Anyone burning alot of Cedar wood ?

[rumme]

My neighbor who is a farmer, has hundreds of old cedar posts, about 8 ft tall. Ive been burning :

ash

oak

cedar posts { untreated}


all of this wood is properly aged, and IMHO, I think the cedar burns the best. It gives a long burn time and it gets reduced to very fine and small amounts of ash.

 

[firefighterjake]

My neighbor who is a farmer, has hundreds of old cedar posts, about 8 ft tall. Ive been burning :

ash

oak

cedar posts { untreated}


all of this wood is properly aged, and IMHO, I think the cedar burns the best. It gives a long burn time and it gets reduced to very fine and small amounts of ash.

Maybe your cedar is different than the white cedar up this way . . . here cedar lights up quick, but it burns up wicked fast and leaves few coals to re-ignite the next load of wood . . . great for kindling (and I have a whole bunch of cedar just for that purpose) or as part of a starter fire (if you want to get the fire going and burning hot and fast) or Spring/Fall fire (quick/hot fire) . . . but it is not something I would look to burn exclusively.

That said . . . sounds like you've got a good stock of cedar to burn . . . and free is always good.

 

[Highbeam]

Last year I burned several cords of western red cedar cordwood. We have these trees up here in the NW in the lower elevations. They are pretty oily and resistant to bugs/rot. People chop up the red cedar into roof shingles for even modern homes.

I found it to be a good burning wood in my non-cat. Only a little less desirable than douglas fir but better than the cottonwood that I'm burning now.

 

[rumme]

yes, I believe these posts are red cedar also.

 

[brink]

I have allot of standing eastern red cedar that is almost dead. Over crowded. Some trees are 18-20 inches at the trunk and over 50 feet tall. I need to cut them down and was thinking I could burn them in a year or so after they are split and dried. I hear it snap,crackles and pops though.

 

[burntime]

Watch out for the sparks Cedar burns hot, good to start with, in Wisconsin we use HARDWOOD! Cedar is good in spring and fall.

 

[Highbeam]

Yes. Snap crackle pop and it smells freaking fantastic. The wood that is. The smoke smells like smoke.

 

[fossil]

I burn lots of old cedar. Ripped out a ~30-yr old cedar deck last year, cut the old weathered decking into 17" lengths with a chop saw, and I think I must have ~1/3 cord of it. Lots of times, I'll split it into kindling (works great!), other times I'll just toss a piece or three in on a coal bed. It's fuel, it burns, it yields heat, I'll burn it all. Rick