Junior woodpecker:"Hey Dad, what kind of tree is this sapling growing between these beech and birch trees?" Senior woodpecker, after a quick taste. "Well son, it's not a son of a birch and it's not a son of a beech but it's the best piece of ash I've ever had my pecker in."
Such a quiet, peaceful video. Made me think of my dad with a beer in his hand, watching the wood stove in silence for hours. I didn't appreciate that level and quality of alone time til I was a bit older. Honestly, thanks for this video man.
Tonight on AvE: watching wood burn. Tune in next week for paint drying and don't miss the season finale with grass growing. Who am I kidding, clicked like and will watch for the sequel.
You know... About 17 years ago, When my oldest son was about 5 to 8 years old. I had always encouraged the hand to eye coordination process, like LEGO's, wrenching with me in the shop when working on the race cars, or rock crawlers, etc.. Most days I would ask him "how was school today son?", and the typical day would be a most standard children's replies, of "Meh?, It was alright"..... But on key occasions, when they did learn something interesting to them, (two sons both would do that) when asked, how their day was, what did they learn, in efforts to teach me something ,of which we would further go down the rabbit hole as by their age, the interweb had already been up and rocking and rolling... I would typically thank them each for the neat info when we we done schooling me. Now, there is several situations, that they learned something new at school, or from me, and they would actually take the time to allow it to absorb, and think about it, and some times, it may take hours, days, weeks months.. and further questions would come out often when they were trying to understand in their heads to the point it made sense. Now, fast forwards to my point, my oldest son was learning about the botany and partially biology, but mostly just plant life at this time frame.. it had him quite perplexed for a mean while. one day at the dinner table, This innocent child, asked, a hypothetical question that i dropped my fork and dang near spit out my food, to prevent choking almost mid-swallow point... My son asked me, after setting up his question, by mentioning how much he enjoys the places we go camping and rock crawling at, and setting up the story for the camp fire is very interesting to me, (him) as he explained how much heat it give off, and for how long the wood can do that. As I thought about it, once the camp fire had stabilized and coals were causing a state of energy perpetuation (not really) but the fire keeps it self going. my son would just be locked on to it just watching it.. As a father, to see this any logical father will have a slight sub conscious part of the mind thinking that "I hope he grows up to respect fire, not become a firebug".. anyhow, it was always clear how my oldest son was/is mesmerized by fire, in the aspect of how much energy conversion is going on, even though, for a 5 to 8 year old to wrap their heads around. He asked me, after setting the plot to help make sense of the direction he was going or coming from.. "Dad, do you suppose, that the fire coming from the chopped up wood that of course came from a living creature, (trees) is all the sun light being released, from all the sun light that the tree collected of all those years during its time growing." Please note, even though I wrote this as a question,, he actually stated this as a notional question, and rather, a statement that is theory based, as if it was worth looking into...I was blown away from that question. Yes, we can go down the whole list of what makes a fire tick, blah...blah...blah... Which he did his best to run down the list of what is required to not only start a fire, but to maintain a fire or for a fire to self sustain. It was just a statement.. I don't mean to sound like a parrot, but I was blown away by that hypothetical & mystical statement from my little compulsive thinkers. So, I will steal his statement and claim it as my own... Do you all suppose, a fire from wood, is being allowed to be released in that critical event of burning itself to change its state by means of allowing all that energy in the form of heat and light, from all the years from when it was a living creature absorbing light in its mission to survive, doing photosynthesis.... I will never forget that which is one of many times my sons have blown my mind. My younger son, at the same time, after that, simply said, maybe fire is a gift from the Gods, to allow mankind to survive when the human species was just cavemen? He asked, I don't know how long he could last outside in the winter weather, naked, living in the woods, so, fire had to be there to allow them to survive maybe?
You sir are a frig'n national treasure. As a Kodiak & cut off lumberjack jacket wearing wayward teen of the 80's, I grinned at your recreational combustibles phraseology. Hot knives never rust.
i remember my grandad telling me this poem and i have always stuck by it The Firewood Poem Beechwood fires are bright and clear If the logs are kept a year, Chestnut’s only good they say, If for logs ’tis laid away. Make a fire of Elder tree, Death within your house will be; But ash new or ash old, Is fit for a queen with crown of gold. Birch and fir logs burn too fast Blaze up bright and do not last, it is by the Irish said Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread. Elm wood burns like churchyard mould, E’en the very flames are cold But ash green or ash brown Is fit for a queen with golden crown Poplar gives a bitter smoke, Fills your eyes and makes you choke, Apple wood will scent your room Pear wood smells like flowers in bloom Oaken logs, if dry and old keep away the winter’s cold But ash wet or ash dry a king shall warm his slippers by.
Hey @AvE, in southern Australia we call all of those species of tree carcass ‘kindling’! We have tree called Mallee (Eucalyptus Socialis) and it is the most unbelievable fire wood, it burns almost like charcoal and with no sparks. It has a density of 1120g/lt (yes it sinks in water) , 7600mj/kg and 100% hear availability for volume. (By comparison, white Cypress pine is 8000mj/kg but only 60% heat avail.) Mallee roots grow in sand and they are like a bulb/ball. They are not splittable except with hydraulic assistance and even then- good luck. Can’t be sawn either- full of grit. Once burning, the coals glow orange to cherry red and can burn for 12hrs + 👌
@@Bert2368 we get mesquite in chips for smoking. Ever seen Mallee chips? Me either. There is no chipper skookum enough to chip Mallee roots, it’s honestly like a rock
Sure if you don't mind your bricks and moarter cracking and getting hot enough to light your framework on fire... Truth be told, most chimney fires are harmless, but they could be terrible. Some chimney fires happen without knowledge of the owner.
I now know what I am putting on loop at Christmas time this year. And I now know what all other fire place videos are missing. Color commentary of how each of the different species are burning.
