EASY TRICKS TO IDENTIFY 36 KINDS OF FIREWOOD! 

Wow Chris! Obviously you have decades of experience with wood identification. What a unique treasure of knowledge you have. Chuck in Florida.

It’s very helpful you showing the difference in wood. I’ve been burning pine in the fire pit. It burns very good and easy to start.

Nice tutorial and helpful info. Love the smell of Cherry too. Elm....not so much. LOL! Cheers Chris!

Great video Chris....informative and shows how different species of wood can look. Our Cherry in Utah looks exactly like the Oregon Cherry. Also, Tractor Supply has PigSkin gloves for $9.99 that I have been extremely impressed with. I am going on 3 weeks with no holes. I have tried tons of gloves like you have , and these definitely hold their own . Thanks !

When I’m driving down the country roads of Western Pennsylvania, I try to identify the wood species. Drives my wife crazy but she thinks it’s cute until I veer off the road. We have a lot of dog wood out here. Too bad that tree doesn’t grow bigger. Good BTU’s.

That was really interesting thank you. I am in Australia and of course the majority of our big wood is Eucalypts, but we have quite a bit of smaller stuff like wattles and mulga that also make great firewood. All typically is heavier and has higher BTU rating than what you generally have over there. We pay for it though, it is very hard wood and typically difficult to process / split. I live in a subtropical part of the country and typically wood is not used so much for heating here, more we burn it for entertainment (sitting around an outdoor fire) / outdoor cooking.

Go job again ! Most of your customers use of firewood is not for serious heating as you say. Each region has its own species. Downeast Maine wood types varies depending on distance from the coast. Snorting splits works well as you said. Along the Maine coastal plain Red/Soft Maple, Paper/White Birch, and spruces and fir regen well. There's some Red Oak, rare Beech, some White Ash and little Yellow Birch and Cherry. So we separate the stacks based on use for the shoulder seasons ( spring, summer, fall ), and for winter heating. Yes, I'm a wood snob compulsive 😵‍💫. I do often run out to stare and snort my stacks. She has a referral for me for help. 😒

Nice seeing the different kinds of wood.

I really enjoy the wood species videos. Next time I see you I’m going to give you a piece of Almond firewood. Then you can say you have the best firewood around!

you covered all the genus we have up here in southern quebec except for hemlock and tamarack, exciting video I got wood watching it

North East UK here. All the Cherry we have looks like that last chunk. I also use Hazel, which is a multi-stemmed bush/small tree which coppices very well, makes poles for all sorts of things, nuts for eating and good wood for fuel. I'm currently cutting down a neighbour's Elder - this tree gives perfumed flowers which are great for Elderflower Champaign or wine, and strong flavoured berries which can be used for a wine. Then there's Horse Chestnut, or 'conker trees' which gives a medium wood which spits, and Sweet Chestnut - provides FANTASTIC nuts you can cook with, and a medium firewood. My favourite wood is Hawthorn, a spiky tree with pretty flowers and berries - and incredibly dense wood, one of the best.

The little comment you snuck in today’s video (morning wood) was hilarious!

Great job Chris!👍👍

Lotta variety ya had there Chris!👍🏻👍🏻GNI

The Alder is fantastic for smoking fish. It's the go to fish smoking wood on the West Coast.

We have several cherries 🍒...a dozen weeping ornamental cherry ,wild 🍒....and few others..I mix them all together..had about 7 kinds last year

I cut down (18) Black Locust the week before last. It is great firewood, but I much prefer the Honey Locust myself. Don't have the thick bark falling off to clean up and it burns even hotter!🔥 Either one really needs mixed with other hardwoods or you risk a glowing hot stove or pipe!

Thanks for the great video Chris! I have a Eucalyptus grove that I use to burn for myself and give away to family and friends. It makes really great firewood and is a cross between Oak and Cherry. A lot of Almond wood gets shipped to southern California from Northern part of the state since that is where almost all of the almonds are grown (probably the most in the world). That also burns great.

very informative. out here were i am at central coast california we have Madrone. its a very nice burning wood.

Great info and demo. Thanks.

Good id Chris,I appreciate it

Besides a lot of those that you featured, I have a lot of Sweet Gum and Sycamore on my acreage in Central Kentucky that has needed to be cut in recent years. Once you learn how to cut, split, season and use them I definitely don't snub my nose when these are available.

Thanks professor...

