How to identify firewood trees in the winter -

How to identify tree for firewood in the winter when they have no leaves.

[@johnhaug5527]

Another good video. Thanks Chris & Ken.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Glad you enjoyed it John!

[@lloydsmith1278]

I'm from southern Idaho... trees are just a little different here but love learning about what you boys are into! Love all your videos Chris! I'm a 67 year old woodchuck, just cause I like it and truly enjoy watchin you and your crew! Keep up the awesome work!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Awesome! Thank you Lloyd, keep chuckin'!!

[@mw1130]

I have to say you guys sure got a workout educating us rookies. I sure appreciate your time and EFFORT

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks for watching!

[@andrewslagle1974]

Your brother is a wealth of knowledge !

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yes he sure is, I learn from him all the time!

[@Mityob67]

Brilliant video. Thanks gentlemen.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks for watching!!!

[@noenwarrior1]

Great vidoes in the last week thanks!!!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Glad you like them! Lots more to come...every day!

[@DanielAtkinsFirewood]

Some if that I have around here in Washington State.. Thanks for the tour..

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks for watching!

[@coreyriley7160]

G’morning Chris and Kenny. Another great video from the Carlson Brothers. I learned a thing or 2. Thanks. GoodNightIrene

[@InTheWoodyard]

Good morning! Thanks Corey!

[@sebasstuff8847]

Ken must be the big brother!! 😂😂😂 Honestly, this might be the best tree identification video on KZbin. This one could go viral.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Actually I am 10 months older than him!! HA! Thanks for watching!

[@russbatzer6970]

Extremely thorough and informative tree ID. Very good video fellas 👍👍opened my eyes to ironwood and yellow birch! Ive been looking at em both & didn't realize it. Thanks again

[@InTheWoodyard]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@onionriverranch]

Having property and hunting in northern Wisconsin I really appreciate this video and marked it for future reference. Thanks! -Brett

[@InTheWoodyard]

Nice, thanks for watching!

[@aldiminico6513]

Morning Chris. Thanks to you and Ken for the tree identification class👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

Morning!Thanks for watching!

[@davidedwards3734]

Thanks for helping us identify wood in the Winter. Have a Safe Day

[@InTheWoodyard]

Glad to help!

[@justinoconnor6567]

Tree ID in the woods, what is better way to spend time in the woods. Great way to relax and enjoy nature.

[@InTheWoodyard]

You got that right!

[@frank4532]

Great stuff guys Ken thanks for sharing your knowledge of wood Interesting to say the least Thanks for sharing Chris 👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

Glad you enjoyed it Frank!

[@alicehunt2057]

Hey when you guys are showing the tree trunk / branches etc... hold the camera still for a couple seconds (and continue talking over) but it just happens so fast that even trying to pause the video on a frame that doesn't have blur is hard. So, if you could, hold the camera still so we can really soak it in. Thanks

[@InTheWoodyard]

Sorry Alice, I will do that next time!

[@SasquatchBunyan]

Great stuff! Another saved video. This helped me identify a few trees here that I was curious about. So many species. Kinda fun!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Glad it was helpful!

[@toddsoutsideagain]

Definitely the hardest time of year to identify trees for sure. Usually when I have questionable bark I look up too see the leaves. I would have a hard time this time of year especially on the young trees. Well done guys👍🏻👍🏻GNI🍻

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks, I will do another video in the summer with leaves too.

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

Thanks for all the info. Apple tree, I have those

[@InTheWoodyard]

You are welcome Larry.

[@johnfonda985]

It's great to see that you to Brothers get along great!! Love it.... Me and my brother forget about it he's just too arrogant... thanks for showing different kinds of trees. I'm not the greatest when the leaves aren't on the tree

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks John, yup, it is hard when the trees are naked!

[@aldredske6197]

Good morning Chris and Kenny!!😀😀 I'm glad I live in Wisconsin too. I was also able to identify every tree that you guys found . Great video my friends!! 😀😀 Logger Al

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks again Al!

[@danthornton5098]

Informative. Thanks!😁

[@InTheWoodyard]

Glad it was helpful!

[@briannelson4493]

Chris as I was watching ken identify elm’s the larger alive elm tree with smoother bark looks like a red elm if you cut a branch the inside grain will be red. Good luck in your wood yard

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks for the tip Brian!

