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  1. Grizzly Adam

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    I think I've made it pretty clear that I am a mulberry fan and we all know Scotty <3 locust. What is everyone else's fav?
     
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  2. lukem

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    Of the woods I have burned in any significant quantities:

    1. Hedge
    2. Black Locust
    3. Hickory
    4. White Oak (includes all the "whites")
    5. Red/Black/Pin Oak
    6. Beech
    7. Ash
    8. Hard/Sugar Maple
    9. Red Elm
    10. Everything else
     
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    Free!:)
     
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  4. Grizzly Adam

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    I must admit, box elder is pretty far up my list. Makes building a fire easy.
     
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    Locust
     
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  6. thewoodlands

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    What's on our lot, in this order.
    1.Beech
    2.Sugar Maple
    3. Ironwood (only 3rd because of its size)
    4.Yellow Birch
    5. Cherry
    6. Soft maple
     
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  7. Grizzly Adam

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    Can't argue with any of that. Some of the beech would be pretty sweet!
     
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    Shagbark hickory for its high btu rating and because I have quite a bit of it.
     
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    White ash, oak, soft maple, elm, cherry. Not necessarily in that order.
     
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    What ever is available and properly seasoned.
     
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    Cherry.
    I know it's not the best btu.
    I know it can be twisted and not split easy.
    I know it may not burn the longest.....but

    It smells GREAT!
     
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  12. Grizzly Adam

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    Bigger PITA I've every dealt with was a little twisted cherry tree. Looking forward to burning it.
     
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    Oak. And locust
     
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  14. Grizzly Adam

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    I had a feeling you were going to say oak!
     
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    Oak is what I cut 90% of the time. There just is not much locust around here.
     
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    If only I had a choice. Pine is all we have in my neighborhood. Maybe a few aspens but those are used in the fire pit since they burn so fast.
     
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    Just because it's readily available.....Oak, Maple, Poplar/Aspen, Pine/Spruce.
    I'd like to try some Ash, Osage, Locust, and any others that have good long burning properties....when well dried.:thumbs:
     
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    1.) Locust
    2.) Beech
    3.) Hickory
    4.) Oak
    5.) Ash
    6.) Sugar Maple
    7.) Cherry
    8.) Elm
     
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    Pine kindlin
    Silver maple
    Bradford pear
    Ash
    Pin oak
    Red oak
    White oak
    Hickory
    Cherry
     
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    On my lot:

    Hophornbeam (Ironwood)
    Beech
    Hickory
    Sugar Maple
    Ash
    Cherry
    Apple
    Smaller amounts of other hardwoods (Oak, Tulip for instance), and some pine, hemlock, cedar, balsam. Mostly I burn the first four listed.
     
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