Favorite? Black birch. Cuts and splits easy, burns hot and long, and smells GREAT. Most realistic for heavy duty burning wood in ready supply? Sugar maple. We're swimming in it around here - my neck of the Berkshires is like Vermont South. Lots of maples, and sugar maple is quite prolific, thankfully. Just gotta weed out the punky trunks, a lot of the old trees planned here a hundred and a half+ years ago are starting to show their age..
Hello and welcome to this neck! I tend to lump poplar and cottonwood together, both burn at terrific rates so you're gonna load it a bit quicker than others. Either way if you're finding it the more abundant wood on your land, burn it. Its better than chattering teeth.
Favorite firewood? Hmmm anything that's dry that I have CSS..... In all seriousness Black locust for longer burns, when I can get it.Most of the time mainly ash and maple. Right now I'm sitting on stacks of ash, elm, cherry, white birch, sugar maple, silver maple,apple, basswood, poplar, few pieces of red oak, and black walnut. Probably missing some..... I'm a big fan of mixing especially to get the stove going and up to cruising temp. I have got to say on the opposite end of things black walnut is my least favorite! It's got to be one of the dirtiest barkiest woods to handle I try to reserve as much as possible for the mill but can't let the limb wood go to waist or the ugly dead trunks either it's all :stacke:. Now being on the almost 6 year plan I've become a bit more of a snob since I've been trying to stay away from much over 16" diameter stuff or anything real green.
welcome dingbat great to have you here.. my favorite wood is Apple.. this is especially nice if you have a glass front stove.. bigger pieces in Coaling stage will through blue and green flames very pretty and umm romantic hard maple cause it is abundant easy to split and throws good heat.. if on edge of field leave bottom 15 feet trunk.. there will be metal taps in it!
I have some dry apple I'll be burning, I'll have to pay attention. I also have a few packets of this: You toss the whole package in the fire. We've done it in the fireplace, it makes blue and green flames.
Midwinter my wife says hour or 2 before bed after a hard day a glass of wine. before you load stove for night couple pieces of apple and I personally prefer hot cider with umm a cinamon kicker but that's her recipe
I'm on my way back from Namibia just now. They were burning mopane and it is like nothing I've seen in the states. For one thing it is so dry where I was that the firewood is incredibly dry, almost kiln dry. But beyond that, the density is unbelievable. I just looked it up and it averages 67 lbs/cubic foot. In a simple small open fire, it leaves a bed of coals the next morning comparable to a modern stove loaded with oak and the air fully restricted.
No, you are Massachusetts. LOL. We lay no claim to the Berserkshires so you can't be us either. But I agree with your choice of Black Birch, it's my favorite too. I have no yellow birch or it would be my second favorite, so I'll have to settle for beech, black locust, hickory and sugar maple in that order.
Lol! I just meant so far as the sugar maple population, don't be alarmed. I am well aware of the negative connotation Massachusetts has amongst the Woodchucks, Mainers, and the Free Citizens of NH. With the droves of Massholes pouring north over the borders trying to urbanize every place they land, I can understand. They do the same in my little town. Why move to a place and then start demanding everything from trash collection, to more paved roads, high speed internet, the works. If you wanted all that crap, why not stay in the city?
Red all year. Pinot noir especially. yooperdave , see that. Wine. It's good stuff, well most wine is. And no, I don't consider "white zin" to be wine.