[@canvasman2307]

Thanks for the naked wood ID tour. You guys did a good job helping to show us a wide variety of tree species and also how challenging it is when identifying bark on trees of differing stages of maturity. Guess I must be an old Popple…getting rough and grey on the lower parts😒

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, old and rough here too!

[@heymakerphd1982]

@@InTheWoodyard Thnx for not actually being naked!!

[@haroldanderson2781]

You two are fun!! Thanks

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks for watching as always Harold!

[@jaredscabinlife2868]

Been waiting for this video!! In southern Maine there’s no cedar but you go north just a tad they’re everywhere

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks for watching Jared!

[@rickdesrochers7787]

Thornapple sure looks like a Hawthorne tree we have in Manitoba

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, same thing different name is all.

[@dethmaul]

Dude I just learned about Empress Splendor trees. Lighter and stronger than pine, and fully grown in ten years. Air drying lumber can happen in a month, kiln-drying in a few hours to ten percent moisture. Firewood splits would be fast too, maybe a few months. You can plant those and have a MASSIVE firewood harvest in ten years lmao I'm going to try my hardest to get some to plant when I build a house.

[@dethmaul]

Apparently Empress Splendor isn't the name? Anyway, the tree is Paulownia Elongata. Don't plant the invasive version, Tomentosa.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Cool!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Ya, and make sure it is legal to bring in!!

[@josebabeloki9869]

Great job guys! One suggestion: slow the camera pans down a tad when looking at the bark and the tops of the trees.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks for the tip!

[@DominosDiesels]

Always remember the acronym MADHorse (Maple, Ash, Dogwood, Horsechestnut/buckeye) all have opposite buds. Learning the bud and bud patterns will really help you learn woody plants that have no leaves yet.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yes, opposing limbs!

[@heymakerphd1982]

@@InTheWoodyard Doesn't that opposing limbs thing depend on your age? The older you get, the more they oppose!! - The lanes and roads look to be cleared good. Is that from plows or snowblowers?

[@InTheWoodyard]

@@heymakerphd1982 Plows here.

[@outsidewithjohnhayes4674]

Ok Chris want to get back to your woodyard. Great video anyway.

[@InTheWoodyard]

I was at Kens 3 times for 3 days lots more videos to come, every day as usual.

[@evergreentimber]

Back in forestry school we learned almost every type of tree we have here in the southeastern US. But that was thirty years ago and I’ve forgotten all the ones that don’t have some type of commercial value for sawlogs or pulpwood, especially those pesky understory species. We enjoy your content Chris, GNI 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks for watching!

[@justinoconnor6567]

Did the same thing at Stockbridge at UMASS . walking around the woods of the campus was a class.

[@heymakerphd1982]

@@justinoconnor6567 Ha! You had it easy!! Down at the Univ. of Science, not only did we have to remem some trees, we had to weave baskets from them, before we earned our BS!! An MS was just More of the Same. But the Ph.D. was tough!! My thesis was "Why do dogs run so fast in Siberia?" The answer, of course, is that trees are 3 miles apart!! hey!

[@InTheWoodyard]

@@justinoconnor6567 Cool!

[@InTheWoodyard]

@@heymakerphd1982 HA!

[@HILLBILLYSFIREWOOD]

Ken said hackberry got me thinking of the old days.. back in the day i cut up around 15 cords of hackberry. Next winter i went to sell it and it was full of bore warms. Made swiss cheese out of the wood.. i couldn't sell it like that... big hot dog cook out. I burnd it all.. have good weekend wood dude. 🌳🌳🌲🌲✌

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks Bee man!

[@keithmueller2857]

Kenny, it's not really boring but for those of us that know it's wood and it'll burn, it's kind of overwhelming ,all the differences in the same species. Like Chris says it's all fire wood. Thanks.

[@InTheWoodyard]

I have had a lot of requests for tree identification, so we did some while I was with the expert!

[@GrantReid35]

Hey chris it's nice to make a video and tell people what is what wood it's a good thing to do,the tree branches I like to use for making a fire but the size is bout 2 to 3 inches branches that's nice to start the fire I just told my wife I will like a nother pig up truck load of wood when you and your brother I assume packed the wood in the basement

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yes we did put some wood in his basement!

