The end is near, or is it? At any rate prepare for the dark ages with the right firewood. Or, just have enough and the firewood on hand for bad weather.
We had a corner post on my grandfathers farm, made of Osage, that was 24" across and had been in the ground 85 years. When they went to put new fence on the farm, they decided to take it out because the figured it would be rotten. It took 2 tractors and several hours to get it pulled out. It would have lasted another 85. Osage and locust are used for fence posts and will last a long time under harsh conditions. The rest of the woods you mentioned won't last long if you don't get them off the ground and keep them dry.
Paul from North East Iowa, Like that ASHH. Years back, I always thought cutting and splitting was just a lot of work, and it is , bit now I am starting to really enjoy it. Thank you for Sharing, appreciate all the content, Stay Safe and God Bless
Great video Chris as well as great information. Interesting to see what species are available to people in the area they live in as well. Around my area in Michigan Oak, hard and soft maple, ash, elm, cotton wood, pine, honey locust (if you can find it), poplar, and black locust are some of the more common woods. Most all the fruit trees Pear, apple, and walnut tress can be found as well just not in a huge abundance.
Hi Chris, I have been watching your utube channel for two years. I live in southeastern PA. We have many of the same trees as you do. I will try to name some. All kinds of oak, maple, poplar, locust, walnut, mulberry, hackberry,gum, cherry,sassafras, spruce,pine,fir,catalpia,apple,pear, and probably 50more that I can't think of now. I worked all my life and I love watching you work. You have that get r done attitude.
Chris after learning all the spices of trees that I have on my land. I came to the conclusion that the mulberry was the best wood I have a lot of but the most of my trees are wild cheery and a abundance of sweet gum trees. Thanks again for all your info and if it weren’t for you I would have never got as far into knowing the correct trees to cut down.
I would have to say locust is my favorite!! Cherry is another one of my favorites too! I have really noticed in the last year that more people are prepping!! My firewood customers have been ordering more wood then they ever have!! Stay safe my friend
Useful info, thanks. I'm in the UK but we have some of the same species. I really like Hawthorn for burning - I can't find the btu/cord in any lists but the 'what's good firewood in the UK' lists all say it's excellent and I agree. Apart from the thorns which are a nuisance!
hi chris on my property i have a mix of eucalyptus it comes in different varieties i also have what is called river red gum it will outlast the average human it was used as railway sleepers in the 1800s and it does not rot but takes along time to dry once again a great video
Red Oak is my favorite from eastern NH. It splits and stacks easily; burns great but must be dried properly. Next is Shagbark Hickory. Great heat but much more difficult to split and stack. Black Birch is another great heating wood, but much harder to split and stack I separate all my wood by species. Enjoy just about all 700 some shows! Keep on going strong!
In our area Ash is king and still around although the emerald Ash borer has arrived. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Silver Maple in this area either. Mulberry is another common one that has some higher BTUs to it. Lots of Burr Oaks and Walnuts too.
In my area of Illinois we are fortunate to have a wide variety of hardwoods. My favorites to cut/split /burn recreational is Cherry and Walnut. We have so much Osage Orange but hate it!! Hard to cut/split and work with in general. Oak is by far considered the most desirable here also.👍🏻👍🏻GNI
Awesome informative video Chris. Red Oak and Sugar Maple most available here in south eastern Ontario. Red is my fav and would be the wood of choice to prep. Would be awesome to take a trip and come meet you in person one day. Cheers Chris . 👌🏻🔥🇨🇦
I burn one stick of wood a year that my grandfather cut over 50 years ago. Osage - Hedge!! It is the first fire of fall just for fun and remembering Gpa! There are Hedge post in the ground that are over 100 years old! I would put it up against any wood, in the US, for wrought resistance. It doesn't need covered and it is easy to find permission to cut it, in my area! Hedge is king of heat in E. Kansas!
Good morning Chris over here on the west side of the state of Wi we have hard maple, red oak, box elder, in abundance. Then it’s ash, popular, pine not as abundant. Then it’s elm ,birch, cottonwood, white oak and one species I’ve never seen before. There’s only one in the whole woods. It’s smooth and lite gray in color. Keep on cutting
Black Locust is my favorite with the only downside of taking a long time to dry. Mostly available is red oak and cherry in my area and I burn 3+ cords of it each year.
I think around me, and mostly with what is on our land, I would go red oak, beech, maple, ash, hemlock, poplar, white pine. We have some white and silver birch, a little bit of cherry, and some fir and spruces
My favorite heating wood is probably Red oak(good heat & smell) & my favorite wood to sell for firepit / camp burners is Black birch(beautiful heartwood and presentation). Most popular in my little corner of PA is probably Red Oak & Locust(for heating). Red & Rock(Chestnut) oak are everywhere in the mountains that surround me. Even some Blue Beech on the mtn tops... couples usually carve their names on the bark. If you have to buy wood, any of the mega hardwoods like oak, hickory, locust, hedge etc are great choices, otherwise if your in a pinch, various species can usually be mixed to provide a decent fire.
Chris, We burn all boxelder for making maple syrup split small so it burns fast and hot. Oak, Maple, Ironwood and Ash for selling to customers. Elm and reject pieces for heating the shop. Great meeting you at the frenzy!
In my area, oak is King! It might not be technically THE BEST but doggoneit, people love it. And it's great to learn that if you store oak properly, it'll last a long time! I've got alot of oak up on pallets in my woodshed, so it's great to learn I don't have to burn (at least right away). Thanks again for taking the time to shoot this video! See you tomorrow morning at 5:30! Split all you can Can all you split Sit on the can And that's it!
Checking in from the hills of East Tennessee. We are in the middle of Hickory, White and Red Oak predominately. Love all of those and keep a lot of scraps to go in my smoker. Have tried lots of other things, but will never accept any sweet gum again, like live oak, impossible to split!
Great video Chris, Florida checking in. Live Oak is very very hard to work with by hand, impossible to split by hand and even in Florida heat dries in about a life time...burn hot once lit but if you are thinking you will cut down a Live Oak with an ax, use a bucking saw to cut to length and the maul to split it....um nope...effort v heat. Prior to the end of fossil fuels, live oak...after yellow pine.
