What is the Best Firewood for Home Heating?

[Ingomike]

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What is the Best Firewood for Home Heating?

What is the best firewood for home heating? This list will help you figure out what wood will burn best in your fireplace.

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[BigRed]

Apple and cherry are for the smoker!

 

[mom45]

We use oak and cherry. We've had some huge cherry trees in the woods that have died and they make great firewood. Burns hot enough that the chimney doesn't get full of creosote.

 

[Magyars]

Oak, hickory and honey locust

 

[patience0830]

Oak, hickory and honey locust

Add Osage to the list and you have the most possible btu's in the native Hoosier forest.

 

[FN USA]

I like the kind that burns and puts off heat...

 

[Jaybird1980]

Hickory and Locust easily lasted the longest for me.

Followed by oak, hackberry, walnut, cherry, maple.

 

[ghuns]

Osage orange burns like coal. And you'll get REALLY good at sharpening chains.

Another one people overlook is Mulberry. It's a very close relative to Osage and burns good and hot.

 

[edwea]

In terms of the entire wood heat process, red oak is my favorite. Bucks easy, splits easy, stacks easy and burns well. I found the red oak trees to be the among the straightest with the fewest knots and hard to split parts.

 

[Tactically Fat]

I can tell you 100% without a doubt that it is NOT Callery / Bradford pear. :-D

 

[Virch]

I'm on a Facebook group and someone had a downed pine tree in their yard. Said whoever wanted it for firewood could come and get it. Seemed surprised when no one jumped on the offer.

 

[indyjohn]

The stuff that is the driest.

 

[indyjohn]

I'm on a Facebook group and someone had a downed pine tree in their yard. Said whoever wanted it for firewood could come and get it. Seemed surprised when no one jumped on the offer.

Pine is not a thing here where in the western states that is almost all that they burn. They've learned to clean their chimneys routinely.

 

[Ingomike]

The stuff that is the driest.
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My understanding was that is too low. Doesn’t generate as much heat as 15% and smokes more…

 

[indyjohn]

My understanding was that is too low. Doesn’t generate as much heat as 15% and smokes more…

I don't know. I don't recall what particular variety that was, it had no special handling or drying applied to it. It had merely sat for at least 9 months probably under cover.

 

[Ingomike]

I don't know. I don't recall what particular variety that was, it had no special handling or drying applied to it. It had merely sat for at least 9 months probably under cover.

I have read putting wood in a covered barn for summer in our area can be similar to kiln drying…

 

[indyjohn]

I have read putting wood in a covered barn for summer in our area can be similar to kiln drying…

I would believe that. You've seen my woodshed - protects from rain & snow but allows for ventilation.

 

[fullmetaljesus]

Wood that's been soaked in wood overnight.

 

[Mij]

Ya gotta be careful with Osage orange (hedge) that stuff can do some real damage if you or your stove aren’t up to the task. JMO


eta: Also about any fruit tree is good if dry.

 

[Magyars]

I've had a wood stove since at least 1980....I've always said if TSHTF I can always find something to burn