Thanks, but I'm happy with my beetle kill Lodgepole pine, it works for me.From reading posts on here and where some of you fellas are located it sounds like you almost already only have one wood to burn-Pine! Wish I could ship some nice hardwoods to you all so you could experience how they burn.
I've burned a few other higher BTU hardwoods before (mainly apple), and it's true they do burn longer, but it doesn't seem to make much difference in the grand scheme of things, in fact burning hardwoods generally makes things a little more complicated for us because of the seasoning time for the hardwoods. With the beetle kill lodgepole I can cut what I need in the fall at start burning it immediately, no waiting 2 or 3 years to burn the wood. And as for burning times, we start a fire in the evening, let it burn through the night, and if it's really cold out we'll load it up with wood (on top of the coals) again in the morning and let it burn through the day, and come home and load it again (on top of the coals) and reload again before going to bed. If it's not that cold out (above freezing) we just let the fire go out in the morning, cause the house is still warm from the fire going all night, and just relight the stove in the evening when the house starts to cool down. Extending the burn any longer rarely helps at all unless we happen to break our routine and are gone away from the house for longer than normal, but even then the hardwood only burns for a few hours longer and eventually the furnace has to kick in and the house ends up cooler when we come back anyway.
Think of it this way, if you had a choice of buying gasoline for your car, which would you prefer, gasoline you could use right away, that gave you a little less gas mileage? Or gasoline that would give you a little better gas mileage, but you had to stockpile for 3 years before you could burn it?
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