Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

#1 is very nice , #2 & 3 just are good ,just not my thing.
Juniper/Cedar is a very poor choice for heat and can be dangerous in a fireplace.

pesfls Loc: Oregon, USA

Not being snarky, however I partially disagree as to burning juniper. Each year for decades I have hunted elk in the mountains of eastern Oregon during November. We camp in a wall tent with a wood stove. Temps are almost always at least down to the mid teens and sometimes below zero F. Snow is the norm.

The species of firewood available in that area are mostly ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine and juniper. The first two are too low in btu’s to keep the tent warm on most nights. At night we exclusively burn juniper for its higher heat output. During the day we stoke it with pine & the damper mostly closed to keep things in the tent from freezing. Mainly water jugs that would freeze if left outside.

I have no experience burning juniper in a household fireplace but have had no safety issues in my home built 1/4” steel stove with juniper.

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Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Hard woods much better
Cedar is safe in a stove just burns too darned fast. Bank a stove with Oak and its still going in the morning

R Dubs Loc: Linloln,Ne.

I like the last one looks like an Owl

pesfls Loc: Oregon, USA

I agree but their are no hardwoods in the Blue Mtns of eastern Oregon. We arrive a few days ahead of the season to go find, cut, split & stack what we need. Juniper burns much slow than cedar. We bring a little cedar for kindling only.

pesfls Loc: Oregon, USA

Agreed. I thought the same. A great horned perhaps.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

All we have here in Missouri is Juniper (Aromatic Cedar), but they call it Cedar.
When I was a kid we heated a 6 room two story house one winter burning western cedar from an old building on the back of the property in a furnace, being 1" boards it burned very fast, stoked the furnace 4 times a day.
BTW, I haven't seen tents like yours since I was in the Boy Scouts over 50 yrs ago.

pesfls Loc: Oregon, USA

We have two common cedar species here but only west of the Cascades. Most common is western red & it is everywhere in the western third of the state. There used to be Port Orford cedar on the south coast but almost all if it is gone from logging. South in the area near & along the California border is the less common incense cedar. Posts of that can be functional for as long as 80 years. Oregon State University, the state’s main engineering and agriscience school had incese cedar posts last as long as 85 years in tests that spanned generations. Red cerdar would rot out in as little as 10. Hence we built a small greenhous using the incense species.

I’d guess the colloquial way we refer to these tree species leads to some confusion. What we call juniper grows only in exposed areas often in rocky soil where it is hot & dry all summer & bitter cold & windy in winter. They live, if they survive hundreds of years. It is legal to fell dead juniper in the various national forests of eastern Oregon. I’ve only been in Missouri during summer months so as you would know no fire was needed.

PhotoPhred Loc: Cheyney, Pa

I agree, make something with it.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Nice wood - and nice heat.

llindstrand Loc: Seattle Metro

This is an interesting piece. One can have fun with it.
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