Firewood? (4 Viewers)

[scrapdaddy]

I aim for oak, hickory, ash, etc.

Me too, but they don't have that much of the hard woods out west. At least, it's easy splitting.

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

Genuinely curious, how are you all managing burning these evergreens? Isn't there a ton of creosote? I would imagine the wood would burn up very quickly. I aim for oak, hickory, ash, etc.

Only burn certain types of pines, or fir. Others are known to be a creosote headache, loaded with sap, and just burn like crap. Somewhere there is a btu chart showing different trees in the northern Rockies.

I really only burn lodgepole or red fir. Two of the better woods out here to burn.

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

It's what we have.

 

[baldilocks]

Genuinely curious, how are you all managing burning these evergreens? Isn't there a ton of creosote? I would imagine the wood would burn up very quickly. I aim for oak, hickory, ash, etc.

The only reason I had that big Douglas fur cut down is because it became diseased and was dying. I’ll save some of the wood for future camp fires and the ocasional back yard fire. My neighbor will take most of it for his firewood stash. I grew up in Michigan and we heated our home with hardwoods as you mentioned but a still had to clean the chimney out a couple times a winter.