Your beechwood that’s similar to ironwood, I’ve seen a few of those trees and now I know what they are. Thanks Chris. Keep on cutting

First of all Chris, it's legal to transport firewood cross state for obvious reasons. Ash borer bug for example.Ment to say ,illegal. Bad idea to mail in box. Keep up the great videos though. Your number one e daily viewer from Oakville Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 😮😮😮

Thanks. Saving this video along with other tutorial videos you have done.

I live in Kansas city and we have all kinds of trees. We have Bradford pear, cutting it smells really good. We also have a tree called Ginko. The Ginko trees smell literally like dog poop. We also have sycamore trees. And we also have baldcypress or sinkerscypress. Just to list a few.

Awesome video Chris and very informative. I had an old timer tell me they used to call cottonwood BISCUIT WOOD because it would burn hot and not very long just long enough to cook a batch of biscuits out on the trail when they were heading across the prairies in the olden days. I thought you would get a kick out of that nickname. Keep the videos going I love learning from you and your channel. Have great Memorial Day weekend.

Hi Chris, nice to see your video!

Red Pine gets made into brown paper bags. The larger logs (bolts) are cut into lumber.

Other types of wood species that are available in North Carolina: Live oak (very dense), Pecan, Beech, Persimmon, Sycamore, Dogwood, and our Poplars are a light hardwood. Sapwood is white and heartwood is dark green, purple, or even black!

You forgot Doug Fir and Hemlock - both very common here in the PNW. Also, Alder is very dirty burning. FYI

In Virginia, we have holly trees, dogwood, and lots of poplar and gum (hate splitting gum!) that you didn't mention.

GREAT, GREAT VIDEO. THANK YOU, THANK YOU

Great video Chris!I try & burn mostly "Deciduos" wood!

Good morning Chris!!😀😀 You have a pretty good head start on wood for this year. Take care my friend!!😀😀 Logger Al

We have trees that the Pa. Forestry call cucumber trees. They are a member of the magnolia family. Good firewood.

Very educational video.

Good info on the wood Chris, I remember him bringing that wood over to your truck and not one person got the wild cherry right

Nice job Chris. As for me, the more I know-the more often I am fooled. The fire lets me know that I was wrong. GNI

I’ll take some red pine, pine is fine😊

This type of video is awesome for us noobs! This is my kind of game show. I try to identify the species before you announce it. I'm getting better but I have much more work to do in this arena. 🧐😵‍💫😂

Very interesting video

I am also from Oregon. We have madrone hardwood, and Douglas fir which is sometimes described as a hardwood

I commented on Bert's video with the removal of the Cottonwood you have in today's video that stinks. I really believe it is Lombardy Poplar that is a fast growing hybrid and is common in housing additions and for wind breaks. They grow very fast but have a short life span and are prone to disease.👍

Here in Georgia, we have a lot of Sweet Gum and Pecan. Lots of Cherry that looks different from yours. Yellow Poplar, Red Maple, American Beech, River Birch, Live Oak and Water Oak are some of the trees here.

Trees I haven't seen anyone mention that I have in southern Indiana are sycamore, red bud, buckeye, honey locust, willow, and bald cypress.

Chris I think the last cherry may be a Japanese Yoshio cherry. They are common down here in GA. Just cut and split one up a few months ago. Did not have a strong smell and looks identical to the one cherry you got. Great video keep up the good work!

Typically, the ornamental cherries like Kwanzan or yoshino have that smooth bark. More of a fragrancy, hue of cherry blossom vs the traditional black cherry smell. The black cherries can get large and are really red inside.

We also have southern and northern red oaks.quite different, and cherry bark oak ,post oak,scarlet oak,white oak,swamp white oak,chestnut oak,shumard oak,willow oak,,overcup oak,swamp chestnut oak,bur oak,blackjack oak,overcup oak ,shingle oak,water oak,pin oak,chinqaupin oak ,and other non native species...I'm sure I've forgotten......this year I've seen more carpenter ants in my tree removals then ever before in 30 years also this week while doing estimates at customer s houses the cicadas are all singing at same time it's most incredible sound...like electricity mixed with tree frogs..very loud ...it supposed to happen every 17 years or something but we just had that few years ago so not sure why but there were millions of them on this neighborhood of trees singing..they leave a shell of themselves and fly off like butterfly s..cocoon...the copperhead s love to eat them...when we had them last time it's like haveing giant hornets buzzing all around hitting you in the head ..while working it's very difficult..because in your mind you automatically think bees ..and there very large swarms

