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The following is lifted from someone's website.

 

LOGS TO BURN

 

Logs to burn, logs to burn, Logs to save the coal a turn

Here's a word to make you wise, When you hear the woodman's cries.

Never heed his usual tale, That he has good logs for sale,

But read these lines and really learn, the proper kind of logs to burn.

 

OAK logs will warm you well, If they're old and dry.

LARCH logs of pine wood smell, But the sparks will fly.

BEECH logs for Christmas time, YEW logs heat well.

SCOTCH logs it is a crime, For anyone to sell.

 

BIRCH logs will burn too fast, CHESTNUT scarce at all

HAWTHORN logs are good to last, If you cut them in the fall

HOLLY logs will burn like wax, You should burn them green

ELM logs like smouldering flax, No flame to be seen

 

PEAR logs and APPLE logs, they will scent your room.

CHERRY logs across the dogs, Smell like flowers in bloom

But ASH logs, all smooth and grey, burn them green or old;

Buy up all that come your way, They're worth their weight in gold.

 

Note that all woods burn better when seasoned and some burn better when split rather than as whole logs. In general the better woods for burning that you are most likely to come by (including non-native species) are:

 

Apple and pear – burning slowly and steadily with little flame but good heat. The scent is also pleasing.

 

Ash – the best burning wood providing plenty of heat (will also burn green but you should not need to do this!)

 

Beech and hornbeam – good when well seasoned

 

Birch – good heat and a bright flame – burns quickly.

 

Blackthorn and hawthorn – very good – burn slowly but with good heat

 

Cherry – also burns slowly with good heat and a pleasant scent.

 

Cypress – burns well but fast when seasoned, and may spit

 

Hazel – good, but hazel has so many other uses hopefully you won’t have to burn it!

 

Holly – good when well seasoned

 

Horse Chestnut – good flame and heating power but spits a lot.

 

Larch – fairly good for heat but crackles and spits

 

Maple – good.

 

Oak – very old dry seasoned oak is excellent, burning slowly with a good heat

 

Pine – burns well with a bright flame but crackles and spits

 

Poplar – avoid all poplar wood – it burns very slowly with little heat – which is why poplar is used to make matchsticks.

 

Willow – very good – in fact there is growing interest in biomass production of coppiced willow as a fuel.

 

 

I think alll of the above relates to open fires. Obviously spitting doesn't matter ina stove and stoves are so much hotter than fires that just about anything will, burn in them.

 

It looks like I'll give Holly another try. When I think of all the Holly wood I have chucked due to that bad splitting experience...

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