@@docmordrid i had some cedar get mixed in with some wood i got for free. Never seen more soot from a log in my life. Even when burning its encased in black smoke. Smelled great but had to clean the stove pipe after.
For a meaningful test, you really need to standardize the moisture content of each piece. Water vapor (above 20%) cools the combustion, causing smoke, stink and creosote buildup. Damp wood will "burn" (smolder) longer, but it will ultimately produce less heat, as smoke itself is nothing more than unburned fuel. Also, it's worth noting that because of the different grain structures that differentiate hardwoods from softwoods, it takes softwoods a much longer time to season (dry) than hardwoods. Counterintuitive, eh, given their lesser density? (Source: I was director of the (US) National Firewood Association from 2012-2020)
thank you the test was shitty he should have burned each species one at a time they should have been at the same moisture content same weight same shape his test proved nothing i cant think of a time i was critical of an AvE test.
@@pghgeo816 Nonetheless, his takeaway is correct -- all things being equal, BTU relates directly to mass/density. That's why firewood in Europe and the UK is sold by the tonne.
@@salveson No I get it but i thought his test was to determine "best firewood" i thought he meant best by species if that is the case his test proved nothing. and your point was the same as mine unless you know the moisture content is the same between all the samples you cant prove density. Plus shape is critical and it has to be done one log at a time to logs touching wont allow equal air flow but i think you know these things.
Whatever was dead standing or otherwise I can drag out of the back woods and get a splitting maul through is my personal favorite. Cant be picky and lazy lol. Keep pallet wood handy for the quick cold morning starts. Good vid, thanks as always for making me feel that much more smarter.
My favorite as well. Standing dead (dry) and free. I have never paid a dime for firewood. Right now I'm burning Black Cottonwood. Disappears quick in the stove, but it's free.
@@PrimetimeNut depends wherein you be livin'. Here in canuckistan most wood from the species palettus woodus is heat treated. You can double check by googling the code stamped on it, but if it's not dyed you're likely good to burn (or garden) with it.
I do believe this is the most enthusiasm I've seen you display in regard to dead tree carcasses. I'm probably somewhat biased as I make my living arranging said tree carcasses in a manner most pleasing to the eye rather than setting them ablaze but to each his own.
I remember when a gender reveal incident would get you labeled as a sex offender. But people didn’t have big gender reveal parties back then. A simple raincoat would suffice.
Getting your own fire wood warms you up 3 times … first cutting the tree, second splitting it , third sitting in front of the fire after all your hard work ! Which is just as well as it gives me cold shivers just thinking about the whole process !!
watching the fire and listening to your velvety tones rambling on about fact and science was very soothing and relaxing. you should record a holiday special
There's been many a territorial skirmish here over hedge (osage orange) firewood cutting rights. It's somewhere between blackberry picking and whitetail hunting when determining land value.
Some Kaori wood found a way onto our fire on the farm... it had committed suicide so it's protected status was moot..especially back in 1876 It smells really nice
This new brunswicker came into this video with some STRONG opinions. Last winter the sled shed didnt get stocked with wood. So we burnt the finest free pallets fastnfkall had to leave out back. Hardwood, softwood, glue ladden particle, stapled, nailed, strapped didnt matter it all burnt. Come spring there was 8 lbs of steel in the ash box and not a sharp chainsaw in sight!
Should have been a lot more than 8 pounds of steel. I burn pallet wood in a camp fire often, and it doesn't take long to put out a gallon sized coffee can full of nails and staples, which will weigh about 8 pounds. Just a couple nights actually. Those pallets are loaded with hardware.
At some point right after the fire got going and there wasn’t any talking or action I was just watching the fire burn. Ten seconds later I realized how content I was even just watching a video of a fire burn and was glad you left that part in instead of just editing down to the bare minimum. Was then also glad to hear you state it at the end about how visceral it is to enjoy the company of a fire.
Fun fact, Balsa wood is classified as hardwood. which makes a mockery of the hardwood/softwood thing. Also, most trees in Australia are hardwoods and only a few are deciduous. Classification can sometimes seem like a mugs game.
Yeah, basically the names soft/hard-wood were created to differentiate wood that was soft/hard, then they made it a more fixed definition and then they noticed "oh shit, Balsa is a hardwood - now we are stuck with that name".
I've been sweating my butt off all week long moving my stuff into my new house. Now on Friday, I'm watching a vid of a wood burning stove in action. And do I find this comforting? Yes, yes I do. Thank you, AvE.
Wish I had a fireplace or wood stove for a different perspective, but so far all my burning is outdoors, and in that case I very much enjoy the crackling popping exciting burn where the only thing at risk is my clothes or camp chair (for extra fun, throw on some bamboo). Certainly, I enjoy hardwood too. I even enjoy burning full log-rounds just bucked but not split. Love your videos!
I live right next door to Freddy’s last abode, and I have to say, I think the boys around here would be mighty proud of how much hard wood you managed to pack in that filthy box.
Quick tip...and only the tip....a page of newspaper wadded and lit on fire ON TOP of your stack before lighting the base will start a draw which will keep that initial backdraft smoke from happening... most of the time.
The denser woods come in smaller pieces for the same weight. Smaller pieces have a higher surface area/volume, so they burn faster. You should be comparing pieces of wood of the same size and shape. That's how it is priced, by volume not weight. I live on 14 acres of pine forest and heat with wood that I cut and split.
This. It's not about weight, it's about how much you can pack in the stove at one time. A stove full of pine is gone in no time, a stove full of oak will last all night.
You are a poet my friend, love your “wordism”, your lexicon is ceremonious and punctilious, maintains a big smile in my face. Your jargon it’s impressive.
My Dad talked of the legendary stove wood and mentioned they'd go far n wide and haul back and burn it. Apparently could melt a stove if stoked to hot. Tamarack! Notice the heart on the Ponderosa? Loves to burn!