[@stevepreston7030]

Nice tree ID video! The wood I cut the other say, I am not so sure now it's yellow birch. Bark is smooth. Now I have no clue. Check my last couple videos and see if you can ID the wood.

[@InTheWoodyard]

I just looked I think it is some kind of alder maybe.

[@Dashr44]

When you refer to red as a soft maple, are you calling it a softwood? I've never heard anyone call it a softwood before now. I've always was told it's a hardwood, which is great for firewood.

[@InTheWoodyard]

It is a hardwood, we just call it soft maple (red) because it is softer than hard maple (sugar).

[@arathkopf]

I think these are great. I'm trying to learn so I can identify the wood the tree service drops off and its hard to tell.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rackman5111]

Great video Chris and Kenny 👍 balls deep and touching wood 🤣 no Beaver where harmed in the making of this video 🤪

[@InTheWoodyard]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks, yes the snow was deep and we touched a lot of wood, beaver will be harmed later in the spring!

[@waynetharp]

Out of the 40 some species local...What are the handful of species you will not allow in your woodyard, Kenny??? Almost all the under brush and invasive types around here make very good/hot fires but alot of work cutting 3 or 4 sticks from the mess. Thanks for the walk in the woods, Fellers!👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

Everything burns...but sumac and willow are really only good for kindling.

[@jamesstan317]

Thanks Chris. I always enjoy the Chris and Kenny series. Do you guys have black/sweet birch in your neck of the woods? I love it! It coals, mid 20s btu, and dries normally in 9 months.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Not that I know of.

[@oakrunacres2564]

I learned something....Ironwood! I have quite a few of them in the woods where I cut but I didn't know what they were. I thought they were hawthrone at first because they have similar bark but no thorns. Do you guys have hawthrones? Miserable trees. I got stabbed in the knee by a thorn back before Christmas and ended up in Emerg with a very swollen and infected knee. Two courses of IV antibiotics and a week or oral antibiotics and I was ok. I guess they have bacteria on the thorns and the doc said it got me right in the knee joint and just the right depth. Dave

[@heymakerphd1982]

They're dangerous to the deer too! If one of those thorns catch them in the eye when running, it is sometimes a long, painful death! I've spent many hours cutting hundreds of them down, trying to make the woods safer, for me and the critters! They should be treated as an 'invasive specie'! Cut them down, make room for decent, law abiding trees!!

[@InTheWoodyard]

HA! Keep cuttin'!

[@InTheWoodyard]

I think we have some here but more it the south. Yup, thorns are bad! We have thorn apple here and they are nasty too!

[@SUROBLEDEKchannel]

Nice job 👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks 👍

[@billybobswood8153]

great vid! so many different trees!we have most of those here in nh! GNI

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks for visiting again!

[@davidharris1173]

Hey Chris, great video with ken! I’m wondering, when will videos in your own wood yard be back? I miss seeing the woodyard!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Very soon!

[@nathankopowski5956]

Morning Chris, I just got a BUNCH of yellow and sweet birch or black birch whatever it's called but I got a whole bunch for free!!!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Nice! It is great firewood!

[@nathankopowski5956]

So Chris, you say that yellow birch is good firewood

[@InTheWoodyard]

@@nathankopowski5956 Yes, very good.

[@noahh8253]

Good morning gentleman. Never heard wood pecker called a “sap sucker” before

[@kennethcarlson8713]

Look it up

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup,it is a kind of bird.

[@heymakerphd1982]

@@InTheWoodyard I've never before heard a sapsucker called a woodpecker!! But then, I'm not a very big 'bird brain'!! hey!

[@brucearney9536]

Any beach trees up there ?

[@InTheWoodyard]

Very little here none that I can get as far as I know.

[@peewee.3138]

We had very similar trees where I grew up in northern New Brunswick. Not much cherry and most of our elm trees were wiped out by Dutch Elm disease in the 70’s and 80’s. Do you have any Beech trees there? We don’t have much oak, either.

[@InTheWoodyard]

No beach here.

[@catfishstalkeroutdoorswith530]

Nice

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks!