G’morning Chris ! Excellent identifying action today ! Dog puke is the most best ! I still have the piece of Osage you gave me. GoodNightIrene

It’s so funny; Osage makes arguably the best stick-n-string bows where it’s native and our hop hornbeam / ironwood here in WI is our best bow wood. And they both burn super hot. Who woulda thunk. I’d love to get my hands on a hunk of HH / IW for a bow, but I can’t seem to find anything :-(

Here in PA we have tulip poplar I have 5 of them in my back yrd burns fast like paper light in weight easy to split

Good morning everyone yes need good wood to burn good video Chris ( Ty Ron

We also have 10 kinds of hickory, and pecan..and mockernut ,pignut hickory

Great information Chris if Only you had a picture poster if only. It sure wood be nice to have.

Wow, It only takes three letters to say it all!! Ray

I’ve got mulberry and lilac, they are both very dense and heavy.

Pig nut is my favorite hickory

Hi Chris. We have a few sassafras trees here in southern pa. Close to Gettysburg. I haven’t seen a lot though. Keep that tundra running.

In central California, almond wood is very popular. I think it’s equal to oak. I grew up on an almond and walnut ranch and we burned almond all the time. When I moved to the mountains, I burned oak, I thought they were about the same.

Mr Chris : What do you find the hardest wood to split ? Here I find it to be Pinn Oak or Water Oak in SC. Gum can be a pain as well....

Definitely a go to video when referencing different species. GNI

In lebanon we have A different kind of oak very very dense Olive wood

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Interesting. Persimmon wood is good for making gavels or burning, smaller kind of tree.

Great Video! When you refer to Hard Maple is that Sugar Maple? There are a lot of Maple species, but being from Canada we hear Sugar Maple mentioned more often.

Morning

Cherry here is not common, but it's great smoking or heating wood.

I am right now taking a dump so I’ll indeed be using some red pine lol

I live in North Central Texas (Dallas) I'm getting into the firewood business. All my costumers use fireplaces. What wood should not be burned in fireplaces? A lot of different people putting stuff out on it and I'm confused.

The red alder is what i call a short life tree. Grows like mad up to 3 to 6 foot of hight per year. Then at 35 to 50 years old there tops start to die. Once dry btus are on par with an average pine tree btus. . Every person ive known to lose there life with trees, is related to alder. a very unpredictable tree in terms of falling. Between the rot, and the 5 to 30 degree of lean they naturally have. . In a valley they can push up to near 30" but on a hill top they will be dieing out by the time there 20" In a more typical rain environment they will struggle to make 10" . Cabinets or trim boards around the inside of a window are its common use. 30 years ago, it had no real market and was just slash burned in mass. As it had no market value, it was literally just considered a weed tree. . . Vine maple, is a native weed. Its record size is about 15" probably 150+ years to get to that size. Grows up, falls over and keeps on growing. Its a real oddity. You could just about put that 4 foot Chunk in a super shady area with wetness and it could literally start to grow. With the typical size around 2" it would be a ton of work to heat with it. Also you dont want to burn it 100% in a stove, you can literally chernobyl any plastic handles on a stove. Just add one piece in with other woods not made by the devil.

After watching Alaska the last frontier alder is used to smoke salmon, the bark gets stripped off.

If you get out west, maybe try to score some Mountain Mahogany.

Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin is the worlds authority on wood testing, analysis, and identification. They determined the homemade ladder used in the Lindberg baby kidnapping came from the roof rafter of the kidnapper.

Thats red alder it grows like weeds on the coast of Oregon.good for smoking meat.

Apparently I have 60 ft toilet paper trees on my property

Hey Chris if you would like I can send you some Kentucky Coffee Tree,if you would like.

You forgot the northern gold, Larix laricina or tamarach I'll bring some to the Wisc trappers meeting in Sept. Am. Elm bark has a white stripe in it's bark

No river birch in Wisconsin?

I was at a lumber yrd delivering yrs ago the owner had a piece of lumber as black as could be asked him said it was from Africa was very dense heavy dnt remember name of it

Box elder trees have little red bugs. Correct?

Do you guys have any buckthorn over your way yet?

This is the hardest thing for me to do

A naughty vid.

Why dont you and Ken do a sniff off!!?? Blindfolded.. i think it wood be a great video!!! You will get tons of views, and it would be awesome to see.

wood it all burns

Good Morning Woodhounds!!

I think the other cherry is more an Asian cherry

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I just used some red pine 😅

Red oak can smell like dog poop.