Firewood thread.

[CrossLOPER]

What kind of firewood does the average Orgah prefer?

[Csargo]

charcoal

[LeftEyeNine]

Well my family used to prefer;

Willington firewoods back when I was a little child.However when
Thrumpling firewoods showed up, we really had needed to change it. Nowadays we prefer
Fort Minor firewood as our perfect option out there.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I use birch and beech - namely because I have a lot of beech logs I need to get rid of. I more or less burn the trees I cut down.

[Tristrem]

a nice slow burning hardwood for a campfire in the summer.

[Tristuskhan]

Birch to start the fire, oak and Carpinus betulus (don't remember the english word) to follow.

[Ice]

charcoal

[Adrian II]

I use birch and beech - namely because I have a lot of beech logs I need to get rid of. I more or less burn the trees I cut down.

At my age, you don't care about the birch and the beech anymore.

[Decker]

My neighbors annoying chihuahuas

[Crazed Rabbit]

Tannerite.

CR

[Samurai Waki]

Either Larch, Cedar, or just good ol' Pine or Spruce. We have a lot of wood around here.

[Subedei]

When it comes to camp fires on the shores of the Danube: U can`t beat well dried oak! Neither summer nor winter

[spmetla]

Now what would I need firewood for? :P

EDIT:
In seriousness, when I go camping and stuff I usually use mac nut wood because its relatively hard and has some oils within that burn well and use kiawe trees from the beach side for kindling and such just because they are an annoying thorny tree and because they are usually really well dried out.

[Husar]

I'm not allowed to make open fires in my flat.

[Mithrandir]

Gasoline. Just gasoline.

[Beirut]

Hmmm... I see someone read my post in the Backroom. I declare Crossloper to be the Dr. Evil of the Day

Firewood?

Maple, by a large percentage. Not the red, silver, Manitoba, or Pennsylvania varieties, only the sugar.

Beech is good, maybe we burn 10 to 20%.

White Birch is okay if perfect, but often is a bit punky when in take down condition. Maybe 10%. It is not considered "premium" firewood up here.

Yellow Birch. Very nice but we don't see much of it.

Oak. Very good, but rare. I tend to horde it when we get any, but always have to trade for it.

Cherry. Very good and we see quite a bit. My buddy hordes it but he has to trade me for it. He burns 20 cords a year (face cords, nobody measures bush cords up here) and maybe 1/3 is cherry. He also keeps several cherry saw logs each year and makes work tables and shelves.

Apple. Very rare, I horde it for BBQ wood and because I like it. Most apple wood is branch size, 2" or 3". Once or twice a year it's firewood size, 8"+.

A bit of iron wood, a touch of elm, and a whisper of tamarack as well.

[Tristuskhan]

[I] He burns 20 cords a year (face cords, nobody measures bush cords up here)

Just out of curiousity, what is a "cord" for you. This unit was used in France but was so variable it's forbidden today. We use "streres", that's one cubic meter, empty spaces included.
A cord in eastern france was an honnest 4 cubic meters, but only three cubic meters in Brittany, for exemple.

[Kagemusha]

It depends,what im using the firewood for. For having a fire in a fireplace, pine or spruce is just fine or pretty much anything else, since the little sparking and popping doesnt matter. If im heating up a sauna in a cottage, birch, alder and aspen are good options, while the trees, which have too much resin are no good, because i dont want to mess up the kiuas( fireplace) of the sauna in the long run. Now then if im out in a forest and need to heat up some warm water for example in rainy day or on winter, the small and gunpowder dry below branches of large spruce are optimal for a small fire, since those only need to see fire and they flame on. Unfortunately when im home at my flat, i have no need to use firewood at all, unless my lighter is out of gas and i need to use matches to light a cigarette outside, which are btw aspen here in Finland. So in short it depends.

[Don Corleone]

I was burning whatever I could get my hands on, mostly yellow pine. Wonder if that had anything to do with why I keep having chimney fires.....