Here in VT we get hard and soft maple, more soft. Ash, beech, cherry, white birch, yellow birch. Yellow birch is excellent heating wood. For "prepping" I would choose red oak, which I get very little of.
In Oregon, Madrone is the best firewood in Oregon. 30.9 BTU. Madrone is also called Madrona and Arbutus. Madrone is not easy to find in my area, but more prevalent in Southern Oregon. Oregon White Oak is 28.0 BTU. Douglas Fir is 26.5 BTU. So my personal choice of best firewood is Douglas Fir. It's everywhere, easy to split. Fast to season, very resistant to rot. BTU's I quoted found online at World Forest Industries BTU chart. Nice video Chris!
I'm a west coast oregon wood cutter. Something good to mention is how much ash the wood makes and how long does it burn. Oak makes a lot of ash, burn time is good. I like Douglas fir and Madrone much better. Good burn time, good heat less ash to scoop out. Good video!!
Here in the Flinthills of Kansas Hedge, (Osage orange) is the most plentiful wood. Mulberry in also available. But Hedge is by far the best wood that I have access to. It burns hot and long and never rots. There is some Ash, locust and lots of cottonwood as well.
Once again, another great video. Most popular in the Prescott AZ and most of the mountains (AZ is not all desert). Is shaggy bark and alligator juniper because it’s here. We also have scrub oak. Oak costs 30-50 percent more and burns longer but juniper is hotter. Most prevalent tree and largest is ponderosa pine. They are huge but they are also filled with pitch, they burn nice but do cause a lot of build up in the stove pipe and I love using it, just burn a little juniper with it and your fine. Ponderosa up here can get over 4’ thick and 150’ tall. That’s a lot of wood and a lot ends up in landfills, sadly. They are one of the tallest trees in the world topping out at 275’ and the best smelling tree in my opinion and one of my favorites to build furniture out of. Come visit AZ.
Black Birch is king where I am in New England. It’s 26.8 on the BTU scale (more than oak) and it dries fast. Hornbeam is another worthy mention although not as prevalent.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Ash. Here in Wisconsin, it's been hit hard by the ash borer, but , there's tons of it, burns good even on the wetter side . I mix it with Oak, and Cherry, good prepped wood!
In eastern Pennsylvania Black Locust lasts a long time. It’s used as fence posts because of it’s rot resistants. It also produces a lot of BTUs. The only be draw back is it “pops” more than other wood so it’s not good for fireplaces without a screen. It’s great for wood stoves.
Here in Southern Brazil we have a lot of eucalyptus and our winters are very mild, the coldest day so far was 30 degrees, prepping in tropical places is so much easier.
Wood that last longer in storage... Locust and white oak. However I have a couple different twig stoves that you can cook with. My favorite is just a stack of bricks with 3,3/4" nuts to rest a pan on. We use it in the front yard and have made pasta, chilli, and breakfast over it. My camping stove is tiny but can boil water with just a 3"x3"x3" cut like a swedish torch. Now cooking wood I use silver maple for heat and cherry to smoke. Most cut to 3-4" cookies to split down to fit into my stoves. Then I can use them in my grill ect...not really prepping but it's really nice to not eat just pb&j if the power goes out
I agree with your opinion. Only one I would add to the top 5 is ash. It's ability to burn wet, not seasoned makes it probably the best emergency wood out there.
In central Saskatchewan the most predominant wood is Aspen followed by Box Elder. I have hauled white birch from 120 miles away to have stock available for the wood snobs. Ha!
Oak is king here in south jersey as well. White, Chestnut oak, red and pin mostly. Cherry, maple, locust we cut as well. We have a lot of pitch and white pine but not many people burn it. None that i know of anyway.
I’m in the UK and my favourites to burn are red pine (like napalm!), holly (dense and burns for ages) and beech (lovely hardwood than gives plenty of heat). One tree that is always dismissed here is leylandii - a conifer that grows rapidly, causes neighbour disputes and generally gets out cut down when it’s got too big for the garden. It makes fantastic firewood (but takes 2 years to properly season), it’s cheap as no one wants it, but pound for pound in weight it’s as good a heat source as anything else out there
I use a lot of Ash because it is very available to me and I like that it seasons faster than other wood I have available. Next I cut Maple another wood I have a lot of, then Oak a wood I have some of but not a lot. Most of the Oak I have is too big for me to handle. I like all three but mix in some Red Pine, and other types of wood. My favorite wood to burn is Ash though.
In the state of NY in my area i do have a good amount of black locust, i notice compared to other woods it burns to a fine ash and i don't have to shovel out firebox as often, mostly leaves behind a fine powder. With oak i noticed, on very cold rare days i would get too much coals and it's hard to keep up with opening the door and it being filled and falling out with coals. So far locus has been my overall favorite, but i do try to mix it so i don't warp and damage anything. I heard stories of people warping their stoves with it and it bellowing out, also of people using it for a forge when they ran out of coal.
Down South (East of Mississippi, keeping a Louisiana buffer from texas thank gawd), oak and hickory are king. The water variety (willow, live, blackjack, water, pin, and laurel) are prolific and most often in the way, so they get targeted. Red, white, post and chestnut are opportunistic and most often used for Catchpen boards. We also have pignut, mockernut and shagbark hickory that are targeted at splitting size (8-12” young) in late spring after the sap rises for smoking, though the regional best for smoking is blackjack oak. All of these varieties are firewood friendly though the demand is trendy as winters are not so cold. I currently live about two hours from Chris and enjoy his videos and chop busting with Tony!
@@InTheWoodyard Welcome, forgot to mention pecan as we grow them too but value the nuts over the wood. Would live to visit your yard one day and swap some stacking for yarns and learning. Gonna add firewood to my business model for my farm in retirement. Hey to Tony the knucklehead!
Way out here in the Inland Northwest the best firewood we have is Buckskin Tamarack which is actually Western Larch that has been killed in a forest fire but remains standing. The bark falls off and the wood dries out slowly over decades. The best of these were killed in the Great Fire of 1910 and are becoming scarce nowadays.
Grandpa always said locust was the best because it didn't rot as quick as others. It was what he looked for when making fence posts. It also had pretty good btus.
