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

[Treerover]

It is cyanide - prussic acid - but not in concentrations to worry about in everyday life.  I love the smell of chipped laurel and it's never given me a headache or made me feel dizzy thankfully.
Great firewood too.

My friend used to put a handful of Laurel leaves in a jam jar with a bumble bee, and then when it went woozy he attached cotton to it and had his very own angry furry self powered stripey kite.

[Treerover]

ok not native but it grows here on a big scale. when bone dry it burns like rocket fuel.

If you can split it !!! Bloody stuff. I give it to my mates who think they're a bit hench ....!![emoji12]

[nepia]

Certainly true of older wood.  You don't so much split euc on a powered splitter as destroy it.

[Peasgood]

I’ve had seasoned sycamore so hard the axe won’t go in and sparks fly off it.

[Witterings]

On 02/11/2019 at 18:33, Peasgood said:

I’ve had seasoned sycamore so hard the axe won’t go in and sparks fly off it.

Sparks fly off the wood ... or the axe ?

 

I'm newish to this, have cycled past a pile of logs I thought were oak and have sat there for 3 years so went to pick some up today but I looked at the trees around and I think from leaf they're probably cherrywood.

I googled what it burns like and most comments seem to be not hot (on which case there's not much point burning it) and if it's not really well seasoned it smells like cats pee .... anyone experienced it and should I just junk it or cut it up and try it next year???

[Peasgood]

All wood burns just fine when it is dry. There may well be exceptions but it is a very good general rule, cherry is not an exception. 

Those logs presumably belong to someone else. 

Another good general rule is ignore any poems about how various woods burn, especially any part that says ash burns well when wet/green.

[TuscanPhil]

I have lots of old cherry in my woodland, most of which keeps falling down so I don't have to fell it!  The trunk that is still good wood, once seasoned for 12 months or so, burns well and I get through loads of it in my 25Kw biomass boiler and internal log burner. Some of my cherry can be 18-24" diameter.

[Conor Wright]

I've been burning mostly mill offcuts this year, almost all softwood but the variation is huge, from spruce which is great to start the fire as it burns fast but does not last at all to larch and Scots, of which I would say the larch has the edge, to macrocarpa which burns slowly and throws out good heat. Still have a few bits of ash for the colder nights to come though. Hawthorn is the best I've burnt too, unless it's very very cold we end up on the sofa in our underwear with the door open after two logs of it! 

[difflock]

4 minutes ago, Conor Wright said:

unless it's very very cold we end up on the sofa in our underwear with the door open after two logs of it! 

Now that sounds like a cunning plan  .  .  .

[Conor Wright]

9 minutes ago, difflock said:

Now that sounds like a cunning plan  .  .  .

It has been known to work too!

 

That sofa's seen more action than a Syrian hilux...