What do YOU prefer for overnite burns......and gooooooo

Cherry. I have maple for the cold days and cherry for the long nights and when I'm running out but want it to stay steady with the burn.

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I put a big chunk on the left side of the stove, fill the rest with smaller splits, get it going good and turn it down.

Whenever it is time to refill the bigger piece will provide plenty of hot coals for a quick reload.

I wish I had hickory. Would love to toss some in the smoker. I so also use a "overnighter" fat log. I guess it would have helped to mention. I have the Osburn Matrix. It burns long but the blower is a bit loud and only one speed. So you head it all night in my tiny house. But it heats it. Are you using it as a main source of heat, or just a room? I use mine for hole house. Leave thermostat on 72 and go to bed. It might be 80 in my main room all night. If it finally drops off my bedrooms are 60s and chilly for the little ones

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Locust seems to have the most coal left in the morning for me. I have never been able to get osage orange or hickory yet though. Red oak is still my favorite all around firewood.

My little smoke dragon won't overnight burn anything, so I wouldn't know. White oak and hickory seem to last a little longer, though.

Large rounds of locust for the real cold nights, large pieces of hickory or locust for just overnight burns. Locust seems to coal the best for me plus I love the heat it gives and it last!

I used to burn mostly soft maple. For over night burn I would add Eco bricks or Niels if I had some. One of my last fires I used red oak, it was first time when I used red oak exclusively. I was very impressed. I had coals after 17 hrs! Granted it was mid 40 during the day and mid 30 at night but still very impressive.

I can't get overnight burns with anything, but probably what last the longest while giving out the most heat is black locust. The trick is for it to be put on a bed of coals or get it going good before you close the air or it will smolder around awhile before it gets going. Dry big pieces of red oak do pretty good too. The other woods I use as black cherry, walnut, maple, elm, hackberry, ash etc. are my day woods.

In this order

White oak
Hickory
Red oak
Cherry

No Osage or black locust around me to get

If I want to burn any red oak I'll have to rip up the floors because I don't have any lol. My conection drops me cherry and locust logs. And since there free I won't complain but my stacks are maple, cherry and a bit of locust. But my maple will heat the house awesome. To hot in the main room. I leave the ceiling fan on. Makes my back bedrooms of the rancher 67 at night. The cherry I have burns all night. Bed at 930 with a full box. Wake up at 5 for work with a big stack of coals. This is my first year with it. But was an awesome investment. Used a half a tank of oil this season and 1 1/2 cords. So even if you can't get a good overnight burn. The substitution. Makes a world of difference.

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Black locust, oak (mostly I end up burning red) and yellow birch ...,that said I usually burn whatever I have in the wood box and don't cherry pick the wood for each load.

AmbDrvr253 said:

What is the favorite go to wood for an overnight/extended burn

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White oak for me. But like firefighterjake said i'm not picky. On the weekends i have more time to cherry pick what i want in the stove.

Any hardwood works for me, but I've noticed that the coals from Ash last a ridiculously long time, and even though it doesn't burn as hot as some others, for the easy of splitting and time of drying, it's just simply the best firewood.

Oak or Black Locust. Those are the two high-density woods which I have a lot of. Everything else is a little less dense, but still pretty good.

I like the big knotty uglies for night. I even cut the knots off of the tree after downing to throw in on cold nights. Whatever can get me from 9pm to 4am. But those knots seem to leave nice coals in the morning.

bholler said:

I can get overnight burns easily with any hardwood and enought coal to restart from with soft woods but not any real heat from the stove after 8 hours with them. But if i am looking for long burns i go for white oak hickory locust or osage orange. White oak is not as good as the others but there is allot of it here so it is usually what i use when temps drop. The other stuff is reserved for really cold nights.

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I've come to find out those who say they have long burns, really just have well insulated houses and a pile of red coals in the morning. I have the red coals, but I have to cover the match to light my fires in this old farm house.