Chris another wood to add to the prepping list that I found to last year’s after the tree is dead and bugs won’t eat it is Mulberry and the BTU’s are 25.8 not too flimsy.
Olive,almond and holly oak, mullberry is good but spits like chestnut , we also have ash and eucaliptus here in Andalucia (southern Spain ) Good Night Irene
I have sawed up 40 year old black locust logs, they were set in a deck in 1982.. i removed them for the customer and was going to haul them to the wood recycling facility, i gave them a discount on removal and brought them home. The outer lighter ring layers were gone as well as the bark. Just heartwood was left. It was like sawing concrete and had very few rotton spots( in the whole deck) or insects. The rotton spots were very shallow and minimal. Only on the bottom logs that were along the ground. My favorite wood to split is red alder, 😂 Best seller for me is oak (oregon, scarlet and pin )and black locust, usually mix those 2 doug fir is a close second. Oregon cherry, ash, big leaf maple, tamarack, ...you know tree service loads of wood😂
@InTheWoodyard true, and that 40 year old locust was amazing wood still, couldn't believe it. Log deck covered in blackberries and grass 40years of rain and all that mess.
If I can only get pine here in central Wyoming what will pine do to my wood burning heater? Will I get creosote building up and be in danger of having my house burn down?
I live in central Arkansas, yes, I am a Hillbilly. Lol On my yard I have mostly Oakwood. Red Oak, Live Oak, White Oak, Post Oak, Water Oak, the worst for splitting. Simular to the dreaded Elm. I have Hickory, which is very available in my area and great for smoking, however most of the Smokers in my area perfer White Oak for the milder flavor. Another favorite, which is plentiful is Cherry. I love Cherry. Saws easy, splits well, smells wonderful! I love Elm. It is dense like Oak. We have Sweet Gum and Black Gum. A little hard to split dry so saw it and split as green as possible. Hackberry is very prevalent here as well. It drys fast, burns hot, leaves very little ash but won't keep long. Pecan is another favorite around here for smoking and very plentiful. Our Pine is very fine. We have several species. The old growth is the best due to the tight grain. It is super rich in resin snd great for campwood as well as wonderful kindling. This stuff burns so hot you can make a Horseshoe over it! I feel very fortunate to live in this state with all the wide varieties of wood. Here is a link to the most popular trees of the 185 species we have. www.progardentips.com/most-common-trees-in-arkansas/ Great video Chris. Super informative. Well it's off to the woodyard for me and another 110° heat index day!
I am in southeast Ohio. I have 45 acres of forest. Probably half is hickory, maple and poplar would be next and then oaks and beech. I have a lot of very large Sassafras which is very unusual. most are dieing. They are not a long living tree and make great firewood for campfires and fireplaces.
In central Michigan here, theres still plenty of dead ash to be had but it is slowly starting to phase out. Cherry, maple, and oak will be the choice firewoods once all the ash is finally gone but for now, ash rules.
Where I am in Australia, (not sure on chords) but I’m cutting around 25tonnes of Ironbark per week. I looked it up and.. Ironbarks tend to have some of the highest heat outputs, reaching BTUs of up to 48.7 million per cord. Great firewood but also hard on chains. Subsequently I use only tungsten tip chains.
You can't beat Aussie hardwoods like ironbark, greybox and redgum. The sandgropers also say that jarrah is pretty good. As long as the apocalypse doesn't last more than a few hundred years our firewood stacks should be good to go.
@@thefirewooddoctor Some rough sums with what you provide, 1 cubic metre is just over 35 cubic feet. So per load we are putting out about 7 cords per load. Or 25m3 I only buck/block the logs and 2 or 3 people split.
My favorite is oak because I can sell it for more than what I’d save using it to offset on my home heating gas bill. Although I do love ash because it is one of the easiest to dry and it is mostly bark less. Too bad it is almost gone niw
I have burned cedar before and didn’t have a problem with it. I know a lot of people will say that it will build up creosote. That may be true, especially if somebody’s burning green. I got in a pinch one year and ran out of oak before season end. I had cedar post that were stacked up. I got maybe a half a rick out of it. It was about the end of March or first part of April. At the end of season I cleaned my stove pipes as usual, and didn’t notice any different build up then with oak. It’s not the hottest wood in my area, but I prefer white oak because the red oaks have a much higher BTU and my house gets too hot. I split my wood about the size that you do and use three pieces to build a fire. That is our primary heating source, and I may do that twice a day, sometimes only once. Much of the time I only use 3 to 6 pieces a day. I do prefer pine for kindling. I cut it about 8 inches long and split it about 1 inch thick.
@@InTheWoodyard You’re welcome. This video wasn’t in my playlist but RUclips thought I needed to watch it. I’ve been trying to watch your older videos in order you posted them but I knew if I didn’t watch this after they started it that it would show I’ve watched it and I’d miss it later. I shortened my name to In The Wilderness instead of Voice In The Wilderness. I’ve been trying to comment a little more to help your page out.
All you need to do is cut or split 🪓 the pine a bit bigger, simple,it's a pretty light wood for sure, so it's quite easy to handle some pieces twice the size for the logs, simple !!! Pine is fine ☺️
Chris, this is Dana (TowMe) aka Millie’s Dad. This is our new firewood channel. Agreed oak is king, yellow birch , beech, gray birch, black birch. Thanks for the info.
Ash is my favorite… in New Jersey…. People are cutting it all down because of the ash bore beetle…you can get truckloads for free delivered… easy to cut and spilt…. Almost all dead and dried when cut… and burns good.
Thanks Chris, I'll tell my stacks of Eucalyptus and Almond firewood that they are just as good as Northeast hardwoods, that will make them feel better 😄
I’m in the Hudson Valley New York and most of the ash here is now gone.For about 10-15 years About 30% of the wood I was burning was dead standing ash from the Emerald Ash Borer…
@@JohnDiMartino I live in northwest New Jersey. We have been lucky until last year the ash trees started to show signs of ash borer. Next few years will be the worst. 50% of the trees in my neighborhood are ash.
How about black locust? It grows like weeds in my area, but the tree service guys keep it. Once in a while someone gives it away, and it goes fast. I have only got maybe 3 cords in my firewood lifetime. But my favorite wood would be the oaks, then maple. All good heating and especially cooking wood.
