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Post by Bwoods11 on Sept 6, 2019 8:55:00 GMT -6
I have to cut up a bunch post-season... what is your personal favorite?
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 6, 2019 8:57:52 GMT -6
Whatever kind is free and already cut and split!
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Post by smsmith on Sept 6, 2019 8:59:57 GMT -6
I don't do firewood any more, but when I did I loved using black oak. Those about 12-18" dbh were easy to cut and split, great heat too. Don't think there any around here.
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Post by Catscratch on Sept 6, 2019 9:01:34 GMT -6
Almost never get the chain dirty unless it's hedge. I will oak, red elm, and hackberry if I'm helping someone clean up and it's easy.
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 6, 2019 9:15:36 GMT -6
My friend used to get birch to burn in his house. Spendy stuff. But it really did burn a good smell.
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Post by jbird on Sept 6, 2019 9:21:40 GMT -6
Firewood is one thing I don't miss. So my favorite is poplar. It's light, cuts easy, it's clean, splits easy and burns fast. It's actually really good for starting a fire, but isn't much for the long burn and the heat department. For heat....hedge, oak, locust, beech, ash, hard maple and hickory. The density of the wood is where the heat comes from. Many of the softer hardwoods tend to hold a lot of moisture and when it dries it leaves a lot of porosity in the wood itself. I found the link below to help give you some ideas of what supposedly provides the most heat. worldforestindustries.com/forest-biofuel/firewood/firewood-btu-ratings/
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Post by batman on Sept 6, 2019 9:25:25 GMT -6
P225 15 inch burns super hot but it smells horrible. Don’t burn during the day or you will be arrested.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Sept 6, 2019 9:27:18 GMT -6
I like oak and have quite a bit to cut up. Ironwood is great for outdoor fires!!
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Post by mnaaron on Sept 6, 2019 10:26:52 GMT -6
Red oak
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Post by jbird on Sept 6, 2019 11:08:56 GMT -6
P225 15 inch burns super hot but it smells horrible. Don’t burn during the day or you will be arrested. My grandfather had an unstated mantra of what makes a good brush fire....and it included about 1/2 gallon of gasoline, a few paper bags of paper/cardboard trash and a tire of some sort! Tire (the bigger the better) stuffed with small branches and the paper with the larger brush on top. Splash it down with gas, toss a match....and blow your eye brows off! I remember a few times as a kid feeling the air rush from the gasoline igniting....expecting him to have set himself on fire in the process. He would be high step'n and be laughing and he was feeling for his eye brows, "See there J-bird....now that's a fire!" Crazy old bastard!
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Post by benmnwi on Sept 6, 2019 11:19:16 GMT -6
Oak is hard to beat all around and especially for cooking over.
For just sitting around the campfire I like birch since it starts easy and crackles a bit.
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Post by nhmountains on Sept 6, 2019 14:17:38 GMT -6
I’m still clearing land so we burn mostly birch early fall through early November. The. We switch to maple and cherry. I’ve got some red oak waiting for January. I’ve got another cord of red oak that cane down in a windstorm to get out of the woods. We will burn that next season.
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Post by Reagan on Sept 6, 2019 14:37:02 GMT -6
Ash splits and burns easy.
Thanks to the borer there is a lot around here.
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Post by Foggy on Sept 6, 2019 15:12:26 GMT -6
When I burned wood I really liked the ash trees as they split so clean. good Btu's and worked well in a firebox. Now, for outdoor fireplace we burn mostly birch as I have plenty at my property and it makes such a nice flame. I need a splitter....but get by with rounds.
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Post by wiscwhip on Sept 6, 2019 15:25:36 GMT -6
Whatever kind is free and already cut and split! This ^^^^
I cut and split so much wood as a kid I don't think I would ever go back to it as a heat source. Firepit and campfires, sure...heat source, not so much.
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