EASY TRICKS TO IDENTIFY 36 KINDS OF FIREWOOD!
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- Identifying your firewood can be hard especially whe it is drt an the bark comes off. Here are 4 some tips for figuring out what kind you have.Wood ID is not something you just learn and then you are done. It requires a lot of research and looking for indicators to figure it out.
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Wow Chris! Obviously you have decades of experience with wood identification. What a unique treasure of knowledge you have. Chuck in Florida.
Nice tutorial and helpful info. Love the smell of Cherry too. Elm....not so much. LOL! Cheers Chris!
Glad you enjoyed it Sir Gord!
@@InTheWoodyard LOL! You are the second buddy that calls me that. :)) All the best my leige! 🤣
When I’m driving down the country roads of Western Pennsylvania, I try to identify the wood species. Drives my wife crazy but she thinks it’s cute until I veer off the road. We have a lot of dog wood out here. Too bad that tree doesn’t grow bigger. Good BTU’s.
Nice seeing the different kinds of wood.
Thanks for watching!
It’s very helpful you showing the difference in wood. I’ve been burning pine in the fire pit. It burns very good and easy to start.
Great to hear! Yup, pine is fine but it can be an active fire...lots of snap crackle and pop!
That was really interesting thank you. I am in Australia and of course the majority of our big wood is Eucalypts, but we have quite a bit of smaller stuff like wattles and mulga that also make great firewood. All typically is heavier and has higher BTU rating than what you generally have over there. We pay for it though, it is very hard wood and typically difficult to process / split. I live in a subtropical part of the country and typically wood is not used so much for heating here, more we burn it for entertainment (sitting around an outdoor fire) / outdoor cooking.
Sounds great! A lot of wood here is burned for fun too!
Thanks. Saving this video along with other tutorial videos you have done.
Great to hear! Thanks for watching!
Great job Chris!👍👍
Thanks!!!
you covered all the genus we have up here in southern quebec except for hemlock and tamarack, exciting video I got wood watching it
Yup, we have those here too, I just did not have any to show, it is not cut much here.
Great info and demo. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
I really enjoy the wood species videos. Next time I see you I’m going to give you a piece of Almond firewood. Then you can say you have the best firewood around!
Sounds great! So it has more BTUs than live oak (36.6) eucalyptus (34.5) Osage orange (32.9)??
@@InTheWoodyard Almond is somewhere between 32-33 btu. It’s the best firewood I’ve ever used. Drys relatively quickly, doesn’t rot, very little ash left over and lasts forever on a fire. In my opinion eucalyptus is not a great firewood while it does have an extremely high btu, you will have problems with all the oils in it ruining wood stoves or inserts. Plus it’s known for chimney fires. Lots of it out west where I grew up but hardly anyone would burn it other than a fire pit.
Thanks for the great video Chris! I have a Eucalyptus grove that I use to burn for myself and give away to family and friends. It makes really great firewood and is a cross between Oak and Cherry. A lot of Almond wood gets shipped to southern California from Northern part of the state since that is where almost all of the almonds are grown (probably the most in the world). That also burns great.
Thanks for watching, those are all great kinds of wood for firewood!
North East UK here. All the Cherry we have looks like that last chunk. I also use Hazel, which is a multi-stemmed bush/small tree which coppices very well, makes poles for all sorts of things, nuts for eating and good wood for fuel. I'm currently cutting down a neighbour's Elder - this tree gives perfumed flowers which are great for Elderflower Champaign or wine, and strong flavoured berries which can be used for a wine. Then there's Horse Chestnut, or 'conker trees' which gives a medium wood which spits, and Sweet Chestnut - provides FANTASTIC nuts you can cook with, and a medium firewood. My favourite wood is Hawthorn, a spiky tree with pretty flowers and berries - and incredibly dense wood, one of the best.
We do have some ...but not much hawthorn here..great firewood.
Great video Chris!I try & burn mostly "Deciduos" wood!
Hello! NICE!
Go job again ! Most of your customers use of firewood is not for serious heating as you say. Each region has its own species. Downeast Maine wood types varies depending on distance from the coast. Snorting splits works well as you said. Along the Maine coastal plain Red/Soft Maple, Paper/White Birch, and spruces and fir regen well. There's some Red Oak, rare Beech, some White Ash and little Yellow Birch and Cherry. So we separate the stacks based on use for the shoulder seasons ( spring, summer, fall ), and for winter heating. Yes, I'm a wood snob compulsive 😵💫. I do often run out to stare and snort my stacks. She has a referral for me for help. 😒
You sound totaly normal to me...keep sortin'!
