Firewood Season 2022

[ancjr]

I was going with the Catkin. Looks like a poplar catkin.

 

[t-squared]

Look up White Poplar/Silver Poplar or "populus alba".

They're considered invasive if that matters to you.

 

[ancjr]

 

[Jaybird1980]

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That sure looks like it. Do those turn into the flowers?

 

[indyjohn]

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It's 'close' but the buds were much tighter.

 

[Jaybird1980]

It's 'close' but the buds were much tighter.

I was thinking OkieGirls pic looks to be more dense. That tree is loaded down with them. That will be a lot of flowers.

 

[t-squared]

populus alba pic

 

[ancjr]

That sure looks like it. Do those turn into the flowers?

Yes that's essentially what they are. A complex flower bud.

 

[indyjohn]

Might be locust. Can you get a pic of the bark on the trunk?

Thornless? And neither black nor honey locust get very big.

Bark at the base was smooth, bark at the top was like Birch. No thorns that I found.
Another view of the buds.

 

[ancjr]

Bark at the base was smooth, bark at the top was like Birch. No thorns that I found.
Another view of the buds.
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White poplar bark

 

[Leadeye]

Sawtooth aspen would be my guess. They are a primary tree that starts falling down as your forest matures. Wood burns fast.

 

[ancjr]

Aspen Bark
Populus grandidentata
(Still a Poplar)

 

[indyjohn]

Sawtooth aspen would be my guess. They are a primary tree that starts falling down as your forest matures. Wood burns fast.

It fell down so close to one of the lanes, we can't not take it. Maybe it will mix well with the stuff we have that is hard to start and burns slow?

 

[Leadeye]

It fell down so close to one of the lanes, we can't not take it. Maybe it will mix well with the stuff we have that is hard to start and burns slow?

I burn it all the time for the same reason, the trees fall down across the trail so I have to cut them up. Never had any issues with it, just burns fast.

An old timer, older than me, told me that it was good wood for summer kitchen stoves as it started easy and burned hot and quick.

 

[Jaybird1980]

I always kept the faster burning stuff separate and would use it to get a fire going again if I let the firebox burn down to far. If there were even a few hot coals left I would throw a couple pieces of sassafras or similar on. Then top it with good stuff. Always burned the rest up in the late spring.

 

[ghuns]

Since I'm all out, Ima gonna go ahead and call an end to firewood season 2021-22...

Hope it stays warm.

 

[indyjohn]

 

[Leadeye]

Another great video, sounds like you have neighbors that shoot.

 

[indyjohn]

Another great video, sounds like you have neighbors that shoot.

There are regular occasions that you will hear the sounds of freedom out there.

 

[indyjohn]

A little long on the run time but working in the woods can be hard. And the sneks.