I have a woodlot that I'm cleaning up for an elderly couple, it's about 80% box elder, not the best wood but close to home and I'm helping out a friend!
My grandfather owned a sawmill and I spent hrs & hrs with him in the woods as a child learning the trees we have here in Northeastern Pa.. As you say it can still be difficult at times depending on the tree's age and what part of the tree you're looking at. Kenny is definitely a pro!
great video. I worked 33 years in a pulp mill in northern Calif. We used redwood for its long fiber and fir and hardwood for the filler. We didn't get logs, we just got chips and on a busy day I would dump 120 trucks in 8 hours. There were 2 pulp mills both gone now thanks to the tree huggers. Love your videos
Thanks for this video - it came right on time!! I had the chance to go pick up some roadside wood yesterday at a couple sites and thanks to this video I was able to prioritize the best stuff- couple cords of sugar maple! At least I think I got it right…
I watch you guys videos every day you guys complement each other same as I do with my brother keep it up love the vids From from a guy about the same age from Nova Scotia peace🇨🇦
I got a tree identification book last summer when the leaves were on and inspected every tree I could lay my eyes on to learn the bark of each tree. When the leaves drop it's so much harder to identify the trees. Great video tapping into the wealth of knowledge that Ken has. Good stuff for all us firewood guys to learn.
Great video! I learned a lot from a logger when i first started. He told me the easiest way to learn is get out when the leaves are on the tree and identify it that way. He would mark them or number them. Then in the winter time go back out and identify them again. Same markings and numbers and see how many you got right and wrong. It was helpful to learn trees in my area.
The Ironwood you were showing us is Hop Hornbeam. Regular hornbeam is also called muscle tree, because it has smooth bark, and the tree looks like it's rippling with muscles! Also known as Blue Beech. We have both growing in our woods here. Great burning wood, but very hard on saws. I would also mention that Black Ash is much softer and less dense than white Ash. It has significantly less BTU's per ton. 18.7 vs 23.6. (which puts black ash with sycamore and Red maple for BTUs) Green is in the middle of those two. Aside from fruit woods like cherry or apple, I think Ash is the best smelling wood, when burned. Followed closely by Birch. Ash is good for both heating and campfires, as it has plenty of BTU's, but burns brighter than a lot of other hard hardwood varieties. Plus, if you mix some ash or birch into your campfire or firepit, it'll make the smoke smell sweeter. Personally, I like Red Maple best as campfire wood- when dry and seasoned it REALLY burns brightly! Silver is also excellent. That they both split really easy with an axe is icing on the cake! AND they dry quickly. You were spot on with the color difference between soft and hard. When green, soft maple is almost bone white, aside from the heart. The grain is so fine, it almost feels silky to the touch- like someone had taken some super fine grit sandpaper to it. Sugar really is yellow. Locust is an interesting one- and among the easiest of all to spot, even with no bark! Black locust looks like pressure treated lumber. It really is that sort of green. (Acts like it, too- which is why it's so prized for fence posts) Honey locust is wild looking wood! Lime yellow (almost hi-liter yellow!) sapwood, with reddish honey brown heartwood. Every time I process a piece, I kind of regret not having a wood Mizer to mill it, it's gorgeous. The bark has a number of different looks, but once cut it's immediately obvious which one you have. Lucky for me, my supply is of the spineless hybrid variety. The wild kind has nasty rock hard spines on it... Another interesting one is pear. Very light colored when split, but turns orangish as it seasons.
Wow, I can tell you have been studying wood for a long time , you know your stuff! It is something that needs constant education because of size, age, season and a bunch of other variables. Thanks for the info!
Nice video Chris and Kenny. I have a hard time identifying the wood after the bark has fallen off. Sometimes I just make a fresh cut to get a better look at the end grain. Yesterday I took the old saw (very sharp) and the old pickup (very rusty) and cut some ash from the city burn pile 8"-12" diameter. I split it all by hand with a maul (about a half face cord). Then I took a long nap. GNI
The black ash comes apart in strips and was used for making baskets. You can see it in this video when Chris and Ken point it out. I wish I could go through the whole process of making ash baskets.
It's amazing, I live in Wisconsin also, by the Wisconsin dells and the species difference between northern and southern Wisconsin is funny. I love oak, but my fave firewood is hickory. It's usually straight and rarely huge diameter so, you split it once and go to the next round.
Where I grew up in northern New Brunswick, we had pretty much the same species of wood as you have there. We also called the aspen popple, and the tamarack was sometimes called juniper.