Good id Chris,I appreciate it
Thanks!
very informative. out here were i am at central coast california we have Madrone. its a very nice burning wood.
Thanks! Very cool!
The little comment you snuck in today’s video (morning wood) was hilarious!
I was hoping someone would catch that...good ear Ricardo!
GREAT, GREAT VIDEO. THANK YOU, THANK YOU
Thanks for watching!
Great video Chris....informative and shows how different species of wood can look. Our Cherry in Utah looks exactly like the Oregon Cherry. Also, Tractor Supply has PigSkin gloves for $9.99 that I have been extremely impressed with. I am going on 3 weeks with no holes. I have tried tons of gloves like you have , and these definitely hold their own . Thanks !
Thanks, I will check them out!
We have several cherries 🍒...a dozen weeping ornamental cherry ,wild 🍒....and few others..I mix them all together..had about 7 kinds last year
Nice!
I am also from Oregon. We have madrone hardwood, and Douglas fir which is sometimes described as a hardwood
Yup, I hear that madrone is good wood but Doug fir is king out there.
@@InTheWoodyard it’s actually the other way around. Nobody touches the fir because everybody wants madrone. Fir is great firewood but burns hot and fast, especially the genetically modified super fast growing stuff. The market for fir is super fickle and Iv had lots of sales fall thru last second because they probably found hardwood. It’s all full cords here and when most people wait until they’re completely out I pick up lots of sales when the tweakers and other people aren’t available. I prefer it, easy on me, easy to find, easy on the truck
Yeah I don't have madrone in my local inland area to have taken.
Around Vernonia area, very little if any madrone wood.
But at 30+ million per cord, yea it's nice. Just 2 tone per cord dry LOL.
@@BGWenterprises Iv wondered what silver madrone actually weights because it’s way heavier than fir
Lotta variety ya had there Chris!👍🏻👍🏻GNI
Thanks 👍
Ory-gun, use that red alder to smoke some salmon if you still have it,
Oregon cherry has lines on it to aid in felling and bucking. Lol also a good smoking wood as is the vine maple.
Great video
Thanks for watching!
Good info on the wood Chris, I remember him bringing that wood over to your truck and not one person got the wild cherry right
Yup, I had no idea either!
Very educational video.
Thanks JAMES!
The Alder is fantastic for smoking fish. It's the go to fish smoking wood on the West Coast.
Nice!
Your beechwood that’s similar to ironwood, I’ve seen a few of those trees and now I know what they are. Thanks Chris. Keep on cutting
Big difference though beech gets HUGE iron wood or blue beech does not.
Nice job Chris. As for me, the more I know-the more often I am fooled. The fire lets me know that I was wrong. GNI
Yup, some are very hard to know, I found that doing wood ID as a team helps, others see thing I miss!
Good morning Chris!!😀😀
You have a pretty good head start on wood for this year.
Take care my friend!!😀😀
Logger Al
Good morning! Yup, warm winter, no snow, lots of dead ash everywhere and a poor economy causes for less wood burning! It will keep though like money in the bank but better it does not deflate! Haa!
Hi Chris, nice to see your video!
Hey, thanks!
Thanks professor...
No just a guy with a saw that like wood. Thanks.
Besides a lot of those that you featured, I have a lot of Sweet Gum and Sycamore on my acreage in Central Kentucky that has needed to be cut in recent years. Once you learn how to cut, split, season and use them I definitely don't snub my nose when these are available.
Very cool! we do not have sweet gum or sycamore here.
I live in Kansas city and we have all kinds of trees. We have Bradford pear, cutting it smells really good. We also have a tree called Ginko. The Ginko trees smell literally like dog poop. We also have sycamore trees. And we also have baldcypress or sinkerscypress. Just to list a few.
Sounds stinky there!! Good thing all wood burns!
First of all Chris, it's legal to transport firewood cross state for obvious reasons. Ash borer bug for example.Ment to say ,illegal. Bad idea to mail in box. Keep up the great videos though. Your number one e daily viewer from Oakville Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 😮😮😮
The intent is good but nature has a different plan than man. Wood is shipped all over the world every day. Bugs do not obey laws or borders. Certain areas do have some restrictions like we had for a few years but it did not stop it at all. Loggers where exempt from the whole "do not cross the lines" from transporting logs where they are processed into lumber so..... I would like to see/know the laws as far as wood movement , no regulators that I know of exist except for at national borders like USA and Canada.
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Probably more likely to fruit tree woods to protect Apple trees ect.
I know eastern Washington has some serious areas of control.
I deliberately avoided them by hundred miles, knowing they have large apple tree plantations.
