Cedar...

[Dustin]

Alright fella's

I have three down cedar trees in my yard, all down for over a year.


Cut em all up and stack them away from the rest of the wood and use them as kindling? Or stack with everything else and just burn away.

Hey, it's free wood for me

 

[Vic99]

Tops for kindling

Everything else, burn away, baby. I bet it will smell nice too.

 

[d.n.f.]

Cedar burns great.

Kindling or regular splits.

 

[RedRanger]

I have over 4 cords of the stuff. It`s a pyro`s dream come true :coolcheese:

 

[Beowulf]

Burn lots of Cedar; no problem. Not bad heat/burn times on the heartwood.

 

[firefighterjake]

I'm not sure if the left coast cedar burns any different than the cedar here on the right coast . . . or what your availability of hardwood is like . . . but here in Maine I tend to favor the cedar (eastern white) for use as kindling . . . although the gnarly, knotty pieces I often leave in firewood sized pieces . . . good for the shoulder season fires.

 

[PNWBurner]

The nice clear splits with no knots are really easy to split further into kindling and the splits that are knotty burn great just as they are.

Cedar is good stuff for fast hot fires to kick things off. Dries real fast too.