Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
All-Purpose OWF Discussions => Fire Wood => Topic started by: MNRVGuy on January 27, 2012, 11:18:06 AM
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Burning oak or maple which wood is going to give me more heat? If the same or close, give me maple way better to cut & split than oak... Thoughts?
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Heres a firewood BTU comparison chart. :thumbup:
http://chimneysweeponline.com/howood.htm (http://chimneysweeponline.com/howood.htm)
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wood gives teh same heat if it is teh same moisture content a cord of oak will give more heat than a cord of maple because it is heavier (denser) 1 pound of wood gives approx 6000 btu that is 1 poundo f oak or 1 pound of maple or one pound of willow etc.
denser wood (such as oak) will weigh more per cord than maple, so you can say a cord of oak will give more heat than a cord of maple
but a ton of each will give the same btu as each other....clear as mud now?
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UUUUUUUUHHHH. What he said
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Oak burns hotter but maple seems to leave a better bed of hot coals- IMO.
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Oak is a wetter wood than maple. I takes for ever to dry oak...Oak puts out more btu's than maple..I actually like burning oak in my OWB.. I like maple in the house wood stove when I was running wood stove..
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Actually..... Red oak, white oak, and sugar maple all have practically the same btu per cord right at 24 million btu/cord. They all weigh the same at 3757 per cord.
http://firewoodresource.com/firewood-btu-ratings/ (http://firewoodresource.com/firewood-btu-ratings/)
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Oak burns hotter but maple seems to leave a better bed of hot coals- IMO.
There are several types of maple as well as oak. The softer maples we have here in southern PA don't leave hot coals hardly at all while all of the oaks do. In mild weather if I try to burn all maple my fire will go out if it idles too long, throwing some oak or locust in with the maple keeps enough coals to reignite.
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suger maple&norway maple are good wood. red and silver maple not so good.i like any oak but takes a year to dry
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Burning oak or maple which wood is going to give me more heat? If the same or close, give me maple way better to cut & split than oak... Thoughts?
Mabe if you're talking white oak.... In my experience, freshly cut red oak is one of the easiest woods to split. I would often forego the splitter and use the maul on red oak as it was just much faster to do. Of course, red oak has it's drawbacks...one of which your stack will smell like tom cats peed all over it....
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Mabe if you're talking white oak.... In my experience, freshly cut red oak is one of the easiest woods to split. I would often forego the splitter and use the maul on red oak as it was just much faster to do. Of course, red oak has it's drawbacks...one of which your stack will smell like tom cats peed all over it....
I totaly agree with the ease of splitting "fresh" red oak. It almost falls apart just seeing the Fiskars coming at it. I will take oak over maple anyday. I use much less and get longer burns out of it. What surprised me is how "lousy" black walnut is. I thought it would be good but it dries to a "balsa" wood weight. I actually gave my log length black walnut to my brother in-law who got it milled. He has over 1000 bdft in his pole barn drying.
It's funny you mention the "pee" smell, when I split oak it reminds me of being in my grandfathers basement around his wine barrels.
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splitting? thats a thing of the past isn't it LOl
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i still like to split because it drys faster. i sell alot of fire wood and just cant keep it around for long
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i still like to split because it drys faster. i sell alot of fire wood and just cant keep it around for long
oh yes splitting for sale for sure...split wood means more air, means less wood in a cord ::)
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better on the back
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most of my wood is dead elm, it dies here in ontario at about12 to 14 inches at the trunk and the bark falls off while standing. it is mostly dry when i cut it and splitting is not needed as it is just a nice size to handle and stack in a pile. a few carpenden scraps in teh fall to get the boiler going and then mostly unsplits from there on in.
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good deal. i have a tre service unlimited supply of wood. i burn mostly knots and round end scraps
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splitting? thats a thing of the past isn't it LOl
LOL...I've been trying to get the wife to put these in the stove but no go ;D
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what kind of wood you got there hickory
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what kind of wood you got there hickory
Actually, I'm not really sure. I think that is some sort of oak, maybe pin oak or something. Sure splits like oak. I took it down for my brother in law at a house he bought. I don't think it's maple feels too heavy and if it's hickory......I need to keep some to cook with :thumbup:
90% of the wood we have around south jersey is oak of some sort or another (just look at the woods in the background in the first pics). I guess we are lucky.
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i will also take oak any day over maple. I don't find that it takes a year to dry though. I've sold 21 truck loads of oak this year and all of my customers keep coming back saying how well it burns. The trees were down las winter but I cut in March, split all summer and sold this fall/winter. They really like it. I do however, split small for customers which will help dry it out better.
Its funny you guys mention the smell of red oak. That is mainly what I have and I LOVE IT! :o
I'm just about done splitting my first pile of oak for next year. Got my 30+ diameter logs left is all. Guestimating about 15 truck loads of split. I will be ready to start cutting again next weekend althought i've got cherry and white oak yet to split.