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Yes i definitely wouldn't have taken ash tree from the east to the west. That would be a big no no!
Red Pine gets made into brown paper bags. The larger logs (bolts) are cut into lumber.
Yup, telephone poles, card board, lumber and here in THE paper valley...toilet paper, diapers, kleenex, paper toweling, feminine products.!
Awesome video Chris and very informative. I had an old timer tell me they used to call cottonwood BISCUIT WOOD because it would burn hot and not very long just long enough to cook a batch of biscuits out on the trail when they were heading across the prairies in the olden days. I thought you would get a kick out of that nickname. Keep the videos going I love learning from you and your channel. Have great Memorial Day weekend.
That is a good one...thanks!!
This type of video is awesome for us noobs! This is my kind of game show. I try to identify the species before you announce it. I'm getting better but I have much more work to do in this arena. 🧐😵💫😂
Glad you like them! We did a few others a couple years ago..winter live tree ID and log ID with my brother Ken up in northern Wisconsin.
In Virginia, we have holly trees, dogwood, and lots of poplar and gum (hate splitting gum!) that you didn't mention.
Yup, different area, the only one of those we have is polar/aspen.
@@InTheWoodyard We call it Tulip Poplar here, also called Yellow Poplar, not the same as Aspen. I wish the Dogwoods grew as tall and straight as oaks. Now there's some dense wood! I've made some mallets out of it. Great stuff.
Very interesting video
Thanks!
We have trees that the Pa. Forestry call cucumber trees. They are a member of the magnolia family. Good firewood.
Very interesting!
Other types of wood species that are available in North Carolina: Live oak (very dense), Pecan, Beech, Persimmon, Sycamore, Dogwood, and our Poplars are a light hardwood. Sapwood is white and heartwood is dark green, purple, or even black!
Yup, you have some great kinds of wood that we do not have!
Good morning everyone yes need good wood to burn good video Chris ( Ty Ron
Yup,. thanks Ron!
G’morning Chris ! Excellent identifying action today ! Dog puke is the most best ! I still have the piece of Osage you gave me. GoodNightIrene
Morning! Dog puke! Nice thought as I eat !!
Here in Georgia, we have a lot of Sweet Gum and Pecan. Lots of Cherry that looks different from yours. Yellow Poplar, Red Maple, American Beech, River Birch, Live Oak and Water Oak are some of the trees here.
Those all sound like great wood for fire!
You forgot Doug Fir and Hemlock - both very common here in the PNW. Also, Alder is very dirty burning. FYI
I did not forget it...we do not have Doug fir here and hemlock is mostly in northern Wisconsin I have not much hemlock and I did not have any to show.
I’ll take some red pine, pine is fine😊
Yup, it burns great!
Here in PA we have tulip poplar I have 5 of them in my back yrd burns fast like paper light in weight easy to split
Yup, very similar to our aspen/poplar.
Great information Chris if Only you had a picture poster if only. It sure wood be nice to have.
Yup, it would be a lot of work and the kinds of wood would be huge...a lot we do not have. I myself just use google when stumped.
Trees I haven't seen anyone mention that I have in southern Indiana are sycamore, red bud, buckeye, honey locust, willow, and bald cypress.
We do have willow and honey locust...honey locust is great firewood...willow not very good at all, it burns like tissue paper!
I have 40 acres of woods and I cut and sell everything that falls or dies no matter what it is. It's about 150 ricks a year to keep up. I just sell the trash wood cheaper and always sell as much as I can cut.
We also have southern and northern red oaks.quite different, and cherry bark oak ,post oak,scarlet oak,white oak,swamp white oak,chestnut oak,shumard oak,willow oak,,overcup oak,swamp chestnut oak,bur oak,blackjack oak,overcup oak ,shingle oak,water oak,pin oak,chinqaupin oak ,and other non native species...I'm sure I've forgotten......this year I've seen more carpenter ants in my tree removals then ever before in 30 years also this week while doing estimates at customer s houses the cicadas are all singing at same time it's most incredible sound...like electricity mixed with tree frogs..very loud ...it supposed to happen every 17 years or something but we just had that few years ago so not sure why but there were millions of them on this neighborhood of trees singing..they leave a shell of themselves and fly off like butterfly s..cocoon...the copperhead s love to eat them...when we had them last time it's like haveing giant hornets buzzing all around hitting you in the head ..while working it's very difficult..because in your mind you automatically think bees ..and there very large swarms
Wow you all have a mess of oaks there! the cicadas are here inn late summer usually but never more than a few at a time screeching at each other!
