Firewood I've never burned (but want to)

I have a virtual smorgasbord of wood in my area, and I'm currently filling my stacks with black locust, ash, pignut and shagbark hickory, red and white oak and sugar maple. Not hurting for big BTU's.

However, I wouldn't mind trying pecan, osage, persimmon or almond. Also if I'm really wishing, maybe some of those Aussie species of ironbark or mallee.

 

I should add beech to this too, tree climber buddy said there's some in the area but nobody wants them taken down

At one point oak, plain ol oak would be on this list, I could never find any and now I'm slammed with huge logs of it! So it's just a matter of time til beech I guess.

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Beech and Osage would be my two. Never burned either and heard great things about both.

 

Since it will easily win this wish list, did it live up to your expectations?

 

I want to burn BRAD's firewood! Lol...

I'm a west coast native.....and I'm here to tell you....
Douglas fir ain't really nothin special, it's just what the underprivileged west coast people have to burn.
Out there everybody wants maple (soft maple), cause it's the best thing you can easily get in that region.
Eastern hardwoods beat western softwoods all hollow, I'm loving all the different types of hardwood in the Ozarks!

 

After seeing buzzsawbrad’s post…gonna go with mulberry. Also throw hickory on the list. I have some one the property. Not much and no blowdowns or twisty trees that need taking down.

 

I have never had the opportunity to burn Osage Orange but I do harvest some hedge apples every year and throw them on my property. Anybody have any idea on how to get the seeds to propagate? I would also love to try some Fir to burn.

 

calling Eric Wanderweg

 

I have one growing in my stove room right now. All I did was plant it in a pot about a quarter inch down and kept it watered. It's a few weeks old now and maybe 8 inches tall. I also planted some outside when the ground thawed enough to work the soil. So far nothing's come up yet but it's still cool weather here. I was told all I had to do was cut the hedge balls into chunks and bury them. What I did was soak them in a bucket of water for a couple days first, then pulled them apart by hand and buried handfuls of pulp/seeds in a shallow trench about an inch or so down.

 

I drink Sassafras tea.It's a natural blood thinner and does taste like root beer.It's very strong so don't use much.I don't want to see the trees cut.The tea is more valuable than the burning of the wood.

 

Is the tea made from sassafras leaves or sap or anotherpart of the tree?

 

I bought mine from a herb store but it looks like it's bark or the root.

 

There are several species I burned in my younger, poorer, other priorities days that I would like to try again with proper seasoning instead of css in July and burn in October. Beech and red oak among them.

 

I want to burn some of that wood that gets delivered to your house and stacked by someone besides myself.

 

I can accommodate!

 

Only if it is elm.

 

I'd like some monkey puzzle wood, just so I can say I've got monkey in my stove.