what wood will work

[stubby 175]

hi all, and ditch,

 

you'll remember i posted about the wood burning stove i picked up, well its all fitted in the shed, and a new ash pan made for it, ive had a few test fires in it, but only using kindling, so what wood will be best to use, to keep some form of fire/heat going

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

hi all, and ditch,

 

 

Cheeky c***!

 

 

What I use a Lot of is Ash. It's no more than a woodland weed tree so should be available freely enough. Doesn't take a lot of seasoning either. Burns well enough just about as it comes down.

 

Pine needs a bit of drying, but I find it burns up too quickly. Ye for ever chucking more in.

 

Want the best there is though? Hardwood double glazed window frames. Find a builder who specialises and take every scrap he'll bring ye. Truckloads is great. It's a bitch on the chain saw blade and for god sake make sure ye suss out which way those six inch nails go. It also leaves ye with an interesting lot of clack, from the puttys. Use a magnet to trawl through ye ash for the nails. Then fish out the melted down alli' and chuck that in a bucket. Scrap that later.

 

But that wood will burn furiously, yet slowly. And the heat it chucks out is f*cking awesome! Burns the back of my next at ten feet! I don't think ye'll find better. Not with the availability of that stuff anyway.

[Caravan Monster 323]

Ash is good. Even better if you can get some in now, and cut, split and stack it, so that it dries out over the summer.

 

There is an old saying about names of trees and the alphabet. Those which have names starting with letters at the beginning of the alphabet are good firewood- Ash, Apple, Beech. And those at the end of the alphabet are poor firewood- Willow, Yew.

 

Like a lot of old sayings, there is a grain of truth in it, but it doesn' t always work.

 

Storms forecast for tonight, so get honing that chainsaw, ready for those fallen trees.

[stubby 175]

cheers ditch, knew I'd get the info from you

[Wilky 0]

Want the best there is though? Hardwood double glazed window frames. Find a builder who specialises and take every scrap he'll bring ye. Truckloads is great. It's a bitch on the chain saw blade and for god sake make sure ye suss out which way those six inch nails go. It also leaves ye with an interesting lot of clack, from the puttys.

 

 

 

Take care with any hardwoods, hardwood sawdust is class 1 carcinogen.

[trapper25 0]

i work for a carpentry co, who own their own joinery so needless to say theres an abundance of off cuts, i find cedar is the best for sticks burns like paperbut any other hardwood will burn ferociously and forever.

it costs my boss a small fortune to get rid off his excess,hes even bought two horseboxes to give the local farmers free sawdust and shavings and hes still had to buy an incinerater to burn the rest of his "rubbish"

im sure if there is a joinery near you , they would be only too happy to give you as much as you could squeeze into your car

plus you get to try out all the different timbers [oak burns like coal]

hope this helps

best of luck stubby

[Waz 4,252]

Majority of what I use is oak chesnut & cherry, oak is the most expensive as it doesnt spit so people with open fires want it, whereas chesnut spits but no bother in the wood burners. Ive heard it said of ash that if you cut it before the clocks go forward its ready to be used when the clocks go back.

[john b 38]

Beechwood fires are bright and clear

If the logs are kept a year

Chestnut only good they say

If for long it's laid away

Make a fire of elder tree

Death within your house will be

But ash new or ash old

Is fit for a Queen with a crown of gold

 

Birch and Fir logs burn too fast

Blaze up bright and do not last

It is by the Irish said

Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread

Elmwood burns like churchyard mould

Even the very flames are cold

But ash green or ash brown

Is fit for a Queen with a golden crown

 

Poplar gives a bitter smoke

Fills your eyes and makes you choke

Apple wood will scent your room

With an incense-like perfume

Oaken logs, if dry and old

Keep away the winters cold

But ash wet or ash dry

A king shall warm his slippers by.

[Waz 4,252]

All the stuff I use is split (where necessary) and stacked for 2 years 'cept the ash.