Sound advice from the woodland trust

[Stereo]

Planting trees for firewood

 

Which trees are good for firewood? The best ones are ash, (ash wood burns well without drying) cherry, oak, birch and hornbeam. Many other native broadleaf trees are also suitable.

 

That's that settled then.

[windfall]

Is this a quote from the woodland trust?

[Yeti]

Question being what's best?

Best to burn,best to season best yeild for money spent?

 

I planted mainly larch,Personally I have very little to do with hardwood asfar as firewood goes I save it to make pretty things out of lol

[dave fox]

i planted about 500 mixed hard woods last year around the farm wind brakes in fills but am struggling with this drought we are in , the alder are suffering big time i planted mainly ash and alder ,

[Stereo]

Yes windfall. It's on their site.

[Big J]

Hard to know what I would plant for a firewood crop (perhaps with the aim for some final crop sawlogs).

 

I think it would be somewhere in the region of 40% cherry, 50% Ash and 10% Oak (dependent on site obviously). I would progressively thin the cherry and ash out to leave a final crop of perhaps 60% ash and 40% oak.

 

I do love cherry as a firewood and as sawn timber, I must say

 

Jonathan

[kernowstu]

all ash 4 foot spacing, work as ash coppice site 8-10 year rotation with stannards

[andy26]

Ash and Larch.

 

The Best Hard and softwood.

 

One will give you a quicker return on your money, the other will forever be an asset.

[Stereo]

Boggy land here so Alder is a good staple and grows like crazy. Ash / Oak are a bonus.

[Yeti]

Glad somebody else mentioned the softwoods haha.It's all we have mainly stocked since day dot.It is definatly ground depndant tho on what will take and grow best.To be fair tho as long as it's dry I couldn't give a damn