I watch you guys videos every day you guys complement each other same as I do with my brother keep it up love the vids From from a guy about the same age from Nova Scotia peace🇨🇦
great video. I worked 33 years in a pulp mill in northern Calif. We used redwood for its long fiber and fir and hardwood for the filler. We didn't get logs, we just got chips and on a busy day I would dump 120 trucks in 8 hours. There were 2 pulp mills both gone now thanks to the tree huggers. Love your videos
My grandfather owned a sawmill and I spent hrs & hrs with him in the woods as a child learning the trees we have here in Northeastern Pa.. As you say it can still be difficult at times depending on the tree's age and what part of the tree you're looking at. Kenny is definitely a pro!
Thanks for this video - it came right on time!! I had the chance to go pick up some roadside wood yesterday at a couple sites and thanks to this video I was able to prioritize the best stuff- couple cords of sugar maple! At least I think I got it right…
I have a woodlot that I'm cleaning up for an elderly couple, it's about 80% box elder, not the best wood but close to home and I'm helping out a friend!
Great video! I learned a lot from a logger when i first started. He told me the easiest way to learn is get out when the leaves are on the tree and identify it that way. He would mark them or number them. Then in the winter time go back out and identify them again. Same markings and numbers and see how many you got right and wrong. It was helpful to learn trees in my area.
I got a tree identification book last summer when the leaves were on and inspected every tree I could lay my eyes on to learn the bark of each tree. When the leaves drop it's so much harder to identify the trees. Great video tapping into the wealth of knowledge that Ken has. Good stuff for all us firewood guys to learn.
Nice video Chris and Kenny. I have a hard time identifying the wood after the bark has fallen off. Sometimes I just make a fresh cut to get a better look at the end grain. Yesterday I took the old saw (very sharp) and the old pickup (very rusty) and cut some ash from the city burn pile 8"-12" diameter. I split it all by hand with a maul (about a half face cord). Then I took a long nap. GNI
The black ash comes apart in strips and was used for making baskets. You can see it in this video when Chris and Ken point it out. I wish I could go through the whole process of making ash baskets.
The Ironwood you were showing us is Hop Hornbeam. Regular hornbeam is also called muscle tree, because it has smooth bark, and the tree looks like it's rippling with muscles! Also known as Blue Beech. We have both growing in our woods here. Great burning wood, but very hard on saws. I would also mention that Black Ash is much softer and less dense than white Ash. It has significantly less BTU's per ton. 18.7 vs 23.6. (which puts black ash with sycamore and Red maple for BTUs) Green is in the middle of those two. Aside from fruit woods like cherry or apple, I think Ash is the best smelling wood, when burned. Followed closely by Birch. Ash is good for both heating and campfires, as it has plenty of BTU's, but burns brighter than a lot of other hard hardwood varieties. Plus, if you mix some ash or birch into your campfire or firepit, it'll make the smoke smell sweeter. Personally, I like Red Maple best as campfire wood- when dry and seasoned it REALLY burns brightly! Silver is also excellent. That they both split really easy with an axe is icing on the cake! AND they dry quickly. You were spot on with the color difference between soft and hard. When green, soft maple is almost bone white, aside from the heart. The grain is so fine, it almost feels silky to the touch- like someone had taken some super fine grit sandpaper to it. Sugar really is yellow. Locust is an interesting one- and among the easiest of all to spot, even with no bark! Black locust looks like pressure treated lumber. It really is that sort of green. (Acts like it, too- which is why it's so prized for fence posts) Honey locust is wild looking wood! Lime yellow (almost hi-liter yellow!) sapwood, with reddish honey brown heartwood. Every time I process a piece, I kind of regret not having a wood Mizer to mill it, it's gorgeous. The bark has a number of different looks, but once cut it's immediately obvious which one you have. Lucky for me, my supply is of the spineless hybrid variety. The wild kind has nasty rock hard spines on it... Another interesting one is pear. Very light colored when split, but turns orangish as it seasons.
Wow, I can tell you have been studying wood for a long time , you know your stuff! It is something that needs constant education because of size, age, season and a bunch of other variables. Thanks for the info!
It's amazing, I live in Wisconsin also, by the Wisconsin dells and the species difference between northern and southern Wisconsin is funny. I love oak, but my fave firewood is hickory. It's usually straight and rarely huge diameter so, you split it once and go to the next round.