Hi Chris. We have a few sassafras trees here in southern pa. Close to Gettysburg. I haven’t seen a lot though. Keep that tundra running.
I cut some last year in Indiana...nice wood. Will do!
They grow like weeds here in NJ. Like to use them as kindling, splits so easy and makes a cool orange flame. Also smells good..
Thanks for the video Chris
Chris I think the last cherry may be a Japanese Yoshio cherry. They are common down here in GA. Just cut and split one up a few months ago. Did not have a strong smell and looks identical to the one cherry you got. Great video keep up the good work!
Thanks for the info!
I commented on Bert's video with the removal of the Cottonwood you have in today's video that stinks. I really believe it is Lombardy Poplar that is a fast growing hybrid and is common in housing additions and for wind breaks. They grow very fast but have a short life span and are prone to disease.👍
Maybe so, I was not there for that job??? You are correct, Lombard poplar is fast growing tall, straight and dies easily.
Typically, the ornamental cherries like Kwanzan or yoshino have that smooth bark. More of a fragrancy, hue of cherry blossom vs the traditional black cherry smell. The black cherries can get large and are really red inside.
Thanks for the info!
I cut down (18) Black Locust the week before last. It is great firewood, but I much prefer the Honey Locust myself. Don't have the thick bark falling off to clean up and it burns even hotter!🔥 Either one really needs mixed with other hardwoods or you risk a glowing hot stove or pipe!
YES! Black locust is nice AFTER all the bark is off...messy!
It’s so funny; Osage makes arguably the best stick-n-string bows where it’s native and our hop hornbeam / ironwood here in WI is our best bow wood. And they both burn super hot. Who woulda thunk.
I’d love to get my hands on a hunk of HH / IW for a bow, but I can’t seem to find anything :-(
Good luck with your search!
I’ve got mulberry and lilac, they are both very dense and heavy.
Yup, mulberry is good stuff!
In central California, almond wood is very popular. I think it’s equal to oak. I grew up on an almond and walnut ranch and we burned almond all the time. When I moved to the mountains, I burned oak, I thought they were about the same.
Almond wood is 32.9 BTUs and red oak is 24 so almond is way better ...like more that 25% so...
@@InTheWoodyard we had white oak and black oak Sonora, California, I looked it up. It’s 24 and 27 BTUs.
Definitely a go to video when referencing different species. GNI
Thanks Bill!
We also have 10 kinds of hickory, and pecan..and mockernut ,pignut hickory
Wow, that is a bunch!
Wow, It only takes three letters to say it all!! Ray
Thanks for watching!
Interesting. Persimmon wood is good for making gavels or burning, smaller kind of tree.
Nice, we do not have it here as far as I know.
Mr Chris : What do you find the hardest wood to split ? Here I find it to be Pinn Oak or Water Oak in SC. Gum can be a pain as well....
Usually nasty crotchy elm.
In lebanon we have
A different kind of oak very very dense
Olive wood
Olive is suppose to be very good firewood, better than a lot of others including oak.
Pig nut is my favorite hickory
Nice, we do not have it around here.
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Thanks!!!
Cherry here is not common, but it's great smoking or heating wood.
Yup, good wood.
Great Video! When you refer to Hard Maple is that Sugar Maple? There are a lot of Maple species, but being from Canada we hear Sugar Maple mentioned more often.
Yes, it is! Also called rock maple, sugar maple, hard maple. Most other maples are soft maple like red, yellow, silver maple, , striped maple, big leaf, box elder...
@@InTheWoodyard Thank you! Always enjoy your videos
I live in North Central Texas (Dallas) I'm getting into the firewood business. All my costumers use fireplaces. What wood should not be burned in fireplaces? A lot of different people putting stuff out on it and I'm confused.
Green wood. Wood that is not seasoned. Wood that is freshly cut from live trees. Wood that has not been split and dried to below 20% moisture content. All wood burns but ONLY fully dried seasoned wood should be burned everywhere in or out side. Ask people what they want or find out what is popular in your area for species..and then supply that! Good luck!
The red alder is what i call a short life tree. Grows like mad up to 3 to 6 foot of hight per year. Then at 35 to 50 years old there tops start to die. Once dry btus are on par with an average pine tree btus.
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Every person ive known to lose there life with trees, is related to alder. a very unpredictable tree in terms of falling. Between the rot, and the 5 to 30 degree of lean they naturally have.
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In a valley they can push up to near 30" but on a hill top they will be dieing out by the time there 20"
In a more typical rain environment they will struggle to make 10"
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Cabinets or trim boards around the inside of a window are its common use. 30 years ago, it had no real market and was just slash burned in mass. As it had no market value, it was literally just considered a weed tree.