@@diamondflaw Local guy here who worked for Fisher (we had a Mama Bear years ago) said that the factory would test their stoves by filling them with a load of kiln-dried fir (waste ends from the mills) and run them orange-hot. Replaced the stove 30 years ago with a Lopi EPA-approved afterburner model. The problem with the Fisher was that too much of the heat went up the 8" flue. The Lopi produces just as many BTUs on less wood and runs a 6" flue. What with climate change and drought, I'll be dead before I burn up the wood I've stockpiled. Winters are much warmer than they yusta be.
The question is also how much water was there in each piece. More humid wood can have even 30% less energy, because it has to evaporate water first (which takes much energy), and wet wood can burn longer. So on the next test measure humidity of the wood. Good job! :-)
I'm going to loop this Vidjeo on my TV during the upcoming holidaze, it's a much better "virtual" fireplace than the usual dribble on cable TV! Thanks AvE!
Both. hardwoods in general are much denser and have a higher energy density (by volume), but lower specific energy (by weight). So for a fixed size it burns longer and releases more energy, but also burns slower. Where as softwood has more energy for the same weight and burns much faster which makes it great for quickly changing the temperature of a fireplace, or getting a fireplace started. we always had both and used them accordingly. Softwood as kindling and half of the firewood, and then later just pure hardwood.
A Suggestion on the downdraft problem which you evidently seem to sometimes experience. Purchase, at the stove pipe store, three fixed, proper diameter, stove pipe "T"s for a new sort'a chimney cap device. The idea comes from the Choo Choo trains of old which had a coal or wood burning stove in the caboose. So, start with the existing vertical stove pipe traveling upward through the roof in the traditional manner. Next remove he "Chinaman's Hat" from the stove pipe to be used sometime in the future as a lawn ornament. Now the first "T" mounts onto the top of the vertical stove pipe so that any smoke now discharges horizontally left and/or right. Next, on one side, mount the second "T" so that the new discharge, on that one side, is vertically up and down. Now do the same on the other horizontal end with the last "T" so that now both left and right halves discharge vertically (up and down). What happens is that new "H" shaped cap now sits atop of the existing stove pipe and that configuration cancels out the effects of the gusting wind. A few sheet metal screws to hold everything together and a little cable to steady everything in monsoon winds and "...Bob's y'rrr Uncle". *No more downdrafts!* - Joe -
I've had many an issue with downdraft since the bloody thing was installed. This sounds like a fun little project (when it's not so damn cold). Thanks for the suggestion.
The cubes idea is great! Thank you for doing this! It’s really helpful for us who use wood for heat and finding the best value and use of space in the wood shed! ❤️🖖🏼🇺🇸
Here in OZ, all of those species are known colloquially as 'shit' firewood. Get some Redgum or Yellow Box happening. Axe will bounce right off it every time, but it burns hot all night.
Well. Here in Germany, wood commonly is sold by the "Raummeter" (about an eyeballed cubic meter). Beech, which we use as firewood, has 2100 kWh per Raummeter. But for starting, we use pine, since we can get scraps of that from a local shipping company.
That's kinda disappointing. I'd always imagined it'd be sold for a variable number of seig hails by the reich or something like that. Really kills the imagination.
That's the 1st thing that came to mind for me! I could imagine the kids around the AvE yule log unwrapping gifts while I'm entertained by his commentary 😂 🤣 😅 definitely more enjoyable for me!
Being an East Coaster here in Nova Scotia ,people here totally think you can't run softwood in your stove... I ran the nice dry ends of spruce lumber from the local mill where they build roof trusses and that stuff was amazing and clean. The trick with the softwood is to run the stove hot as the blazes of hell really often to keep the creasasote from building up. I used to do it once a day. I knew an older lady that used to burn the spruce slab wood that comes from the milling process because it was super cheap. She told me she throws a bunch of rock salt in the blazing hot fire and that keeps the chimney clean. It seemed to work.
AvE you are the best comedy show on the tube!! I thoroughly enjoy listening to your rambles. Happy for you and your family getting a dog. I have a yellow lab myself. Similar but I've heard Goldens can beat the labs in hunting competitions.
@@cgoad, I agree and why it cost more money per cord, I wouldn’t really know though because I’m blind and they don’t usually like to let me run those machines LOL!!! I still use the acts though, it’s all about spatial dimensions and being extremely careful, people get freaked out when I do it but they’re pretty shocked how well I can, it’s called muscle memory.
@@Adierit, it’s called Touch, listening, accessibility, and voice dictation. I have to use my imagination for a lot of the videos, but I hope you have a better understanding of how blind people interact with TH-cam videos and comments. Be well and God bless dude
Makes sense entirely. The thing is that hardwood being more dense means you can load more mass into a stove, giving you a longer burn, fewer door openings, so less heat loss. If you can get away with a packed stove of Pine to carry you through the night so be it, but I'd rather not have to be up every 3 hours to refill the stove.
I tend to burn whatever I can get my hands on, Government officials, councillors, etc We have alot of Ash around here and it burns wonderful even when not fully seasoned (heresy) also lots of conifers Smokey and spitty but I will take what I can get not living in the wilds. Pallet wood and old door frames being two regulars oh and flat pack furniture! Favourite smelling wood when burnt Cherry and then Apple!
The good wood burned off that pinus' excess moisture, allowing it to begin combustion at all, albeit well after the fire had converted much of the others cellulose into heat and gss.
There's a great book called Norwegian wood. Explains more than you'd ever want to know about firewood in a relaxing way. Energy is very proportional to dry mass. Lower density typically results in faster release or hotter temperature. Higher density results in slower or longer burn.
We heat with cordwood in a Tempwood top loading stove so don't have a nice picture window. I agree the heat value of wood is based on mass and water content. Here in New Hampshire we have mixed hardwood/software forests so there is not much need to burn pine as is is about half as dense as most hardwoods so by volume you need twice as much. I was a little nervous seeing the backdraft but I guess you are an expert old timey wood burner.