White and red oak is most common. Is river birch a good burning wood. I have plenty of it in the creek bottom. I really like your channel. Real interesting. Love what you are doing.
NC here, “all wood is good wood” and has a useful purpose. Junk wood good for kinlin or cool days, cedar for logs to stack on, pine is plentiful and most prefer not to use in a woodstove, hickory for BBQ and oak is most popular
Red Oak, Beech, and Rock Maple is king here in Central Maine. Although, alot of my customers do like a good mixture of oak, ash, Beech, rock maple, and yellow birch.
I’ve been burning a lot of ash because of the ash borer mortality. I personally like oak for the reasons you stated but I can’t stand to waste the ash. In a few years it’ll all be down and punky but for now it is pretty easy pickings.
Same here. I have been cutting about 90% ash since the ash bore beatle killed everything. Trying to use it before it goes bad. In my area it is pretty much all you can buy as firewood right now.
My father one winter proved you can burn white ash right off the stump. We cut it down and I split 2 arm loads of it (the sap/water was running out of it) I said this won't burn. He said build a good fire in your wood stove its time to put more in, put this ash in. I did what he said and he was right. We burned ash all afternoon and it burned hot too not smoldering.
I'll have people call me towards the end if winter in a panic that they are out of wood. I'll tell them- I don't have any seasoned wood left , but I can get them a load of ash. It will absolutely burn fresh cut at 40% moisture. It won't have quite the btu output, but it is great in an emergency.
My stacks have a little bit of everything for my wood stove. Ranges from a little bit of cedar and pine to a lot of ash. All free because I cut and split it. Saves the expensive natural gas.
I have 17 years old birch, alder,spruce, pine and aspen in my shed. None has change powder. Out I have same assortment been 2 years piled and no dust there. I have a big shed and these farthest piles seem to be never burned.
Osage orange or hedge is what we call it down here. I pulled a little less than a face cord of a pile that was 10yrs old last winter and it burned better than anything else I had. Some of it was below ground even and it still burned well.
@@InTheWoodyard Have you ever ran Osage Orange or Elm through your Eastonmade Ultra? Those are our most prevalent woods and not the easiest to split, by any means. I was leaning towards something with a larger hydraulic system such as a ruggedmade, any thoughts?
Black locust is my king. It's not nearly as available as oak, but it burns long and hot. I will scroung a downed BL whenever possible. One tree not mentioned is tulip poplar. It burns fast and leaves no coals, but it growns fast,dries fast and grows tall and straight.
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I love this kind of information. I'm sure it takes a lot of time to gather this info. Thanks for your contribution to the community.
Thanks, yup, about 50 years!
Thanks for the overview of all wood. I agree with burning what you have in your area!! Have a Safe Day
Thanks, you too!
We had a corner post on my grandfathers farm, made of Osage, that was 24" across and had been in the ground 85 years. When they went to put new fence on the farm, they decided to take it out because the figured it would be rotten. It took 2 tractors and several hours to get it pulled out. It would have lasted another 85. Osage and locust are used for fence posts and will last a long time under harsh conditions. The rest of the woods you mentioned won't last long if you don't get them off the ground and keep them dry.
Yup, locust is probably the next closest to osage.
Paul from North East Iowa, Like that ASHH. Years back, I always thought cutting and splitting was just a lot of work, and it is , bit now I am starting to really enjoy it. Thank you for Sharing, appreciate all the content, Stay Safe and God Bless
Yup, same here!
Great stuff Chris 👏 Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks!
Great video Chris as well as great information. Interesting to see what species are available to people in the area they live in as well. Around my area in Michigan Oak, hard and soft maple, ash, elm, cotton wood, pine, honey locust (if you can find it), poplar, and black locust are some of the more common woods. Most all the fruit trees Pear, apple, and walnut tress can be found as well just not in a huge abundance.
Yup all good wood!
G’morning Chris ! Loved the all the info. We like it all, love burning oak/ash/elm. I sell allll the others.
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Sounds great!
This was some good information! I like your take on burn what you have in your area
Thanks for visiting!
Great run down of firewood BTU. Thanks!
Thanks!
Hi Chris, I have been watching your utube channel for two years. I live in southeastern PA. We have many of the same trees as you do. I will try to name some. All kinds of oak, maple, poplar, locust, walnut, mulberry, hackberry,gum, cherry,sassafras, spruce,pine,fir,catalpia,apple,pear, and probably 50more that I can't think of now. I worked all my life and I love watching you work. You have that get r done attitude.
Thanks so much John!
Nice introduction, very well explained,
thanks!
Chris after learning all the spices of trees that I have on my land. I came to the conclusion that the mulberry was the best wood I have a lot of but the most of my trees are wild cheery and a abundance of sweet gum trees. Thanks again for all your info and if it weren’t for you I would have never got as far into knowing the correct trees to cut down.
Thanks, it is a life long thing, I am still learning a lot!
I would have to say locust is my favorite!! Cherry is another one of my favorites too! I have really noticed in the last year that more people are prepping!! My firewood customers have been ordering more wood then they ever have!! Stay safe my friend
Yup, locust is awesome wood for sure!
Useful info, thanks. I'm in the UK but we have some of the same species. I really like Hawthorn for burning - I can't find the btu/cord in any lists but the 'what's good firewood in the UK' lists all say it's excellent and I agree. Apart from the thorns which are a nuisance!
Yup, hawthorn is great firewood, I think it is something like 25-27 on the BTU scale.
hi chris on my property i have a mix of eucalyptus it comes in different varieties i also have what is called river red gum it will outlast the average human it was used as railway sleepers in the 1800s and it does not rot but takes along time to dry once again a great video
Thanks Hank!
Red Oak is my favorite from eastern NH. It splits and stacks easily; burns great but must be dried properly. Next is Shagbark Hickory. Great heat but much more difficult to split and stack. Black Birch is another great heating wood, but much harder to split and stack I separate all my wood by species. Enjoy just about all 700 some shows! Keep on going strong!
Thanks for the info and for watching ....other Chris!
I got some White Oak from a tree service My new favorite... fell apart in the splitter . I got some Bartlett pear nightmare splitting !
