Rank your firewood...

[seabast]

Love ash b/c you can burn it almost right after cut... doesn't t seem to need seasoning...

Want to get my hand on some beech. I hear they take 2 solid years to season... also, black cherry.

It's one of the standing tree with the least moisture content.

[Splaker]

What are your thoughts on black walnut?

[mooboy76]

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

[johny]

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

[jaycee]

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

[Splaker]

No vote for apple or black cherry? Got our eyes on one of each...

[Splaker]

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]

[TPM]

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.

[dutchhunter]

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.

[Mdiddi]

Spruce
poplar
maple

all dead fall so whatever is down.