I get 2 cords in the spring, it sits in a dry, vented shed for the summer, then goes into a room in my basement with a dehumidifier. For a mouth I have to empty the dehumidifier daily, then I have nice dry wood.
The bigger the chungus, the more heat amongus?
hahahahahaaa
sus
into the lava pit with it!
I don't know how you got these too together, but I like it.
Hmm
Pinnacle of 2021: laying down in my bed, watchin a generally unintelligible canadian man review firewood.
7/10 would watch again
He's a lot smarter than you think!
@@williamdebow3478 he said unintelligible
@@TheNapalmFTW top 10 anime deaths of 2021
definitely better then listening to an unintelligible president
As a long-time AvE viewer this comment put things in perspective, when I send my friends these videos they probably are thinking WTF is he watching
Junior woodpecker:"Hey Dad, what kind of tree is this sapling growing between these beech and birch trees?"
Senior woodpecker, after a quick taste. "Well son, it's not a son of a birch and it's not a son of a beech but it's the best piece of ash I've ever had my pecker in."
This comment needs more likes. Best comment I've read on any video in a long, long time.
Well you know...O my!
Linda, you're a dirty girl!
That's the shortened version of the pecker in a piece of Ash joke I heard.
Such a quiet, peaceful video. Made me think of my dad with a beer in his hand, watching the wood stove in silence for hours. I didn't appreciate that level and quality of alone time til I was a bit older. Honestly, thanks for this video man.
Tonight on AvE: watching wood burn. Tune in next week for paint drying and don't miss the season finale with grass growing. Who am I kidding, clicked like and will watch for the sequel.
Let us not pretend that we would not show up to watch/listen to Uncle Bumblefuck dry some paint and grow some grass.
In the early days of DVD players you could buy a DVD that displayed a fire burning, I think it featured several hours of footage.
@@TC-th1ey Plenty of TH-cams of that too.
I was kinda hoping for the Flies crawling up the wall
U L Log burning is always better with music.
I pick up a chunk of wood and go "yep........ she's from a tree alright"
I didn't know there was going to be a test on the different names 😂🤣
No. 1. The Larch.
@@BenKonosky Stop that. It's silly.
Old English saying
Ash dry Ash green
Makes a fire fit for a Queen
(Brian May if Freddy Mercury isn't available)
@@inspirality Ash wood wet, ash wood dry, a king may warm his slippers by. Just another version I've heard.
How do you say I'm from a warm climate or never depended on wood for heat without saying....
You know... About 17 years ago, When my oldest son was about 5 to 8 years old. I had always encouraged the hand to eye coordination process, like LEGO's, wrenching with me in the shop when working on the race cars, or rock crawlers, etc.. Most days I would ask him "how was school today son?", and the typical day would be a most standard children's replies, of "Meh?, It was alright"..... But on key occasions, when they did learn something interesting to them, (two sons both would do that) when asked, how their day was, what did they learn, in efforts to teach me something ,of which we would further go down the rabbit hole as by their age, the interweb had already been up and rocking and rolling... I would typically thank them each for the neat info when we we done schooling me. Now, there is several situations, that they learned something new at school, or from me, and they would actually take the time to allow it to absorb, and think about it, and some times, it may take hours, days, weeks months.. and further questions would come out often when they were trying to understand in their heads to the point it made sense. Now, fast forwards to my point, my oldest son was learning about the botany and partially biology, but mostly just plant life at this time frame.. it had him quite perplexed for a mean while. one day at the dinner table, This innocent child, asked, a hypothetical question that i dropped my fork and dang near spit out my food, to prevent choking almost mid-swallow point...
My son asked me, after setting up his question, by mentioning how much he enjoys the places we go camping and rock crawling at, and setting up the story for the camp fire is very interesting to me, (him) as he explained how much heat it give off, and for how long the wood can do that. As I thought about it, once the camp fire had stabilized and coals were causing a state of energy perpetuation (not really) but the fire keeps it self going. my son would just be locked on to it just watching it.. As a father, to see this any logical father will have a slight sub conscious part of the mind thinking that "I hope he grows up to respect fire, not become a firebug".. anyhow, it was always clear how my oldest son was/is mesmerized by fire, in the aspect of how much energy conversion is going on, even though, for a 5 to 8 year old to wrap their heads around.
He asked me, after setting the plot to help make sense of the direction he was going or coming from.. "Dad, do you suppose, that the fire coming from the chopped up wood that of course came from a living creature, (trees) is all the sun light being released, from all the sun light that the tree collected of all those years during its time growing." Please note, even though I wrote this as a question,, he actually stated this as a notional question, and rather, a statement that is theory based, as if it was worth looking into...I was blown away from that question. Yes, we can go down the whole list of what makes a fire tick, blah...blah...blah... Which he did his best to run down the list of what is required to not only start a fire, but to maintain a fire or for a fire to self sustain. It was just a statement.. I don't mean to sound like a parrot, but I was blown away by that hypothetical & mystical statement from my little compulsive thinkers.
So, I will steal his statement and claim it as my own... Do you all suppose, a fire from wood, is being allowed to be released in that critical event of burning itself to change its state by means of allowing all that energy in the form of heat and light, from all the years from when it was a living creature absorbing light in its mission to survive, doing photosynthesis.... I will never forget that which is one of many times my sons have blown my mind. My younger son, at the same time, after that, simply said, maybe fire is a gift from the Gods, to allow mankind to survive when the human species was just cavemen? He asked, I don't know how long he could last outside in the winter weather, naked, living in the woods, so, fire had to be there to allow them to survive maybe?
You sir are a frig'n national treasure. As a Kodiak & cut off lumberjack jacket wearing wayward teen of the 80's, I grinned at your recreational combustibles phraseology. Hot knives never rust.
and lip burns never heal.
At my age, I’m happy with any wood.
i remember my grandad telling me this poem and i have always stuck by it
The Firewood Poem
Beechwood fires are bright and clear
If the logs are kept a year,
Chestnut’s only good they say,
If for logs ’tis laid away.