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Vine maple, is a native weed.
Its record size is about 15" probably 150+ years to get to that size.
Grows up, falls over and keeps on growing. Its a real oddity.
You could just about put that 4 foot Chunk in a super shady area with wetness and it could literally start to grow.
With the typical size around 2" it would be a ton of work to heat with it.
Also you dont want to burn it 100% in a stove, you can literally chernobyl any plastic handles on a stove. Just add one piece in with other woods not made by the devil.
Ha! Devil wood, I like that name! Thanks for the info once again, and the wood! I am thinking of burning it this winter in out smokeless stove in the wood yard so we can watch it and of course play with it!
@@InTheWoodyard sadly the name comes from lives lost.
Having a protective cage around an operator is not optional should a person value there life.
Ive literally seen vine maple bend a full 180 degrees without snapping.
I am right now taking a dump so I’ll indeed be using some red pine lol
Good luck!
Morning
Hello!
If you get out west, maybe try to score some Mountain Mahogany.
That sounds like really good wood! I just looked it up...39.8 BTUs unreal!! That is about 100% more heat than a lot of wood that people swear by as great wood!!!
Maybe I’ll drive up the mountain and do a video so you can see it. It’s really a sub-tree that at its largest might appear as a 20’ tall shrub/tree. But, it burns amazing. So is this more BTUs than Osage Orange?
Hey Chris if you would like I can send you some Kentucky Coffee Tree,if you would like.
That would be AWESOME. email me at chrisinthewoodyard@gmail.com
@@InTheWoodyard sure will
Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin is the worlds authority on wood testing, analysis, and identification. They determined the homemade ladder used in the Lindberg baby kidnapping came from the roof rafter of the kidnapper.
Nice. Now I know!
Thats red alder it grows like weeds on the coast of Oregon.good for smoking meat.
Yep fresh off the stump that morning is how we use it.
Makes lots of smoke.
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I can't stand using it as a heating wood. Crazy low btus for a hard wood.
@BGWenterprises iagree its low on the list for firewood.i prefer doug fir in my area.
Nice!
@@InTheWoodyard should make a video of the alder, in a Oregon department of forestry no touch zone on are place, as far as harvesting. Unless there a threat to the power line, or fall on a road. We literally have to let them grow up and fall and rot.
Its probably 3+ acres of alder around 24"+ on the stump for an average. Some approaching 70 years old because there wind protected in the little valley.
We have attempted to plant to native cedar, With so so luck.
I was at a lumber yrd delivering yrs ago the owner had a piece of lumber as black as could be asked him said it was from Africa was very dense heavy dnt remember name of it
Probably ebony, maybe dark teak??
After watching Alaska the last frontier alder is used to smoke salmon, the bark gets stripped off.
Interesting!
Apparently I have 60 ft toilet paper trees on my property
I think it takes a little work and chemistry to make it so, kind rough otherwise!
No river birch in Wisconsin?
Yup, I just did not have any, not a lot of it here.
You forgot the northern gold, Larix laricina or tamarach I'll bring some to the Wisc trappers meeting in Sept. Am. Elm bark has a white stripe in it's bark
Yup, tamarack is good firewood we have it here but more so in northern Wisconsin along with hemlock and balsam.
Do you guys have any buckthorn over your way yet?
Yup! Lots of it and you can come and get it ALL!
@@InTheWoodyard You've always seemed like a generous guy, but now it's confirmed 🤣
By me buckthorn is considered an invasive species. Cutting it down makes it grow four times faster. It is the last deciduous tree to drop it's leaves on December.
@annmariekowalski7505 Yep, same here. You can treat the stump though when you cut it so it kills the roots.
Box elder trees have little red bugs. Correct?
Yes they can sometimes.
@@InTheWoodyard I had one that those bugs took over my shed so bad you needed a broom to get them off. Needless to say the tree and stump are history. 😁
This is the hardest thing for me to do
It takes a log time to get good at it I am still learning and try to do so every day!
Why dont you and Ken do a sniff off!!?? Blindfolded.. i think it wood be a great video!!! You will get tons of views, and it would be awesome to see.
Probably because Kenny would foul the air!💨
Yup, 100% chance of that!
Some time when the work id done we should do that.
Nice info, Chris.
A naughty vid.
Good one there!
wood it all burns
Yup, you are correct!
Good Morning Woodhounds!!
Morning!
I think the other cherry is more an Asian cherry
Maybe so but it came from Washington State where it is fairly common..
I just used some red pine 😅
It burns good!
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Thanks!
Red oak can smell like dog poop.
Or dog puke!