Wood of choice?

Hickory/Pecan and then Hickory/Pecan and after that Hickory/Pecan. However, I will burn what ever I can get for my OWB. Well cured White Oak is my second favorite followed by Locust and Ash. For my fire pit I lake Cherry, Walnut, Hackberry, Red Oak and any kind of fruit tree. (Hickory and Pecan are closely related)

 

What? No love for silver maple, pine, and boxelder??

Snobs.

 

I’d say ash is my favorite. It’s easy to manage, you can burn slow or hot. Easy to split. It’s going to be a sad day when it’s all gone.


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Red Oak is the best but I will burn any hardwood I can get my hands on.

 

In order...locust,hickory,red oak,rock oak,ash,maple.....

 

Based on what I have the most of and also like a lot it's black cherry that I like a lot! Would love to have more sugar maple. Pretty excited about next year though, I got some fair sized apple trees that should give me at least two face cord, need to see how long to dry them out, been a long time since I had any to burn.

 

My all around favorite to burn is Oak. It's a good all around performer with ease of splitting, good heat and coaling, and it's just a real work horse. As a bonus I even like the smell I can get off the bark when burning young branches soon after adding to fire (anyone else get that smell? Like a spicy sweet Frankincense?). Anyway, Oak loses points because it needs so much seasoning time and can be a real smoldering drag if it's moisture content isn't optimal. When oak is not fully seasoned it can be a stubborn mule. I love Beech as a novelty wood that I don't get much around here, but just seems to make everything easy for me in processing and yet still gives off respectable heat. Black Locust needs a mention here as well since it's like rocket fuel and a force to be reckoned with but can kill my chainsaw blades with it's high silica content. Mulberry next, then Maple, Cherry and finally ash. All the rest is just filler or shoulder season wood.

 

Eucalyptus, Specifically River red gum is my favourite then Sugar gum. Unfortunately they don’t grow in abundance locally so I usually burn Stringy bark and Messmate. They are all species of eucalyptus.



My favourite wood to process is lemon scented gum because it smells so good and my favourite smelling while burning is cypress pine.


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Nice looking stuff there leoht! I've only seen Eucalyptus trees when I went to California. They don't grow in my region, but I thought they were big and beautiful majestic trees and wish we had them here.

 

I burn mostly hedge & a little oak.

 

Red Fir, maple, alder, silver maple, oak, ash, tamarack, locus, very little pine, and any thing else i can cut with my chainsaw. I can have a big enough selection, that drying times are not an issue. It all makes heat, and does a pretty good job of it.

 

We burn mostly oak (any variety that I can get) some cherry, bitternut hickory. Going to cut some beech and american holly soon. Even have some persimmon if they die before I do.

 

Ash and locust or my cast iron stove. Maple for my outdoor pits.

 

Alaska isn’t blessed with the variety that so many of you have access to. My area has 3 choices white spruce, white birch and popel. Spruce covers 95%+ in my area. Standing dead spruce is what I have been burning for years. Now that we have a splitter I will be harvesting more birch. I almost never get popel, unless it’s standing dead no bark.

 

I like anything that is delivered and dumped for free (the local tree guy needed a new dump site for big wood). If I cut it, I like oak, hedge(Osage orange), walnut, or ash. I have been burning mostly silver maple lately as I have 2 cords that I CSS last spring (~18%MC).

 

Sugar maple and pine here. I've loved pine for a while running an owb to keep Coal Mountain under control. I love it even more now burning indoors - not only for coal control but for that quick four hour fire between morning and overnight loads to really heat up the pace when everybody is inside and active.

sugar maple is just great for me here - abundant, easy splitting most of the time, seasons much faster than the rare red oak that I come across, and it burns hot and long.

 

I burn pine, Douglas fir, larch, and western juniper. About the only available hardwood is elm.

 

Anything that’s dry. I’ve burned lots of ash, lots of honey locust, elm, hackberry, soft maple, and a bit o hedge. Looking forward to the hedge when it gets cold and most recently, have been burning some 20 year old(guessing) cottonwood and mixed species I found for $75/heaped pickup load. I was lazy and/or busy last year and got behind so had to buy some this year. Hope that didn’t happen again or I’ll get kicked off here.
Amazingly, the cotton is burning hot and I still have good coal and a 350f stove after a overnight burn.
Whatever I burn, it all makes


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It's only in extreme southern Wisconsin, from what I've been told by other wood burners. I'm north of Milwaukee and have never seen any hedge/ osage in any part of the state that I've been to. I also doubt it is in the UP of Michigan.

I realize it can be planted about anywhere though.

 

I have gotten Osage at least once from the local dump...found quite a few splits in my wood pile last year. My sister in law has Osage Oranges from time to time in her house ... Says that they control spiders... I m sure it's bupkis... But she buys them locally. They are halfway to Madison.