Whats Your BIG 3?

[CrystalRiver1]

My 3 favorite firewood species are: Osage Orange, Black Locust, and Shagbark hickory.
If Osage din't create such a fireworks show of flying sparks I'd burn nothing but it!

What are your BIG 3 in firewood?
If you could burn only ONE wood for a few seasons---which wood would it be?

 

[P.M.P.]

We don't have alot of choices in my neck of the woods.
Here it's ironwood, white oak, beach

 

[Ryan Browne]

For the house it's red oak, white oak, and Ash. If I had to pick only one wood for the few seasons I'd probably take sugar maple. It heats real nice and dries faster than the oaks.

For making syrup, which is my main use of wood, I like softwood. Big 3 would be poplar, pine, and maybe box elder.

 

[hoskvarna]

Red elm
Hickory
Oak
My favorite for my area of Iowa


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[CrystalRiver1]

Red elm
Hickory
Oak
My favorite for my area of Iowa


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How does that red elm burn?
Haven't seen much of that down my way...

 

[hoskvarna]

How does that red elm burn?
Haven't seen much of that down my way...

Not quite as hot as locust but nice dense wood holds fire like oak but less ashes [emoji106]


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[Wood Chopper]

Oak
Locust
Maple

Tons of oak the past few seasons. With some silver maple mixed in


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[Simondo]

UK wood species may have slightly different names ....
Im happy to have any or all of these .
Ash , Beech and Sycamore .

 

[Ryan Browne]

For the house it's red oak, white oak, and Ash. If I had to pick only one wood for the few seasons I'd probably take sugar maple. It heats real nice and dries faster than the oaks.

For making syrup, which is my main use of wood, I like softwood. Big 3 would be poplar, pine, and maybe box elder.

I misspoke. I forgot about basswood. That, poplar and pine are probably my most prevalent syrup making woods. They are all fun to cut. Sure makes a chain seem wicked after you've been working up hardwood.

 

[I saw a lot]

#1 is locust.
#2 is white oak
#3 silver maple, drys fast.
#4 DRY WOOD, maybe I should make that #1? Hedge would make the list, but just don't get much here. Best friend has a few to come down, but they are healthy and we have too much other wood to deal with.

 

[Stevetheboatguy]

#1 whatever is close and a easy haul.
#2 anything that is standing dead & ready to burn.
#3 tie between elm and hickory.

All three are trumped by delivered free.

I am not picky it all gets turned to ash.


Steven

 

[Grjfer]

Red oak, white oak and hickory. I really like hickory.

 

[Broken]

Ironwood , Hard Rock Maple , Mountain Ash mixed with Silver Birch !

 

[hoskvarna]

#1 whatever is close and a easy haul.
#2 anything that is standing dead & ready to burn.
#3 tie between elm and hickory.

All three are trumped by delivered free.

I am not picky it all gets turned to ash.


Steven

Yup if it will fit in the door I’ll burn it

I work for a logger but he also has a bundling side business.
Those little $5 bundles
We have a Multitek processor then gets kiln dry and bundle.
He ask if i wanted the junk pile.

Brought home 6 loads

Cottonwood maple locust ash hickory oak little bit of everything in there [emoji106]


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[cuinrearview]

Ash, oak(usually red), and hickory.

If I had to pick one it would be Ash. Not the hottest, but ready the fastest and the easiest out of the three to process. Although I love hand splitting red oak and ash equally well.

 

[hoskvarna]

Ash, oak(usually red), and hickory.

If I had to pick one it would be Ash. Not the hottest, but ready the fastest and the easiest out of the three to process. Although I love hand splitting red oak and ash equally well.

And ya can’t beat the smell of the red oak, love it. Imo


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[cuinrearview]

And ya can’t beat the smell of the red oak, love it. Imo


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I've heard it described as "vomit smelling" before

 

[hoskvarna]

I've heard it described as "vomit smelling" before

Thats cottonwood imo


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[cuinrearview]

Thats cottonwood imo


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Cat urine

 

[RI Chevy]

1. Oak (red or white)
2. Maple
3. Ash

Anything I can get that is hard gets burned...