Why not burn seasoned soft wood in log burners

[richardwale]

So if there was a heat test over lets say an hour, and quantity of logs and loading the stove didn't matter, would the softwood win?

[Mark Bolam]

I would say yes, easily.

[gensetsteve]

They test the out put of stoves by using softwood hardwood will just not give the same instant heat . It all comes down to people too lazy to get the stove set up right and getting up more often to load it.

[Logsnstuff]

almost 3 hrs since I filled my stove with softwood, turned right down the rooms not toasty but its not cold either.

[spandit]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread. My neighbours just had a vast leylandii taken down. They didn't keep any of the logs because it "tars up the chimney". Would have kept them in firewood for life!

 

I'm currently burning leylandii and cherry. Was splitting cedar earlier which I'll mix in with all the other random wood I was given. Lucked out when what I thought was horse chestnut turned out to be London plane - made lovely bangs under the hydraulic blade

[Stubby]

4 minutes ago, spandit said:

Sorry to resurrect an old thread. My neighbours just had a vast leylandii taken down. They didn't keep any of the logs because it "tars up the chimney". Would have kept them in firewood for life!

 

I'm currently burning leylandii and cherry. Was splitting cedar earlier which I'll mix in with all the other random wood I was given. Lucked out when what I thought was horse chestnut turned out to be London plane - made lovely bangs under the hydraulic blade

They live in ignorance it seems . No chance you could of had it then ?

Edited February 11, 2021 by Stubby

[Paddy1000111]

For what it's worth, I burned some coniferous stuff (about 10 years ago now) and be it not dry enough or something else the tar went up inside the chimney and then got wet which activated the acid in the resin. It rotted through a brand new chimney liner in >2 years. The company replaced it for free and said they haven't seen that happen before so it can't be that common! 

[Peasgood]

Have burned  pretty much little other than leylandii for decades with no issue at all. Never had chimney swept either and didn't need it.

It was always seasoned and dry though.

[Darkslider]

1 hour ago, spandit said:

Sorry to resurrect an old thread. My neighbours just had a vast leylandii taken down. They didn't keep any of the logs because it "tars up the chimney". Would have kept them in firewood for life!

 

I'm currently burning leylandii and cherry. Was splitting cedar earlier which I'll mix in with all the other random wood I was given. Lucked out when what I thought was horse chestnut turned out to be London plane - made lovely bangs under the hydraulic blade

I might be misunderstanding or oversimplifying but I thought any wood can form creosote in your chimney if you restrict the airflow too much and your flue temp never gets above 150 Deg C. Keep it nice and hot at 200-250 C and you're not meant to have any problems?

[neiln]

Exactly, but wet wood won't get hot.

 

Please keep quiet about softwood. We don't want everyone to know it's good!