Great video we here in Canada 🇨🇦 call box elder Manitoba Maple we have a ton of them great camp fire wood My favourite is locusts and red oak just started doing firewood in the last year or so love your videos!
Red Oak, White and Green Ash, Black Cherry, Some sort of Elm, Red and Silver Maple, Sassafras, Black Willow and after work today some Thornless Honey Locust! So far I like the sassafras the best for splitting smells wonderful. Between yourself and a few other firewood channels I watch I decided to start selling firewood as a means to pay for new toys. Can't believe how hot the market is for it! 2 weeks and sold about 20 face cords.
All right Mike, time to get to work, because once the word is out you will never have enough wood to sell! I never have cut of split sassafras before, that locust is real good firewood! Get busy!
Same here I’m home recovering from Corona and binge watching your videos ... love em! This is a great video, there’s a few species I’m not familiar with, here in the Hudson Valley NY we have a lot of variety of wood mostly hardwoods but we do have some softwood too. Lots of Locust the farmers all planted for there fences and lots of oak, live oak white oak and red, and unfortunately the oak I despise is pin oak, those stiff pin oak branches won’t even feed good into my chipper....We have lots of Cherry and a lot of Ash that’s been killed by the emerald ash borer.
Great video showing all the different kinds of wood. We don’t pay nearly as much attention to species when using the hydraulic splitters these days as anything one can pick up will generally come apart with a single wedge. A lot of woo
Here in Pennsylvania we have a lot of hickory, red and white oak, poplar, ash ,cherry, I'm cutting a bunch of chestnut oak currently. We have some chestnut trees also . Great video really enjoyed it seeing the difference in the wood and how they split
I live in North Florida. If you are cooking with it pecan is the number one pick then probably blackjack oak. Live oak is good but it is a BEAST to split, pecan is very hard also. Both have stalled the engine on a 30ton splitters. Water oak is very plentiful where I live also. You have inspired me to get started in selling some wood myself. Enjoying your videos.
Very interesting seeing the different species of trees. Its something I struggle with is identifying wood from just the bark. The White Oak looked like it can be stringy when split compared to say Red Oak, or Pin Oak.
Good video! You got a nice collection there. First time checking out one of your vids. I'm working on starting a little firewood business out of my own property. If I can sell 100 bundles this season, I'll be happy. LOL. Gotta start somewhere! subbed and looking forward to following along
Good video. That one wood that confused you may have been elm. If the rings are wavey it’s elm. They split like that when they are dead standing. I just got done doing some smooth bark hickory. It’s almost identical to ash till you cut into it. Smell is different and collar is too. Again keep up the good work👍
Ya, I thought elm maybe but the more I looked and smelt it the less I thought it was elm. I have to ask my brother he has worked in the logging industry for 30+ years.
Now that was very interesting to see the different types of wood in your area and how they split.. I'm in Southern California so we have tons of different types of wood here issome of them . Eucalyptus types- lemon euck, silver dollar euck, blue gum,, pink flowering euck, and probably a dozen more In the eucalyptus family. Types of oak - coast live oak, valley oak, Holly oak, canyon oak, scrub oak. Nut trees- almond, pecan, English walnut, black walnut. Fruit trees- apple, peach, plum, orange, lemon, tangerine grapefruit mulberry, fruitless mulberry,. Other trees- liquid amber ( sweet gum ), jackaranda, Carrollwood, magnolia, camphor, and the list go's on and on here.
@@InTheWoodyard some are native but very few. I'm in a city area so many of them are planted is planted as landscape trees and then removed for many different reasons unfortunately unfortunately most of the wood here is ground up and used for mulch Or dumped in landfills because of burn restrictions
That ash looked a lot stringier then the stuff I get. Splits really easy so does cherry the 2 of them a lot of times I just use my Fiskars splitting axe on at least the stuff that is no more then 14 inch or so. I can split it so easy with the axe and faster then I can with my wood splitter. The bigger stuff I pretty much always just throw on the splitter but the smaller stuff I have fun with the axe a lot of times. The hickory and ironwood guess its really called hophornbeam I think those I wouldn't even think of touching with the axe lol.
Continuing from below.. I used to leave a lot of wood species lay when I used to split by hand as it was not worth the effort. Everyone used to have a story about trying to split elm by hand. I would not attempt some species unless it was well below freezing. The good old days I guess. I get a kick out of every tough piece that comes apart on the hydraulic splitter as I can only guess how many times my maul would have bounced off.
Here in Northern Ireland we mainly see Beech, Oak, Maple, Sycamore and Ash. Unfortunately Ash is being attacked by a fungus called Ash Dieback and it is estimated that at least 80% of the Ash population will be eradicated as a result.
