Favourite Firewood

[trigger_andy]

I hate to say it but Larch is currently my favorite. Primarily due to its ability to get to a high heat quickly and holds onto it. Perfect in the kitchen cooker.

 

Winter time its beech, oak and larch for me. But I'll be burning whatever comes off of the Mill as waste.

[Canal Navvy]

7 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Actually invites Witches into the house, so again, no from me. 

Ah .... that's where I went wrong

[Peasgood]

5 hours ago, monkeybusiness said:

I like leylandii on the log burner (which is lucky as it is one timber that we end up with plenty of!). 

Same. Splits nice, burns hot, no ash hardly and I have tons of the stuff.

If there is a downside it is the sticky sap but I have enough that I can season outside for a few years by which time the sticky has gone.

[Doug Tait]

30 minutes ago, Canal Navvy said:

Ah .... that's where I went wrong

 

Plant a Rowan near the entrance, that stops the witch coming back home. 

[sime42]

5 minutes ago, Doug Tait said:

 

Plant a Rowan near the entrance, that stops the witch coming back home. 

 

I thought there was some folklore about witches and Rowan, couldn't quite remember what that, old Scottish lady, customer had told me.

 

Not that you'd imagine anyone using it for firewood but it's supposedly back luck or upsets the witches or something, if you cut Elder Trees down.

[scbk]

27 minutes ago, Doug Tait said:

 

Plant a Rowan near the entrance, that stops the witch coming back home. 

That doesn't always work, but changing the locks does 

[Muddy42]

I don't really have a favourite firewood.  Its all gets seasoned so long its virtually unrecognizable and dry enough that the stove or biomass will burn whatever you feed it with.

[Big J]

I don't really have a favourite firewood either. My supply for the next 1.5 years is primarily Scots Pine. It was locally available and very cheap.

Going forward, I have free reign to take wood from a block of land belonging to a friend, adjacent to a river. This will do me for the foreseeable future. I haven't had a look yet, but I'd guess it's alder, pine, spruce and birch.

[Steven P]

6 hours ago, Big J said:

Going forward, I have free reign to take wood from a block of land belonging to a friend, adjacent to a river.

 

If they are river loving trees they might want a little longer to season, however sounds like the best kind there is

 

 

[Big J]

58 minutes ago, Steven P said:

 

If they are river loving trees they might want a little longer to season, however sounds like the best kind there is

 

 

 

I'm in no hurry. I can cut and stack it on site, and it's only a few kilometers from home. With 70% forest cover, there is no shortage of wood here!