Years ago I bought a book called Michigan trees worth knowing. It’s an awesome book for the Midwest area. It tells you about the tree fully. It shows the tree the bark the wood and leaves. The uses of the wood as well as the btus of the species. It’s the most valuable book I have seen. I do have a few other tree identification books however this book is my go to book. I have two copy’s the old copy is stapled together. The new copy is bound softcover. The older copy has a bit more info then the new version but both are awesome books I recommend it. Peace
Hey Chris, great content as always👍🏼 Kenny is such a wealth of knowledge. I appreciate the relationship you two share. My brother is 8 years my senior and we seemingly only have our parents and sister in common. I not only enjoy these presentations, but glean a lot from them as well. My Black/White Ash thoughts are now confirmed. Our Black variety seems to be harder to split. Not sure which type they used for handles, but as easily as White splits, I assume Black would be better. Thanks again. Bless’ns to ya both, Tedd
Some cherry looks like maple, depending on age of the tree when lookong at the bark in my log piles. I'd like to separate all the cherry and maple, was doing a good job of it, and then the snowplow guy mashed up the piles together. So I'll probably sell it as a maple-cherry mix. Some basswood seems to look like Ash but can tell as soon as the bark comes off. I'll take any type of maple! Easy to cut and split! Wait until you open up a box elder log on a sawmill that has the red stain in the grain! The stain patterns can look amazing!
Much admiration for arborists who know their stuff. I took a two year course in E. Iowa and Had to i.d. trees by four different methods. Fruit or seed, leaves, tree shape and bark. Never got in too the b.t.u. aspect. Good vid,
Appreciate this one a lot. I'm trying to get better at identification of bark in the winter, especially between sugar and red maples. The tricky thing, at least here in central Vermont, I've found extreme variation among red maple -- I even wonder if there are subspecies of red but I can't find anything online saying so. I'm starting to get more comfortable distinguishing the maples, but this video might help me be sure whether I was right after I cut it down if there aren't leaves. 😏 In the summer a lot of my trees are too tall for me to pick out the leaves before felling, but late in the year the sugar maples really show the leaf cutter damage.
in central NY, my hometown area of Southern cayuga, the farmers are pushing over all the woods/forest for farm land 😢😥😢. I'm in Michigan now and there are a ton of acres of woods. millions of acres with national forests that are untouched of so many species. thank you guys for the video!
Great video guys, we have green ash black and white oak and soft maple here then of course cotton wood etc...the balsam wood a lot of stretcher makers are using for coon stretchers etc as the pins etc go in easier. Still not good a identifying the dead and down but getting better...Have a good day guys....and GNI......
Very interesting video, thanks👏🏻. Here in NC the ones I know are similar to yours but still a little difference. Let’s face it, so many species to know😀. Oak for the stove and pine for the fire pit.😀
@@InTheWoodyard yes there is a good amount of beech and birch also. Looking forward to seeing the new trailer! Seen Mike in the 906 got old true dump. Keep up the good work.
Found a spot where I can cut as much dead, windfall, leaners, and standing dead that I can handle on a 10 acre plot. But the owner wants the people cutting to be insured. Logger Al feels that a general liability policy for a firewood cutter in middle of the woods should be pretty cheap. Having such insurance might mean you are the only one that the landowner will allow on the properry to cut free firewood.
Hi Chris/Kenny, excellent video, and very interesting content. Your white birch is our ‘silver birch’ over here! We get very small quantities of ‘hornbeam’ which smells horrible when it gets warm. Of course we have many varieties over here too including, but not limited too: oak; ash, elm; birch; beech; Douglas fir; walnut; elm; yew; aspen; sycamore; alder; poplar; fir; hornbeam; chestnut; willow; cherry; hazel; and cedar! Years ago I cut up tons and tons of elm, during the ‘Dutch elm decease’ period. After a days work at the sawmill, I used to be covered in sap, and smelled like a Chinese pole cat. Have sawn quite a lot of beech in my time too…very heavy and high in btu’s. Do enjoy coverage from the Carlson Bros., more please! Len (Devon 🇬🇧)
I can say so much about yous 2 and your wood 🤣 but great video and I lurned something today I think I know now on my property on Manitoulin island I found trees this summer and I narrowed it down to the Ash family but now I think it's white Ash because the bark is very ruffe I think you would love to sink your 592 husky in her close to 30 inches at the but and I have I think it's Red oak and some are around 40 inches at the but lots of BTU'S 👍 there is one Pine you dint mention that we have in Northern Ontario is Jack Pine and you where talking about Tamarack and what I was always told since I was younger if you want to ruin a wood stove it's with Tamarack because it burns so hot I was told you could melt holes in a barrel stove if you're not careful and worpe a regular stove 🤪 And for guys that complain about Kenny's wood splitter it's not the size and speed it's all in the way you use it 😉 GOOD NIGHT IRENE 🤪
WHAT!!!....No mesquite. I am jealous of all your different kinds. We have mesquite (50%), post oak(48%), red oak (2%) and hackberry (trace). We also have cedar witch nobody burns.
