I save non-oak species for myself because nobody appreciates it except me. Without educating them, that won't change. So, I like to burn different ones just because. Of course, oak is great. But... dogwood, hickory, ironwood, mulberry, holly, persimmon, black locust, ash, cherry, maple, hackberry, sugarberry, cedar, hedge, pecan and... ELM. Might be a coupla stragglers I forgot.
I digress. I just brought in maybe another cord, basically a section that was left of an old dead oak score, and low and behold there are 25-30 pieces of shagbark from the lot clearing score in 8/17! WooHoo! Should be nice and dry.
I’ve heard it, but never experienced it yet. I “think” with the control of the newer stoves and newer gaskets, it probably decreases that likelihood. A little extra air and bam your cooking.
Besides having a fetish for the variety of inventory I have, I am saving some choice pieces for a day real soon to have a “special” fire. I have some mulberry that buZZsaw BRAD gave me, of which I’d like to mix some apple, black cherry, hickory, and maybe sugar maple with. In my mind’s eye I see myself up on the roof getting a whiff of the presumably pleasant aroma it gives off
There's a guy on a fb group I'm in and he would make it glow red regularly! Which is crazy enough, he would also burn tires Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
