Whats you favorite wood to cut/burn.... -Stove Pics-

[teatersroad]

I like juniper for firewood. It does burn nice and hot! It also chews up chains for breakfast. Stinking silica in the bark is pretty hard on chains. It does smell good, makes me think of cedar planked salmon.

I knew about the chains, did not know about the silica. I'm told it is a cedar, growing up with the western reds, I was suprised.

fun to cut:bang:

 

[pastryguyhawaii]

Here's my stove with the dogs on it.

My favorite wood to burn is ohia, which I understand is only found out here.
Closely followed by kiawe.

 

[JustinM]

Plywood, particle board, 2x4's, garbage, cardboard, pretty much anything that will fit into the stove and burn.

Have to watch the treatments and glues in that processed wood--not good for you to breath those fumes.

Not to mention what its doing to you stove pipes...be careful to clean it regularly.

 

[catbuster]

Straight grained hickory.

That and, I like Hedgeapple. Hot, and lasts forever.

 

[oscar4883]

Favorite wood to burn and split is ash. Have an old Vermont Castings Vigilant that cost about a $100 used. Had a couple of cracks on the side which I repaired. Custom made the rear heat shield. Added a coat of rustoleum BBQ grill paint and it looks like it came of the showroom floor. Albeit a dusty showroom floor. Stove sits on a raised platform with oak trim and a slate field. Still fiquing out how to do the pic thing but when I get it together I will get some pics up.

 

[olyman]

mostly ash--dried in a stacked row or four--some oak,,,,,,,some cottonwood and some pine,for the start of season--

 

[DSS]

Sugar maple is king here.White birch,juniper,spruce,a bit of yellow birch,ash,poplar,odd beech,thats about it.Get a picture of the stove tomorrow,Osburn 4100.Made in quebec...nice little stove

 

[Mac_Muz]

In New Hampshire USA, we have a wide variety of hard woods, but this lot was raped before 1930 to be a Fair Ground, and white pine is about it, with a smattering of red and black oak, a little poplar, and little sugar maples.

The shop has the only wood stove which runs 24/7 on mostly white pine.

If it was 'my' shop there wouldn't be more than kindling as white pine.

I run a little sugar stove on fine split white pine, hemlock and white spruce.

This is how you clean that stack

If anyone wants to see more sugarin pics, just go here:
http://s290.photobucket.com/albums/ll275/Mac_Muz/Maple_Sugarin/

 

[brendog84cj8]

Out here in Montana where I am at I pretty much cut and burn, Fir, Lodge pole, and from time to time when I am lucky and find one dead and standing, Larch.

 

[wampum]

Locust,locust,locust,just save the straight ones for posts.

 

[REJ2]

Hackberry, its abundant here in NE Kansas. REJ2

 

[knockbill]

first choice, oak,, red oak, white oak, pin oak,,, it splits easy and burns long and hot...

second choice, ash, cherry, maple, locust, beech, or anything else that is seasoned and free......

stove is a cawley 800....

 

[leeave96]

That's a really nice set-up. What is your stove make and model?

Chainsaw content: What is your go-to chainsaw for this stove?

Thanks!
Bill

heres a pic of my little stove from an old thread.
notice i too have a saw over the stove.

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the telescoping pipe running straight up to the chimney makes sweeping a snap! i pull the baffle bricks out from the inside and sweep directly in to the firebox.

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[BloodOnTheIce]

In reality, I've got a log load of mostly Red Oak, splits like a dream and burns nice too.
Here's my wood burning setup. I know not Red Oak in the picture that was taken last year.

Or our slightly more rustic setup from a GTG back in November

 

[jeepyfz450]

Black cherry is KING to me cuts great splits great and smells nice. we only burn harwood here oak, maple,cherry,hickory, ash.

 

[Arrowhead]

Black cherry is KING to me cuts great splits great and smells nice. we only burn harwood here oak, maple,cherry,hickory, ash.

I agree. Cherry smells incredible when burning, kind of a sweet smell.

 

[jvpski]

Of course White Ash, "Ash wood wet or ash wood dry, a King will warm his slippers by"

Ash is often called "the Firewood of Kings" since it burns well even when freshly cut. Others are fine but second to Ash.

It is too bad Ash is being ravaged in some parts by a Chinese import!

 

[deer slayer]

Here's mine.View attachment 122653 2nd the oaks (mostly red, white here. aahh the smell of fresh split oak) got some locust also. Been fortunate enough to burn nothing but hard wood so far. Not afraid to burn others though.

 

[trimmmed]

Hands down Black Birch

1) Plenty of it
2) No sap wood
3) It splits neat, has thin bark that stays on
4) Stacks bark up and stays dry w/o a cover
5) Seasons well in one year at which point bark loosens
6) Loose bark is highly flammable makes good kindling
7) Burns great, good heat, great smell
8) Does not produce a lot of ash

If I had to pick just one it would be black birch.

 

[deer slayer]

Heres one w/the new 460 mag.View attachment 122654 uuurrrhhgg uuurrrhhhhgggg...