Hi Chris/Kenny, excellent video, and very interesting content. Your white birch is our ‘silver birch’ over here! We get very small quantities of ‘hornbeam’ which smells horrible when it gets warm. Of course we have many varieties over here too including, but not limited too: oak; ash, elm; birch; beech; Douglas fir; walnut; elm; yew; aspen; sycamore; alder; poplar; fir; hornbeam; chestnut; willow; cherry; hazel; and cedar! Years ago I cut up tons and tons of elm, during the ‘Dutch elm decease’ period. After a days work at the sawmill, I used to be covered in sap, and smelled like a Chinese pole cat. Have sawn quite a lot of beech in my time too…very heavy and high in btu’s. Do enjoy coverage from the Carlson Bros., more please! Len (Devon 🇬🇧)
Hey Chris, great content as always👍🏼 Kenny is such a wealth of knowledge. I appreciate the relationship you two share. My brother is 8 years my senior and we seemingly only have our parents and sister in common. I not only enjoy these presentations, but glean a lot from them as well. My Black/White Ash thoughts are now confirmed. Our Black variety seems to be harder to split. Not sure which type they used for handles, but as easily as White splits, I assume Black would be better. Thanks again. Bless’ns to ya both, Tedd
Where I grew up in northern New Brunswick, we had pretty much the same species of wood as you have there. We also called the aspen popple, and the tamarack was sometimes called juniper.
Some cherry looks like maple, depending on age of the tree when lookong at the bark in my log piles. I'd like to separate all the cherry and maple, was doing a good job of it, and then the snowplow guy mashed up the piles together. So I'll probably sell it as a maple-cherry mix. Some basswood seems to look like Ash but can tell as soon as the bark comes off. I'll take any type of maple! Easy to cut and split! Wait until you open up a box elder log on a sawmill that has the red stain in the grain! The stain patterns can look amazing!
Years ago I bought a book called Michigan trees worth knowing. It’s an awesome book for the Midwest area. It tells you about the tree fully. It shows the tree the bark the wood and leaves. The uses of the wood as well as the btus of the species. It’s the most valuable book I have seen. I do have a few other tree identification books however this book is my go to book. I have two copy’s the old copy is stapled together. The new copy is bound softcover. The older copy has a bit more info then the new version but both are awesome books I recommend it. Peace
Very interesting video, thanks👏🏻. Here in NC the ones I know are similar to yours but still a little difference. Let’s face it, so many species to know😀. Oak for the stove and pine for the fire pit.😀
Appreciate this one a lot. I'm trying to get better at identification of bark in the winter, especially between sugar and red maples. The tricky thing, at least here in central Vermont, I've found extreme variation among red maple -- I even wonder if there are subspecies of red but I can't find anything online saying so. I'm starting to get more comfortable distinguishing the maples, but this video might help me be sure whether I was right after I cut it down if there aren't leaves. 😏 In the summer a lot of my trees are too tall for me to pick out the leaves before felling, but late in the year the sugar maples really show the leaf cutter damage.
Seemed like they were fixin to fight a time or too like they were ibex rams. Thanks for the video I enjoyed seeing all them yankee trees Jeff in Tennessee
I can say so much about yous 2 and your wood 🤣 but great video and I lurned something today I think I know now on my property on Manitoulin island I found trees this summer and I narrowed it down to the Ash family but now I think it's white Ash because the bark is very ruffe I think you would love to sink your 592 husky in her close to 30 inches at the but and I have I think it's Red oak and some are around 40 inches at the but lots of BTU'S 👍 there is one Pine you dint mention that we have in Northern Ontario is Jack Pine and you where talking about Tamarack and what I was always told since I was younger if you want to ruin a wood stove it's with Tamarack because it burns so hot I was told you could melt holes in a barrel stove if you're not careful and worpe a regular stove 🤪 And for guys that complain about Kenny's wood splitter it's not the size and speed it's all in the way you use it 😉 GOOD NIGHT IRENE 🤪
Found a spot where I can cut as much dead, windfall, leaners, and standing dead that I can handle on a 10 acre plot. But the owner wants the people cutting to be insured. Logger Al feels that a general liability policy for a firewood cutter in middle of the woods should be pretty cheap. Having such insurance might mean you are the only one that the landowner will allow on the properry to cut free firewood.