All kidding aside, around here, the best hardwoods to burn are hickory and white oak when I can get them. Red Oak and maple when I can't. I try to avoid red-oak, because you have to split it when it's frozen solid (unless you really like a lot of extra work).

I know what a 'cord' is, but I have no idea what a face-cord or a bush-cord is. I've always heard of a cord to be defined as stacked wood that measured 4' x 4' x 8'.

[Kagemusha]

I was burning whatever I could get my hands on, mostly yellow pine. Wonder if that had anything to do with why I keep having chimney fires.....

Or could it have been that mr chimney sweeper had not paid a visit to your house after fire was invented?

[Raz]

I use carbon based materials.

[Don Corleone]

Or could it have been that mr chimney sweeper had not paid a visit to your house after fire was invented?

I'm just kidding. When I'm camping, I really do use whatever I can get my hands on, and will frequently throw pine in the fire to get it roaring. It's just not very good in woodstoves, too much creasol (sp?). Not that a lot of people around me don't use it anyway.

[Tribesman]

Turf . damn that isnt wood is it .

[Tristuskhan]

I know what a 'cord' is, but I have no idea what a face-cord or a bush-cord is. I've always heard of a cord to be defined as stacked wood that measured 4' x 4' x 8'.

Something like 3.5 steres. Pretty well balanced.

Let me guess: the forests occur for something like 25-30% of the total surface of the land where you live, no?

[Ja'chyra]

Whatever seasoned hardwood they sell at B&Q.

I really need to get myself a nice flat trunk so I can split my own, I need the exercise.

[Don Corleone]

Something like 3.5 steres. Pretty well balanced.

Let me guess: the forests occur for something like 25-30% of the total surface of the land where you live, no?

I'd guess it's closer to 50%, but I could be wrong.

[Beirut]

A cord of wood is 16" x 4' x 8'. Otherwise known as a face cord. A bush cord is 4' x 4' x 8'. The only people up here who even dare mention bush cords are city people who use the term because they think it makes them look "woodsy". Barf.

A cord of good firewood will cost you between $45 and $90 (green, split & delivered) depending on what time of year you order it and how much you buy. If you order ten cords in spring, you might get the best price. Most people will pay between $50 and $75. People who use firewood esthetically use one to three cords. Standard burners will use five to eight. People who use it for serious heat will go from eight to twelve. Anything over twelve cords a winter is heavy use.

If you try to find any dry firewood after August, you will be laughed at, spit on, and possibly beaten just on principle.

[Don Corleone]

Nm.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

A cord of wood is 16" x 4' x 8'. Otherwise known as a face cord. A bush cord is 4' x 4' x 8'. The only people up here who even dare mention bush cords are city people who use the term because they think it makes them look "woodsy". Barf.

A cord of good firewood will cost you between $45 and $90 (green, split & delivered) depending on what time of year you order it and how much you buy. If you order ten cords in spring, you might get the best price. Most people will pay between $50 and $75. People who use firewood esthetically use one to three cords. Standard burners will use five to eight. People who use it for serious heat will go from eight to twelve. Anything over twelve cords a winter is heavy use.

If you try to find any dry firewood after August, you will be laughed at, spit on, and possibly beaten just on principle.

Why would you ever buy wood split? I can kinda understand wanting someone to deliver the wood in a bucked up condition in some ways, for example I have no ready access to woodland where I can fell trees, little experience felling trees and am forced to horde what wood comes out of odd jobs around the house and doesn't end up on our bonfire pile. But splitting is so fun I'd rather do it myself! And since I don't need much wood, we burn it occasionally for campfires and in our fireplace, I wouldn't need more than a cord.

Oh and though I generally end up using miscellaneous brush and branches my perfect fire would be made out of sizable pieces of birch to start and then sugar maple and oak. Birch seems to catch quite well when it isn't punky, and oak and sugar maple are excellent burners, though of course not the best they're also easy to come by around here I'd assume.

[Beirut]

Gentlemen,

It appears I have given unintended offence to our honoured colleague and co-member, Don Corleone.

For any misunderstanding or badly worded comments on my side, I offer my apologies.