We burn a lot of Rock and white maple here in NB Canada. Lots of beech and yellow birch too. When someone starts talking about a specific topic, you can instantly tell if they know what they're talking about and Ken is definitely knowledgable.
All of the regional names for trees and having family members calling trees something they arent...Sure makes for alot of heated discussions in firewood community. Maples are the hardest for me with no leaves especially with all the hybrids they have produced for different fall foliage colors. At a distance...I feel the canopy is usually the best indicator for me during winter months.Thanks for all the information!
Seemed like they were fixin to fight a time or too like they were ibex rams. Thanks for the video I enjoyed seeing all them yankee trees Jeff in Tennessee
In a video I am working on now and will post later this week, I have 2 kinds of wood I can't clearly identify. One is a western type pine. The other??? Good video Chris!
@@InTheWoodyard Great! I will put the video out tomorrow AM. Maybe pinion pine??? The other might be yellow birch after watching this video. Check it out tomorrow and comment what two or more kinds of wood I am cutting tomorrow. Thank Chris!
Kenny, box elder isn't junk! It makes for grrst campfire wood! Dries fast and splits fairly easy! Plus some paper mills find it highly desirable for some reason (per log trucker John).
Thanks guys. It's strange to see Elm. We don't have much of that out here in NH. Dutch elm disease took care of that. We are loosing ash to Beatles also. Great info. Thanks again.
Thanks guys! Appreciate the video but I’d need a Dramamine to watch it again! Haha….slow down with the camera! Missed a lot trying to focus on the bark on some of them. Keep the videos coming! I’m heading to the pharmacy to watch it again…😵💫
In my location no one would buy soft maple, basswood, aspen, poplar, spruce to burn for heating. Basswood and aspen are very popular for wood carving. Pines and cedars are great fire starters.
Most people I sell to do not heat with wood, they drink while watching the fire in a fireplace or fire pit and they spend more for it too, it is form of entertainment.
I imagine that you could do that same video in different parts of the US and have an entirely different variety. I know you said that at the beginning, but I never expected so many of the trees to be so different from what we have in NC. Red oak is the most popular firewood here because it is plentiful and great wood, but it looks very different from what you showed. The maples were the same and some of the evergreen, but the other hardwoods seemed so different. Soil, climate, elevation and other factors change things.
Funny thing about wood. Pound for pound all wood has the same btu potential. But per cubic foot THAT'S where the btu difference comes in, along with the the efficiency of being able to get more heat out of the denser woods pound for pound.
we have yellow berch,soft and hard maple9White berch,also known as grey berch here in Vermont.oak,your iron wood here in Vt is known as hardack,we have white ash,cherry,bass wood,popler.beach,(cris,have u ever cut a wood called black lockus?it has a thick bark like a willow,but has a smell like a wet dog,hard as iron when it dries,does not get very big)
I had my woods timbers back in 2015. They took 102 trees 16 inches or bigger at chest high. 65 of those were eastern white ash, 30 oak of getting species and the rest was bitternut hichory. I tried to catalog what I had on the 10 acres that I have. I could identify 30 some different species on my land. But my biggest shocker was that all of the big trees they left were some kind of elm, white pine, sweetgum, red maple, or choke cherry. All junk wood. It will be 30 years before my oaks can be harvested again. I will never get my land timbers again. I could have sold the wood for firewood and made the same money.
Chris!… you need to get home and guard the woodyard! Joe’s raising his price, wood guy says there will be shortages, diesel was up .40 today. Gas .10. Once the grocery shelves are cleared they’ll be coming for the wood next!
