What wood are y'all burning?

werdnareklaw

This is what you do with pallets Pic taken in Nerja, near Malaga, last May. A delicious paella :cool:

werdnareklaw

Just found another list of wood for burning if of interest to anyone:

Apple and pear – burning slowly and steadily with little flame but good heat. The scent is also pleasing.
Ash – the best burning wood providing plenty of heat (will also burn green but you should not need to do this!)
Beech and hornbeam – good when well seasoned
Birch – good heat and a bright flame – burns quickly.
Blackthorn and hawthorn – very good – burn slowly but with good heat
Cherry – also burns slowly with good heat and a pleasant scent.
Cypress – burns well but fast when seasoned, and may spit
Hazel – good, but hazel has so many other uses hopefully you won’t have to burn it!
Holly – good when well seasoned
Horse Chestnut – good flame and heating power but spits a lot.
Larch – fairly good for heat but crackles and spits
Maple – good.
Oak – very old dry seasoned oak is excellent, burning slowly with a good heat
Pine – burns well with a bright flame but crackles and spits
Poplar – avoid all poplar wood – it burns very slowly with little heat – which is why poplar is used to make matchsticks.
Willow – very good – in fact there is growing interest in biomass production of coppiced willow as a fuel

pops282

we had a woodburner fitted in february and since then ive stock piled quite a variety of different woods from various places via adertising locally for free wood and rremoving small trees like conifer and laurel and poplar at the moment the stock pile contains:

oak (my fav)
poplar
pine (old furniture beyond repare off cuts and conifer lengths)
beech (my 2nd fav)
laurel
elder (apparently deadly according to old wives tales and poems but burns fine to me)
and some others i have not identified yet

love having the fire being only a small 2 bed semi house it seems to heat the house evenly to around 18-22 degrees depending if we have it on all day or just at night theyre great little things!

A._Badger

I specify 'no chestnut' when I buy logs. Even though I use a closed stove, I've had sparks shoot out when opening the doors to refuel. Oak, on my stove, burns too slowly to be a lot of use: I'd love to know how they manage to use it so routinely in area of France. Ash is clearly the best, IME.

hethmar

Ash and oak

IvanDrago

yeah the chestnut spits out about 50 sparks everytime i add a new log.

Im going to try and get just ash from now on. Although everyone wants it and my tree surgeon can only give me the tree hes cut.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Greenfires wrote: »

Larch is one of the best options if you're burning softwood.

Ash will burn green, but that's because it's a naturally drier wood to begin with - and to be honest, it's a bit wasteful as it's even better when properly dry.

Here at home we're burning briquettes as usual - much more heat than logs and so much more convenient. Haven't paid for logs in many years and wouldn't go bac to them now unless they were free!

Andy

are these the ones you make out of paper?

Even though we have wood for free, pallets, old furniture etc.... it will be interesting to find out what people think about those paper brickette making things

suki1964

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

are these the ones you make out of paper?

Even though we have wood for free, pallets, old furniture etc.... it will be interesting to find out what people think about those paper brickette making things

The paper ones are time consuming and messy to make and you need a place to dry them. They burn for about an hour, don't give out a huge heat but I use them just to keep the fire going end of a night sometimes

And they leave a lot of ash

hethmar

If anyone has some spare land ash does grow quickly.

alleycat`

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

are these the ones you make out of paper?

Even though we have wood for free, pallets, old furniture etc.... it will be interesting to find out what people think about those paper brickette making things

Shouldn't really respond for someone else but i'm almost 100% sure than greenfires means wood briquettes as i know he uses them.