In our area Ash is king and still around although the emerald Ash borer has arrived. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Silver Maple in this area either. Mulberry is another common one that has some higher BTUs to it. Lots of Burr Oaks and Walnuts too.
Sounds like you have great wood!
In my area of Illinois we are fortunate to have a wide variety of hardwoods. My favorites to cut/split /burn recreational is Cherry and Walnut. We have so much Osage Orange but hate it!! Hard to cut/split and work with in general. Oak is by far considered the most desirable here also.👍🏻👍🏻GNI
Yup, oak is on most lists!!
Hello Chris.
Your correct all wood is good.
Here in Ireland we have a lot of willow. Oak. Birch..pine.
Does the job.
Yup, it all burns!
Good stuff Chris!!! I like birch and it's rare for me to find any at the tree dumps around here.
Yup, not much here either!
I agree Oak is the best especially red oak for me. But I also love black locust and mulberry, cherry and ash😀
yup, those are all good woods!
Awesome informative video Chris. Red Oak and Sugar Maple most available here in south eastern Ontario. Red is my fav and would be the wood of choice to prep. Would be awesome to take a trip and come meet you in person one day. Cheers Chris . 👌🏻🔥🇨🇦
Yup, both good woods! Come on down, but bring gloves, you will work!
Wise words and totally agree, it's whatever you have 👍
yup! thanks!
Hey Chris. Craig from Pa and my favorite is locust. If it’s seasoned for a full year ,it’s hard to beat . Thanks Chris… always good video
Good choice!
Hi Chris, I live in North West Ireland and the best wood I can get is Ash, I also get a lot of Larch and Pine which is fine, love the channel.
Thanks for sharing!
I burn one stick of wood a year that my grandfather cut over 50 years ago. Osage - Hedge!! It is the first fire of fall just for fun and remembering Gpa! There are Hedge post in the ground that are over 100 years old! I would put it up against any wood, in the US, for wrought resistance. It doesn't need covered and it is easy to find permission to cut it, in my area! Hedge is king of heat in E. Kansas!
That is a nice thing to do! I like it!
That’s such a great tribute! Thanks for sharing as it warmed the heart!
We have a lot of Live Oak here in Myrtle beach SC BEAUTIFUL Tree !!!
Sounds great, good wood!!!
Good morning Chris over here on the west side of the state of Wi we have hard maple, red oak, box elder, in abundance. Then it’s ash, popular, pine not as abundant. Then it’s elm ,birch, cottonwood, white oak and one species I’ve never seen before. There’s only one in the whole woods. It’s smooth and lite gray in color. Keep on cutting
Sounds like beech or blue beech/iron wood.
Black Locust is my favorite with the only downside of taking a long time to dry. Mostly available is red oak and cherry in my area and I burn 3+ cords of it each year.
I was gonna mention black locust also, I have a bunch of it. Burns nice once dry.
Yup, locust is great!!
Yes!
I think around me, and mostly with what is on our land, I would go red oak, beech, maple, ash, hemlock, poplar, white pine. We have some white and silver birch, a little bit of cherry, and some fir and spruces
Sounds like a bunch of good wood!
We have plenty of red oak in northern Indiana and I have an abundance of locust and love it. Plenty of cherry too.
Those are all good wood!
My favorite heating wood is probably Red oak(good heat & smell) & my favorite wood to sell for firepit / camp burners is Black birch(beautiful heartwood and presentation). Most popular in my little corner of PA is probably Red Oak & Locust(for heating). Red & Rock(Chestnut) oak are everywhere in the mountains that surround me. Even some Blue Beech on the mtn tops... couples usually carve their names on the bark. If you have to buy wood, any of the mega hardwoods like oak, hickory, locust, hedge etc are great choices, otherwise if your in a pinch, various species can usually be mixed to provide a decent fire.
Sounds like you have a great variety!
Red & White oak, Hickory, ash and locust for starting. I dry all my wood for 2 years.
Nice stuff!
I have two favorites ash and cherry👍👍
Yup, good choices! Enjoy the ash it will all be gone soon!
Chris, We burn all boxelder for making maple syrup split small so it burns fast and hot. Oak, Maple, Ironwood and Ash for selling to customers. Elm and reject pieces for heating the shop. Great meeting you at the frenzy!
Thanks, same here, fellow maple syrup lover!
In my area, oak is King! It might not be technically THE BEST but doggoneit, people love it. And it's great to learn that if you store oak properly, it'll last a long time! I've got alot of oak up on pallets in my woodshed, so it's great to learn I don't have to burn (at least right away). Thanks again for taking the time to shoot this video! See you tomorrow morning at 5:30!
Split all you can
Can all you split
Sit on the can
And that's it!
Yup, same here with the oak!
Checking in from the hills of East Tennessee. We are in the middle of Hickory, White and Red Oak predominately. Love all of those and keep a lot of scraps to go in my smoker. Have tried lots of other things, but will never accept any sweet gum again, like live oak, impossible to split!
Sounds great!
Great video Chris, Florida checking in. Live Oak is very very hard to work with by hand, impossible to split by hand and even in Florida heat dries in about a life time...burn hot once lit but if you are thinking you will cut down a Live Oak with an ax, use a bucking saw to cut to length and the maul to split it....um nope...effort v heat. Prior to the end of fossil fuels, live oak...after yellow pine.
Sounds like tough stuff!
Good advice all wood is good wood.
You got that right!
Here in VT we get hard and soft maple, more soft. Ash, beech, cherry, white birch, yellow birch. Yellow birch is excellent heating wood. For "prepping" I would choose red oak, which I get very little of.
Those are all good woods!
In Oregon, Madrone is the best firewood in Oregon. 30.9 BTU. Madrone is also called Madrona and Arbutus. Madrone is not easy to find in my area, but more prevalent in Southern Oregon. Oregon White Oak is 28.0 BTU. Douglas Fir is 26.5 BTU. So my personal choice of best firewood is Douglas Fir. It's everywhere, easy to split. Fast to season, very resistant to rot. BTU's I quoted found online at World Forest Industries BTU chart. Nice video Chris!
Thanks Steve!
I'm a west coast oregon wood cutter.
Something good to mention is how much ash the wood makes and how long does it burn. Oak makes a lot of ash, burn time is good. I like Douglas fir and Madrone much better. Good burn time, good heat less ash to scoop out. Good video!!