[@jackpinesavageadventures3142]

👍 🌲 🌳

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks for watching!

[@brucearney9536]

I mis spelled beech tree .

[@InTheWoodyard]

No worries I am good at that too!

[@heymakerphd1982]

Don't worry, so did Chris. He made me stop, ...and THINK!! Aagh!! Couldn't remember any beaches in his vids!! But me bein' a quick study, I figured it out, - he miss pelled beech!!

[@firewoodathome]

👍👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

thanks!

[@f.c232]

sorry guys thumbs down camera man doesn't focus on tree long enough to proprely identify

[@tonybunch543]

👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

thanks!

[@lendane8517]

Waiting to see the sturgeon spearing video

[@InTheWoodyard]

I think it will be on next week!

[@larryvankirk7423]

You guys know your trees. Not anywhere near as many varieties in my area. GNI

[@InTheWoodyard]

You must live in a drier area?

[@larryvankirk7423]

@@InTheWoodyard Yep, farm country-not much for woodlots. Elm, ash, boxelder, maple, hackberry, cottonwood and cedar are native. Other ornamentals have been planted but not native.

[@kimberly1567]

"Hey honey, come look at this. It's the strangest thing. Two strange men are walking through our yard touching all our trees". In FL a homeowner would be allowed to shoot you and then claim they felt threatened because there were two of you. You used the word gnarly twice when describing wood. Every time I have heard the word gnarly used in the last 20 yrs it was describing a wave by a surfer

[@InTheWoodyard]

It is different up north, people are friendly and not so trigger happy up here, thank God! You better not try it there!

[@JohnFrytag]

Little disappointed…no palm no eucalyptus…not a single pecan……just kiddin. Great video!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Sorry! Maybe we can plant some!

[@mikehoysler4322]

This is the 3rd video of these you’ve done since going to Ken’s. Your channel, your choice but I’m losing interest in a hurry.

[@kennethcarlson8713]

Kinda boring

[@InTheWoodyard]

There is over 600 other videos on my channel you can watch from 1 1/2 years of shooting and editing a new video everyday for everyone to watch and I have had dozens of requests for wood identification videos so when we where together we made three kinds. One of fresh cut logs one of old firewood rounds and one of live winter trees. I will be doing another one of live summer trees also. So there will be more. I can let you know ahead of time so you can avoid the video if you want. Thanks for watching.

[@mikehoysler4322]

I’ve watched every one of those 600+ videos too. I started watching your channel when you had 12 vids. I’m a consumer not a creator of content but can appreciate all of the extra steps it takes to make one episode. Not even OWTM can keep up with one vid/day and he’s retired from blowing stuff up, so my hat is off to you in that regard. My life will be just as rich regardless if I can identify a hard maple vs a soft maple but thanks for the master class. It’s just 3 in a week…holy balls it was like slamming my hand in a car door repeatedly! My favorite vids are when you buy something and the sarcasm starts flowing with your dry sense of humor, so stop by Fleet Farm on your way home and buy some worthless crap to review. Thanks again for the 600+.

[@heymakerphd1982]

@@mikehoysler4322 Man oh man!! You're kidding right? If serious, John Wayne would consider them fightin' words, mister!! You should convene a grand jury or somethin', before you can say things like that!! I think it's called "aggravated filthy lucre"!! I can't believe anyone could, or would, even in jest, suggest that Farm Fleet sells worthless crap!! That's gotta be worth 5to&10. You gotta give'em some credit, taking their time away from firewood, walkin' around butt deep in snow, not even stopping to make snow angels, trying to pass along knowledge, to those underprivileged fw chunkers that don't already know it all!! Thank goodness, Kenny didn't try to describe all 730 species that grow in N. America north of Mexico! He IS a kind and generous teacher! And, of course, it goes without saying about Chris!! That 'slammin' your hand in the car door' thing, try lithium pills. Doesn't get your hand out of the way, but you just don't feel it so much!! hey!

[@InTheWoodyard]

@@mikehoysler4322 Thanks for watching Mike, I appreciate it!

[@RC-jr8fi]

Looks like you guys weren't into snowball fights,😁...

[@InTheWoodyard]

No it was too cold for that!

[@RC-jr8fi]

@@InTheWoodyard 👍