There are many types of wood that I would love but we have our own woods and burn what we have. Ash has always been one of my favorites but we won't be having it much longer. Oak is another and so is elm. We also burn a goodly amount of soft maple because we have lots of it.
in my experience black locust seasons in 6-8 months. where as my stack of honeylocust is finally burning after being CSS for 3 solid years. and that's burning in an OWB.
I live in northeastern Pennsylvania & I’ve never really heard of a wood called hedge. Is there another name for it?
Don't know that I have ever had any hedge but I thought I remember someone say that was another name for Osage. I could be wrong, if so someone will correct me.
In the old stove black locust was probably my favorite. I still love it but I like the way elm, ash and sugar maple off gas in the new stove. With black locust I have to give the stove more air to burn it right.
I’d have to say sugar maple. Just seems to burn really nice for me after 2 years, don’t have much of it though. Have lots of ash around here that’s dying so that’s mostly what I get, no complaints at all with ash.
It has a few different names, hedge apple, Osage orange, bois d' arc. It's dense dense wood. Great firewood if you have a saw man enough to cut it. I'd have to say my favorite is white oak followed by red oak. They're high btu and easy to split.
This is my first year burning strictly Mulberry. It is quickly becoming my favorite. Burns hot, low ashes, and puts on a spark show.
you are correct!! osage orange its called. it burns hotter than anything else. it burns so hot it will warp a stove made of mild steel. and it can crack a cast iron stove. you can also cut it and burn it the same day and still get all the btu's out of it. here is a firewood heat rating chart Sweep's Library - Firewood Heat Value Comparison Charts
osage orange was at one time natively limited to the NE Texas/SE Oklahoma area. It was planted widely as hedges before the advent of barbed wire. It was one of the trees chosen in the thirties to plant in the Great Plains shelterbelt to protect land after the Dust Bowl drought. Osage orange can now be found in all 48 continental states and quite a few provinces. Although some despise them for the fruit litter and thorns some are also planting them again in hedgrows to counter herbicidal drift from adjacent farms..
I prefer Hickory and White Oak. I burn all kinds of in the OWB as long as it heats water it will heat my house. Just need more of it.
