Thinking of burning wood? here's a poem

inishindie

Wood burns differently, Poplar, for example gives out just half the amount of heat for the same weight of Oak. There are quite a few rhymes around to help us remember which wood to choose. Funnily enough none of them seem to mention old pallets or Christmas trees.

Beechwood fires are bright and clear
If the logs are kept a year.
Oaken logs burn steadily
If the wood is old and dry.

Birch and fir logs burn too fast,
Blaze up bright and do not last.
Chestnut’s only good they say,
If for long is laid away.
But ash new or ash old
Is fit for a Queen with a crown of gold.

It is by the Irish said
Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread.
Poplar gives a bitter smoke,
Fills your room and makes you choke.
Apple wood will scent your room
With an incense-like perfume.
But ash wet or ash dry
For a King to warm his slippers by.

Cheers

Ian

http://inishindie.blogspot.com/

Scofflaw

Unseasoned pine's a bastid.

cordially,
Scofflaw

AngryHippie

Blackthorn gives good burnin
Ash is class and easily split
Most softwoods are dirt, You're warm 4 times with them
Cuttin them, splittin them, carryin them and burnin them. Hatefull
Sycamore is pretty rubbish.
Apple , sweet
Cedar muck
Cherry, nice
There is some stuff that smells savage, I'll have to find out what it is, burned a few rings of it last week, smelled the whole yard like a hoors handbag.