Thanks guys! Appreciate the video but I’d need a Dramamine to watch it again! Haha….slow down with the camera! Missed a lot trying to focus on the bark on some of them. Keep the videos coming! I’m heading to the pharmacy to watch it again…😵💫
in central NY, my hometown area of Southern cayuga, the farmers are pushing over all the woods/forest for farm land 😢😥😢. I'm in Michigan now and there are a ton of acres of woods. millions of acres with national forests that are untouched of so many species. thank you guys for the video!
We burn a lot of Rock and white maple here in NB Canada. Lots of beech and yellow birch too. When someone starts talking about a specific topic, you can instantly tell if they know what they're talking about and Ken is definitely knowledgable.
Much admiration for arborists who know their stuff. I took a two year course in E. Iowa and Had to i.d. trees by four different methods. Fruit or seed, leaves, tree shape and bark. Never got in too the b.t.u. aspect. Good vid,
Great video guys, we have green ash black and white oak and soft maple here then of course cotton wood etc...the balsam wood a lot of stretcher makers are using for coon stretchers etc as the pins etc go in easier. Still not good a identifying the dead and down but getting better...Have a good day guys....and GNI......
@@InTheWoodyard yes there is a good amount of beech and birch also. Looking forward to seeing the new trailer! Seen Mike in the 906 got old true dump. Keep up the good work.
All of the regional names for trees and having family members calling trees something they arent...Sure makes for alot of heated discussions in firewood community. Maples are the hardest for me with no leaves especially with all the hybrids they have produced for different fall foliage colors. At a distance...I feel the canopy is usually the best indicator for me during winter months.Thanks for all the information!
WHAT!!!....No mesquite. I am jealous of all your different kinds. We have mesquite (50%), post oak(48%), red oak (2%) and hackberry (trace). We also have cedar witch nobody burns.
Kenny, box elder isn't junk! It makes for grrst campfire wood! Dries fast and splits fairly easy! Plus some paper mills find it highly desirable for some reason (per log trucker John).
In a video I am working on now and will post later this week, I have 2 kinds of wood I can't clearly identify. One is a western type pine. The other??? Good video Chris!
@@InTheWoodyard Great! I will put the video out tomorrow AM. Maybe pinion pine??? The other might be yellow birch after watching this video. Check it out tomorrow and comment what two or more kinds of wood I am cutting tomorrow. Thank Chris!
Thanks guys. It's strange to see Elm. We don't have much of that out here in NH. Dutch elm disease took care of that. We are loosing ash to Beatles also. Great info. Thanks again.
I imagine that you could do that same video in different parts of the US and have an entirely different variety. I know you said that at the beginning, but I never expected so many of the trees to be so different from what we have in NC. Red oak is the most popular firewood here because it is plentiful and great wood, but it looks very different from what you showed. The maples were the same and some of the evergreen, but the other hardwoods seemed so different. Soil, climate, elevation and other factors change things.
Funny thing about wood. Pound for pound all wood has the same btu potential. But per cubic foot THAT'S where the btu difference comes in, along with the the efficiency of being able to get more heat out of the denser woods pound for pound.
When are we going to get some videos on your new 592 and I would love to see a video on Tony’s 500i vs your 592xp before all you see is the 500i vs 572xp I ran my 592xp and it is a lot faster and stronger than my 572xp keep up the good work and videos
In my location no one would buy soft maple, basswood, aspen, poplar, spruce to burn for heating. Basswood and aspen are very popular for wood carving. Pines and cedars are great fire starters.
Most people I sell to do not heat with wood, they drink while watching the fire in a fireplace or fire pit and they spend more for it too, it is form of entertainment.
we have yellow berch,soft and hard maple9White berch,also known as grey berch here in Vermont.oak,your iron wood here in Vt is known as hardack,we have white ash,cherry,bass wood,popler.beach,(cris,have u ever cut a wood called black lockus?it has a thick bark like a willow,but has a smell like a wet dog,hard as iron when it dries,does not get very big)
I just went and watched it to see what kind it was! I think it was a branch from a white birch tree. It is a tricky one because they look like that before they turn white.
I had my woods timbers back in 2015. They took 102 trees 16 inches or bigger at chest high. 65 of those were eastern white ash, 30 oak of getting species and the rest was bitternut hichory. I tried to catalog what I had on the 10 acres that I have. I could identify 30 some different species on my land. But my biggest shocker was that all of the big trees they left were some kind of elm, white pine, sweetgum, red maple, or choke cherry. All junk wood. It will be 30 years before my oaks can be harvested again. I will never get my land timbers again. I could have sold the wood for firewood and made the same money.