Nice! What kind of oak, our red oak burns real complete if dry.
Here in the Flinthills of Kansas Hedge, (Osage orange) is the most plentiful wood. Mulberry in also available. But Hedge is by far the best wood that I have access to. It burns hot and long and never rots. There is some Ash, locust and lots of cottonwood as well.
Yup, both osage and mulberry are great firewood! We have almost none here.
Once again, another great video.
Most popular in the Prescott AZ and most of the mountains (AZ is not all desert). Is shaggy bark and alligator juniper because it’s here. We also have scrub oak. Oak costs 30-50 percent more and burns longer but juniper is hotter. Most prevalent tree and largest is ponderosa pine. They are huge but they are also filled with pitch, they burn nice but do cause a lot of build up in the stove pipe and I love using it, just burn a little juniper with it and your fine. Ponderosa up here can get over 4’ thick and 150’ tall. That’s a lot of wood and a lot ends up in landfills, sadly. They are one of the tallest trees in the world topping out at 275’ and the best smelling tree in my opinion and one of my favorites to build furniture out of. Come visit AZ.
Yup, I cut some of the pondo and pinion when I was in NM last December, check out the videos on my channel!
@@InTheWoodyard I try and find the time and check out ones from last year.
Black Birch is king where I am in New England. It’s 26.8 on the BTU scale (more than oak) and it dries fast. Hornbeam is another worthy mention although not as prevalent.
Yup, I wish we had some Black birch here, it sounds like great stuff!
I'm surprised you didn't mention Ash. Here in Wisconsin, it's been hit hard by the ash borer, but , there's tons of it, burns good even on the wetter side . I mix it with Oak, and Cherry, good prepped wood!
Yup, my bad!!!
In eastern Pennsylvania Black Locust lasts a long time. It’s used as fence posts because of it’s rot resistants. It also produces a lot of BTUs. The only be draw back is it “pops” more than other wood so it’s not good for fireplaces without a screen. It’s great for wood stoves.
Yup, we have it here too, great wood!
Here in Southern Brazil we have a lot of eucalyptus and our winters are very mild, the coldest day so far was 30 degrees, prepping in tropical places is so much easier.
Thanks for sharing!
That's funny you talked about eucalyptus, I'm from southern California,that and pepperwood and pine is mostly I've seen,🤙..
I hear it is good stuff!
@@InTheWoodyard wow thanks,always wanted to ask what you thought of that stuff,
Wood that last longer in storage... Locust and white oak. However I have a couple different twig stoves that you can cook with. My favorite is just a stack of bricks with 3,3/4" nuts to rest a pan on. We use it in the front yard and have made pasta, chilli, and breakfast over it. My camping stove is tiny but can boil water with just a 3"x3"x3" cut like a swedish torch. Now cooking wood I use silver maple for heat and cherry to smoke. Most cut to 3-4" cookies to split down to fit into my stoves. Then I can use them in my grill ect...not really prepping but it's really nice to not eat just pb&j if the power goes out
Yup, all wood is good!
I agree with your opinion. Only one I would add to the top 5 is ash. It's ability to burn wet, not seasoned makes it probably the best emergency wood out there.
Yup, you are right!
In central Saskatchewan the most predominant wood is Aspen followed by Box Elder. I have hauled white birch from 120 miles away to have stock available for the wood snobs. Ha!
Yup, birch is "pretty wood"! ha!
Oak is king here in south jersey as well. White, Chestnut oak, red and pin mostly.
Cherry, maple, locust we cut as well. We have a lot of pitch and white pine but not many people burn it. None that i know of anyway.
Yup, white pine is goffer wood, put it in and goffer more!!!
I’m in the UK and my favourites to burn are red pine (like napalm!), holly (dense and burns for ages) and beech (lovely hardwood than gives plenty of heat). One tree that is always dismissed here is leylandii - a conifer that grows rapidly, causes neighbour disputes and generally gets out cut down when it’s got too big for the garden. It makes fantastic firewood (but takes 2 years to properly season), it’s cheap as no one wants it, but pound for pound in weight it’s as good a heat source as anything else out there
Yup, my brother heated his house one year with all red pine in his boiler!!
I use a lot of Ash because it is very available to me and I like that it seasons faster than other wood I have available. Next I cut Maple another wood I have a lot of, then Oak a wood I have some of but not a lot. Most of the Oak I have is too big for me to handle. I like all three but mix in some Red Pine, and other types of wood. My favorite wood to burn is Ash though.
Enjoy the ash, soon it will all be gone!
@@InTheWoodyard Not in my life time.
In the state of NY in my area i do have a good amount of black locust, i notice compared to other woods it burns to a fine ash and i don't have to shovel out firebox as often, mostly leaves behind a fine powder. With oak i noticed, on very cold rare days i would get too much coals and it's hard to keep up with opening the door and it being filled and falling out with coals. So far locus has been my overall favorite, but i do try to mix it so i don't warp and damage anything. I heard stories of people warping their stoves with it and it bellowing out, also of people using it for a forge when they ran out of coal.
YUP! Locust is great firewood!
Very informative video ,i like the background in your video is that part of your house or your stidio,but looks good
Yes, thanks, it is in my studio
Down South (East of Mississippi, keeping a Louisiana buffer from texas thank gawd), oak and hickory are king. The water variety (willow, live, blackjack, water, pin, and laurel) are prolific and most often in the way, so they get targeted. Red, white, post and chestnut are opportunistic and most often used for Catchpen boards. We also have pignut, mockernut and shagbark hickory that are targeted at splitting size (8-12” young) in late spring after the sap rises for smoking, though the regional best for smoking is blackjack oak.
All of these varieties are firewood friendly though the demand is trendy as winters are not so cold. I currently live about two hours from Chris and enjoy his videos and chop busting with Tony!
Thanks so much for the great info and for watching!
@@InTheWoodyard Welcome, forgot to mention pecan as we grow them too but value the nuts over the wood. Would live to visit your yard one day and swap some stacking for yarns and learning. Gonna add firewood to my business model for my farm in retirement. Hey to Tony the knucklehead!
