What is the best type of wood you have used with your stove?

[Squaredy]

As has been said so often the species pales into insignificance compared to how dry the wood is.  Give me dry willow rather than fresh felled ash.  Yes even ash needs some drying.

[Bolt]

11 minutes ago, Squaredy said:

Yes even ash needs some drying.

Indeed.

 

Burning unseasoned ash is simply a squandering of what should have been properly seasoned ash.

[Witterings]

I'll give it a year and try again then ?

[Whoppa Choppa]

Burning ELM for the first time in years - forgotten how AWESOME it is. King superb stuff. Ash et al no comparison. Elm makes ash look amateur.

 

Serious heat and embers. Would almost grow it deliberately for the firewood, perfect size when the bug gets it anyway.

[Stubby]

Just now, Whoppa Choppa said:

Burning ELM for the first time in years - forgotten how AWESOME it is. King superb stuff. Ash et al no comparison. Elm makes ash look amateur.

 

Serious heat and embers. Would almost grow it deliberately for the firewood, perfect size when the bug gets it anyway.

Yep dead standing elm takes some beating , also some splitting sometimes .

[Whoppa Choppa]

31 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Yep dead standing elm takes some beating , also some splitting sometimes .

Stuff I'm looking at as we speak wasn't dead standing, but from a tree that was well but sadly blew over 3 years ago. I say sadly as the damaged crown was cut up but the tree re-planted - some operation that was but has worked well. The small dia firewood is amazing, air dried. 

[Honda]

Well seasoned beech.

[sime42]

It's nice the way that this keeps coming around every now and again.

 

I'm currently burning mainly Hawthorne, and loving it. With some other stuff like Spruce, Blackthorn and some large woody garden shrubs mixed in, Philadelphus I think.

 

 

[Whoppa Choppa]

2 hours ago, sime42 said:

It's nice the way that this keeps coming around every now and again.

 

I'm currently burning mainly Hawthorne, and loving it. With some other stuff like Spruce, Blackthorn and some large woody garden shrubs mixed in, Philadelphus I think.

 

 

Hawthorn is beautiful stuff I must agree. It's been probably 15 or more years since I've enjoyed elm. My next glut will be sweet chestnut. Hundreds of tonnes so it had better pay off - cheap enough, half the price of ash.

[rapalaman]

Got a medium sized Hawthorn that’s in poor health to take out tomorrow- should be lovely stuff to split so will have that all stacked in the log store by Saturday afternoon. One of my favourites to burn 👍