Welcome. I frequently use apple in our smoker. Makes delicious smoked meats. I've never burned it in our stove but will be cutting a wild apple tree down in the near future so the info being shared here is of interest to me too.
Welcome to FHC timusp40 ! Great folks here, great stories, awesome experience and advice abound! And not just limited to hoarding... One big firewood lovin' family. Nice start, too, with the Apple pics- keep 'em comin'! Eric VW
Apple is in need of some help here in the tourny ... http://firewoodhoardersclub.com/forums/threads/match-madness-tournament.11282/
I've always seen sugar maple and beech listed as exactly the same, and I believe at between 23 and 24 million BTU. Apple I have always seen listed higher, and only Ironwood, of the woods we have here at 27, although hickory is getting there.
I usually take all the charts in to play, then throw out the high and low btu numbers as outliers. That way you get a better average and its more realistic. It's possible that some regions species are higher or lower than the typical btu ratings. Notice how most of the btu charts are done by universities? Or you could use the most local to you btu chart and call it good.
Welcome to FHC! I have cut and burned some apple. Good burning but has a lot of branches to deal with
Welcome timusp40. Apple is great firewood. I had a bunch a long time ago. I think the charts that rate it higher are correct. I do recall that it has the ability to shoot out tiny fireworks like sparklers from the coals when you open the door. A little suprise when reloading.
Good BTU stuff !!! Neighbors will enjoy the days you burn it . Save the some chips & small chunks to add some smoke to just about anything you grill Welcome
Glad you got on Tim. I really didn't want to bug you too much about it but this forum will fit you nicely. For those who don't know some of Tim's background, he did things right in that he cut, split and beautifully stacked plenty of wood before installing his stove. He didn't freeze this winter!
welcome tim, I have burned 2 cord apple this year it's a great firewood, easily as good as sugar maple, not quite white oak but better than red oak IMO. hard to split but worth it burns pretty blues and green in cooling stage. check it out great just watching it burn.
To all of you who responded to my post, THANK YOU! I recognize many of your names from another place. You have made me feel at home. When I first decieded to get a Woodstove and join the masses so to speak, I was not working and things were tight. I'm sure many of you can relate to tightening the belt at one time or another. Like Backwoods mewntioned, I had already started putting up my stacks prior to putting a Firevieww in lay away, and making my first payment. It took me a year to pay it and by then I had a mix 2 and 3 year old hardwood cut split and stacked. If you don't mind, here is a video of what I had put up when the Fireview arrived. Last fall I finally built a woodshed that holds around 10 full cords. I'll post some pictures of the stove install and shed build later on. Thanks again, Tim
Welcome aboard Tim! Those are some sexy stacks you have in your avatar there! One thought that occured to me with that much and that big apple logs, what about selling it to a BBQ joint (of course keeping a nice pile for your culinary excursions) or grill gurus? I worked at a BBQ joint for a while and the owner was always on the lookout for larger chunks of good smoking wood. He always used to gripe that the orchard stuff was so small he couldn't get the smoker to run overnight and he'd have to drive in at 0 dark-thirty and restock it. He and other guys paid quite a premium for larger primo smoking wood. Maybe earn some extra cash for a new saw?
This list has got it a little lower than Shagbark.... http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/wood-combustion-heat-d_372.html
Since that chart doesn't specifically say shagbark hickory, and just " hickory ", they could be meaning butternut hickory, which is less btu's than shagbark on all charts that differentiate those 2 species. How about we make a new chart? Simply saying goodest, more gooder, good, sorta good, and not so good?
Right. I just made the leap without thinking about it because I usually see Shagbark 27.7 and other Hickories around 26.5.
