Quick question. Are Willow logs good wood to burn at home. If I remember correctly they can spit embers a bit once burning. I'm not thinking of camp fires here, just wondering for burning in a "real fire" or fire place in the house.
Burning Willow at home
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I burn a lot at home - once in an open fire , now in a wood burning stove.
If it is well seasoned it spits no more than other woods - in my experience!
If it is well seasoned it spits no more than other woods - in my experience!
TurboGirl
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
I'm going to spam your thread, even if it has been answered by our resident Oracle, with the old wood burning poem 
Wood burning Poem
Woods for Burning.
Logs to burn! Logs to burn!
Logs to save the coal a turn!
Here’s a word to make you wise
When you hear the woodsman’s cries.
Beech wood fires burn bright and clear,
Hornbeam blazes too’
If the logs are kept a year
To season through and through.
Oak logs will warm you well
If they are old and dry.
Larch logs of the pine smell
But the sparks will fly.
Pine is good and so is Yew
For warmth through winter days,
But poplar and the willow too
Take long to dry or blaze.
Birch logs will burn too fast,
Alder scarce at all,
Chestnut logs are good to last
If cut in the fall
Holly logs will burn like wax –
You should burn them green.
Elm logs like a smouldering flax,
No flames to be seen.
Pear logs and Apple logs
They will scent a room,
Cherry logs across the dogs
Smell like flowers in bloom.
But Ash logs all smooth and grey,
Burn them green or old,
Buy up all that come your way
They’re worth their weight in Gold!
Unknown.
*Elder, sweet chestnut, cedar, hemlock, balsam, spruce and the pines all spit hot cinders into the air.
I'm an ash lass myself, there's always bits to be found round here... willow takes too long to season and my little 14" 1940s open fire struggles with too much willow, it needs a good hot ash fire around it to keep willow smouldering
Wood burning Poem
Woods for Burning.
Logs to burn! Logs to burn!
Logs to save the coal a turn!
Here’s a word to make you wise
When you hear the woodsman’s cries.
Beech wood fires burn bright and clear,
Hornbeam blazes too’
If the logs are kept a year
To season through and through.
Oak logs will warm you well
If they are old and dry.
Larch logs of the pine smell
But the sparks will fly.
Pine is good and so is Yew
For warmth through winter days,
But poplar and the willow too
Take long to dry or blaze.
Birch logs will burn too fast,
Alder scarce at all,
Chestnut logs are good to last
If cut in the fall
Holly logs will burn like wax –
You should burn them green.
Elm logs like a smouldering flax,
No flames to be seen.
Pear logs and Apple logs
They will scent a room,
Cherry logs across the dogs
Smell like flowers in bloom.
But Ash logs all smooth and grey,
Burn them green or old,
Buy up all that come your way
They’re worth their weight in Gold!
Unknown.
*Elder, sweet chestnut, cedar, hemlock, balsam, spruce and the pines all spit hot cinders into the air.
I'm an ash lass myself, there's always bits to be found round here... willow takes too long to season and my little 14" 1940s open fire struggles with too much willow, it needs a good hot ash fire around it to keep willow smouldering
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About a third of what I burn is (weeping) willow - it seems to grow even after sectioning and splitting for up to a year, but once thoroughly dry it burns fine and I haven't noticed any great amount of "spitting".
