My Favorite Firewood - To Split and Burn
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2024
- Today I answer the question - what is my favorite firewood to split and burn? Also give a small update on how the shelter has been working out.
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Washington State - Doug Fir! Maple/Alder are nice. Cherry also but our cherry has a real thin stringy bark that makes splitting a bear.
Also from Washington. Burn lots of fir. Maple is favorite hardwood. I like to burn a mix. Alder is probably my favorite to split. Agree with what you said about splitting cherry. Both wild and fruit cherry here is a pain to split because of the bark! I do all of mine with an ax and a maul.
Oak and Cherry love them both
Morning Wood.😊
Your exactly right. Oak definitely needs to be split in order to get that moisture out. Takes some good hot weather and decent wind also. Lol
Here on the central Oregon coast about the best wood would be madrone. Not much oak at all. Lots of alder, chinkapin and of course douglas fir. Cedars for kindlen red is common but prefer white for its smell and oil.
I'm going to have to adjust my answer to include Ash, and Beech. Ash, because it's the closest thing to an all-purpose wood I'm likely to find. Splits easy, makes nice coals, lotsa heat, AND it burns pretty bright, too. (recreational and cooking guy here) Same for Beech, only more so. It burns slower, but makes up for it with all those hot coals! Ash is also ready to burn far sooner than oak.
Oak definitely has it's place in my cooking wood arsenal, but it's pretty much a waste for recreational fires. Since it splits so nice, it IS fun to see just how far I can make pieces fly!
You are right about the red oak its my favorite.
I burn any kind of oak and locust is my favorite. I leave my oak logs lay off the ground for about a year until the bark falls off. I prefer all of my firewood to be barkfree. I’m not selling wood and am backed up 2 years ahead. So it’s a different situation entirely. I burn only oak and locust. I mix everything else to distribute to the less fortunate. Great video as usual! Thanks for sharing!
Right on brother oak is all we do in Michigan u have to cut it to size and split it right away , log form take as 1 and a half to dry out
Smooth bark hickory ..., Split like your road side (camp wood)....and seasoned over a year.. is my fav for the wood stove....👍
I love red oak as well. Nothing better then finding a standing dead in the woods. Like finding gold! This year I hit the mother load of sugar maple. Going to give it two years to dry. Really smells great. New sub.
Elm. Kidding! Red Oak for sure.
Totally agree on red oak here in Michigan. I was giddy watching that oak being split. Just does the soul good! Skip
You have a really good setup
To heat with red oak as well but to cook with it's hickory in the smoker for me. Both are plentiful around me in NC. I'm very grateful for that
Beech is my favourite. Best wishes for you and your family.👍🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
i put sides made out of three vertical boards onto my skids and then make three rows of 16 inch firewood. tie off the sides with two wires on top and they hold a facecord. from splitter to skid handled once, from skid into stove once more.
Another great video. 👍
I like them all but I would agree with you on the red oak being my favorite
Your right in that red oak i got some that was in log form for 5 years bark was falling on bit check it with a meter and it still was 42 percent so it will be ready this year till next year or maybe long. Craz how it don't dry out at all in log from .
Amen. Red oak is king in our area. How does Amanda wear those boots and not get any wood chips in them? If I were to wear boots like that even with pants tucked in I’d be stopping 10 minutes in pulling a piece of bark out of one of them!
white oak is my favorite, can't remember how it splits because its been a while but I will never forget the sweet smell of it burning
I love white ash to split/ sell. Low moisture green. 22% or so. Love to split red oak too here in central MN.
Red oak is a hard wood tree and it does make a lot of heat . It is good for fire wood that's for sure.
Here in the plains of Kansas we burn a lot of Hedge or Osage Orange. Super hot!!
Great Job!
We have Good Old Pa. Red Oak. It is good for heat and splits nice.
Red Oak is my favorite to split. White Oak is harder to split but burns longer.
Wish I had lots of red oak here in the central highlands of ME but my favorites in order are: rock maple, beech and ash.
When I was in high school and college, my brother and I ran a pretty good firewood business. Well, we had a lot of customers, but we weren't exactly the best businessmen, lol! Nonetheless, we made contacts with some local sawmills, and would visit them frequently to pick up wastewood as well as flitches. Most of them did a ton of work in red and white oak. I swear you could smell it miles away! Loved it!
The setup looks great Dan. Well thought out I think. I like the use of the pallets to get in and out for both the blocks and splits. Good stuff! It will be snowy soon...:))
Just like a hot knife going through butter haha!! My favorite wood to split and burn probably has to be black locust!! Stay safe my friend!!
