Yep. I’m in Alaska. Spruce and birch! That’s pretty much it. Incidentally, you pretty much have to split birch for it to dry. The bark is waterproof, hence the birch bark canoe. It will rot before it dries if you don’t split it open.

G’morning Chris. Some of the best information and encouragement I’ve had lately. Thank you for all you do. Sweeeet saw in the background. GoodNightIrene

Love the tone of that dry wood. Thank you!

Great video Chris! Thanks

Great lesson on wood. 👍🏻👋

Good Morning Chris and the woodyard very educational Chris Thank You! Great video as usual😊

Thanks for the bonus video!! Your knowledge is vast and Thanks for sharing!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day

Really fantastic video thank you!

G'day Chris...thanks for your channel! Seeing you mentioned Eucalypts and Australia I thought I'd comment. Here on our farm in South East Australia we have mainly "Yellow Box", "River Red Gum" and "Grey Box" eucalyptus trees. We only cut and split firewood to heat our own homes (we only get below freezing a dozen nights per winter...no snow here). Apparently there's quite a bit of yellow box and redgum grown in California and redgum is a beautiful firewood with very even heat all the way down to coals and leaves almost no ash. From what I can tell our eucalyptus is around 20% harder than your ash and beech so it takes a bit of splitting.

Great educational refresher vid. Thanks!

Chris i love that you are so practical and don't get bent out of shape about details or things that really make little or no difference in the grand scheme of things. I feel the same way.....whatever floats your boat......go with it ! Great video

Good educational video. My dad was a fanatic about his firewood. We had to debark all the logs prior to bucking and splitting (with a drawknife or slicker). He said that the bark insulated the wood from the sun and wind and also retained moisture 🙅Not feasible for firewood producers but kept us out of trouble 🤣

Thanks for the info

Love the 10 pm video release for us on the west coast.

Nice video Chris. Overall good information. Thanks for the extra edition this morning. GNI

Bonus from Chris! Thanks

Bonus video. Great video. Just shows how enjoyable firewood is. I have always loved trees. A person learns so much about wood besides having no heating bill.

Great video I appreciate you sharing your vast knowledge of firewood. Thank you.

Good video Chris! As a fellow Wisconsinite its great to learn about local species. Thanks for doing this video, I’ve learned a lot from your channel. 🙏🏻

Nice surprize here in the moring. A new video 🙂 No need to wait until lunchtime today 🤗

I hope this is bonus video and we get another one at 5:30!

Better than any of the late shows that are out there now, keep up the great videos

In our area locust is our slowest to dry it seems especially witjh bark on it. Good video again. Great info

Great video I showed my grandson how to look for old hard maple about 3” to 4” diameter, and bang it together, if it sounds like two bowling pins you have good wood . I really enjoy your videos watch every morning with coffee.

Chris great video, most people don't realize to first judge by ears

Great information, Chris. See you tomorrow 😉👍

Chris, you know your woid. Nice video.

Different species here in New Zealand Chris, but same rules apply. Great educational video, thank you. George.

I'd like to see a video on how to start up a wood processing / firewood. What all should u have that's crucially essential on a bear bone budget.

Nice info. When you hit dry wood together the wood kind of rings compared to the wet wood.

Thanks Chris

2 videos today?? Thanks for spoiling us!!

I have a good bit of black cherry that needs to be cleared and it is a very nice wood for stove or fore place.

Haha My dad used to put his lips to the wood when I was a kid and I learnt that for him way before KZfaq! Glad to see some of the same common sense before gadgets came along. Weight, sound and the lip test tells you pretty good how dry the wood is.

Thanks for the midnight video.lol sorry Chris I hope it doesn't mess you up,but great video,I appreciate it

Great video Chris with easy to digest info. Is there a “shelf life” for wood that is split and off the ground on pallets ? Can some kinds of firewood go “bad” from sitting for long period of time ? Thnx…

Thank you for admitting that we in the PNW that we should cover our wood, major debate and I stick by covering my wood up here. Keep cuttin' folks!

Also-in yesterday's video you were talkin' about ash. The firewood of kings. When I first moved to West Virginia 5 years ago, the first year I was fortunate to get a ton of ash, it's all I burned that year and it was glorious. Second year...not so much. By the third winter, no ash at all. Just utterly destroyed.

I have 2 moisture meters but only use them when someone asks for it to have been used. Mostly I hand it to them to try for themself. I don't hold mush stock in them because they all seem to be a bit off from the next one.

