Happiness is a long burn

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This will be my goal,, I mean it always was but I was on the wrong track... :/ Do you only have access to soft wood as well or both? I was told that from where I live to over an hour or two away many years ago there was a big fire and it burnt all the hard wood (it was all hard wood) and what grew back in it's place was this Black Spruce.. it is all forest here but all soft wood with one or two birch.. & that's it!!
 
BG that is impressive with Doug fir. I'm glad you're having such great results, and its always good to have a crew of people who appreciate that kind of thing. Most of our friends aren't as impressed with such thing as burn times and scrounge scores. I have been getting similar burn times but with all hardwood. Sounds like you really know how to make that Doug Fir work for you.
 
Awesome burn!
 
Looking real good BeGreen.
 
WarmNToasty said:
This will be my goal,, I mean it always was but I was on the wrong track... :/ Do you only have access to soft wood as well or both? I was told that from where I live to over an hour or two away many years ago there was a big fire and it burnt all the hard wood (it was all hard wood) and what grew back in it's place was this Black Spruce.. it is all forest here but all soft wood with one or two birch.. & that's it!!
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Most of what we get here would qualify as softwood or pretty close to it. Alder, Doug fir, soft maple are the most commonly burned firewoods. There is hardwood out here, but you need to look for it or pay a very high premium. I have been gathering stashes of locust, cherry and madrona for those extra cold nights.
 
Doug fir is pretty high up on the BTU charts. (better than AK birch)
Many call any evergreen "pine", but there's a difference :) Our evergreen is spruce but called pine all the time.
One nick name of Western Douglas fir is "Oregon pine"

How to tell them apart:
http://www.finegardening.com/plants/articles/spruce-fir-pine.aspx

Great burn times BG
 
Ha, Oregon pine is a good one. We don't see much pine around here unless you are east of the mountains. Then there's plenty of ponderosa pine. Our chit wood is hemlock, which some folks call pine. Burned cherry last night and had a nice bed of coals this am. Not many more than with the doug fir, but the cherry splits were smaller.
 
BeGreen said:
Ha, Oregon pine is a good one. We don't see much pine around here unless you are east of the mountains. Then there's plenty of ponderosa pine. Our chit wood is hemlock, which some folks call pine. Burned cherry last night and had a nice bed of coals this am. Not many more than with the doug fir, but the cherry splits were smaller.
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Do you see a bit more heat from the hardwoods? Like does the stove stay hot longer?
 
Yes, more heat and with bigger splits longer coals, particularly with locust.
 
BeGreen said:
Yes, more heat and with bigger splits longer coals, particularly with locust.
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I split almost ALL of my locust big, because that and white oak are my primary overnight woods.....and I saw you were talking about burning some of that big leaf maple, make sure you keep a couple of those trees alive because you have an experiment to do next spring!@!
 
I wish our primary maple tree was still alive, but it had to come down due to age and interior rot. We still have a couple on the property and a few more across the street if I want to fight the blackberries. One interesting thing out here is that the sap flow is very different. Folks are reporting getting sap from Nov. to Feb.
 
Long burns are great. After working with the Heritage, Vigilant, and Intrepid last year it's kind of amazing loading up the stove at 11pm and, when done right, I don't have to touch the stove again until 10am-12 noon. It's weird. Waking up and not having to mess with the stove in the morning is just plain weird.
 
You gotta love this time of year, when the burns are long and we're on the downhill side from here on. There will still be cold nights but the worst is all behind us for the most part!
 
VCBurner said:
You gotta love this time of year, when the burns are long and we're on the downhill side from here on. There will still be cold nights but the worst is all behind us for the most part!
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careful what you say, VC ........you may end up jinxing us all!! :mad:
 
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