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

[neiln]

I find cherry can be difficult to dry, particularly the small stuff that you'd not normally split.  It seems to be like birch with a very very waterproof bark so traps the moisture and rots.  It will dry if split though.

[BowlandStoves]

This might help:-

 

https://www.bowlandstoves.co.uk/blog/stove-advice-and-maintenance/choosing-best-types-of-wood-stove/

[Rob_the_Sparky]

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10 hours ago, BowlandStoves said:

This might help:-

 

https://www.bowlandstoves.co.uk/blog/stove-advice-and-maintenance/choosing-best-types-of-wood-stove/

I wouldn't agree with this statement:

"Softwood is less dense meaning that it will burn quicker, create less heat and be ultimately more expensive to use."

 

Softwood is often much cheaper to buy, or even given away free in some cases if you look for arb arisings, so no it is not more expensive to burn softwood.  In fact is is often the reverse.  Also some softwood is really rather dense and some hardwood is not.  Even when less dense it generates the same amount of heat (or slightly more) per dry unit mass.  The real downside is that the less dense soft wood (a lot of them are) occupies more space for the same amount of output heat and you have to put logs on the stove more regularly.

 

 

[Bolt]

4 minutes ago, Rob_the_Sparky said:

 

The real downside is that the less dense soft wood (a lot of them are) occupies more space for the same amount of output heat and you have to put logs on the stove more regularly.

 

 

 

Personally, I rather enjoy loading the stove, so the increased reloading frequency is kind of a positive for me (although unexpected blobs of leylandii sap is not).

 

[Witterings]

Don't softwoods damage your flue???

[doobin]

Your nice Scandinavian designed stove and flue will be just fine if you burn dry softwood. 
 

What do you think they burn in Scandinavia, after all? ?

[Witterings]

9 minutes ago, doobin said:

Your nice Scandinavian designed stove and flue will be just fine if you burn dry softwood. 
 

What do you think they burn in Scandinavia, after all? ?

 

Imported Oak ?

 

That's a good point though actually ?

[gensetsteve]

Ekki 

[The avantgardener]

On 15/11/2019 at 08:52, neiln said:

I find cherry can be difficult to dry, particularly the small stuff that you'd not normally split.  It seems to be like birch with a very very waterproof bark so traps the moisture and rots.  It will dry if split though.

There is a firewood guy down near me who produces a lot with Birch, he pays the cutters more per tonne If they ‘strike it’ after it has been cut to length, running the saw vertically down the entire length to open it up to drying, it certainly works.

[the village idiot]

24 minutes ago, The avantgardener said:

There is a firewood guy down near me who produces a lot with Birch, he pays the cutters more per tonne If they ‘strike it’ after it has been cut to length, running the saw vertically down the entire length to open it up to drying, it certainly works.

Do you happen to know how deep they make the cut? I tried this method once without much success, but I only skimmed the surface.