1. White Oak 2. Black Cherry 3. Red Oak 4. Apple 5. Sugar Maple 6. White Ash 7. Ironwood 8. American Beech 9. Silver Maple 10. Shagbark Hickory 11. Bitternut Hickory 12. Black Locust 13. Mulberry 14. Pin Oak 15. Pear 16. Black Walnut 17. White Birch 18. Box Elder 19. White Pine 20. Kentucky Coffee Tree 21. Sasafrass 22. Pecan 23. Black Birch 24. Red Maple 25. Green Ash
Would have thought Black Locust would be higher on the list. American Beech is #10 and #23 - typo? Or just that good?
Fixed it-- somehow I had one of the beech votes off by itself. As you can see, that moved it up the list and green ash has now snuck in at #25.
Just like the NCAA polls, this is essentially a popularity contest and, well, silver maple must be really popular!
Weird list to say the least, Boxelder at 18 and Black Birch at 23 is just wrong. I assume its because many of the woods are more available to us burners. Green Ash is a nice middle of the road wood but not many talk about burning it.
That probably has more to do with its limited range. It is petty much an eastern Appalachian tree. Not everybody has access to it. And hedge is absent from the list.