Make a fire of Elder tree,
Death within your house will be;
But ash new or ash old,
Is fit for a queen with crown of gold.
Birch and fir logs burn too fast
Blaze up bright and do not last,
it is by the Irish said
Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread.
Elm wood burns like churchyard mould,
E’en the very flames are cold
But ash green or ash brown
Is fit for a queen with golden crown
Poplar gives a bitter smoke,
Fills your eyes and makes you choke,
Apple wood will scent your room
Pear wood smells like flowers in bloom
Oaken logs, if dry and old
keep away the winter’s cold
But ash wet or ash dry
a king shall warm his slippers by.
That, sir, should be engraved on a nice slab of ash.
Beautiful
Hey @AvE, in southern Australia we call all of those species of tree carcass ‘kindling’! We have tree called Mallee (Eucalyptus Socialis) and it is the most unbelievable fire wood, it burns almost like charcoal and with no sparks. It has a density of 1120g/lt (yes it sinks in water) , 7600mj/kg and 100% hear availability for volume. (By comparison, white Cypress pine is 8000mj/kg but only 60% heat avail.) Mallee roots grow in sand and they are like a bulb/ball. They are not splittable except with hydraulic assistance and even then- good luck. Can’t be sawn either- full of grit. Once burning, the coals glow orange to cherry red and can burn for 12hrs + 👌
From one FJ owner to another, you can take a thumb up (y)
Yes Australian, as a Californian, I'm well aware of your darn eucalyptus trees and of their efficacy at burning my state down.
@@eisenkrieg553 you should ask the people in Florida about Australian pine (Casuarina spp)
We've got a little tree here called "Mesquite" with most of the features you describe...
@@Bert2368 we get mesquite in chips for smoking. Ever seen Mallee chips? Me either. There is no chipper skookum enough to chip Mallee roots, it’s honestly like a rock
The extended "sitting in front of the fire" scene flexed my badass monitor's color depth. It looked amazing. Thanks ave
Trees are fucking wacky, they don't all share a common tree ancestor, tree is just something a plant ends up doing.
You either die a perennial or live long enough to see yourself become elongated and supporting branches.
There isn't even a scientific distinction between trees and shrubs
Fish, trees, vegetables - all lies.
i learned something today
I would hit like but you’re at 69 likes
Generally if it fits in the wood stove - I'm good with it.
Yeah I thought that too. But a friend of mine was not to happy with me trying to do it with his new born infant though.
Same here
@@trxtech3010 pmsl
Exactly.. plus you can cook on the stove quite well
If it's free and fits in,I dont care what it is. Apprentice get sick of cutting up 2x4 offcuts to fit tho...
aren't chimney fires an inbuilt automated feature to get rid of the creosote ?
Sure if you don't mind your bricks and moarter cracking and getting hot enough to light your framework on fire... Truth be told, most chimney fires are harmless, but they could be terrible. Some chimney fires happen without knowledge of the owner.
@@happycamper6352 Twin wall stainless steel flue surrounded by vermiculite. The jackdaws in the next flue stay cozy.
Port the flue pipe like a steam whistle and if you get enough airflow,like a chimney fire,the whole neighborhood will know about it.
Excellent wood review. Certainly answered a lot of *burning* questions I had.
Just gonna put this on loop every Christmas Morning from now on!
I wonder if there will be a long format inferno on the retest with occasional quiet checking in on the fire and occasionally poking at it.
Yes. This is what we need.
@@apcolleen with the buzz of the mill in the background and one pa-tinggg fackkkk! from a broken tool!
I now know what I am putting on loop at Christmas time this year. And I now know what all other fire place videos are missing. Color commentary of how each of the different species are burning.
Great minds think alike :D
Softwoods and hardwoods might light up like coal, but brighter than all burns the telephone pole.
Sage words.
We avoid conifers; pine, fir, etc., because of creosote buildup which is a pain to clean and a chimney fire hazard. Ash, oak, etc. are much better.
@@docmordrid i had some cedar get mixed in with some wood i got for free. Never seen more soot from a log in my life. Even when burning its encased in black smoke. Smelled great but had to clean the stove pipe after.
I feel surface area of the timber had a huge part to play in this test and how jagged the split was. Pyrolysis is an interesting beast
my favorite firewood is definitely locust. grows fast, easy to split and burns hot as coal.
Formula for best firewood is as follows: B= X/(E x C).
B= best, X= heat per cord, E= effort in acquiring cord, C=cost per cord.
this is actually really legit lol
Free fire wood trumps all other.
Bogles my mind when people give me free wood. But thanks are given nonetheless.
@@petewood2350 free is a very compelling price alright.
$75k for a truck and $1500 for a saw, to fall the tree on the truck. Cost per cord like a national budget...
For a meaningful test, you really need to standardize the moisture content of each piece. Water vapor (above 20%) cools the combustion, causing smoke, stink and creosote buildup. Damp wood will "burn" (smolder) longer, but it will ultimately produce less heat, as smoke itself is nothing more than unburned fuel.
Also, it's worth noting that because of the different grain structures that differentiate hardwoods from softwoods, it takes softwoods a much longer time to season (dry) than hardwoods. Counterintuitive, eh, given their lesser density?
(Source: I was director of the (US) National Firewood Association from 2012-2020)
thank you the test was shitty he should have burned each species one at a time they should have been at the same moisture content same weight same shape his test proved nothing i cant think of a time i was critical of an AvE test.
@@pghgeo816 Nonetheless, his takeaway is correct -- all things being equal, BTU relates directly to mass/density. That's why firewood in Europe and the UK is sold by the tonne.
@@salveson No I get it but i thought his test was to determine "best firewood" i thought he meant best by species if that is the case his test proved nothing. and your point was the same as mine unless you know the moisture content is the same between all the samples you cant prove density. Plus shape is critical and it has to be done one log at a time to logs touching wont allow equal air flow but i think you know these things.
