Hardwoods not to burn

[ThrustSSC]

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!!

 

 

Superb! Love it :-)

[Mortimer Firewood]

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!!

 

 

Brilliant!! Every time i see that poem it gets my back up complete bs.

[woodrascal]

Every time i see that poem it gets my back up complete bs.

 

Here Here:thumbup:

 

What's worrying is that 'The Poem' was originally posted on this thread by an Arbtalk 'senior member' who runs a Tree and Woodland Consultancy business...

[Ashes_Firewood]

Syc is the least labor intensive . Seasons quickly splits easy peasy and burns well .

 

Good to hear, we've quite a few sycamore that have to be removed as part of a scheme that the farm is in so planning on making a start on them soon

[Stereo]

Sycamore is a lovely firewood but pretty much whatever you do you are going to get a blueish mould on the logs after a while. This will turn to white when it's dry. It's pretty normal and unavoidable as far as I can see unless you can store each log in a vented barn with space around all of them. I think it must have something to do with the fact that the wood has great anti-bacterial properties although I don't know if there is a link.

 

One of the fastest growing and fastest drying hard woods in my experience.

[HCR]

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!!

 

 

Indeed.

 

Like most old nonsense, I think the rhyme is not meant to be taken too seriously.

[HCR]

Here Here:thumbup:

 

What's worrying is that 'The Poem' was originally posted on this thread by an Arbtalk 'senior member' who runs a Tree and Woodland Consultancy business...

 

And one who's been burning wood on open fires and stoves for 40 years at that!

 

Some of us can spot the difference between fact and folklore bull.

 

'Ash before oak, you're in for a soak'

 

Pretty sure oak was out first round my way this spring.

[woodrascal]

Some of us can spot the difference between fact and folklore bull.

 

 

Why bother posting it then?

[HCR]

Why bother posting it then?

 

For interest? Because I felt like it? Because it traditionally gets wheeled out when this subject comes up?

 

Who cares?

[gensetsteve]

Problem with that poem is alot of the general log buying public use it as a buyers guide when they ring to order logs.