Conveyor needed. To put it where you want it. Into a tub or a pile. Could probably find an old grain elevator in farm country to start with.
No, if he gets a conveyor, he won’t need any help. I wish I had a helper like his!!!
My preferred firewoods are any hickory, any oak and any wood that is seasoned and putting off heat when it’s cold. I wish I had access to Osage orange.
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I love anything without a knot. My splitter does not mind knots but my stacking abilities do lol. Please explain if you are going to move and stack from the tent. Why not try your trailer backed up to the splitter? Keep up the good work. Don’t forget to thank the help with flowers.
Red oak and hickory nice and hot burning
White oak is my favorite
I haven't split too many kinds of wood yet but I did recently do over 2 cords of red oak. It was just really heavy but it split and smelled great. I do think cherry might be my favorite wood so far though. I like it so much I made a rack on my barn. Now when I go in there after it being closed up for a day, the smell of cherry is amazing.
It’s really going to be interesting to find out about stacking. I’ve never put wood in haystacks. I think it will dry slower and pull moisture up out of the ground. I think your bags are the best I have seen anywhere. Very attractive and professional looking. My hats off to Amanda for helping. I can’t imagine doing wood works in shorts though. My legs have scars all over from wood.
That red oak slits nice
If your trailer fits in the shelter, you could back'er in and fill that up and then take it wherever you were stacking/storing. There's a few of us that do it that way, including Ohio Wood Burner I see, and that works well when you have wood separated into different stacks depending on species and size and purpose. Basically just an extra large wheelbarrow!
Firewood favorite...um, the king's champion probably, bitternut hickory; I like the smell green, love the smell burning it, splits easy (except if the bark is old and thick) and it delivers 10% more BTUs per cord than red oak. I might put birch second also just because of the smell green and burning. I don't have anything against red oak though either, probably prefer it's smell over hickory when green but no contest when burning.
Favorite wood besides Oak is Beech. It has about the same burn value as oak and it also split like a dream 😊
Love the straight grain of the red oak! Great to see Amanda and you working together. I have a lot of dead ash standing and it is pretty easy to work with and contains little moisture.
We like red river gum but have to split it straight away otherwise to hard to split. Can burn for a couple of days
I love red oak to cook with.
My dad thinks I’m crazy but I love the smell of it to!
Oak is also my favorite to split and to burn. It does take along time to season as well. The only wood I burn that takes longer is Mulberry.
Favorite is black locust, or even honey locust... just take a weed burner and torch the thorns so they aren't sharp anymore. Any oak is great. Surprised nobody has mentioned hackberry, used to burn a lot of it when we heated with wood. Those trees are like weeds around here, and nobody sheds a tear when you cut a live one down. They season fairly quickly too, but they do not store well outside. Sold the oak, burned hackberry ourselves.
Tip... If you cut a live tree, leave it lay with the leaves and branches still on for a few weeks if you are able to.... you will be amazed at how much moisture will come out of the tree through the leaves.
Haven't seen any love for Locust so far so let me be the first. Its every where by me in MI. Grows super fast and they say it burns even hotter than oak
That's one tree I have yet to see in my yard is Locust. Heard it's great firewood, just not much around my area.
@@Back40Firewood well rumor has it they are invasive to the Midwest, so for whatever reason people planted a bunch of them around me and they just spread like crazy. But yeah it's great for burning
My favorite is cherry. It splits easily and smells great in the fireplace. Red oak seems to have a somewhat foul odor when it burns, a little like cat pee.
I was reading thru the comments and wondered why no mention of cherry. Finally yours. Probably my favorite too.
Black Cherry and Honey Locust.
A small belt elevator perhaps after the splitter. Usually used here in scandinavia. Lets younbuild a real pile. Should perhaps consider, as youndoing this for an income, to invest in a processor with a small log table. Simplifies stuff and you will doing 8 hours what would take weeks. But inguess it all depends on volume, type of wood and such. Here in scandinavia they are pretty common though. You only have one body, and it isnt getting younger, so it make sense to make life easier :-)
Yes i new video the moming you did a really good jop today I like split and Lucas I have a log splitter it's the 28 ton log splitter the Honda log splitter buddy
I like Chestnut oak or rock oak, doesn't hold the moisture like red same easy splitting and smells good too not as strong as the red.loved the camera angles especially the one😉
I like the smell of red oak. I keep some in my garage just for the smell. Lol. My favourite to burn is ash but hard to come by
I like Red Oak, White Oak, Hickory, and Pecan!
Not much white Oak here. But Douglas fir for me next would be locusts & maple
I would put an adapter to exhaust of the splitter engine and hook it up to some flex hose and you could move the splitter wherever you want an run the flex hose outside, you could turn the splitter around and back it in as far as you want, even to the other end, v close off the end flap and the exhaust hose would add a little heat into the shed, I’m surprised the amazing Amanda hasn’t told you how. God Bless your family
I love red oak too! 👍🏼
Myself, If I have big rounds that I can't get to immediately I will quarter them. While I have to handle them twice, the next time I don't break my back moving them. Also, the quarters do dry faster than rounds so they might weigh less later on.
Hey there Shifty, I like the way you ended up setting up the shelter with the splitter on the back end using the runners. My favorite wood for burning and spitting is sort of a spilt between Ash and Oak. Seeing less and less of Ash in my area these days due to the Ash borer wiping them mostly out, so when I do get some, its like firewood gold to me. Only downside to Oak is just as you say, the seasoning time, but that's it.
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That R.O. looks really nice !
You could put a couple quick connections on the hydraulics with longer hoses and leave the engine outside and the splitter inside..
I enjoy working with cherry, the smell is very nice to me, and its basically all i've got on my property other than small locust.
The wood i love the most is well there are to beech and hickory they are the best for me oh and one more apple
I like the red as well . I don't really like the way it smells but to each his own
I like how your setting up your shelter, I’m thinking the same thing for the shelter setup, except putting my splitter at the far end facing in, and have a feed table on one side and stack towards the front of the shelter.this way you fill the feed table, split into the bins or pallets and move them when done with the forks, and you can “reset” as many times as you desire during the day. I would have to toss my splits because of the type of splitter I have, but yours would allow for direct stacking.
For burning oak, and maple, for cooking hickory, apple or your typical smoking woods! Sometimes I burn some smoker wood to drive my neighbors crazy!
That sounds like a good plan for your shelter...I should've left more room in the back so that I could drive back there with the tractor...I mean all I'd have to do is remove a few trees & I could, so we'll see...lol👍😀🍻
@@Back40Firewood well, you need more firewood to burn!
I agree that red oak is one of the best woods to split and burn. Good heat value and easy to split. In our hollow there are not many red oak trees because white oak dominates. White oak is not as easy to split, but I find it burns better once it is dry. More heat value in it. Good video, Dan!
I call it O"de oak. Love the smell of a fresh crate.
Perhaps the tailer or short sided tote at the end of the splitter?
I prefer Cherry, Hickory and Apple for burning in our fireplace.👌🏼 As for our Heatmore Boiler, it will burn virtually anything I can get in the door... (I don’t have to worry about burying dead chickens, Opossum or Raccoon in the winter months...😉). When it’s super cold out I burn well seasoned Red Oak, Locust or sound Ash. If conditions are moderate, I throw in punky Ash and misc. odds and ends with little concern for moisture content.
Bless’ns to ya Shifty & Amanda!
Oak and cherry. Anything free is the best
Those are some really nice red boots Amazing Amanda…I’ll bet they are Indiana University red….? Yes, Home of IU basketball.Wow, red boots and red oak rounds. Life is good..lol
The helper needs some PPE that fits. Gloves, ear muffs or plugs, steel toe boots.
As for the shelter, I think you would have been fine with a heavy tarp and a steel cable running tree to tree.
Once Red oak is dry you can blow air through a stick like a straw. Great party trick especially if you add soap to the water.
Cheers from Massawippi Quebec, Canada
I love red oak to cut and split
My bro used to call me a wood sniffing weirdo.man that red oak is almost intoxicating it smells so good
Even better than red oak for ease splitting and heat content is black locust. Better use it fast though as the locust beetle grub will turn it all into a pile of sawdust before split red oak cut at the same time is dried and ready to burn. Ease of splitting is mostly irrelevant these days unless you split by hand though as hydraulic splitters will rip through about anything.
😭 I was hoping for smellavision !! Love splitting oak!! Maple and ash top three
Real nice stuff there brother. I like dealing with Ash, good to split by hand or machine. It’s always ready to burn off the stump. You know why that is. Later on BK40ty 🍺
You could always run an exhaust pipe off your splitter not sure if it will work just a thought.
Love the smell of red oak. I like ash best for splitting and burning. Almost easier to split with a maul than the splitter (you can split it laying down) and standing dead ash is ready to burn right away. Unfortunately the emerald ash borer has pretty much wiped them out.
Ah. The smell of oak! Now this is pedunculate oak I am talking about, the most common species here in The Netherlands (although Red Oak used to be planted heavily and there still are a good many around): yeasty and grassy. Abfab. But the drying time is long indeed, even small splits needing close to two years. There ain't no hurrying oak.