Softwoods taking longer to dry is actually very intuïtitive. Less dense is more space for other things like moisture
Whaddayou think this is, Project Farm!?
Man, you’re awesome. A gentleman and scholar. This is probably the only firewood video worth watching.
Oh man, I needed this. Thank you kindly sir for the larf.
Best firewood is free firewood.
Interesting, though.
my wood burner has run on old pallets furniture and doors.
Old couch wood
Whatever was dead standing or otherwise I can drag out of the back woods and get a splitting maul through is my personal favorite. Cant be picky and lazy lol. Keep pallet wood handy for the quick cold morning starts. Good vid, thanks as always for making me feel that much more smarter.
My favorite as well. Standing dead (dry) and free. I have never paid a dime for firewood. Right now I'm burning Black Cottonwood. Disappears quick in the stove, but it's free.
If it’s not free….
What’s the fuckin point?
Just FYI many pallets are soaked in chemicals so it’s really a bad idea to burn it
That much more smarter...
@@PrimetimeNut depends wherein you be livin'. Here in canuckistan most wood from the species palettus woodus is heat treated. You can double check by googling the code stamped on it, but if it's not dyed you're likely good to burn (or garden) with it.
Just what I needed. A new Yule Log video! Thanks!
I do believe this is the most enthusiasm I've seen you display in regard to dead tree carcasses. I'm probably somewhat biased as I make my living arranging said tree carcasses in a manner most pleasing to the eye rather than setting them ablaze but to each his own.
Down in my parts we use gender reveals as tinder, and wouldn't you know it, it works so well the whole state goes up in flames
That's an extemely unlikely official narrative.
California?
I remember when a gender reveal incident would get you labeled as a sex offender. But people didn’t have big gender reveal parties back then. A simple raincoat would suffice.
Hey atleast we all now it's a boy!!!!
And Tinder leads to gender reveals.
Ah cotton wood, aka goffer wood. You put it in the fire, and goffer more.
Great video Ave. I look forward to all of your stuff.
This channel is the best, it’s like a cross between Trailer Park Boys and Bob Villa.....I love it!
Getting your own fire wood warms you up 3 times … first cutting the tree, second splitting it , third sitting in front of the fire after all your hard work ! Which is just as well as it gives me cold shivers just thinking about the whole process !!
My Neighbor told me that back in the late 70s
you forgot fourth hauling it into your home... fifth cleaning out the stove now and then :D
My gramps always said that wood warms you several times. When you cut it, when you split it, when you carry it inside and when you burn it.
@@alias_not_needed and the chimney, and sharpening chains, and pushing the truck out of the mud when trying to get to it...
The best wood to burn is the piece that has a politician nailed to it...
No lies detected
Yes!
Or lawyer
@@brainkill7034 lawyers only if no politicians are left. 🤣
Every single one of them
Man, your commentary is witty and down right funny. Thanks for the chuckle!
watching the fire and listening to your velvety tones rambling on about fact and science was very soothing and relaxing. you should record a holiday special
There's been many a territorial skirmish here over hedge (osage orange) firewood cutting rights. It's somewhere between blackberry picking and whitetail hunting when determining land value.
Some Kaori wood found a way onto our fire on the farm... it had committed suicide so it's protected status was moot..especially back in 1876
It smells really nice
The (hedge) is practically petrified, hard & heavy as stone, sink a post into the ground, 80yrs later, still there.
Don't give the gooberment any ideas- they'll start taxing wood even more.
that is my absolute favorite wood to burn!!
@@JETJOOBOY, wow that’s neat. I would have loved a chunk for turning on the lathe. I have cousins on NZ that have told me stories bout kaori wood
This new brunswicker came into this video with some STRONG opinions. Last winter the sled shed didnt get stocked with wood. So we burnt the finest free pallets fastnfkall had to leave out back. Hardwood, softwood, glue ladden particle, stapled, nailed, strapped didnt matter it all burnt. Come spring there was 8 lbs of steel in the ash box and not a sharp chainsaw in sight!
Should have been a lot more than 8 pounds of steel. I burn pallet wood in a camp fire often, and it doesn't take long to put out a gallon sized coffee can full of nails and staples, which will weigh about 8 pounds. Just a couple nights actually. Those pallets are loaded with hardware.
At some point right after the fire got going and there wasn’t any talking or action I was just watching the fire burn. Ten seconds later I realized how content I was even just watching a video of a fire burn and was glad you left that part in instead of just editing down to the bare minimum. Was then also glad to hear you state it at the end about how visceral it is to enjoy the company of a fire.
May have not been the most fair test of firewood, but it was certainly the funniest. This gent's linguistics are next level.
Fun fact, Balsa wood is classified as hardwood. which makes a mockery of the hardwood/softwood thing. Also, most trees in Australia are hardwoods and only a few are deciduous.
Classification can sometimes seem like a mugs game.
Hardwoods lose their leaves seasonly. That’s the only difference
Yeah, basically the names soft/hard-wood were created to differentiate wood that was soft/hard, then they made it a more fixed definition and then they noticed "oh shit, Balsa is a hardwood - now we are stuck with that name".
@@chucksmitleyv145 Wrong. What about Holly?
@@chucksmitleyv145 Yes but why:
It is to keep their branches from breaking under snow loads. Praise the Lord.
@@anthonywitham2305 wrong hardwood and softwood has absolutely nothing to do with how hard or soft they are. point in case holy vs balsa
"Axe.. based.. thumb.. crypto currency.." I actually laughed out loud well done.
AvE-Axe...A..AVAX!?
Me too, the old monitors just about got sprayed with chewed up banana.
I like your fire efficiency. The more that the flames come outside the stove, the quicker the shop heats up. You Canucks are smart dudes. 👍
Thanks again for some great content Ave, wood watch again.
Dad used to get so excited when we found some ironwood in the load. Always saved them for the overnight fires.
Haha yep I do the same.
