what wood is best to burn?

[Spacemonkey]

Ah, you forgot Olive wood! Burns bright but long, and smells nice to boot. Lovely stuff, but not much of that here, either...

 

[Mutley]

I think soft dry wood is the best burner, but short lasting, after it picks up get some hard wood on, that will keep it going.

 

[R-Bowskill]

The best wood to burn is what you can get, On Mayday I went to a party and there was a lovely campfire made from Hornbeam, Lit up quite easy, very hot embers, flames to see by with each new log but if you're in a really big pine and spruce forest it could take over a day to get some ash or whatever you think would burn better. In that situation burn what's there rather than have a cold night and no warm food.

 

[Mutley]

Wouldn't the weather also effect whats the best wood for fire? Some might be increasingly hard to light if wet but others not?

 

[Moonraker]

There is a nice little guide produced by the Forestry Commission with some of details on wood burning (mostly for log burners but relevant to outdoors. There is an online version and a PDFversion to download of the original leaflet too. It is well illustrated.

Wood As Fuel

Good page with some rhymes andinfo on individual woods found in Britian here:

Properties of different Trees as Firewood

and more detailed info here:

Burning Wood

 

[Ed]

Fantastic Moonraker.... Excellent links


Ed

 

[Tony]

Yeah they are moonraker....the "Link master"

 

[Moonraker]

LOL Happy to share the results of too much time spent scouring the web for stuff. Just as well I have organised my files now so I can find the info quicker from past searches

 

[gunnix]

Reading these rimes I think it would be great to have some kind of cd or song book with clever songs like these. A song on different woods, a song on making an ember, a song on ..

Does it exist yet ?