does chestnut burn well?

[TreeswingerPerth]

Body swerve it , hard as hell to split and by the time it's dried you'll be too old to burn it .

TS

[rupert w]

Sweet chestnut is good firewood IMO,but can spit,so ideally good for a woodburner only.Horse chestnut not so good:thumbup1:.

[KGBFINGAR]

In my experience sweet chestnut seems to burn better and dry quicker that horse chesnut , later is a bitch to split too , I wouldn't be in a hurry to pay for it .

K

[Joy Yeomans]

not a problem with either both burn well when dry

 

as with everything get it split n drying

 

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[nepia]

Horse chestnut: as said a sod to split - you can't even see where the grain's going but it goes in all directions. Once dry the wood's like balsa. Rubbish stuff, so bad in fact that it's one of the few woods I won't even mix into a load for sale.

 

Sweet chestnut: much less clearcut. My experience is that it takes years to dry enough to burn well. I've been getting it in the neck from the missus this winter for burning so much of it 'because it doesn't give out any heat: haven't you got more of that lovely Lawson's Cypress?'

 

So my suggestions accord with above: ignore Horse Chestnut but if you can get some Sweet for free go with it - it's free. But don't pay money for it.

 

 

Jon

[Le Sanglier]

Sweet chestnut or chataigner is the standard wood for woodburners. Goes for around €40 a cube, Marronier or Horse chestnut is rubbish.

[rupert w]

Sweet chestnut or chataigner is the standard wood for woodburners. Goes for around €40 a cube, Marronier or Horse chestnut is rubbish.

 

Agreed:thumbup1:nicely put

[MattyF]

Don't they make fire doors from aesculus??? Bad fire wood ,sweet chestnut good though IMO.

[bigdave]

i`v got some 2 year old cut & split sweet chestnut in the yard it is still giving a reading of 38% mc in the centre & 25% mc on the outside!!

 

at this rate it will be 5 years old at least before it is ready to burn!!!!

[Le Sanglier]

i`v got some 2 year old cut & split sweet chestnut in the yard it is still giving a reading of 38% mc in the centre & 25% mc on the outside!!

 

at this rate it will be 5 years old at least before it is ready to burn!!!!

 

2 year old split chestnut should burn fine, that is the normal turnaround time.

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