Dogwood too
Friends in Duncan with houses made of ironwood can't even get a nail in to a 2x4
I've been sweating my butt off all week long moving my stuff into my new house. Now on Friday, I'm watching a vid of a wood burning stove in action. And do I find this comforting? Yes, yes I do.
Thank you, AvE.
Fireplace ASMR.
Wish I had a fireplace or wood stove for a different perspective, but so far all my burning is outdoors, and in that case I very much enjoy the crackling popping exciting burn where the only thing at risk is my clothes or camp chair (for extra fun, throw on some bamboo). Certainly, I enjoy hardwood too. I even enjoy burning full log-rounds just bucked but not split. Love your videos!
Ave you are the man my friend. Just bought myself a nice place on the lake with a wood stove and a fireplace. This video is exactly what I needed .
I live right next door to Freddy’s last abode, and I have to say, I think the boys around here would be mighty proud of how much hard wood you managed to pack in that filthy box.
Quick tip...and only the tip....a page of newspaper wadded and lit on fire ON TOP of your stack before lighting the base will start a draw which will keep that initial backdraft smoke from happening... most of the time.
This reminded me how much I love staring at a good fire. Looking forward to the next one.
The modern fireside chat with the beloved edumacator AvE, a new series to get us though the dark winter ahead. {10/10 would watch future installments}
I Am just as surprised. That pine had a perfect heart shape in the end around 9:45. great vid as usual.
That heart shape shows the wood still is full of moisture. The middle of the log is under 212° f.
The denser woods come in smaller pieces for the same weight. Smaller pieces have a higher surface area/volume, so they burn faster. You should be comparing pieces of wood of the same size and shape. That's how it is priced, by volume not weight.
I live on 14 acres of pine forest and heat with wood that I cut and split.
This. It's not about weight, it's about how much you can pack in the stove at one time. A stove full of pine is gone in no time, a stove full of oak will last all night.
What does this look like? Project farm?
this is so much better than watching the fire place chanel at Christmas time!!!!
You are a poet my friend, love your “wordism”, your lexicon is ceremonious and punctilious, maintains a big smile in my face. Your jargon it’s impressive.
My Dad talked of the legendary stove wood and mentioned they'd go far n wide and haul back and burn it. Apparently could melt a stove if stoked to hot.
Tamarack!
Notice the heart on the Ponderosa?
Loves to burn!
@@diamondflaw Local guy here who worked for Fisher (we had a Mama Bear years ago) said that the factory would test their stoves by filling them with a load of kiln-dried fir (waste ends from the mills) and run them orange-hot. Replaced the stove 30 years ago with a Lopi EPA-approved afterburner model. The problem with the Fisher was that too much of the heat went up the 8" flue. The Lopi produces just as many BTUs on less wood and runs a 6" flue.
What with climate change and drought, I'll be dead before I burn up the wood I've stockpiled. Winters are much warmer than they yusta be.
The question is also how much water was there in each piece. More humid wood can have even 30% less energy, because it has to evaporate water first (which takes much energy), and wet wood can burn longer. So on the next test measure humidity of the wood. Good job! :-)
Yes but, humidity mashes you feel warmer. You know, like wind chill. 😁
I love the freedom of speaking here,,geez it feel nice like a fresh shower ! swear and speak dirt my friend we love it!!!
I'm going to loop this Vidjeo on my TV during the upcoming holidaze, it's a much better "virtual" fireplace than the usual dribble on cable TV!
Thanks AvE!
Both.
hardwoods in general are much denser and have a higher energy density (by volume), but lower specific energy (by weight). So for a fixed size it burns longer and releases more energy, but also burns slower. Where as softwood has more energy for the same weight and burns much faster which makes it great for quickly changing the temperature of a fireplace, or getting a fireplace started.
we always had both and used them accordingly. Softwood as kindling and half of the firewood, and then later just pure hardwood.
Just wanna say I love kicking back after trying to be productive, and watching this guy's videos.
Your foray into ASMR is commendable to say the least .
A Suggestion on the downdraft problem which you evidently seem to sometimes experience.
Purchase, at the stove pipe store, three fixed, proper diameter, stove pipe "T"s for a new sort'a chimney cap device.
The idea comes from the Choo Choo trains of old which had a coal or wood burning stove in the caboose. So, start with the existing vertical stove pipe traveling upward through the roof in the traditional manner. Next remove he "Chinaman's Hat" from the stove pipe to be used sometime in the future as a lawn ornament.
Now the first "T" mounts onto the top of the vertical stove pipe so that any smoke now discharges horizontally left and/or right. Next, on one side, mount the second "T" so that the new discharge, on that one side, is vertically up and down. Now do the same on the other horizontal end with the last "T" so that now both left and right halves discharge vertically (up and down).
What happens is that new "H" shaped cap now sits atop of the existing stove pipe and that configuration cancels out the effects of the gusting wind. A few sheet metal screws to hold everything together and a little cable to steady everything in monsoon winds and "...Bob's y'rrr Uncle". *No more downdrafts!* - Joe -
I've had many an issue with downdraft since the bloody thing was installed. This sounds like a fun little project (when it's not so damn cold). Thanks for the suggestion.
The cubes idea is great! Thank you for doing this! It’s really helpful for us who use wood for heat and finding the best value and use of space in the wood shed! ❤️🖖🏼🇺🇸
Excellent video! I'll be getting a new stove for the house next year, and look forward to your results. 👍
Mate, that opening salvo is an instant sub. Great video thanks. We have pretty much just eucalyptus... Hard wood that keeps it leaves all year
Watching from Adelaide Sth.Australia, great vid mate!
Had to laugh when I heard the snippet of "The House fire" playing in the background!
I had just listened to the song and I barely caught it lol I guess they’re more popular than I thought
Captions are great
"This here is a big chunk of hash"
well theres my evening planned :P
I can't blame the algorithm for that, 'cause that's exactly what I heard!