Way out here in the Inland Northwest the best firewood we have is Buckskin Tamarack which is actually Western Larch that has been killed in a forest fire but remains standing. The bark falls off and the wood dries out slowly over decades. The best of these were killed in the Great Fire of 1910 and are becoming scarce nowadays.
Yes! Larch (tamarack) lasts a long time!!
Grandpa always said locust was the best because it didn't rot as quick as others. It was what he looked for when making fence posts. It also had pretty good btus.
Dale, you come from good stock, grandpa was right!
My new favorite is Beech. I like Mulberry, Osage Orange, Hackberry, Elm, Locust, Sycamore, and Cherry , Walnut
Sound like all wood is good.....that is because it is!!!
Here in Western Washington Fir is king for firewood.
Now mix that with maple, Madrona and Oak if you can find it and you have a good mix
That is what I hear!
My favorite wood is black locast hard to come by in my area but i graab it every chance i get no matter if i have room for it or not
Yup, we have it here too, great wood!
Chris another wood to add to the prepping list that I found to last year’s after the tree is dead and bugs won’t eat it is Mulberry and the BTU’s are 25.8 not too flimsy.
Yes! I had some just this year, good stuff!
Olive,almond and holly oak, mullberry is good but spits like chestnut , we also have ash and eucaliptus here in Andalucia (southern Spain ) Good Night Irene
Thanks Ben!
I have sawed up 40 year old black locust logs, they were set in a deck in 1982.. i removed them for the customer and was going to haul them to the wood recycling facility, i gave them a discount on removal and brought them home. The outer lighter ring layers were gone as well as the bark. Just heartwood was left. It was like sawing concrete and had very few rotton spots( in the whole deck) or insects. The rotton spots were very shallow and minimal. Only on the bottom logs that were along the ground.
My favorite wood to split is red alder, 😂
Best seller for me is oak (oregon, scarlet and pin )and black locust, usually mix those 2 doug fir is a close second.
Oregon cherry, ash, big leaf maple, tamarack, ...you know tree service loads of wood😂
yup, it all burns!
@InTheWoodyard true, and that 40 year old locust was amazing wood still, couldn't believe it. Log deck covered in blackberries and grass 40years of rain and all that mess.
If I can only get pine here in central Wyoming what will pine do to my wood burning heater? Will I get creosote building up and be in danger of having my house burn down?
No, just make sure the wood is very dry and clean out you pipes once a year. Pine is fine!
I live in central Arkansas, yes, I am a Hillbilly. Lol
On my yard I have mostly Oakwood. Red Oak, Live Oak, White Oak, Post Oak, Water Oak, the worst for splitting. Simular to the dreaded Elm. I have Hickory, which is very available in my area and great for smoking, however most of the Smokers in my area perfer White Oak for the milder flavor. Another favorite, which is plentiful is Cherry. I love Cherry. Saws easy, splits well, smells wonderful! I love Elm. It is dense like Oak. We have Sweet Gum and Black Gum. A little hard to split dry so saw it and split as green as possible. Hackberry is very prevalent here as well. It drys fast, burns hot, leaves very little ash but won't keep long. Pecan is another favorite around here for smoking and very plentiful.
Our Pine is very fine. We have several species. The old growth is the best due to the tight grain. It is super rich in resin snd great for campwood as well as wonderful kindling. This stuff burns so hot you can make a Horseshoe over it!
I feel very fortunate to live in this state with all the wide varieties of wood.
Here is a link to the most popular trees of the 185 species we have.
www.progardentips.com/most-common-trees-in-arkansas/
Great video Chris. Super informative.
Well it's off to the woodyard for me and another 110° heat index day!
@@jakebredthauer5100 Yes sir. Been toting wood since I was a kid. I don't call myself a prepper. I just stay ready so I don't have to get ready. Lol
Yup, cherry is my favorite too!!!!
I am in southeast Ohio. I have 45 acres of forest. Probably half is hickory, maple and poplar would be next and then oaks and beech. I have a lot of very large Sassafras which is very unusual. most are dieing. They are not a long living tree and make great firewood for campfires and fireplaces.
I have never had any sassafras here, I would like to cut and try it too!
My favorite is locust in Michigan but not much of it. Sassafras burns quickly but what’s it’s shelf life?
That is a good question, I do not know???
In central Michigan here, theres still plenty of dead ash to be had but it is slowly starting to phase out. Cherry, maple, and oak will be the choice firewoods once all the ash is finally gone but for now, ash rules.
Yup, ash will all be gone soon!
Where I am in Australia, (not sure on chords) but I’m cutting around 25tonnes of Ironbark per week. I looked it up and..
Ironbarks tend to have some of the highest heat outputs, reaching BTUs of up to 48.7 million per cord.
Great firewood but also hard on chains. Subsequently I use only tungsten tip chains.
You can't beat Aussie hardwoods like ironbark, greybox and redgum. The sandgropers also say that jarrah is pretty good. As long as the apocalypse doesn't last more than a few hundred years our firewood stacks should be good to go.
I've got an iron bark fire burning right now as it's 5' outside and going down to 0' tonight.
A cord measures 128 cubic feet. Not sure what that is in cubic meters.
@@tbonemc2118 I am the same. Currently 3’ c (37 F) and will be below 0 before long.
@@thefirewooddoctor
Some rough sums with what you provide, 1 cubic metre is just over 35 cubic feet. So per load we are putting out about 7 cords per load. Or 25m3
I only buck/block the logs and 2 or 3 people split.
My favorite is oak because I can sell it for more than what I’d save using it to offset on my home heating gas bill. Although I do love ash because it is one of the easiest to dry and it is mostly bark less. Too bad it is almost gone niw
Yup, that makes good sense!
In central Poland, the most popular types of wood are pine, oak and beech.
Sounds great, my moms family came from Poland! The Molepski family!
I have burned cedar before and didn’t have a problem with it. I know a lot of people will say that it will build up creosote. That may be true, especially if somebody’s burning green. I got in a pinch one year and ran out of oak before season end. I had cedar post that were stacked up. I got maybe a half a rick out of it. It was about the end of March or first part of April. At the end of season I cleaned my stove pipes as usual, and didn’t notice any different build up then with oak.