I'm working on a big mess of Silver Maple logs that were cut 2, maybe 3 years ago. The bark is mostly off, and its flat on the ground (much to the dismay of my chains...). I was worried that it might be punky junk- but it isn't! SPALTED, yes. Funky colors? you bet. However, it IS solid, and seasoned. wet inside, but its dry enough to burn in days. Still burns great, still has that pleasant smelling maple smoke. Ya learn something new every day, I guess. I always thought soft maple rotted fast. I will say that it splits way better when green, lol- some of these are GNARLEY. better to rip hem into slabs or big ol firepit chunks. But, its free, and good camp wood, so there is that.

5½ hours early? A bonus? Time will tell. Good info, as always. Thanks, Chris. - Other Chris

Midnight drop. 👍👍

I figured it out people. He is so far ahead that he had a day that he got distracted ❤️ Valentine’s Day ❤️

Where i live in particular i get access to alot of locust. Doesnt feel tremndously different from breaking out concrete with a sledge hammer 😅.

I think red oak takes the longest to dry, even split small. My neighbors here in the Ozarks cut and split the firewood in the fall and burn it that winter, no way its dry..Even dead or dying trees of oak are actually very wet, why i try to stay at least 2 years ahead with split firewood

Waiting to see the Echo run

Clunking two pieces of wood is how Bigfoot communicates,Hello Bigfoot! 😂 Good communication! 😊

I have a question…do you rent the wood yard where you operate I want to get into a firewood business in a small way to start with but the biggest problem I face is not equipment or even access to wood…, it’s the storage after splitting… I figure I need to rent a site but the cost is an issue….

just curios on what you do with cotten wood and willow i know after it dries it is light as a fart i would not want to waste the time to carry it in the house let me know if there is something i am missing out on cause there is alot of it around me thanks

Daylight savings time isnt here yet 😄 But its flying our way , seems like faster than ever.

Hmmmmm Toobless U has struck again!!! Good Morning Woodhounds!!

How does elm rank in your opinion. How would you rate it compared to oak and silver maple. How long does it take to dry?

Whats the main difference between Red oak and White oak as far as firewood properties which is the best??? White oak

i cut a bunch of Black Locus in a place here in Vermont about 20 years ago

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Is mold or lichens bad to burn in fireplace, stove or outdoor fire?

Mr. M.B.A. strikes again: kissing a split to test for seasoning . Brilliant ! Who knew ? THX.

Do you sell a lot of basswood? I’ve found it is almost like balsa wood when dry.

Curious if anyone has ever paid attention to winter cut wood vs summer cut as far as moisture levels and dry time or is there no appreciable difference?

Hey is that the echo CS 7310p

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How would someone start selling firewood if they didn't have access to standing lumber to cut. Would it be feasible to contract with a local logging company and have it delivered to u and then process it. Would that be crazy ¿??

Since when does a ... in the wood yard video oodt at midnight??

Have u tried olive wood

Lots of great info at 74 years old. Still learning😂

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Might be a dumb question, but do you burn wood to heat your home yourself?

I see the new echo-7310P in the background. This must be the video he filmed after his test run of the echo,

Do you have manzanita

Oh yeah...that's what led to me processing my own firewood. These dudes around here don't know what "seasoned" actually means. "We cut the tree down in January"-ok, when did you split it? "Last month". Yeah sorry-no way it's seasoned. That's when I started ordering trailers of logs from tree services.

Yeah,kind of early 🤯

Honey locust slower than black locust

All I know is that oak is great but it takes so long to dry I forget I even have it. 🧐

Be careful that knee wall that the glass block window sits on doesn't snap unless you've excavated to see if there's a good footer with steel and the blocks are poured. Otherwise, if that's snaps that roof will be on top of that tractor before you can spit. Please be careful

I'm from Antartica and we don't have any visible wood. It's all under the ice.

HAHAHAHAHAH Time schedule out of Whack Chris ???

I feel this type of first-hand knowledge trumps these folks running around with electronic moisture meters. They beat their heads against the wall over what the gizmo says. I'm not saying a meter can't be handy...but "reading" the wood is much better, IMO, than the meters.

I hear you say a lot that a whole lot of your customers want oak. Because it's the best and burns the hottest.. I have also heard you say that the vast majority of your customers just burn wood for the enjoyment of a fire. So I'm just wondering why that would be when other wood is much better for entertainment purposes than oak.😅 pretty much and wood other than oak😅

Knock on Wood😊 It ain’t 05:30am😊

Land of the midnight sun. 2:25

Keep the wood off the ground and you will be all good.

Wood yard ×2 :)

The drought took out the water oaks so…….

you talk against elm is not spot on....we have a lot of elm around us and i cut and split it a lot. I also have access to a lot of Ash. But because you have other woods don't make them bad.

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