firewood

[christhelost]

best firewood

[Clanad]

Any hardwood, but especially oak or ash. Soft wood pine, fir and balsam burn hotter but produce creosote, which quickly lines the chimney and can produce a fire in that area. Use caution about storing wood from diseased trees near healthy ones or wood infected with bugs. Once the wood is brought into a warm house, they tend to creep out...

[mycats]

Silver Birch is good

[tell-me-more]

Ash.

[jake-the-peg]

Beechwood fires are bright and clear
If the logs are kept a year,
Chestnut's only good they say,
If for logs 'tis 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 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.
Elm wood burns like churchyard mould,
E'en the very flames are cold
But Ash green or Ash brown
Is fit for a queen with golden crown.

Poplar gives a bitter smoke,
Fills your eyes and makes you choke,
Apple wood will scent your room
Pear wood smells like flowers in bloom
Oaken logs, if dry and old
keep away the winter's cold
But Ash wet or Ash dry
a king shall warm his slippers by.

[sg]

The best ever campfire I had was using next door neighbour's Hawthorn bush ( after he had cut it down and let me take it). The timber is so fine grained and hard, the branches took ages to catch light but once they did they burned beautifully and really hot, and stayed alight for hours.
But you don't get many Hawthorn branches lying around.
I used to hear that Elm was not good for burning, although I can't remember why.

[MORELLO]

The dry stuff.

[Thunderbird+]

The key word is *Well seasoned* with most woods and as Clanad says avoid the conifer woods as they we smoke exessivly, spit and give your chimney a coat of tar.

I know a variation on Jake the pegs rhime 'wood to burn' but he beat me to it but again ash comes out tops, the version that I know says - "Ash, burn it green or burn it old
Buy all that comes your way
It's worth it's weight in gold".

[RobertPhillips]

http://www.buyfirewooddirect.co.uk/