lime = fire wood ?

[ukminch]

I did a load of 'street trees' on a site and ended up with loads of it. Didn't have any complaints when I sold it nicely dried out.

 

R

[northumbriaforestry]

In that case maybe I'll burn lime this winter along with the poplar and willow that I normally burn, and sell the so-called premium woods to anyone fool enough to pay a premium for them.

 

Hope none of your customers are on here, to hear you calling them fools, they pay your mortgage

[Peter]

Tree work pays my mortgage.

 

None of my firewood customers are fools. The only wood I'll burn this winter is willow.

[THE88MAN]

Hope none of your customers are on here, to hear you calling them fools, they pay your mortgage

I think maybe peter was suggesting some customers are 'foolish' to demand so-called premium hardwoods rather than calling them fools

[davetaz]

All wood when seasoned properly makes good firewood

http://www.calu.bangor.ac.uk/Technical%20leaflets/050107%20Drying%20firewood.pdf

 

Is lime any "worse" than the softwoods that previous threads have discussed as being quite good?

[firewoodman]

always found lime pretty good, burns nice and hot with a good flame, and eventhough it has a high moisture content when felled, it always dries out quite fast.

 

i never turn it away for these reasons and an be a godsend towards the end of the season when fast drying woods are needed

 

oh, even when fresh it can give off a good heat, but i wont recommend burning any fresh woods indoors

[Doug Blease]

I wouldnt class it as a premium firewood. But I have found that if you cut and split it while its green, it is quick to dry out and easy to light. Burns fairly quickly.

 

Useful to mix in with other species of firewood.

 

Dont think I have ever had BAD firewood. Its just how you manage it.

[pro bros]

always found lime pretty good, burns nice and hot with a good flame, and eventhough it has a high moisture content when felled, it always dries out quite fast.

 

i never turn it away for these reasons and an be a godsend towards the end of the season when fast drying woods are needed

 

oh, even when fresh it can give off a good heat, but i wont recommend burning any fresh woods indoors

 

what not even birch or ash ?

[Peter]

Especially not birch or ash!

[pro bros]

Especially not birch or ash!

 

go on mate enlighten me :blushing:i burn both with great result . what is your reason for not burning them fresh