The best combination burn.

Dry and drier has always worked well for me.

I prefer to mix wood types with the following combination. Ash or maple mixed with either hickory, oak or locust. I try and use cherry for early/late season. Of course as Paul Bunion already stated-dry and drier!!

I guess I would say for me I burn pine with pine and larch with larch. Sometimes if I want a bit of a longer mid day burn I will mix pine with my better woods like larch or birch. Im anal when it comes to my night time burns though. Only the best btu wood my region can offer, cut to the perfect length and puzzled together makes it into the stove for overnight. I hear many people out east like to blend species depending on what they are looking for.

My 'mix' not next year.. but for 3 years after that:

Beech and Swamp Maple. That's the lowest value hardwood that needed to get cleaned out. So that's what'll burn. Had near 30 cords of it cut this winter.

I love a good mix of Beech and Red Oak. I'd love to get my hands on a few cords of Beech. I've already got the Red Oak covered.

JP11 said:

My 'mix' not next year.. but for 3 years after that:

Beech and Swamp Maple. That's the lowest value hardwood that needed to get cleaned out. So that's what'll burn. Had near 30 cords of it cut this winter.

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Can't get much better than beech for burning.

With what I commonly get in my area, red oak and ash work well together as does locust and black cherry.

silver maple and white oak

Maple is the most prevalent wood type by me so I like to mix maple & oak but if I'm running low on oak then I like to mix maple with birch because birch leaves a few more coals then straight maple.

I think a mix of 3 year seasoned Red Oak and Black Locust would be best. Maybe some Ash and just about any other hardwood for shoulder season, but I'd be happy to burn the RO/BL all season.

I just threw a couple of next years oak splits in with a load of mostly poplar. Im being lazy though, knowing it wont make it thru the night on just poplar. Its one of my favorite blends for cold nights warm days.

on a hot coal bed, a row of Silver Maple on the bottom and the rest Hedge(osage). Check the stove again in 24hrs and calculate you still have 4 to 6 hours before you must refill. Silver Maple gives me fast hot relights and Hedge....well Hedge is thremonuclear. second best is a bottom row of red cedar and the rest shagbark hickory. very similar characteristics as the first pairing just slightly less so.

on a cold stove i would take the same 2 pairings as above. the only change i'd make is to add a Super Ceder under the silver maple.

The only time a seek to have a blend is if I'm burning black locust since it won't light off as easily. Then, I find silver maple works very will with it. Probably 1/3 and 2/3 or 1/4 and 3/4, heavy on the locust.

Jags said:

White oak/Osage or White oak/hickory.

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That's the heavy hitters, big guns right there, Jags-can't get much heavier !