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[4570Man]

A firewood processor would be almost useless for me. Almost everything I run is either huge or not fit for a processor. Any of the good straight logs I haul for lumber. A big piece like this would heat my house for a day in the dead of winter. Longer on a warmer day.

 

[hunt4570]

As already noted in my original post: "This varies a bit with species and site conditions, and I'm sure would vary a bit with different regions of the country." Different regions and different sites do tend to have different form factors.

Around here, "firewood" means "hardwood". No one harvests softwoods for firewood unless they have no choice (well, with the exception of those folks who are determined to give outdoor wood boilers a bad name by burning anything from their kids' dirty diapers to freshly cut White Pine to the wet, half rotten mess they scrounged from a neighbor's 5 year old storm damage). So I have no experience applying that table to softwoods. We're cutting Red Oak, White Oak, Beech, Hickory, Red Maple,

I agree, firewood to me means some kind of hardwood. The only hardwood I have is in the bottoms and hard to get to so it is at a premium to me. Most of my place, and most of this whole area of SC is pine woods and/or "tree farms" if you will, big industry here! People around here think I'm nuts when I cut pines down around hardwoods to as you put it , set them free, they all want the pines. Southern Yellow Pine as you see at the lumber yards..
I do like my SYP for my construction lumber but not for burning, although my woodstove does get its share of cutoffs from my mill.

 

[Loaderman22]

Same here. Since most of my firewood harvesting is targeted at cleaning up storm damage (there seems to be WAY too much of that over these past several years), culling overcrowded, poorly formed, or diseased trees in an effort to release the "good" ones for a better growth rate, someone with a firewood processor might not be overly thrilled with what I pull out.

Same here, just not sitting on 100 acres. I cut whats either down, or will pull out a thick, tall red oak occasionally to shed some light on the forest floor. I take down to about 3" at the top but will go back around this time of year & fill a trailer with the thin branches for kindling. Usually about anything I can break over me knee & under. I trimmed the mulberry tree thats outside the bedroom window, the d*mn squirrels eat them before I could ever hope to taste one so I don't even try. That wood will just get piled for a critter den, not something I'd try to burn as firewood. I hate doing firewood when its warm, the mosquitoes get so thick in the woods they about carry you off, so I cut from September to Spring on just the weekends.

 

[Molalla1]

A firewood processor would be almost useless for me. Almost everything I run is either huge or not fit for a processor. Any of the good straight logs I haul for lumber. A big piece like this would heat my house for a day in the dead of winter. Longer on a warmer day. View attachment 627083View attachment 627084View attachment 627085

That's a medium sized tree around here (mostly doug fir) last year I cut 5 down, they were over 40" at the butt . . . very hard for this old man to handle in the splitter . . .

 

[4570Man]

That's a medium sized tree around here (mostly doug fir) last year I cut 5 down, they were over 40" at the butt . . . very hard for this old man to handle in the splitter . . .

That 25” oak probably weighs as much and heats as much as a 40” pine.

 

[goeduck]

You pretty much HAVE to burn softwood out here. Douglas Fir is not bad wood. Trunks straight as an arrow, splits easy, BTU mid range and stores a LONG time. Hardwood here gets eaten by bugs and goes punk faster. But as mentioned by others, cut what you got.

 

[goeduck]

A firewood processor would be almost useless for me. Almost everything I run is either huge or not fit for a processor. Any of the good straight logs I haul for lumber. A big piece like this would heat my house for a day in the dead of winter. Longer on a warmer day. View attachment 627083

That is a big round of wood for your area. Nice!

 

[Oldpath05]

You pretty much HAVE to burn softwood out here. Douglas Fir is not bad wood. Trunks straight as an arrow, splits easy, BTU mid range and stores a LONG time. Hardwood here gets eaten by bugs and goes punk faster. But as mentioned by others, cut what you got.

My son has been burning only cedar scraps for the past 5 years, heating a 36'x40' two story house. The wood burns quick but he has a lot of it, I dont know of any wood that wont give off heat.

 

[Oldpath05]

Woke up this morning with a 65* temp now it's 42* and the wood stove is going, what a difference 10 hrs makes.

 

[Jstpssng]

My son has been burning only cedar scraps for the past 5 years, heating a 36'x40' two story house. The wood burns quick but he has a lot of it, I dont know of any wood that wont give off heat.

They all give off the same BTUs by weight. Some are just more dense than others.
I guess that you can say the same about people.