Hardwoods not to burn

[Stubby]

So wrong answer really I suppose . H/ch nut I would avoid if any . All wood burns if bone dry . Some better than others is all .

[Graham S]

I've been burning some lovely dry elm but another that's really impressed me is hawthorn .

[Martyn Amos]

I've been burning some lovely dry elm but another that's really impressed me is hawthorn .

 

i loves hawthorn,my fav firewood all day long..

[Stubby]

Love hawthorn to .

[JimM]

Elm and sycamore on the stove just now. Both great.

 

I reckon that old rhyme might be good for open fires, but stoves are another matter entirely.

[axman]

Chestnut,would be my least favourite to burn,Alder grows in boggy ground and is very high in water content,great when dry.Quickest way to dry wood is to take the bark of when freshly cut and leave uncovered outside,or in a building that only has aroof

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Beech-wood fires burn bright and clear

If the logs are kept a year;

Store your beech for Christmastide

With new-cut holly laid beside;

Chestnut's only good, they say,

If for years 'tis stored away;

Birch and fir-wood burn too fast

Blaze too bright and do not last;

Flames from larch will shoot up high,

Dangerously the sparks will fly;

But ash-wood green and ash-wood brown

Are fit for a Queen with a golden crown.

 

Oaken logs, if dry and old,

Keep away the winter's cold;

Poplar gives a bitter smoke,

Fills your eyes and makes you choke;

Elm-wood burns like churchyard mould,

E'en the very flames are cold;

Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread -

So it is in Ireland said;

Apple-wood will scent the room,

Pear-wood smells like flowers in bloom;

But ash-wood wet and ash-wood dry

A King may warm his slippers by.

 

This wretched poem! What a load of rubbish, most of all about elm... bends the tops of rayburns.

[skyhuck]

Beech-wood fires burn bright and clear

If the logs are kept a year;

Store your beech for Christmastide

With new-cut holly laid beside;

Chestnut's only good, they say,

If for years 'tis stored away;

Birch and fir-wood burn too fast

Blaze too bright and do not last;

Flames from larch will shoot up high,

Dangerously the sparks will fly;

But ash-wood green and ash-wood brown

Are fit for a Queen with a golden crown.

 

Oaken logs, if dry and old,

Keep away the winter's cold;

Poplar gives a bitter smoke,

Fills your eyes and makes you choke;

Elm-wood burns like churchyard mould,

E'en the very flames are cold;

Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread -

So it is in Ireland said;

Apple-wood will scent the room,

Pear-wood smells like flowers in bloom;

But ash-wood wet and ash-wood dry

A King may warm his slippers by.

 

Utter nonsence

 

Better to replace with:-

 

Wood thats wet and full of sap, I think you'll find won't burn, its crap!!

Get your wood nice and dry, it then burns great, with flames so high!!

 

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Utter nonsence

 

Better to replace with:-

 

Wood thats wet and full of sap, I think you'll find won't burn, its crap!!

Get your wood nice and dry, it then burns great, with flames so high!!

 

 

[treequip]

I never burn Beach, its too sandy.

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No need to be crabby:lol: