The Five Hottest Burning Hardwoods

[@witness1449]

After 50 years of heating with firewood, I agree with your list, adding that hard maple and ash are also great to burn. Hedge apple may produce more BTU, but I would pick Hickory over every other wood, the aroma alone is epic for wood burning. Mixed with oaks, Beech, Hard Maple, and Ash. I have 6 years worth of firewood mostly Ash. All the Ash trees are now dead in Southern Indiana. We couldn't process the all the dead trees destroyed by the Emerald Ash Borer. That Ash wood fire feels nice and cozy tonight! Keep your hearths warm and have a blessed Christmas!

[@playdiscgolf1546]

Yep, same here in Michigan. I have dead ash trees all over the place to harvest.

[@matthewbeaver5026]

All our ash here in wv is dead. Cant process it fast enough to use it before it goes soft. Its a shame. The number of trees that could have been handles or bats that Ive cut into firewood over the last decade.

[@earnestbass4043]

My grandfather told me to always keep a grove of black locust on the farm and you’ll have great firewood, the longest lasting fence posts, and a herd of whitetail deer (they love the cover, and the pods.)

[@gregorystinette8271]

I discovered that if you want to split green wood, wait until winter when the temperature stays below freezing ; the moisture content crystallizes & makes the wood brittle.

[@kiowablue2862]

One I don't see mentioned very often is Mesquite. Farmers and ranchers hate the stuff and are only too happy to have it cut and hauled away. Like hickory, it makes nice "smoker" fuel. Burns slow, and doesn't leave a lot of ash.

[@Hoosier_Cowboy]

I like red elm really well when I can find it ! Not the white elm. Cherry is also a favorite of mine. Burns well and smells great !

[@johnduffy6546]

Having cut, split and burned Osage Orange for over 50 years, I'd have to say your video is spot-on! This stuff is evil to work with and the thorns are hateful but, it does produce a crazy amount of heat! Not for the faint of heart...I used to split it by hand until I discovered wood splitters...OMG, if you have to work with Osage Orange, rent, borrow or buy a big-assed splitter. (25 ton should do it) You can thank me later...This wood will make an old man outta ya in short order...But, it's worth it!...It goes snap, crackle , pop just like Rice Krispies...DON'T over-load a wood stove with it. You will warp it!

[@ScottMason-ss8ww]

I'm in the UK. Best, wood for me would be ash, maple, cherry, beach, oak birch. Also one of the best if you can get it is hawthorn. As it takes so long to get to any size no one bothers with it commercially, plus it's thornie as! It burns very hot though and clean as a whistle, good flame and white ash. If I could only have one though, it would be ash all day. Burns super clean, good heat and great to split, great wood.

[@jaycook2146]

Standing dead elm is best

[@ScottMason-ss8ww]

@jaycook2146 we don't get elm in Britain, Dutch elm disease killed most of it off, although I think it might be making a slow recovery.

[@johncmitchell4941]

I've never been disappointed with Cherry, mulberry, or apple.

Black Locust is my choice. It grows FAST, and is close to home (in the empty lot behind my house which I have been given permission to harvest.) Not too difficult to split, and it has very fragrant flowers in early June.

[@duskintheforest584]

Here in deep south Texas, freezing weather is rare, but when it comes, i use our good sized fireplace to burn mesquite that is plentiful on my huge corner lot. I lop off the low hanging stuff, dead wood and that enough for bbq and fireplace all year. It dries very fast down here, believe me. 2-3 summer months dries it out completely. Minimal smoke, low soot producing. I have oak here too. I only use what falls off. Our brick house is well insulated, has thick outer walls, so the hearth is enough to warm 2500 sq ft comfortably. An armload of mesquite burns about 2hrs, but the massive hearth radiates warmth for hours

[@alansach8437]

I have been heating exclusively with woodstoves for over forty years, at several homes in various parts of the country. In my experience it doesn't really matter what "the best" is. You burn what you can get! Being picky is fine if you are burning for ambience, but if it's your source of heat, you want cheap and readily accessable. For me, that has mostly been pine. In a good stove, a load of pine will still last a good twelve hours, and the heat is more than adequate. The key is the stove, not the wood.

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

alansach You are right !!! Any wood that burns is fire wood and what available!!! I burned wood for years in a stove and burned mostly Doug fir, hemlock western red cedar, occasionally pine or alder or maple, but alder and maple made 3 times the ash of Doug fir/Hemlock. Doug fir, Hemlock cedar burn hot because of all the sap/pitch in it.

[@meddlehedd1194]

must depend on where you live. I wouldn't waste my time splitting pine here in southern Ontario in northern Ontario I imagine it would be worthless.

[@Michael-u8b3l]

@@alansach8437 buy a stove designed and built in British Columbia. It will do nicely with soft wood. Being that pine, fir, and cedar are abundant and finding hardwood to burn is virtually impossible

[@Elwood-kq6ld]

I've been burning for over 30 years. Here in the middle of the country, we don't have any beech or hickory. I have to agree with hedge/Osage orange, white oak and locust. I am a scrounger for firewood and take what I can get. The perfect fire is a mix of silver maple, ash, and mulberry. You can't go wrong with a mixed bag. This year I have pear, apple, silver maple, elm and mulberry.

[@glennpoorman5937]

Good cooking wood,smoking

[@American-OutdoorsNet]

I agree. We mix wood many times.

[@woodsplitter3274]

Yup. 100% in agreement. Mixed hardwood is the best. I am a fan of maple, oak, and locust. Mulberry (from urban areas) is my favorite. It's greenish yellow but seasons to a beautiful brown.

[@DdD-pi8jw]

Burning pear and apple for firewood??! Dude, that is prime smoker fuel. You’re throwing money away.

[@Bunnybarnacres]

Birch and Tamarac (larch) are also very hot

[@Oldbutschooled]

Eucalyptus, madrone and manzanita are some of the hottest woods !

[@w8stral]

Except finding them to burn is near impossible. Madrone if burned will melt your iron stove. Not that anyone outside of Whidbey island --> north will have any of it to burn. It shatters when split making VERY poor firewood volumetrically for stacking.

[@johnhaigler407]

Nor Cal and SW Oregon have Madrone. Lots of Manzanita in CA high desert chaparral of San Diego County. ​@@w8stral

[@w8stral]

@@johnhaigler407 Tiny bushes do not = firewood. Madrone grows VERY sparsely and is rare. That would be like saying vine maple which is FAR more prolific growing everywhere than madrone is firewood. Sure, it is VERY high density wood and makes excellent firewood, except a 150 year old vine maple is barely 8 inches in diameter. Its not firewood

[@johnhaigler407]

​@w8strI would never cut a Madrone for fires, but I have seen some large "bushes" with trunks up to 2 feet in diameter. These beauties were near Ashland, OR. I love the red bark.

[@w8stral]

@@johnhaigler407 Madrone is available here sometimes. Have burned it, but honestly it was not worth it. It makes VERY poor firewood as it splinters and does not stack well and the branches/trunk are not straight which makes it even worse.

[@KDuboutdoors19]

We have a firewood business and we have all of those in our piles. Although we have alot more Red Oak than White Oak. Beech is a joy to split. The only wood that we have that is harder to split than hickory is elm. My dad had a woods full of elm, and that's the reason I built my first splitter out of his old C160 Wheel Horse tractor.

[@paulscott6998]

I like locust. It burns so hot you can mix it with other woods. I like how it splits.

[@marktwain2053]

It depends on what part of the country you're in. Where I live,the most abundant firewood trees, listed by availability, are Black Locust, Honey Locust, Post Oak, Pecan, Black Walnut, Poplar, Mulberry, Bois D'arc (pronounced: Bow Dark, aka - Osage Orange, Horse Apple, Hedge Apple), and Mesquite. Osage Orange burns the hottest, of course (and it is best to mix it with one of the lesser types), followed closely by Mesquite (which is harder to get), then Black, and Honey Locust, and Post Oak (a type of White Oak). The rest are a mixed bag, but definitely worth the effort.

[@johnlovett8341]

Good list. Didn't see beech or black locust coming ... But growing up in SW Missouri loved burning Osage Orange (Bois d'arc)

[@alankosinki8751]

Great video

[@coalknob]

lots of good comments here; for me, there are hotter burning woods available, but black cherry checks off all the boxes. I love it.

[@SIC-SEMPER-TYRANNIS]

That's all I burn when possible. I love the smell of Cherry in the woodbox.

[@Bay0Wulf]

Have to be cautious with cherry. Its known for outgassing cyanide while burning.

[@Desire_of_Ages]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@grayghostmoseby7123]

Eastern Hophornbeam is the hottest burning wood from my woods and my woods consist of hickory, white and red oak, beech, cherry,hard and soft maple among a lot of other woods.

[@a.w.w.728]

Last year i used a mix of oak and OS. OS does burn very hot. Definitely worth getting and using.

[@mikefitzpatrick9989]

Excellent info, thanks.

[@jamiedalluge9472]

Burning wood is a wonderful heat source as theirs nothing like wood heat, however it's a commitment and a great responsibility on burning it safely and efficiently. Proper stove and chimney maintenance and adequate seasoning of the wood are a must. Be safe and stay warm folks

[@DanJackson-yj2dx]

Been burning Osage in my drolet stove for ten years. Keeps us warm all winter. 😅

[@georgevavoulis4758]

Thank you for your reviews very informative ❤

[@Trawler22]

Pacific Madrone is incredible wood. Hot, No bark, very little mess,, easy to split when green, and leaves a fine white ash that’s easy to clean up

[@Northman1963]

"Ash wet or ash dry, a king shall warm his slippers by" Old English saying

[@osagejon8972]

the whole poem is great

[@davidscott9572]

The emerald ash borer has created an abundance of dead ash trees.

[@jefffrayer8238]

@@davidscott9572 Really good splitting and burning too. No cherry? Burns hot and nice coals. Very good video.

[@davidscott9572]

@jefffrayer8238 just cut an 8 inch cherry dead and full of ants it never burns to ash and stops at charcoal. My favorite is ash love oak but had some 3 year old red oak that still was smoky.

[@blackturtleshow]

I burn a lot of almond which is rated hotter than beech on most of the charts I've seen. Also I burn a lot of pinyon which some call the hardwood of the softwood trees and is rated hotter than many hardwoods. I have not yet tried mountain mahogany, but I have a lot growing near me and it tops the chart! BTW, I go through five to six chords of wood a year and burn a wide variety of wood in the process. All I have to heat my house are two wood stoves.

[@joerigsby-qt5bf]

I also burn lots of almond. Wood. They take orchards and it’s game one. Also have lots of live oak on property here in Murphys, ca. both are great and I do mix in some cedar.

[@garycuster5031]

Give me Bitternut (smooth bark hickory) and I'm a happy camper. It really coals up!!

[@stephenbird5472]

Interesting video! Not sure why you omitted the top hottest burning hardwoods from your list but for those who want hotter burning woods than those listed in this video, the top three are; Casuarina (Ironwood), Eucalyptus (varied spp.), and Madrone. I like Madrone the best because it burns clean and leaves very little ash. It also has a nice fragrance. The other advantage of Ironwood and Eucalyptus is that they grow much faster than your listed trees. More like your locust in growth rate.

[@bryancook1018]

Hard maple is an excellent hardwood as well.

[@TB-zw7dt]

A venture into what tree species burn well when fresh cut and green would be informative. What burns fairly when fresh cut? Thanks for the informative videos.

[@kenkrantz1454]

Ash is really the only species that burns efficiently when fresh cut (unseasoned).

[@don66hotrod94]

"Ash wood wet or ash wood dry, a king will warm his slippers by."

