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Red and White Oak, around here. Dislike smell of green red oak. Splits easy, burns well and it's free!
The most underrated firewood.
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I feel that way also when I am burning straight hedge { osage orange}
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of course, but he asked about wood. The railroad ties get it real hot first so the tires burns.Ties are okay, but mix them with hunks of old tires, THEN you have something
Doug
Railway sleepers are great. Turf is even better.
How is Red and White oak underrated?
It's one of the most prized of firewoods in North America and probably around the world.
Some don't care for the long seasoning times is all.
Osage Orange is another prize firewood and I wouldn't have it on the list of underrated, more like high up as prime wood.
I'd have to say that one of the forgotten great firewoods around here and as you go farther North is Beech.
High BTUs and pretty clean bark too.
It has long seasoning times but is worth the wait and not at all common in the firewood sales lineup.
The other one right around me that is very plentiful, mostly free but not long burning would be Boxelder Maple.
High BTUs and pretty clean bark too.
It has long seasoning times but is worth the wait and not at all common in the firewood sales lineup.
The other one right around me that is very plentiful, mostly free but not long burning would be Boxelder Maple.
CentaurG2
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Willow is a trash tree around here. It is sort of like taking a whiz in your fire. Native Americans used the bark as medicine as it contains an aspirin like substance. Willow charcoal was reported to make the best black powder. Underrated firewood tree here is locus. It grows like a bad weed, stinks like trash when you cut it but it burns hotter than the hinges of hell. Good stuff.
Yes, willow does contain aspirin. A lot of people into herbalism use it. They make tea out of it.
woodhounder
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Red and White oak is the most overrated firewood. There are a lot of woods that dry faster and have just as good BTU's
Kanscruzer
OK
Mulberry is great for smoking meat
IHDiesel73L
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Beat me to it. I've got it all over my property and I'm trying to cut them all down for firewood before they fall down on something. Grows like a bad weed is right-their root structure sucks. This big SOB just toppled over one day-no wind at all, just from the ground being saturated. Nearly took out my barn and my saw shop:
Sawyer Rob
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SR
Kanscruzer
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"God is great...beer is good...and you're dang lucky ,,,,, could have been much worseBeat me to it. I've got it all over my property and I'm trying to cut them all down for firewood before they fall down on something. Grows like a bad weed is right-their root structure sucks. This big SOB just toppled over one day-no wind at all, just from the ground being saturated. Nearly took out my barn and my saw shop:
I was going to suggest apple as an under rated firewood and that is another chart that seems to show it. It's higher than oak anyway. We typically think of apple for smoking and it usually doesn't come in large quantities, but seems it should be pretty good. Can tell when you pick up a chunk that it is a pretty dense wood.
SR
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Grows like crazy, have to cut it anyway, burns decently hot too.
Grows like crazy, have to cut it anyway, burns decently hot too.
IHDiesel73L
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This is a good chart and more accurate IMO than the one chimneysweep used to show. A bit surprised to see hickory over hornbeam but they did the test, not me. I wonder where rock elm ranks.
SR
Still highly, highly rated as one of the world's best firewoods, so not at all "underrated".
High up in BTU chart
So how good is apple for firewood? Well, just like how many licks to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop... the world may never know!Burning apple for any purpose other than smoking good meat should be a felony!
