What type of wood?

jd

jd

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It's mostly maple, but a bit of yellow birch too. Basically the hardwoods that grow up here.

-John
 
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lenny

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the Birch is awesome, cuts and splits nice, good BTU's. John don't have to split his but I do and it's nice dealing with it
 
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chevytaHOE5674

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Lenny, you talking about white or yellow birch? Most yellow birch is a b*tch to slit as it is tuff and stringy, white birch on the other hand splits like butter.

Personally I burn aspen/spruce/pine in my boiler as its much less valuable than good hardwood and its very abundant around here.
 
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whitedust

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chevytaHOE5674 said:
Lenny, you talking about white or yellow birch? Most yellow birch is a b*tch to slit as it is tuff and stringy, white birch on the other hand splits like butter.

Personally I burn aspen/spruce/pine in my boiler as its much less valuable than good hardwood and its very abundant around here.
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You must have a lot of the softwoods aspen stringy softest of all. Either your boiler does not use much wood or you have massive amounts available to you.
 
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jr37

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I burn some yellow birch and it isn't to bad to split. Much better than the elm that is my main heat source.
 
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chevytaHOE5674

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I've split a bunch of yellow birch over the years and its usually stringy stuff, often times the splitter will go all the way through it and then I still have to chop the stringy stuff apart with an ax.

Aspen is a dream to split usually one whack with the maul and it splits and is ready to go, spruce and pine not so easy to split. But as long as I can lift the 40" long pieces I don't split them as that just means they will burn faster.

I burn about 10~11 cord a winter with the boiler no matter if its -10 or +10. I have tons of aspen available around the farm so that's why I burn it.
 
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whitedust

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10~11 cord a winter is a lot of wood but burn what you have access. Sooner or later I will have to buy hardwood like John maybe next year so I can age it at least 1 year. I some Popple I have to burn but mix it with maple,white birch & yellow birch in our fireplace stove.
 
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chevytaHOE5674

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That's 10~11 cord providing 100% of our heat (keep the house at 70-72) and domestic hot water from the first part of September through May. That is with a 12 year old wood boiler that isn't nearly as efficient as the newer ones.
 
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lenny

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I stand corrected,,, I had mistaken the yellow birch for Ash. The yellow birch is stringy and can be a bear to split
 
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