When are we going to get some videos on your new 592 and I would love to see a video on Tony’s 500i vs your 592xp before all you see is the 500i vs 572xp I ran my 592xp and it is a lot faster and stronger than my 572xp keep up the good work and videos
Good morning Chris and Kenny!!😀 Great video guys!!😀😀 We definitely have a bunch of different kinds of wood down there in the central part of Wisconsin than Kenny does up by him. Take care my friends!!😀😀 Logger Al
I still struggle with my tree/wood identification, but I'm getting better. This video was very helpful! Thanks Ken and Chris!
Thanks Adam!
I have a woodlot that I'm cleaning up for an elderly couple, it's about 80% box elder, not the best wood but close to home and I'm helping out a friend!
All wood burns!
My grandfather owned a sawmill and I spent hrs & hrs with him in the woods as a child learning the trees we have here in Northeastern Pa.. As you say it can still be difficult at times depending on the tree's age and what part of the tree you're looking at. Kenny is definitely a pro!
Yes, it is always a challenge depending on the age, size and season !
Thanks maples are the most difficult for me on the stump but your tip about the hart wood will be is used for the rest of my days👍
Glad to help Stan.
great video. I worked 33 years in a pulp mill in northern Calif. We used redwood for its long fiber and fir and hardwood for the filler. We didn't get logs, we just got chips and on a busy day I would dump 120 trucks in 8 hours. There were 2 pulp mills both gone now thanks to the tree huggers. Love your videos
Thanks for watching William, The forests will burn if not harvested .. natures way!
Great video!!! You two don’t miss a beat together. You can’t do too many ID videos. We need em.
More to come! We just did 2 more!
To be in the firewood industry, knowing tree species is important, this is good education,
Thanks for watching Ebele!
Thanks Chris and Kenny.
Thanks for watching!
Very informative. If I keep watching videos like these I may start to remember a few.
Good to hear!
Fascinating US-centric tree ID. Completely different to what we get in the UK.
Yes, everyone thinks that what they have is what everyone has....nope!
Thanks for this video - it came right on time!! I had the chance to go pick up some roadside wood yesterday at a couple sites and thanks to this video I was able to prioritize the best stuff- couple cords of sugar maple! At least I think I got it right…
That is awesome! Way to go!
Ken and Cris,thanks for explanning about the different woods
Thanks for watching!
Ken's a wealth of information...I'm still trying to identify all the species in the mountains of East Tennessee....
Great video
Yes he is, thanks!
Thanks for taking the time to do this. Very helpful!
Very welcome!
I watch you guys videos every day you guys complement each other same as I do with my brother keep it up love the vids From from a guy about the same age from Nova Scotia peace🇨🇦
Thanks for watching Brent!
I got a tree identification book last summer when the leaves were on and inspected every tree I could lay my eyes on to learn the bark of each tree. When the leaves drop it's so much harder to identify the trees. Great video tapping into the wealth of knowledge that Ken has. Good stuff for all us firewood guys to learn.
That is awesome! That is the way to learn... never stop trying!
I lived up by Athelstane and the wood does change a lot from up there to central wi . you guys are defiantly brothers, excellent content thank you
Thanks for watching !!
Thank you for the effort you two put into this. This is very use full information.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video! I learned a lot from a logger when i first started. He told me the easiest way to learn is get out when the leaves are on the tree and identify it that way. He would mark them or number them. Then in the winter time go back out and identify them again. Same markings and numbers and see how many you got right and wrong. It was helpful to learn trees in my area.
Great tip!
Great information Chris Kenny Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks!
The Ironwood you were showing us is Hop Hornbeam. Regular hornbeam is also called muscle tree, because it has smooth bark, and the tree looks like it's rippling with muscles! Also known as Blue Beech. We have both growing in our woods here. Great burning wood, but very hard on saws.
I would also mention that Black Ash is much softer and less dense than white Ash. It has significantly less BTU's per ton. 18.7 vs 23.6. (which puts black ash with sycamore and Red maple for BTUs) Green is in the middle of those two. Aside from fruit woods like cherry or apple, I think Ash is the best smelling wood, when burned. Followed closely by Birch. Ash is good for both heating and campfires, as it has plenty of BTU's, but burns brighter than a lot of other hard hardwood varieties. Plus, if you mix some ash or birch into your campfire or firepit, it'll make the smoke smell sweeter.
Personally, I like Red Maple best as campfire wood- when dry and seasoned it REALLY burns brightly! Silver is also excellent. That they both split really easy with an axe is icing on the cake! AND they dry quickly. You were spot on with the color difference between soft and hard. When green, soft maple is almost bone white, aside from the heart. The grain is so fine, it almost feels silky to the touch- like someone had taken some super fine grit sandpaper to it. Sugar really is yellow.