I think you should get two pieces of equipment for your wood lot. A tractor and a conveyor would make your life easier and more productive. You have been fortunate not to hurt yourself considering you push yourself to the point of exhaustion to get your work done. I envy your hard work but as my father ounce said work smart not hard. Love your channel Dennis
Thanks Dennis, a tractor is going to happen this summer and other equipment this fall. I have been tractor shopping for a couple weeks now, do you have any recommendations?
@@InTheWoodyard I never owned a tractor, but I owned a mini skid steer. As far as attachments are concerned, I think a set of forks and a grapple would be a good idea. If you get a grapple get one that has a flat style bottom. I bought one for my mini that was curved on both sides which made it difficult to pick up logs. If I was to purchase a tractor now I would look at Kubota, though bobcat has jumped into the compact tractor market and are giving good deals and longer guarantee. I had a landscaping business for 19 years. The most important thing to me was dealer reputation great service and guarantee. Good luck with your equipment purchase. Dennis
First time viewer here from SW Missouri. A very enjoyable video as I also like to be able to identify wood that I am working with. I do have a question about the locust. You didn't identify which locust it was, and the bark was off it. After you split it, I would call it Black Locust. Do you have Honey Locust wherever you are. By the way, where are you? I cut a Honey Locust yesterday with a circumference of 108" at chest height. They don't normally get to be that large because people cut them early just to get rid of them because of their long thorns. It will be milled into lumber for furniture, and the limbs, of course, into firewood. Great wood for both purposes.
Yes it was black locust. We do have honey locust too. That is a big one for sure! Thanks for watching Ron, I have another 250+ videos you need to get caught up on and a new one every day!!
Good question Mr. J, as a matter of fact I got a new Eastonmade ULTRA splitter about a month ago and you'll be seeing it in videos as soon as I get caught up with my editing and uploading! Thanks for watching!
Cottonwood(black poplar) , aspen,white &red birch, white spruce, jack pine, lodge pole pine,willow , balsam fir, tamarack, black spruce,alder here in north eastern British Columbia, we are on the edge of muskeg and the mountains of the Rockies, not a pile of people burn wood and those that do burn mostly pine,spruce, birch and aspen. Tamarack is a good wood to burn dense and high btu's, goes in the muskeg, slow growing and not a whole lot to gather , one here and there
Yours sounds like black cherry. It has the dark, smooth bark with rings around it. I was confused, too when I saw this sort of cherry in the wood videos- I grew up with lots of black cherry around, and never this sort. I thought all cherry looked like that!
Do you mix all those types together to sell or do you try to separate the soft wood? Reason I ask is I’m just starting a wood pile and want to know if it’s beneficial to separate the hard and soft woods.
Now I'm confused- I have pieces of what I thought was Black Locust, but they look nothing like what you split here. Mine has bright yellow sapwood, reddish brown heartwood, thick rough bark, and it's hard as rock and HEAVY. Burns slow and low, and leaves hot long lasting coals. It's possible that it's osage orange, but it doesn't look like the pictures I've found. Willow makes great charcoal for certain kinds of pyrotechnic compositions and/or black powder.
There are several kinds of black locust or maybe yours is honey locust, there are a couple kinds of that too. What you described sounds like honey locust. Thanks for watching, see you here tomorrow!
It's interesting that you guys call an Aspen tree a poplar (because it is), but in the South, a poplar tree is actually an Eastern Cotttonwood ( also part of the poplar family). There is also a tulip poplar down here. While both of the local poplars are hardwoods, they aren't really sought after as firewood except for shoulder season due to their low btu rating and quick burning. I will split a little each year if it's given to me, but I don't seek it out. Did I miss Maple or do you not have them up there?
Sorry, the second time through I did see the maple. In the Carolinas, we have enough red and white oak that you can pretty much get all you want for free on CL or FB, if you're will to go get it and split it yourself. I also get some maple, but mostly stick with oak. This year we have had a good many storms, so free wood is plentiful.
I take what ever i can get when its heating my house lol and its free i go and get it. But ya the osage Orange is a really hot wood to burn im in ohio and get it frome time to time and you cant fill your wood stove up with just it or you will over heat your stove no joke. Just a few piece and that's it .
@@InTheWoodyard yes it does and i scored three chord of last September and it should be ready this year. It burns hot really hot its best for those days that don't get above zero out that's when ill burn it . and ya it's hard to come buy here where im at too . but that's wear Facebook market comes in i fins all my wood that way free.
If anyone knows here the following question? What is a common firewood in the State of Kansas that is literally green looking on the inside after splitting it? I forgot the name of it? It may too exist in other States of the U.S?
If you watch my videos you will only see a high school kid in the summer stack wood once in a while. 95% of the time I work alone, yes, I do it mostly myself.
