Chestnut for Wood Burner fuel

Go for the ash, oak cherry and the like. BTU charts rate chstnut as poor, so poor that the chart I use doesn't list the BTU's in the wood. Don't know what type of chestnut you have in the U.K but all (almost all) of the American Chestnut died from disease decades ago. About all we have left is Chinese Chestnut or hybird varients of Chinese and surviving American Chestnut. I can't inagine there are enough hybirds out there (U.S.) to produce chestnuts for roasting over an open fire let alone wood to burn as fuel.

B.T.W. I've done a lot of cycling and cycle touring in you neck of the woods.

JasonClint said:

Great thanks - confirms my suspicion that it's probably worth the extra 15 quid to get the better wood.

Awesome that you've been around here, when were you last here? Did you tour Kent specifically?

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First trip to Kent and the surrounding area was about 5 years ago. The last trip was in 2011 when my wife and I cycled with some Brit friends who were serving at the same NATO base in Belgium. We had a fantastic time both times.

I remember my first trip to England in '94; we had no problem adapting to operating our bicycles on the opposite side of the roadway, but going through the rounabouts in the opposite direction was difficult to remember, at least for a short while. Nothing like meeting a heavily laden lorry face to face to jog your memory

I think the chestnut would be fine, but I agree the other wood is better. If the chestnut were a lot less expensive than the other wood, I'd go with chestnut. As it is, I'd pay the small extra sum for the other woods, which are more dense and therefore contain more BTUs of heat than the chestnut.