Locust is an interesting one- and among the easiest of all to spot, even with no bark! Black locust looks like pressure treated lumber. It really is that sort of green. (Acts like it, too- which is why it's so prized for fence posts) Honey locust is wild looking wood! Lime yellow (almost hi-liter yellow!) sapwood, with reddish honey brown heartwood. Every time I process a piece, I kind of regret not having a wood Mizer to mill it, it's gorgeous. The bark has a number of different looks, but once cut it's immediately obvious which one you have. Lucky for me, my supply is of the spineless hybrid variety. The wild kind has nasty rock hard spines on it...
Another interesting one is pear. Very light colored when split, but turns orangish as it seasons.
Wow, I can tell you have been studying wood for a long time , you know your stuff! It is something that needs constant education because of size, age, season and a bunch of other variables. Thanks for the info!
G’morning Chris. Yous twos are a wealth of knowledge. Thank you for the info and daily content ! GoodNightIrene
Thanks for watching Corey!
It’s really great that you are getting a new dump trailer Chris
Yup, you will see it soon!
Now this is why I subscribe to this channel. Very, very informative !
Thanks, there will be more tree ID to come!
Definitely learned a lot! Thank you gentlemen
Glad to hear it!
good show i am not to good at the different kinds of wood but i can tell you its all fire wood and all burns and keeps me worm . take care john
You got that right John, it all burns!
Nice video Chris and Kenny. I have a hard time identifying the wood after the bark has fallen off. Sometimes I just make a fresh cut to get a better look at the end grain. Yesterday I took the old saw (very sharp) and the old pickup (very rusty) and cut some ash from the city burn pile 8"-12" diameter. I split it all by hand with a maul (about a half face cord). Then I took a long nap. GNI
That sounds like a good day, especially the nap part!
The black ash comes apart in strips and was used for making baskets. You can see it in this video when Chris and Ken point it out. I wish I could go through the whole process of making ash baskets.
Thank you for the lesson guys I know I enjoyed it..😊👍
So glad to hear Daniel!
Very informative. You guys really know wood species.
Thanks for watching!
The heart of that big maple log above Kenny at the start of the video reminded me of the big tongue on the Rolling Stones’ album cover!
Yes, I couldn’t unsee that 😆
HA!
Excellent guys...thx !!
Thanks!!
Thank you!
You bet! Thanks for watching!!
Larch is great firewood here in MT, we love it.
Yes, that is the report I have heard too.
It's amazing, I live in Wisconsin also, by the Wisconsin dells and the species difference between northern and southern Wisconsin is funny.
I love oak, but my fave firewood is hickory. It's usually straight and rarely huge diameter so, you split it once and go to the next round.
Yes, hickory is usually very straight!
Very helpful video. Thanks for the time and effort to help educate your viewers.
thanks for watching!
Very interesting and informative. Enjoyed.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great education
Thanks Chris!
Where I grew up in northern New Brunswick, we had pretty much the same species of wood as you have there. We also called the aspen popple, and the tamarack was sometimes called juniper.
Tamarack is actually a larch I believe, never heard it called juniper???
Years ago I bought a book called Michigan trees worth knowing. It’s an awesome book for the Midwest area. It tells you about the tree fully. It shows the tree the bark the wood and leaves. The uses of the wood as well as the btus of the species. It’s the most valuable book I have seen. I do have a few other tree identification books however this book is my go to book. I have two copy’s the old copy is stapled together. The new copy is bound softcover. The older copy has a bit more info then the new version but both are awesome books I recommend it. Peace
Very cool, sounds like a must read!
Kenny is quite the wood hound!! Thanks
He is a pro!
Hey Chris, great content as always👍🏼
Kenny is such a wealth of knowledge. I appreciate the relationship you two share.
My brother is 8 years my senior and we seemingly only have our parents and sister in common.
I not only enjoy these presentations, but glean a lot from them as well.
My Black/White Ash thoughts are now confirmed.
Our Black variety seems to be harder to split. Not sure which type they used for handles, but as easily as White splits, I assume Black would be better.
Thanks again.
Bless’ns to ya both, Tedd
Thank brother Tedd! We will adopt you into the family!
Thanks for sharing 😊
Thanks for watching!