[@clintfultz1811]

Northern MN. Tamarack will literally melt your stove if not careful.

[@JIgginCrappie]

No mention of black jack or cedar

[@markedward5941]

I'm curious how they compare to our hardwoods here in Australia. I have timber here that we can hardly cut with a chainsaw and you most certainly can't split it by hand, it's like granite. We tend to avoid it for heaters because it burns so hot it will halve the life of your wood burner.

[@kjames8299]

Thanks forthe info

[@vashonwatchdog]

Maple, Madrone, Cherry, are favorites, but as we mostly have fir, it’s what we burn the most; this and Alder

[@chrismurphy4142]

I have been burning wood since 1973. Here in Southern Illinois, we have a lot of oak. Red, white, pen oak, hickory. You name it, we have it. My favorite is hickory. I cut standing dead only.

[@mikebower9795]

Hedge or Osage orange in the midwest!

[@rainmaker6335]

Great video if you live in the south where u hardly need wood to heat your house. Perhaps a video is in order for those who live in Northern Maine or UP Michigan or Northern Minnesota, Alaska, Canada.

[@jayhales3822]

Don't forget Wisconsin

[@RC-ml3ne]

We, in western North Carolina, love locust. Hickory is terrific but can actually burn too hot!

[@bloqk16]

Also suggested when it comes to storing firewood: Keep it away from the side of the house. Stacking firewood against the outdoor siding of the house can invite problems with invasive insects and vermin doing damage to the siding; as well as invading into the domicile.

[@ST-xx9rt]

Ironwood, rock elm, tamarac/larch. I sold firewood for extra cash for 25+ years. In Northern Wisconsin. Mostly red oak and sugar maple. Those are the most common around here. These days ash is available everywhere. White ash dries fast, Splits easily, and is about the same as White oak for output. Black ash takes forever to dry I don't know anything about Green Ash. I've noticed most people don't dry their firewood very well. Get a outdoor boiler. Then it won't matter what type of wood you burn. Just get a massive pile I know where you go

[@Chuckiesezletsplay]

Green ash is almost as good as white ash.

[@user-sd8vl4cy5k]

Black walnut burns hot also.

[@dol3980]

In Kanadistan (51st of usa) maple is predominant in eastern part of state. Yellow birch is a clsoe second but incredibly tough to split not unlike maple, Beech is great and clean but leaves fewer coals the the above White birch and poplar are late summer calorie/btu producers but at -20--40 you go to the big hardwood boys maple, oak, ironwood) or freeze.

[@gregy1570]

we are invading in less than a month:)

[@Cruiser777]

I live in Arizona, and we have a lot of Mystique Birch. Put the past four years, it has been hard to get Hickory, and it's not cheap.

[@flcracker228]

Down in South Florida we have a tree called an Australian Pine that is invasive and it burns extremely hot. It has no sap and is more along the line of an oak. Would really like to see BTU information on it.

[@American-OutdoorsNet]

The Austrailian Pine isn't a true Pine, but it puts off about 20 million BTUs of heat. I'd consider it a medium density hardwood and pretty good for using indoors.

[@tomjoad3034]

I live in east-central Oklahoma and I have a Fairly good Sized smokehouse Where I make beef jerky and smoke hams. I only Use 4 types of Wood.. Hickory, Maple, apple, Cherry.!!! I use the hickory and maple for the Majority of the Smoking process and then at the end i use the apple and cherry to make the meat taste sweet !!!

[@attitudeadjusted9027]

Try mulberry. It's awesome for smoking as well and for heat. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned 🤠

[@robohippy]

From the farmers in the mid west, "A black locust fence post will wear out one fence post hole. An osage orange post will wear out 2." I have burned some black locust, and as near as I can tell, it takes 2 years for it do dry enough to burn well. I would guess that honey locust is not mentioned because of the thorns, though there is a domesticated type of one that doesn't have the thorns. I do love white oak, and a local wood, Pacific madrone which the firewood guys told me that it actually puts out a bit more BTUs than white oak. That surprises me since I am a bowl maker, and the madrone is much lighter than oak when it dries out. It does hold more water than most trees.

[@loquat4440]

There are several grafted varieties that have reduced thorns and people do sell seedlings from such trees. I am trying to grow a few for the pods. Hersey, calhoun, and some others are common reduced thorn varieties.

[@petewerner1494]

The hottest wood in Canada is Tamarac aka Larch. It is the densest wood and will warp a stove if not careful. It's the only wood that does not float in a river or lake,, sinks to the bottom instantly. It's actually a deciduous tree that loses its needles every winter then regrows them in the spring.

[@thomasmcginnis3783]

And it eats people. I guess. Or did you mean _deciduous_ ??

[@petewerner1494]

@@thomasmcginnis3783 Yea, boy did I ever goof on that one! Oldtimers disease. I'll fix that!

[@thomasmcginnis3783]

@@petewerner1494 I dunno. I thought it was pretty cute. If Yoot Ube had gifs, you could've hunted up a great cartoon, I bet. Oh well. At least you and I got a chuckle. Cheers!

[@sandbar6078]

No mention of black walnut? It’s good wood but takes along time, 2 to 3+years to dry out. Burns hot and lasts along time. I like to mix ash, basswood and ironwood , red elm, locust, hickory or any fruit wood. I use some cedar when handy. Hickory and oak is good too. 2 to 2 1/2 cord per season. Even heat is much nicer than forced air propane furnaces. From southwest Iowa

[@rossbrimmer5895]

Mostly where im at here in north east wyoming its mostly ponderosa pine you can find some bur oak other than that a tiny bit of cedar. Hard to get good firewood around here.

[@marcospena8802]

Really

[@AK-bw8xk]

California resident who burns whatever wood i can get and eucalyptus burns hot and long from my room temperature IQ experience. 😊

[@clintdaniel9260]

if u have a greenhouse u can season ur wood in a month or less in the summer all closed up will reach 140 degrees on sunny days that will kill bugs too i fill up totes they work great for air flow

[@robertwiebler7470]

I have an outdoor wood furnace. Down to 20°, I'll burn maple, elm, hackberry, sweet gum, ash, and other soft woods. Below 20°, I'll burn any type of oak, locust, and hedge. Hickory, pecan, cherry, persimmon etc. get sold for BBQ smoker wood.

[@johnslaughter5475]

I would be interested in knowing how tamarack (western larch) stacks up. We have a whole lot of pine around here, ponderosa and lodge pole) but avoid them because of the creosote. We also have a lot of douglas fir (a red fir) which is a very good firewood. But, our best, is the tamarack. It is very dense, burns hot and lasts and also leaves little ash.

[@American-OutdoorsNet]

Well funny you should ask. We listed Tamarack in this linked video. Thanks for watching. kzbin.info/www/bejne/boeweKFmi5iNZ7M

[@stevehardwick7285]

No softwood (coniferous) trees are as good as hardwood. I burn mostly beech and maple in northern Maine, maple has a little more btu's but I have a commercial sugarbush, so don't burn much maple. I've used tamarack before, but it's not close to the hardwoods.

[@johnslaughter5475]

@@stevehardwick7285 We have to use what is available. In northern Idaho it's mostly conifers. Washington, just west of us, is the evergreen state. So, around here, the tamarack becomes the wood of choice. These, plus the huge fir trees, provide a lot of wood. The tree I just cut down next to my house, yielded about 1-1/2 cords

[@stevehardwick7285]

@@johnslaughter5475 Yeah, I'd say tamarack is probably the best conifer. Is that a douglas fir? I know they get huge!

[@johnslaughter5475]

@@stevehardwick7285 Yes, it was a Douglas Fir. It was only about 40 years old but was 25" in diameter and around 80'. They can grow to over 15' in diameter and around 250' in height.

