the perfect firewood

[likeitorlumpit]

I think round ones burn best!!!

 

You need a splitter with a heavy duty cookie cutter on it!!

 

Round ones look best in a nice stack in the hearth

Oh to have the perfect log (matron....)

Best wood ever is the wood begged by a neighbour on the job you are on for a drink-well big drink. Sometimes we'll even round it up for them!

[davetaz]

I always ask my customers "what size /shape?" they prefer (logs). Most of (the majority) them want something that will fit into their fire grate or log burner.

My logs are seasoned as billets and so can cut to what ever length customers want. There's more to a good fire than what shape the logs are!

[kernowstu]

The most perfect firewood is tipped on one of my customers drive way,with the cash in my pocket:thumbup1:

 

yes indeed:biggrin:

[armchairarborist]

The perfect firewood burns the longest and gives off a good amount of heat

 

As for triangles or squares, I assume you are splitting rounds 8" or larger?

From a processing perspective triangles would be easier to process, as cutting to square/rectangular pieces would take extra time (unless you have a log processing plant), and would result in more waste/off cuts possibly?

 

I would have thought that its the size of the triangle that makes all the difference when being burned. And then you have the type of wood and seasoning to also consider.

 

Oddly enough, last week out of curiosity, I did an experiment with samples from my two year old wood stack. I cut and measured three pieces of Oak, Sweet Chestnut and Silver/White Birch in to rounds that measured 3 inches diameter and 10 inches long. I placed all three pieces evenly apart in my wood stove on a bed of embers, at the same time. I then timed 10 minutes for initial ignition and then checked the wood every five minutes after. The Birch came third lasting only 25 minutes, next the Oak @ 35 minutes and the winner was Chestnut @ 45 mins and still burning. (This experiment had several flaws so I don't want to start a debate about what wood's best etc ... ) and it was a one off exercise so results the next time no doubt vary.

 

It would be interesting to see how rectangles and triangles burn. My bet is triangles will burn slightly longer (taking wood type, size/overall mass, moisture content at the time of burning, heat of the fire/type of fire and probably a few other hundred things into consideration lol).

 

I think another experiment, just for fun, could be on the cards!

 

yep, everything below 7.5inch is viewed as woodchip, most of the wood making it back to the yard is 2-3ft dia, wasteful i know but the woody woodchip i swap for red diesel with a friend:thumbup:

[likeitorlumpit]

I always ask my customers "what size /shape?" they prefer (logs). Most of (the majority) them want something that will fit into their fire grate or log burner.

My logs are seasoned as billets and so can cut to what ever length customers want. There's more to a good fire than what shape the logs are!

 

I know- thats why I'm looking at an ugly pile of knobbly cherry unions

I do though prefer to see a pile of rounds- easy on the hand and the eye- would be a nightmare to get and sell just this though

[Highland Forestry]

Surely too much thought is given to type, shape, length, species etc etc etc?

 

The best kind of firewood is ANY wood that is DRY!!

[likeitorlumpit]

Surely too much thought is given to type, shape, length, species etc etc etc?

 

The best kind of firewood is ANY wood that is DRY!!

 

I agree

But stop calling me shirley

HA