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Hank

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The Best Wood
« on: March 26, 2008, 09:42:48 PM »

 ::) Anyone have any ideas of which kind of wood is the best to burn, I have been burning a lot of sycamore and it does not do to bad. I also have used oak, locust. What wood last the longest.  ;D
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Re: The Best Wood
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2008, 06:09:14 PM »

::) Anyone have any ideas of which kind of wood is the best to burn, I have been burning a lot of sycamore and it does not do to bad. I also have used oak, locust. What wood last the longest.  ;D

a pound of  wood has  about 8600 BTU init...so if you have equally dry wood..the  heavier wood (denser) will have more BTU in it and last longer

also if you burn wet wood (unseasoned) it will take about 1000 BTU to evaperate each pound of water that is in the wood...so you can see it is very important to burn only seasoned wood

i guess (only my interpritation) that means if you have a 100 pounds of  dry oak (20 percent or less moisture)











100 pounds of  wood  produces 860,000 BTU..less 20,000 to evaperate the moisture..leaves you 840,000 BTU of heat
100 pounds of green wood (60 percent moisture)  same amount of BTU 860,000 less 60,000...leaves you 800,000

according to  the wood  charts i have seen (they must take into account the moisture of 20 percent ..a cord of  dry oak weighs about 4000 pounds and produces 25.7 million BTUs

so wet would be  another 40 percent less BTU's  per cord...about 10 million ..so   wet wood  would  lessen your  available heat to about 15 million from  25 million

if my math is  right..burn  dry wood




try the link for a firewood chart

http://mb-soft.com/juca/print/firewood.html
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Re: The Best Wood
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2008, 06:34:34 AM »

Free and/or cheap wood seem to burn the best. So that is what I burn.  :thumbup: ;D
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Re: The Best Wood
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2008, 01:55:06 PM »

Free and/or cheap wood seem to burn the best. So that is what I burn.  :thumbup: ;D


amen ;D
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Re: The Best Wood
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2008, 05:37:49 PM »

nice  page..lots of  good  info
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Re: The Best Wood
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2008, 03:38:52 PM »

great info and good link!  I have access to some hardwoods, oak,hickory, walnut and such but my own personal land is filled with the softer stuff like maple, birch and willow type trees.  I'm not to terribly concerned about running out because each storm we have there is more wood that falls than I can cut. 
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Re: The Best Wood
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2008, 06:13:57 PM »

IRONWOOD ;D
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Re: The Best Wood
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2009, 09:15:08 AM »

IRONWOOD ;D

You lucky bastard!  :P

That's pretty dense wood!!!  :thumbup:
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Re: The Best Wood
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2009, 10:48:03 PM »

I have a little bit of Osage Orange on my property.  It's the stuff that drops those big hedge apples.  Anyway, it kinda resembles locust and I hear is great for fence post.  You can cut a tree down, saw it up and throw it into your fire and it immediately starts to crack and pop and do it's thing.  That stuff is as close to burning coal as anything I can think of.  I'm thinking about planting it everywhere just to have to burn..hehehe
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Re: The Best Wood
« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2009, 07:14:12 PM »

I am loving locust the best so far.It dries much faster than oak,it drops its own bark,speeding drying times even more.It also seems to come in 8-12"rounds perfect for the OWB without splitting,and it burns HOT and clean.
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