Whats your wood of choice?

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Oak and Ash are the kings of woods for burning in the UK and I do use and rate them very much indeed....but....give me some Yew or Blackthorn anyday... as I just seem to get more out of these woods than any other, any woods you love ?
 
Hickory
Osage
Oak/ edit Black Locust
Hard Maple
Ash

Pretty much in that order. But I do like to have a variety instead of just one flavor.
 
Neil said:
Jags said:
Hickory
Osage
Oak
Hard Maple
Ash

Pretty much in that order. But I do like to have a variety instead of just one flavor.


We do not get Osage or hard maple in the UK.

That is a shame. Really. The osage is just about the closest thing to burning coal around these parts.
 
Free wood is best but not always available for me. A couple years ago I scored about 8 cords of free Black Locust and I think that was one of the best firewoods I ever burned.
 
Todd said:
Free wood is best but not always available for me. A couple years ago I scored about 8 cords of free Black Locust and I think that was one of the best firewoods I ever burned.

Ooh...forgot about that one.
 
There isn't a wood yet named in this thread that's commonly (or even uncommonly) available where I live. Rick
 
fossil said:
There isn't a wood yet named in this thread that's commonly (or even uncommonly) available where I live. Rick

Ferrets??
 
I like pine if someone else is doing the felling, splitting, stacking, getting, and loading.
Happy now ?
Plus it's free around here.
Even I give it away.
:)




Oak, cherry, maple.
Beech is nice, I just don't have a lot to cut, although I have a huge beech in my father's back yard. A year before he died it finally had nuts. Bazillions of them. He walked around that tree for almost 70 years.
 
My preference is Ash wood that has been standing or fallen dead.

If the bark is off it I like it even more.

We will burn just about anything that is dry and with that in mind I enjoy using the term that someone posted a few months back in which the term "gotten-wood" was used to define whatever kind of wood one has stored up ready for winter.
 
Black locust + something lighter to get the fire started in the first place. Let's say ash. Would like to try osage sometime.
 
I've been burning a lot of shed this summer. 40 year-old shed may be my new favorite wood for the fire pit.

In the stove, I am especially fond of shagbark hickory, but any of the hickories will do. White oak is real nice if someone takes the time to dry it for me, I don't have the patience. I burn an awful lot of cherry, even though it's not "up there" on the BTU charts. I just like the way it burns - hot and clean, albeit a bit too fast. I start the day with cherry to get the stove and chimney hot, and gradually add more and more hickory or white ash or black locust or hard maple (if I can get it). Black birch and beech are way up there as well, but I just never seem to find them. I want to try osage orange someday, just to see what all the fuss is about. I'm afraid it might melt my stove, though. :roll: ;-)
 
Free
Dry
Burning
In no particular order
 
Jags said:
fossil said:
There isn't a wood yet named in this thread that's commonly (or even uncommonly) available where I live. Rick

Ferrets??

Just had to bring this up to the forefront :p


I hear the locally bred pineferretus species has magic abilities as far as over night burns ;-P


Wood of my choice ? I've had oak for 2 years. This year I finally get to burn some dry stuff :)

Cherry is excellant if dry. Luckily, it's in abudance at the farm. 4 dead and standing *happy dance*

And I became fond of pine last year. This year it's going to get us through. I've got more than enough of it :)

Yep, I'm a wood fan :)
 
Hickory
White Ash
Oak

These are my favorites that are commonly available to me. I'll burn just about anything though, pine, silver maple, box elder, poplar etc...
 
As long as it's free, I'll burn it. But if I have to work for it, I'd rather cut hedge / osage orange. I figure every cord of hedge I cut is 1.25 cords of oak, or nearly 2 cords of pine - so that is not a bad deal. But I've got everything from cottonwood to hedge on the pile right now...all waiting for just the right time to burn. Cottonwood & pine will take the chill off those early fall days. Oak and apple will smell good when company comes over, hedge will get you through the coldest winter nights with plenty of coals left over.
 
Free is best, but if a beggar can be a chooser I'd probably go:

Beech
Hard Maple
Cherry
Oak

In that order, now I've heard miraculous stories on Black locust and osage, and I'd love to try some, but I've never found any around here. I know where some honey locust trees are, but I think they are different.


But Free is Best!
 
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