I love yellow birch followed by sugar maple, not much oak here.
I ALSO LOVE THE SMELL OF OAK FIREWOOD
Hickory would have to be my favorite wood
I think green hickory smells like a wet horse. I like it and seasons and burns well
Thanks for showing the moisture content. What is the reading on your seasoned ready for the boiler wood...just curious. nice video. I'm a new subscriber sent your way by GP outdoors.
Red Oak is the king here is western NC as well. Maybe not the very, very best wood, but it is among the best and very plentiful. I get most of my wood from storm damage or tree services, so my downside is that it is heavy. White oak is good as well. I am one of those that love the smell of fresh split oak, but my wife says it smells like dog pi$$.
Love the smell of red. I see people post all the time that they have "seasoned oak" logs or seasoned split oak and you know that seasoned ain't the same as "ready to burn." Technically, oak is seasoned some as soon as it is split but it's not ready to burn for minimum 14 months, ideally you need to be 2 seasons ahead with your stacks.
In the South Oak is ready to burn in 6 to 8 Months. But we do have some really hott weather here. Lol
@@redpoole9323 I guess that explains the lower end guidance I've seen on dry times. Curious, what species of oak do you typically use for firewood? I know that more than just southern oaks grown well into the deep south. Wondering if you've seen different dry times for say southern red vs. northern reds.
@@Redneck_Ed White Oak here takes the longest to dry out around here. Our Northern Red Oaks Dry fast and i say that with at least 6 Months of Warm to Hott weather and always in sun. But i havent payed attention to actual types of oak and times of drying. We just put everything thing together in piles or stacks. We dont cover and let the rain help.pull some of the Sap out of the wood.
@@Redneck_Ed And we use White Oak, Red Oak, Buck Oak,. Some Post Oak. Some Pin Oak
What brand shelter is that looks super nice 👍
It is a ShelterLogic brand shelter. 👍😀🍻
How would you rank other woods? White Oak, Maple, Cherry, Hickory, etc..... How about you Fav Top 10 - 15?? I'm waiting patiently.
White oak does put out more heat then red oak but I would rather split red oak
@@lancekippenbrock5307 I guess I was looking to Dan to say what he likes in what order. I myself live in a condo right now, looking to move, and all I use wood for is in my smokers. Hickory is my favorite in there, then White Oak, Cherry, Apple, Mesquite, Maple.... then????
After Red Oak I guess everything else just rates about the same. With the Wolfe Ridge it splits anything so the splitting isn't a issue. I'd say tho that 2nd would be Cherry just for the smell and the color. White Oak, Maple, Hickory, Elm...no real preference between them. 😀👍🍻
Mine is the same
I saw you showing off. The snap is music to the ears! Skip
U have any white oak by you? Doesn’t split as well but it has more btu value. Been splitting some HUGE burr oak (white oak species) and it splits in perfect square blocks. Amazing stuff. Been getting 12 hour burns on 4 medium size splits. My favorite is white ash, splits so nice, very dry wood and seasons quickly but the best part, no creosote at all. That stuff burns as clean as it gets. It’s kind of sad they will be gone in a few short years
Wanted to add to your comment about oak. You’re right I’ve never had it season in log form. Even sitting for 2 years it was still over 30% and starting to rot on the outside. I find the standing dead red oak on my land is about mid 30s to low 40MC like your split wood was. But I’ve never had it anywhere near low 20s to high teens where I feel
Comfortable burning it.
Not many White Oaks around here....down on the farm there's a few more but yeah it doesn't split as nice as the Red. I love those nice blocks of Oak when they split down so perfect...almost too nice to burn...hahaha 😀👍🍻
One of my recent videos I tested a standing dead Red Oak that had blown down and in the 4"-6" diameter wood it was 15% when split open...I was actually surprised. Some of the larger diameter near the base was still holding 30-40% in the 10" plus diameter.
U aren’t too far from me if I remember right. I’m over by montello off cty rd c
Beech is pn top for me...after that its red oak and maple....last on list ? ELM !!
Just WOW! Never had anything that split that well... Does it split that well with an axe 🪓?
Yep....I mean the bigger rounds would need a few swings but once they are halved or quartered they split right off the same.👍😀🍻
Awesome, Thanks
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do you have much problem with heart rot in red oaks in your area? a perfectly good looking tree will fall in a high wind due to rot from the inside out
Black birth os nice. But I like ash the best
Cherry bark oak is first, then red oak, burning some pin oak, low ash right now.
Does it make much difference when the wood (red oak) is cut down moisture content wise would late fall early winter be drier than say late spring summer.