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Old 09-03-10, 05:00 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Re: What is the worst wood
IMO, no real bad woods - just the time they take to dry out, poplar and chestnut take too long to dry out for us as firewood merchants - got some up the yard been there 3 + years and still wet, will log some more up and mix in with our own wood -compare it with some beech cut and ready to sell in 6 months
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Old 09-03-10, 07:02 PM   #22 (permalink)
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poplar and chestnut take too long to dry out
not when split & stored under cover.
Had 10t HC delivered 17th December; cut, split & stacked under cover over Christmas. By feel, it's almost saleable already but will wait until the autumn. Same with pop'.
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not when split & stored under cover.
Had 10t HC delivered 17th December; cut, split & stacked under cover over Christmas. By feel, it's almost saleable already but will wait until the autumn. Same with pop'.
we must have some mystic pop and chestnut - it doesnt like drying nets, doesnt like the barn - bought some down thats been cut for 18 months, its burning but not brill more of a smoulder, mixing with some pine - ok wood, but wont commercially sell it as firewood - just my opinion
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i was told not to burn elder in a house as it has a gypsie curse with it..... dont know if its true as i never burn it inside. anyone else heard this?
witches wood mate,my mother wouldn't have it in the house...............mother in law loved it though
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I sold 30T poplar this winter. Bought it last spring, processed in to billets by june, ready to burn by october - lots of repeat customers came back for it
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Poplar was/is used for matches as it burns so slow. I read somewhere that in times gone by alder was highly sought after as it made an excellent gun-powder and that sawing elder released evil spirits but breaking it didn't!

Anything burns on a fire that's hot enough, it depends what you want from a firewood as to whether it's 'good' or 'bad'. i.e. fast heat/easy to light/hot coals/long burn/cheap!

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My Head Forester once upon a time wouldn't have elm in his house. He reckoned there was an old saying that "Elm hateth and waiteth" - though I don't know if that was more to do with dead ones chucking branches off - maybe someone had one land on them once upon a time? I used to burn tonnes of the stuff though - no ill effects so far!

Never heard the elder story - though it's mentioned in the firewood poem - "make a fire of elder tree, death within your house will be"

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witches wood mate,my mother wouldn't have it in the house...............mother in law loved it though
cheers i will keep staying away from it. but like the elderflower and lime zyder but thats it.

and im a bit of a wood snob. i like oak and dry standing elm.

we nearly blew the fire up by burning telegraph wood put a log on a smouldering fire. then massive boom. not too funny.

euclyptus isnt that good.
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Anything burns on a fire that's hot enough, it depends what you want from a firewood as to whether it's 'good' or 'bad'. i.e. fast heat/easy to light/hot coals/long burn/cheap!

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I've been told to leave out lime or to mix it thinly with other woods. Any truth to this?
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Elder is about the only wood I don't bother with, I cut 2 big Poplars down year before last & have been burning it on my logburner since september, I like it, even had a few customers asking for it after I threw a bit into a load for free, you have to split it quite quickly though if you leave it in rings it never seems to dry.
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