Exactly correct Brian!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks Scott, glad to see you like them!

Yup, good idea for a video my good man! Thanks.... Keep cuttin'!

Thanks for watching!

Glad you enjoyed it Mike!

Thanks, will do!

Glad to hear it! Thanks!

Thanks for watching!

Yes, I amputated it with the zombie axe!

You are welcome Steven, thanks for watching again!

Thanks Harold!

Glad you enjoyed it Bruce!

Glad you like them! We have fun doing them!

Yes to that!

Yes the cherry and locust is good stuff!

Yes, the crotches burn hot!

Glad it was helpful!

I wish we could show it all, but it would offend many people I am afraid, but you gotta have some fun!

Thanks Steve!

Thanks Craig, yes it all burns!

Thanks for watching!

Ya, we have a good time together!

Glad you enjoyed it!

You are exactly correct James!

Great suggestion Len, Tony is going to build a wood shed and we plan on recording the process!

@@InTheWoodyard and behind the new woodshed will be a great place to take the both of you for a thrashing for all that juvenile humor. 😂😂😂. Ok, maybe I belong behind there too cause I really think it’s funny as well.

Yes, we do think alike, it's kinda scary! Thanks for watching Jeff!

Sounds like you have a great system!

Thanks for watching Tony!

That willow will dry fast once it is split and cut but it will also burn fast too!

Awesome thank you Daniel!

Good morning Al, nothing to add!!??!!!! Are you feeling alright this morning? You always have more knowledge to toss out there! Thanks Al!

@@InTheWoodyard Still battling this virus yet. So no I'm not feeling well yet. Starting to get better slowly. Have been going to work all week so far. But it been hard to stay in the saddle for a full day.

He has fun toys for sure!

You are correct!

You bet, thanks for watching!

I am not sure, off hand I would have to look, but they all work well!

Thanks!

Many many thanks Jeremiah!

Dave, that is a good question, I need to test that!!!!

Glad it was helpful!

Ya, sometimes we have a hard time talking because we are overdoing the banter!!

Thanks for watching!

Not sure, mine is an SBi, and I like it a lot!

Yes we do struggle a lot!

Yes there are some more tests we could do for the dry/wet wood!

Yes, we like to play, almost to much!

Not sure, It is Tonys, most meters that are $40-60 are good !

We sell wood, 600 cords a year, and we do not want our customers to get wood that is not dry. A moisture meter is not for you because you only producer a little wood for your own use. I sell to hundreds of people who want great wood and I make sure they get it.

No, we do not have them around here, I wish we did , it is awesome wood!

Thanks for watching David!

Thanks!

Hello Dean!

Yes! When the tree is growing it is the most wet, when the leaves are on!

Wow, look at the big brain on you! You are correct on all points, thanks for the input, I hope others read your comment, very good information!

Yes, I have to agree, but……the logs burn quicker! So why not have larger logs, producing the same BTU’s as smaller logs, that last twice as long??

@@lendevonuk5479 It comes down to psychology. People think 1 bigger piece wood burns longer than the same weight of 4 or 5 smaller pieces. As pointed out in the video the drying time for larger splits of wood is much longer than smaller splits.

@@bwillan Yes, quite obviously, as Chris point out, the smaller the splits the quicker it dries, due to greater ‘air flow.’ However, for those of us that ‘buy forward’ and store this years splits for next years burning, this is hardly a consideration. More of a concern to me is the extra handling, and extra cost of the more rapidly burning smaller splits!

Thanks for the great info, that make a lot of sense to me!

Wow that is some dry stuff!

No, it depends on if it is dead wood or live cut and still needs to be cut split and dried until it is ready to burn.

You mentioned an app to identify trees by bark on a video with Ken or Tony. Could you point me in the right direction Thanks

Thanks, sorry, I do not have one...maybe just google it.

Yeah there’s plenty to pick from…If you think to see what brand and model yours is, let me know…Thanks

Yes the high humidity does affect the wood, but once it is in the teens, I don't retest it much, because it is ready to burn.

@@InTheWoodyardI heat my house with wood that I get myself and I'll burn big hunks of oak that piss it doesn't matter it all Burns I never have creosote problems

@@kennethrobinson5151 In a fire that has well established coal bed, throwing on a wet chunk of firewood, will cause it to piss moisture. However after about 90 minutes it will be dry and burn just as well as any perfectly dry piece.

@@bwillan I agree I would not put in Green oak but even 2-year-old oak still hisses when it burns as long as you have enough flame for the secondary burn it will not put creosote in your chimney

Thanks John!

Yes and that oak will dry slower than almost all other wood.

Homestead great channel by the way. Ive gotten surprised by ash though. The completely dead ash bore kill trees go bad pretty quick standing. They turn into sponges and start to hold a big more moisture. In my area of ny there turning into very dangerous trees because of this. Up one day part of if down the next. Have a great day.

@@stannelson2582, landowners are getting educated on that issue by good loggers. Better to get firewood price for logs than let the trees rot.