It’s not the hottest wood in my area, but I prefer white oak because the red oaks have a much higher BTU and my house gets too hot. I split my wood about the size that you do and use three pieces to build a fire. That is our primary heating source, and I may do that twice a day, sometimes only once. Much of the time I only use 3 to 6 pieces a day.
I do prefer pine for kindling. I cut it about 8 inches long and split it about 1 inch thick.
Nice, thanks for the info!!
@@InTheWoodyard You’re welcome. This video wasn’t in my playlist but RUclips thought I needed to watch it. I’ve been trying to watch your older videos in order you posted them but I knew if I didn’t watch this after they started it that it would show I’ve watched it and I’d miss it later.
I shortened my name to In The Wilderness instead of Voice In The Wilderness. I’ve been trying to comment a little more to help your page out.
All you need to do is cut or split 🪓 the pine a bit bigger, simple,it's a pretty light wood for sure, so it's quite easy to handle some pieces twice the size for the logs, simple !!! Pine is fine ☺️
Great point!
oak, hickory and ash are the most sought after around here in NH!
Yup, oak is on almost every ones list!
Chris, this is Dana (TowMe) aka Millie’s Dad. This is our new firewood channel.
Agreed oak is king, yellow birch , beech, gray birch, black birch.
Thanks for the info.
Hello there Mr. S'more!!!
Ash is my favorite… in New Jersey…. People are cutting it all down because of the ash bore beetle…you can get truckloads for free delivered… easy to cut and spilt…. Almost all dead and dried when cut… and burns good.
Yup, good choice!
Thanks Chris, I'll tell my stacks of Eucalyptus and Almond firewood that they are just as good as Northeast hardwoods, that will make them feel better 😄
Yup, good idea!
My favorite firewood species that are readily available in my area of western NY are: red oak, ash, cherry, and locust.
Yup, you gotta burn what you have!
Ash borers are really bad in my area right now. With the abundance of standing dead dry ash, I’m good for at least the next 5 years.
Yup, but soon the ash will all be gone!
I’m in the Hudson Valley New York and most of the ash here is now gone.For about 10-15
years About 30% of the wood I was burning was dead standing ash from the Emerald Ash Borer…
@@JohnDiMartino I live in northwest New Jersey. We have been lucky until last year the ash trees started to show signs of ash borer. Next few years will be the worst. 50% of the trees in my neighborhood are ash.
How about black locust? It grows like weeds in my area, but the tree service guys keep it. Once in a while someone gives it away, and it goes fast. I have only got maybe 3 cords in my firewood lifetime. But my favorite wood would be the oaks, then maple. All good heating and especially cooking wood.
Yup, locust of any kind is GREAT firewood, more heat than oak and hickory!
White and red oak is most common. Is river birch a good burning wood. I have plenty of it in the creek bottom. I really like your channel. Real interesting. Love what you are doing.
Thanks so much Michael!
NC here, “all wood is good wood” and has a useful purpose. Junk wood good for kinlin or cool days, cedar for logs to stack on, pine is plentiful and most prefer not to use in a woodstove, hickory for BBQ and oak is most popular
That sounds good!
Hackberry here In Tennessee is a pretty big deal also cherry and white oak
Thanks!
Red Oak, Beech, and Rock Maple is king here in Central Maine. Although, alot of my customers do like a good mixture of oak, ash, Beech, rock maple, and yellow birch.
Yup, all good woods!
Any idea on how good Iron wood is ? I had one come down in a storm last week and wondering what it will be like ?
Very good firewood!
I’ve been burning a lot of ash because of the ash borer mortality. I personally like oak for the reasons you stated but I can’t stand to waste the ash. In a few years it’ll all be down and punky but for now it is pretty easy pickings.
Same here. I have been cutting about 90% ash since the ash bore beatle killed everything. Trying to use it before it goes bad. In my area it is pretty much all you can buy as firewood right now.
Yup, soon all the ash will be gone!
Yup!!!
favorite wood for me her in maine is standing dead cherry . second would be ash. ash splits wicked easy and dries fast.
Yup, both are wicked good wood!
My father one winter proved you can burn white ash right off the stump. We cut it down and I split 2 arm loads of it (the sap/water was running out of it) I said this won't burn. He said build a good fire in your wood stove its time to put more in, put this ash in. I did what he said and he was right. We burned ash all afternoon and it burned hot too not smoldering.
Nice, that is good to know!
I'll have people call me towards the end if winter in a panic that they are out of wood. I'll tell them- I don't have any seasoned wood left , but I can get them a load of ash. It will absolutely burn fresh cut at 40% moisture. It won't have quite the btu output, but it is great in an emergency.
Yeah it will burn if you get a good fire going first. Correct in not as much btu output compared to if it was dry.
My stacks have a little bit of everything for my wood stove. Ranges from a little bit of cedar and pine to a lot of ash. All free because I cut and split it. Saves the expensive natural gas.
Smart man!
I have 17 years old birch, alder,spruce, pine and aspen in my shed. None has change powder. Out I have same assortment been 2 years piled and no dust there. I have a big shed and these farthest piles seem to be never burned.
Wow, that is great, hickory and box elder here turn to powder fast!
Osage orange or hedge is what we call it down here. I pulled a little less than a face cord of a pile that was 10yrs old last winter and it burned better than anything else I had. Some of it was below ground even and it still burned well.
Yup, it is great firewood!
@@InTheWoodyard Have you ever ran Osage Orange or Elm through your Eastonmade Ultra? Those are our most prevalent woods and not the easiest to split, by any means. I was leaning towards something with a larger hydraulic system such as a ruggedmade, any thoughts?
😊we used to burn red pine at our camp/fort in NH😊
All wood burns!
Here in ny locust is plentiful and heats well.
Yup, great firewood!
Oak and locust I like the best here in southern pa.
Both good choices!
Black locust is my king. It's not nearly as available as oak, but it burns long and hot. I will scroung a downed BL whenever possible. One tree not mentioned is tulip poplar. It burns fast and leaves no coals, but it growns fast,dries fast and grows tall and straight.
Yup, sounds like you have good stuff!
Hi Chris! My farm is loaded with Osage Orange and various Oaks!
That is awesome!
Is locust a good firewood? BTU? Does it keep??
Yes, locust is one of the best kinds of high heat long lasting wood there is in a lot of the world!