Excellent video Chris & Ken on tree species 👌🏻🔥🇨🇦
Thanks, lots more to come!
informative thank you
Thanks Carl!!!
Great video, thanks for putting it together.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You wisconsiners "lookin for a black ash" and "black ash is smoother" had me cracking up
Just describing the bark texture.
Some cherry looks like maple, depending on age of the tree when lookong at the bark in my log piles. I'd like to separate all the cherry and maple, was doing a good job of it, and then the snowplow guy mashed up the piles together. So I'll probably sell it as a maple-cherry mix. Some basswood seems to look like Ash but can tell as soon as the bark comes off. I'll take any type of maple! Easy to cut and split! Wait until you open up a box elder log on a sawmill that has the red stain in the grain! The stain patterns can look amazing!
Yes, well said!
Much admiration for arborists who know their stuff.
I took a two year course in E. Iowa and
Had to i.d. trees by four different methods.
Fruit or seed, leaves, tree shape and bark.
Never got in too the b.t.u. aspect.
Good vid,
Thanks for sharing Jean!
@@InTheWoodyard you are welcome,
I.i.r.c.
We had to get 25 of the 35 trees in order to pass 🤔
Super impressed with your skills. Tamarack is considered premium firewood in central Alberta.
Thanks for the info!
another great vid! thanks Chris and Ken!! GNI
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the information 👍 I have a hellav time identifying different species 👍👍🇺🇸
Just keep studying and trying, it takes time!
Good morning from Grand Forks
Appreciate this one a lot. I'm trying to get better at identification of bark in the winter, especially between sugar and red maples. The tricky thing, at least here in central Vermont, I've found extreme variation among red maple -- I even wonder if there are subspecies of red but I can't find anything online saying so. I'm starting to get more comfortable distinguishing the maples, but this video might help me be sure whether I was right after I cut it down if there aren't leaves. 😏
In the summer a lot of my trees are too tall for me to pick out the leaves before felling, but late in the year the sugar maples really show the leaf cutter damage.
Yup, there are a few different kinds of Maple as oak, ash, elm and pine.
in central NY, my hometown area of Southern cayuga, the farmers are pushing over all the woods/forest for farm land 😢😥😢. I'm in Michigan now and there are a ton of acres of woods.
millions of acres with national forests that are untouched of so many species.
thank you guys for the video!
Thanks for watching!
Great video guys, we have green ash black and white oak and soft maple here then of course cotton wood etc...the balsam wood a lot of stretcher makers are using for coon stretchers etc as the pins etc go in easier. Still not good a identifying the dead and down but getting better...Have a good day guys....and GNI......
Thanks for watching Tom!
Very interesting video, thanks👏🏻. Here in NC the ones I know are similar to yours but still a little difference. Let’s face it, so many species to know😀. Oak for the stove and pine for the fire pit.😀
Yup, all wood burns!
Another great production. I cut mainly the oak and iron wood in northern michigan. Yes the iron wood is definitely tuff on the saw.
I was there last week and I noticed a lot of beech also in northern Michigan.
@@InTheWoodyard yes there is a good amount of beech and birch also. Looking forward to seeing the new trailer! Seen Mike in the 906 got old true dump. Keep up the good work.
This is something I need to learn. I have a lot of poplar on my property but there are more that I want to learn. I'll be back tomorrow.
Thanks for watching Chris!
Found a spot where I can cut as much dead, windfall, leaners, and standing dead that I can handle on a 10 acre plot. But the owner wants the people cutting to be insured. Logger Al feels that a general liability policy for a firewood cutter in middle of the woods should be pretty cheap. Having such insurance might mean you are the only one that the landowner will allow on the properry to cut free firewood.
Yup, good idea!
I’ve been Wood Worked, thanks Ken
Thanks for watching!
Nice, thanks for the tree ID
You bet! Thanks Larry!
Neat stuff !
Thanks!
Hi Chris/Kenny, excellent video, and very interesting content. Your white birch is our ‘silver birch’ over here! We get very small quantities of ‘hornbeam’ which smells horrible when it gets warm. Of course we have many varieties over here too including, but not limited too: oak; ash, elm; birch; beech; Douglas fir; walnut; elm; yew; aspen; sycamore; alder; poplar; fir; hornbeam; chestnut; willow; cherry; hazel; and cedar! Years ago I cut up tons and tons of elm, during the ‘Dutch elm decease’ period. After a days work at the sawmill, I used to be covered in sap, and smelled like a Chinese pole cat. Have sawn quite a lot of beech in my time too…very heavy and high in btu’s. Do enjoy coverage from the Carlson Bros., more please! Len (Devon 🇬🇧)
Thanks Len, we have more wood ID videos coming!
