I 'm curious how you guys rate your wood. I just want you to list in order what you think is the best all around firewood that you have IN STOCK to the worst. For me; Oak Black locust & mulberry tied Silver maple Tree of heaven White pine
black locust hickory tied white and red oak ash black cherry hard maple bein up there with the oaks red maple bein below cherry
I would say for me I’ll exclude Black Locust as I just acquired some and haven’t burnt it yet. My go to woods top to bottom would probably be Sugar Maple and Shagbark Hickory tied, Red Oak, White Oak, Black Birch, Red Maple, Yellow Birch, and Cherry for hardwoods. Then Poplar and Pine at the bottom but good for shoulder wood. Hope I didn’t forget any.
2 ive always found that in my stove when im burning white oak i get a pretty long burn time upto 12 ish plus hrs
I'm not trying to be funny- but I'm one of those guys that has next to no idea what are in my stacks. I've got a) dry, b) mostly dry, c) not dry and d) whoops, that wasn't dry.
Id do better if I ran some through the plainer. LOL... Oak, ash and maple are easy for me but not everything.
Black locust shagbark hickory white oak honey locust Pignut & bitternut hickory mulberry sugar maple beech red oak black & yellow birch ash red elm cherry red maple silver maple tulip poplar sassafras catalpa basswood tree of Heaven (ailanthus) May have missed a few. Forgot apple & black walnut
That's a hard question for me to answer, I have an EPA stove and it likes to burn hot to operate at full efficiency.... So I love the best hardwoods, red oak, sugar maple, hickory, locust etc...when it's cold.... But... I love aspen, sasafrass, pine, red maple etc. to get the stove started and in shoulder season to burn hot, but not burn as long as the good stuff, so I don't cook myself out of the house. I've had other stoves in past years, where I would have answered your question, wth only the highest BTU wood...
id also love to try and get my hands on some osage orange i heard that stuff is the hottest burning stuff there is
Best, shagbark hickory. Then ironwood Apple Then honey/ black locust Beech Sugar Maple Ash Norway maple American Elm Siberian elm Box elder Cherry Silver maple Fir White pine Basswood There may be some I missed.