As intended to my ears. He very deliberately said Ash later on.
Thank you for sharing the trees of your people with us AVE
Gotta love the intro to Turnpike playing the house fire, it is fitting.
Here in OZ, all of those species are known colloquially as 'shit' firewood.
Get some Redgum or Yellow Box happening. Axe will bounce right off it every time, but it burns hot all night.
What about gidgee!?!
@@simmo8018 Yep, but that's pretty $$ down here in Melbourne!
Talk about hard - that stuff blunts a High Speed lathe chisel in no time!
We didn't nickname Redgum "Ironbark" for nothing. Cut more than my fair share of that stuff as a kid...
Well. Here in Germany, wood commonly is sold by the "Raummeter" (about an eyeballed cubic meter). Beech, which we use as firewood, has 2100 kWh per Raummeter. But for starting, we use pine, since we can get scraps of that from a local shipping company.
That's kinda disappointing. I'd always imagined it'd be sold for a variable number of seig hails by the reich or something like that.
Really kills the imagination.
Fellow firewood fanatic here! This is the funniest thing I’ve seen!
Thanks bud. Now my family and I have a nice TV fireplace for Christmas morning.
It's like an Ave Yule Log! Someone make a 10hr version!
That's the 1st thing that came to mind for me! I could imagine the kids around the AvE yule log unwrapping gifts while I'm entertained by his commentary 😂 🤣 😅 definitely more enjoyable for me!
With cussing and commentary. I'm in.
My father would always say "at the end of the day it all burns better than a snowball"
Loved hearing some turnpike troubadours in the back ground there.
This guy is hilarious. Very entertaining and a fun experiment to watch.
"Hard as woodpecker lips" best thing I've heard all day
A woodpecker walks into a bar and asks, “is the bartender here?”
Maybe the pine wasn’t as dry? Could have done a moisture test on all the samples before burning.
straw method
@@dancearoundtheworld5360 If you can drink it it ain't dry?
Being an East Coaster here in Nova Scotia ,people here totally think you can't run softwood in your stove... I ran the nice dry ends of spruce lumber from the local mill where they build roof trusses and that stuff was amazing and clean. The trick with the softwood is to run the stove hot as the blazes of hell really often to keep the creasasote from building up. I used to do it once a day. I knew an older lady that used to burn the spruce slab wood that comes from the milling process because it was super cheap. She told me she throws a bunch of rock salt in the blazing hot fire and that keeps the chimney clean. It seemed to work.
AvE you are the best comedy show on the tube!! I thoroughly enjoy listening to your rambles. Happy for you and your family getting a dog. I have a yellow lab myself. Similar but I've heard Goldens can beat the labs in hunting competitions.
Hardwood for heat, softwood for atmosphere was a "lesson" I was taught. Bring on the rematch! Sorry...the second test.
Ironwood always been the hottest for me, gotta love great old Canadian forests.
Ironwood is amazing, but so hard on saws and chains!
@@cgoad, I agree and why it cost more money per cord, I wouldn’t really know though because I’m blind and they don’t usually like to let me run those machines LOL!!! I still use the acts though, it’s all about spatial dimensions and being extremely careful, people get freaked out when I do it but they’re pretty shocked how well I can, it’s called muscle memory.
@@loveeveryone3241 can't be too blind if you're watching youtube videos and reading comments/replies
@@Adierit, it’s called Touch, listening, accessibility, and voice dictation. I have to use my imagination for a lot of the videos, but I hope you have a better understanding of how blind people interact with TH-cam videos and comments. Be well and God bless dude
I remember smelling smoke, when I woke up I was choking...fitting tune
I’m saving this for Christmas morning!!
I like the idea for the new test
I'd say 30 or 40 more independent tests to get a large enough sample size should start to paint a picture. Obviously with your favorite libation.
Makes sense entirely. The thing is that hardwood being more dense means you can load more mass into a stove, giving you a longer burn, fewer door openings, so less heat loss. If you can get away with a packed stove of Pine to carry you through the night so be it, but I'd rather not have to be up every 3 hours to refill the stove.
Thanks for the great relief during this pandemic.
Where's the pandemic? I haven't been able to find it since I turned off the news...
This was a treat especial... could even be close to a fire on loop video.
I tend to burn whatever I can get my hands on, Government officials, councillors, etc We have alot of Ash around here and it burns wonderful even when not fully seasoned (heresy) also lots of conifers Smokey and spitty but I will take what I can get not living in the wilds. Pallet wood and old door frames being two regulars oh and flat pack furniture! Favourite smelling wood when burnt Cherry and then Apple!
aint flatpack furniture usually full of binders and flame inhibitors? the stuff smells nasty and clogs up your chimney like nothing....
The good wood burned off that pinus' excess moisture, allowing it to begin combustion at all, albeit well after the fire had converted much of the others cellulose into heat and gss.
There's a great book called Norwegian wood. Explains more than you'd ever want to know about firewood in a relaxing way.
Energy is very proportional to dry mass. Lower density typically results in faster release or hotter temperature. Higher density results in slower or longer burn.
We heat with cordwood in a Tempwood top loading stove so don't have a nice picture window. I agree the heat value of wood is based on mass and water content. Here in New Hampshire we have mixed hardwood/software forests so there is not much need to burn pine as is is about half as dense as most hardwoods so by volume you need twice as much.
I was a little nervous seeing the backdraft but I guess you are an expert old timey wood burner.
First yeah! Best wood is dry wood!
I thoroughly beg to differ.
I get 2 cords in the spring, it sits in a dry, vented shed for the summer, then goes into a room in my basement with a dehumidifier. For a mouth I have to empty the dehumidifier daily, then I have nice dry wood.
🎖
"Catch some heat." Heh 😀
I like softwood fires. The crackling makes me nostalgic and happy.
Aww the poor pine, all he wants to do is love you Ave, he even has a burning heart hardon for ya. Give the big chungus some love would ya.