Nice job fellas! I’m good at most trees but when it’s cut and in a pile like that losing bark it’s definitely more of a challenge!👍🏻👍🏻GNI
Very true!
I can say so much about yous 2 and your wood 🤣 but great video and I lurned something today I think I know now on my property on Manitoulin island I found trees this summer and I narrowed it down to the Ash family but now I think it's white Ash because the bark is very ruffe I think you would love to sink your 592 husky in her close to 30 inches at the but and I have I think it's Red oak and some are around 40 inches at the but lots of BTU'S 👍 there is one Pine you dint mention that we have in Northern Ontario is Jack Pine and you where talking about Tamarack and what I was always told since I was younger if you want to ruin a wood stove it's with Tamarack because it burns so hot I was told you could melt holes in a barrel stove if you're not careful and worpe a regular stove 🤪 And for guys that complain about Kenny's wood splitter it's not the size and speed it's all in the way you use it 😉 GOOD NIGHT IRENE 🤪
Thanks for watching Mark!
WHAT!!!....No mesquite. I am jealous of all your different kinds. We have mesquite (50%), post oak(48%), red oak (2%) and hackberry (trace). We also have cedar witch nobody burns.
No mesquite here, I hear it is good wood!
If u need to identify locust, the grain glows green under blacklight, the fresher the cut the greener the glow.
Pretty wild to see the first time
Yup, black locust is kind of a cool color inside!
Chris now I see how you sell so much wood. Your a salesman "basswood is good firewood" 👍
All wood is good, some is better than others! I sell a lot of basswood for camp firewood. If I can sell it it IS good wood! Ha!
Dendrology 101 with Professor Kenny 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Who new... Ken is a DENDROLAGIST!!
Interesting. Yeah, a lot to absorb quickly. Quite different than here in the Pacific Northwest, just south of the Canadian border. Thanks!
Yes, there are a lot of kinds for sure! More to come!
We burn a lot of Rock and white maple here in NB Canada. Lots of beech and yellow birch too. When someone starts talking about a specific topic, you can instantly tell if they know what they're talking about and Ken is definitely knowledgable.
Yes he knows his stuff!
All of the regional names for trees and having family members calling trees something they arent...Sure makes for alot of heated discussions in firewood community.
Maples are the hardest for me with no leaves especially with all the hybrids they have produced for different fall foliage colors. At a distance...I feel the canopy is usually the best indicator for me during winter months.Thanks for all the information!
You are right about that Wayne, there are a lot of regional names for sure!
Seemed like they were fixin to fight a time or too like they were ibex rams.
Thanks for the video I enjoyed seeing all them yankee trees
Jeff in Tennessee
Thanks for watching Jeff, we are brother so that is normal!
@@InTheWoodyard lol that make perfect sense,I new I could sense some animosity but it seemed that was the first time you met.
Certain trees I know and some I don't. Still learning.
Me too, it never ends!
In a video I am working on now and will post later this week, I have 2 kinds of wood I can't clearly identify. One is a western type pine. The other???
Good video Chris!
I will check it out
@@InTheWoodyard Great! I will put the video out tomorrow AM. Maybe pinion pine??? The other might be yellow birch after watching this video. Check it out tomorrow and comment what two or more kinds of wood I am cutting tomorrow. Thank Chris!
Kenny, box elder isn't junk! It makes for grrst campfire wood! Dries fast and splits fairly easy! Plus some paper mills find it highly desirable for some reason (per log trucker John).
Yes it burns nice!
Thanks guys. It's strange to see Elm. We don't have much of that out here in NH. Dutch elm disease took care of that. We are loosing ash to Beatles also. Great info. Thanks again.
There are only 2 Beatles left…and they’re old…you should be able to stop them from harming trees.
(lol sorry)
Yes the ash is going fast here too!
Now that is funny! I will use that some time!
@@CloudLakeMoon now I get it. Took me a minute .. now thats funny!!!!!
Thanks guys! Appreciate the video but I’d need a Dramamine to watch it again! Haha….slow down with the camera! Missed a lot trying to focus on the bark on some of them. Keep the videos coming! I’m heading to the pharmacy to watch it again…😵💫
Noted! Thanks John!
In my location no one would buy soft maple, basswood, aspen, poplar, spruce to burn for heating.
