll clean the chimney but I've been doing it twice recently since I've got a new stove. Just making sure everything is good! Cheers.
Good video. I constantly hear a lot of complicated hokem methods from the old timers...most of which involve needless complication, and more work. Firewood is very simple (No science) The most important thing is giving it plenty time to dry. Stack it in loose rows in a woodshed and just let it dry. Manage your woodshed so you are always burning the oldest wood. If you can't build a decent woodshed have a carpenter build one; it's not that expensive. What kind wood I burn just happens to be which trees fall down and are available to me. If you use fire starter sticks to start fires in the stove, for very little cost, they will save you a lot of time, mess and work. Once you start using them , you'll never go back to kindling. If you want to see the big difference between green and dried wood, try building a campfire with green wood. Difficult to start and get heat out of.
Great points, Martin. I agree. The hokem gimicks drive me nuts! The campfire analogy is spot on. I'm hoping to do a "things you didn't know about firewood" if you have any fun facts? Cheers.
i have pen im using 2 years seasoning, next pen will be 4 years , got 110 foot row 3 rows deep still in rounds seasoning right now 😁. oh im in kansas so we dont burn conifers, just hardwoods. birch here would be starter.
"Birch, baby" You must like birch firewood! I am loading a video tomorrow with a free wood score by my house. My tree service neighbor says it's Ponderosa pine and yellow birch. I have not seen yellow birch before. I have burned white birch, but this doesn't look like birch to me. No clue what it is. Take a look at my video tomorrow and let me know your thoughts if this is yellow birch I got.
In Ohio I prefer to burn locusts and Osage orange Red oak Beach and white oak and hard maple I try to stay away for SAP wood as much as possible Aspen Burns pretty good dry just burns fast
Your example, "axe/maul", are you saying that they are the same tool? If so, they aren't. A maul isn't used for chopping, like the axe is made for. It's used for splitting wood. Also, Osage orange is the type that burns the hottest.
Thanks for the note - you are right! I was more speaking generally for an axe or maul. I personally call them my splitting maul for all splitting wood except kindling. I use a short handle axe for kindling and falling trees.
Thanks for this question. It all depends when you're planning on burning the wood. The quicker the wood is bucked/split/cut, the quicker it will dry because more surface area is exposed. I personally prefer to buck and split right away. The wood types I have seem to split easier when wet, plus there's less splinters.
If it's been standing dead 2-3 years split right away or wait a season, at least that's a basic guide. Species and location and how dry the seasons are when drying all factor in as do many other things.
@@yannst-pierre9541 nice. Looks like my yellow birch isn't too far behind for heating value! www.cdlinc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/btu-per-tree-type-5.pdf
So im Norwegian and thats pretty much what gets burned around here, and has been for thousands of years. The climate dictates which trees that grow, and 90 % of all Norwegian woods are Spruce, pine and birch... For people who call that trash, u might be right.. Then again whats ur idea, should we freeze to death during the winters because pine burns faster than hard woods ?🙃 Haha, every wood will burn, season it properly, have ur chimney cleaned+ clean it ur self yearly to know whats going on - and just enjoy warm homes during winters.. Firewood warms u up 3 times, when u fall the tree and split the wood - when you stack it up - and finally when u burn it. Its something beautiful thats in our DNA and i love that it will probably be a part of our lives for many generations.
Right on....you burn what grows around you. I'm fortunate to live where hardwood is abundant but if it wasn't I certainly am not going to freeze. Cheers to you!
Uh...burning 15-20 years and you just figured seasoning is important? Maybe those softwood burn easier wet but opening up my burner and hearing sizzling and crappy fire would've been a hint to
@@patrickmeyer9419 haha well I should say I just now figured out HOW important seasoning is. The tradition growing up was always fall firewood but now that fall firewood is for the following winter unless she's bone dry.
@@adnan9520 Interesting. I wonder if there is a difference in what we're talking. The pine family of trees apparently includes a ton of interesting firewoods. The only "pine" I refer to is Lodgepole which actually has pretty good firewood qualities for a softwood. I just did a little googling and apparently Douglas Fir is a member of the pine family which is one of the best. No comparison to a hardwood but competes for sure.
