i will burn anything most of the time except black gum but only when it is in small pieces because it is impossible to split by hand.
I haven't been to that part of the state in many years. We wued to do the Mammoth Cave bicycle ride every year. It was great fun and in a beautif area.
Black birch is by far my favorite to burn and I have a lot of it! Easy to split, seasons well, and smells great when processing. This season we will burn mostly black birch and oak. Next years wood is a good mix of apple, ash, cherry, oak, black birch, maple and some sassafras to be used as kindling and the shoulder season.
Between seasons. There are times when the fall season is just coming in so still warm during the day but not hot yet cold during the nights. Springtime too...Apparently its describing how wood burners just keep smaller fires going before the real winter arrives then they burn 24/7 on high.
My favorite changes all the time. We don't have much of the high BTU stuff around here. Bigleaf maple is probably my favorite, with birch and Douglas fir tied for 2nd place. Birch would be my #1 if it didn't take long to dry than the rest. Red alder is lower on the BTU charts but I like it because it is plentiful, clean and easy to handle, and usually very straight and easy to split.
Hey I'm locust post.....nuff said. ****** Pretty fond of ash and elm with this cat stove. It seems to off gas well.
I like a mixture of wood. Softer woods to light the fire. And to get a quick fire going in the morning. Harder wood when your trying for long hot burns. My earlier stoves I've owned it was mainly about finding hard woods since it burned hot and not too long. These newer EPA stoves with slow burn times, I find a mixture of soft and hard to work well for me.
Depends on the weather. On a -10 evening with the wind howling there is nothing more comforting than the Blaze King full of Hedge smoldering off in the corner. Any other time I'm a big red oak fan. Easy to spilt and stack and once dry is primo fuel.