Basswood and aspen are very popular for wood carving.
Pines and cedars are great fire starters.
Most people I sell to do not heat with wood, they drink while watching the fire in a fireplace or fire pit and they spend more for it too, it is form of entertainment.
@@InTheWoodyard That is pretty awesome!
Good video. Biggest thing I see is an amazing pile of firewood lol
Thanks!
I imagine that you could do that same video in different parts of the US and have an entirely different variety. I know you said that at the beginning, but I never expected so many of the trees to be so different from what we have in NC. Red oak is the most popular firewood here because it is plentiful and great wood, but it looks very different from what you showed. The maples were the same and some of the evergreen, but the other hardwoods seemed so different. Soil, climate, elevation and other factors change things.
You are correct Phil, location and the trees age can make them look quite different.
Funny thing about wood. Pound for pound all wood has the same btu potential. But per cubic foot THAT'S where the btu difference comes in, along with the the efficiency of being able to get more heat out of the denser woods pound for pound.
Yes and yes!
News travels fast. Can't believe you sold your dump trailer and with wood in it. Don't know what to think. LOL have a great day be safe.
The new one is awesome! You will see it soon!
we have yellow berch,soft and hard maple9White berch,also known as grey berch here in Vermont.oak,your iron wood here in Vt is known as hardack,we have white ash,cherry,bass wood,popler.beach,(cris,have u ever cut a wood called black lockus?it has a thick bark like a willow,but has a smell like a wet dog,hard as iron when it dries,does not get very big)
we have elm,willow(your iron wood up here is known as hardack)
box elder
Yes we have black locust, great firewood.
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Thanks for watching!
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thanks Bill!
Great video Chris. Was hoping you would do a tree identity video! Now when is Kenny gonna help out in your woodyard???
We have two more wood identification videos coming soon! Ken is afraid to leave his house! HA!
All I really have here in Zacatecas Mexico is mesquite tree great fire wood burns hot like hell
I hear that is good stuff!
Learning different species in each area will help with cutting more desirable wood. Have a Safe Day
Yup, that is a good thing!
I had my woods timbers back in 2015. They took 102 trees 16 inches or bigger at chest high. 65 of those were eastern white ash, 30 oak of getting species and the rest was bitternut hichory. I tried to catalog what I had on the 10 acres that I have. I could identify 30 some different species on my land. But my biggest shocker was that all of the big trees they left were some kind of elm, white pine, sweetgum, red maple, or choke cherry. All junk wood. It will be 30 years before my oaks can be harvested again. I will never get my land timbers again. I could have sold the wood for firewood and made the same money.
All wood burns,elm maple and cherry are good fireplace wood.
Chris!… you need to get home and guard the woodyard! Joe’s raising his price, wood guy says there will be shortages, diesel was up .40 today. Gas .10. Once the grocery shelves are cleared they’ll be coming for the wood next!
Firewood will be the next and greatest currency!!!
BTW- you guys make it sound like Black Ash is the best Ash. I guess it must be true - once you go Black, you don't go back...😂👍💪🇦🇺
Ha! maybe so!
When are we going to get some videos on your new 592 and I would love to see a video on Tony’s 500i vs your 592xp before all you see is the 500i vs 572xp I ran my 592xp and it is a lot faster and stronger than my 572xp keep up the good work and videos
Soon, we are going to shoot some videos tomorrow with the 592 and the 395!
First time I saw black ash, had no idea what it was. The heartwood looks like chocolate milk in my opinion.
Yup!
I was hoping to see some Hickory.
There is very little hickory up in norther Wisconsin.
Red cedar is a Juniper or we call aromatic cedar we have all the very same kinds of wood here in Ontario
Good to know Cody!
Seen your old dump trailer on 906 outdoors. When do I see the new one?
Very soon!
Great Video. Where can I buy the Mittens you are wearing. Please let me know. Thanks.
I got them years ago, I do not know...sorry!
Good morning Chris and Kenny!!😀
Great video guys!!😀😀
We definitely have a bunch of different kinds of wood down there in the central part of Wisconsin than Kenny does up by him.
Take care my friends!!😀😀
Logger Al
Yes regionally just a hundred miles can make a big difference! Later Al!
I don't see any Mesquite? All that other junk doesn't work here in Texas! Mesquite is the best in North America!
Yes, I here it is good stuff, can you buy a few truckloads of it?
@@InTheWoodyard just come get it! Chop chop