It's one of the standing tree with the least moisture content.Quote:
Originally Posted by Splaker
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It's one of the standing tree with the least moisture content.Quote:
Originally Posted by Splaker
What are your thoughts on black walnut?
Based on what is on my property, my rank is:
Tamarack or Birch
Poplar
Spruce
Speckled Alder.
The Sweep's Library comparison chart is useful at times too.
https://chimneysweeponline.com/howood.htm
Birch-- splits easily, long hot burn, split thin is also good kindling
Ash-- splits easily, hot burn, often hard to harvest due to wet swampy habitat
Maple-- very hot long burn but difficult to split
From The Wood Heat Organization;
[COLOR=#333333]What is the best tree species for firewood? While there is always room for debate, we like to suggest that the best species in your area is the one that is most plentiful, easy to split and doesn't cover your hands and clothes with sticky sap.
[COLOR=#333333]There are lots of resources here to help you to buy, process and store firewood successfully.
Energy content per air dried full cord, in 000s of BTUs. The hardest species are at the top of the list. Rock Elm 32,000 Shagbark Hickory 30,600 White Oak 30,600 Bitternut Hickory 29,200 Sugar Maple 29,000 Beech 27,800 Red Oak 27,300 Yellow Birch 26,200 Red Elm 25,400 White Ash 25,000 White Elm 24,500 Red Maple 24,000 Tamarack 24,000 Black Cherry 23,500 White Birch 23,400 Black Ash 22,600 Green Ash 22,100 Silver Maple 21,700 Manitoba Maple 19,300 Large Tooth Aspen 18,200 Hemlock 17,900 Trembling Aspen 17,700 Butternut 17,400 Balsam Poplar 17,260 White Pine 17,100 Basswood 17,000 White Cedar 16,300 White Spruce 16,200 Balsam Fir 15,500
No vote for apple or black cherry? Got our eyes on one of each...
looked at a few lists and BTU varies quite a lot... the one posted here is quite different from the other one that was linked above
white oak varied by 7000 BTU]
On my property it's mostly maple, ash and black cherry that I cut for firewood for the stove but for campfires pretty much anything dead and dry around the camp is fair game.
We have been cutting a ton of dead standing ash trees the last few years. We normally cut what needs cutting. Oak us not great to burn in a stove or furnace. Same with willow. All the test is okay.we do cut a lot of iron wood.
Spruce
poplar
maple
all dead fall so whatever is down.