@@thefirewooddoctor they cost money to take down so they rot. Every community in w ny is littered with dead ash. In residential areas it’s 400 bucks to take one down. Some suburbs every house has a dead tree.

@@stannelson2582, I'm talking about trees in the woods, not the urban forest.

You got that right! There is a lot of editing that has to be done! Thanks for watching David!

It doesn't matter the species, a pound of willow has the same btu as a pound of oak, 5800 btu's per pound. Takes a bigger chunk of willow to make a pound.- I harvest all the limbwood of 2 inches or more. The thing is there's a higher percentage of bark in limbs. Bark is light, not much btu's. It also has most of the growth elements like K and P, which don't burn. So you wind up with a lot more ash from the barky wood, than the almost clean trunk wood. So you can make more soap, or garden enrichments, like that. It also builds strong muscles maybe 8 ways keeping the stove cleaned out.

Oh yeah, I really enjoy you and Tony. When you get done firewoodin', maybe you could work up an act for Vegas. Didn't Martin and Lewis start up when they were out firewoodin'?

Good question, I evict them! When the wood is split and stacked to dry the bugs leave, they need moisture to live in wood.

I now have 5 different kinds, they all work fine!

@@InTheWoodyard I bought one from Amazon. It says best seller and has good ratings. Mt19 I believe it's called.

Yes I can, most of the time, but it does get a lot harder once it drys and turns grey too!! Smelling and sometimes splitting it gives clues.

It should!

They all work good I think the key is to use them a lot, I find the more I use them the better my knowledge is of my wood and the dryness according to it's age and type of wood.

@@InTheWoodyard Thank you

I have 5 meters all different. Some have 2 settings some have 3 settings. I use one setting all the time and checked the meters against each other, they all read very close, so I do not know what to tell you.

I have several kinds of moisture testers and they all are pretty similar, even the ones with no wood type adjustments.

I will disagree with you on that Joe, moisture meters work and are the best way to know the true moisture content of wood. Looking at wood and guessing is not knowing it is guessing, I have been wrong quite a few times thinking wood is dry and it was not. No, I did not get the bigger push plate yet for the Ultra.

Believe me Joe you are no firewood expect just by watching some of your "Premium Firewood" videos. You must use a mositure texted to ensure you are selling properly seasoned firewood as the customer expects.

Yes, our only real humid days are usually in August and most of the time our air is not to bad, but we do get -30 and 3 foot of snow in the winter so there is that!

@@InTheWoodyard So that's why I never have encountered frozen firewood down here! HA HA

Thanks, no we just push each others buttons for fun!

You better get it split and off the ground as soon as possible! Winter is not to far away!

@@InTheWoodyard it all goes in a wood shed. And the stove is out side so it don’t have to be real dry. A lot of it has been dead standing. When I get the shed full I will sent you a picture.

Yes, absolutely! Thanks for watching David!

The one with a good battery, they all work just fine. I have 5 $20-50 and they all work the same.

Thanks Mike, good to know!

Yes and it all burns!

below 20%

Yup, it all burns!

It works!

Amazon

Ok should have read the other comments but awesome channel trying to watch it all keep them coming!!

I like my SBI a lot.

thanks for watching!!

nope!

You are spot on Bill!

@@InTheWoodyard if you and Tony were in high school together I think you two would see the inside the principal's office more then a class room 🤣🤣🤣

I have 4 kinds and they all work fine. My favorite is the SBI, it was about $50

Chris/Tony - Any knowledge bout the TopTes 630 Meter ? Thnx…

You are correct Sherman, different species hold water differently!

If I remember correctly 46-48 but if I would check fresh cut wood in the spring it would probably be higher. Maple, cottonwood, aspen and boxelder would be very high.

HA! You must have gotten some really bad information. Good working meters are the ONLY way to really know the moisture content of wood, EVERYTHING else is a guess. Unless you go only by time and conditions of the drying.

Ten maybe watch the other 40 or so videos on how moisture meters measure off.

Thanks so much Kevin, we do have a good time !!!

Yes, if you KNOW when the wood was cut you should know if it is good to burn or not but the meter does help confirm. We have too much fun, you should hear the edited stuff!!

Yes, red oak does smell like a elementary haul way after the nasty lunch.

Yes, it was exciting wasn't it!!!

Thanks for watching Mark!

Try it, it does work!

It all burns!

Nope, you are right , everything burns! If you are heating your home with wood however, the dry wood puts out more heat because it does not have to burn off the moisture first. And you can and will get creosol build up than can result in a chimney fire that can burn the house down....so dry wood is better.

Am guessing standing dead oak can dry that much in a year. Maple usually dries fast. Wood like in Chris's wood yard is in the wide open space and gets full sun most of the day so is possible for him to dry it down that much if is standing dead.

It is oak that was standing dead when it was cut so a lot of it 20% or so is totally dry when I cut it and I split it smaller and stack it in the open so the sun and wind can work on it! But green cut is another story!

YES!!!!

No, this is it for now!