[@fruitful7753]

In the Appalachian Mts. I find Chestnut is hottest. It literally melts a grate in woodstove every year if not sooner. You haft to split them small in 2"-3" pieces as larger is hard to burn. I even welded 3/4" rebar in the grates and it melted the rebar in one winter 4-5 months. Chestnut gets white hot and 2 pieces at a time is all you need, it gets extremely hot. I even temper metal with it in 5 minutes it will get 1/4 metal white hot stuck in the hot coals. Hickory and red oak are good also, but not like chestnut.

[@ni1469]

Hedge apples work well for keeping spiders away

[@curtisthompson7383]

You forgot about ashe! It is easy to split and produces alot of heat. Ashe is dying off because of the invasive beetle that is killing them so there is alot of ashe trees that need to be removed and burned.

[@Bay0Wulf]

Ash IS “good” and the recent massive availability of it is due to it dying off is unquestionable but … it burns relatively fast and doesn’t put out as much heat as other alternatives.

[@jimzeleny7213]

I burn Birch exclusively. Never tried the stuff you mentioned because it's not native in my area.

[@PhilipYoungblood-n6t]

you will never go wrong burning the wood you have in the local area.

[@MrSummerbreeze01]

I burn Ash, Hickory, Cherry, B Locust, Red Oak, but i always use my Hard Maple on the nights below 10 F. Coals up the best and hottest. seasoned 3+ years.

[@tyrrellroach5872]

My dad use to tell me stories of burning hedge. It was ok would burn so hot that the heating pipes in his trailer would glow white. Taking them to near molten temperatures. Definitely not something that should be used lightly. As for locust on this list yep it’s dense but the short rose like thorns make it very undesirable to work with

[@scott4482]

I used to heat my house with wood, i had a slow burn wood stove. Pine and fir are hot but oak lasts longer, if you heat with wood you want a wood that lasts all night. OAK is the best for long burning

[@hereandthere9023]

Dad used to mix Black Locust and Hedge. He was a bit concerned with the stove slabbing down at times. The mix was supposed to help a little.

[@philipseeber5549]

Red Elm is one of the best burning Woods because it dries out from the inside out and does not take on water or moisture during the year

[@jamesdack61]

iron wood and red oak

[@AllanHunter-c2l]

Many years ago there was no such thing as power splitters. I see several types of power splitters.

[@joedavenport-vn5qv]

I love alligator Juniper I live in New Mexico it has been a very good wood for me burning hot and clean. I burn it for about six or seven years now, but I’ve had a stove 40 years. I burn all kinds of wood and I like this the best of all.

[@David-e5e5f]

I sold firewood for 40 some years in my experience Osage orange is great but it usually only grows in hedgerows apparently it doesn't like to be shaded out and that's why it's only in the hedgerows and not very many of those around I usually didn't have any trouble selling all the wood I had because my competitors would sneak in Pine and fur but in my area there wasn't any so I didn't come across it too much and if I did I used it myself even though it's a creosote problem that's that's what it all boils down to

[@maplebones]

Ebony is excellent. Actually, any part of a piano or guitar is good.

[@Adam-i9s]

We use mulberry and honey locust where I live

[@Matt-d8m]

Here in Canada some of the best hardwoods to burn are Ironwood, Maple, White Birch, White Ash, Cherry, and Elm

[@camwinston5248]

Osage orange.-"bois de arc" or bodock in the south..the old horse apple tree.

[@swamprat69er]

If you are going to hand split Elm, do it in the winter time after the temperatures have hit -40°F for a day and a night. I buy my wood cut, split and delivered. It has been down for a full year and is split in the winter, gets dumped in my driveway and stays there all summer long. I turn the pile over once a month and come late September or early October it gets chucked into my basement where the left over wood from the previous winter can kiln dry it some more. 10-15% is good enough for me. I get maybe a cup of creosote out of my 7" chimney when it gets cleaned before the heating season. The chimney is 24' long.

[@maartendenhartog1580]

What about maple and birch wood

[@johnbarth684]

It's important to burn wood as a mix of different species. The fire will burn better and longer. I've been at it since the 70s.

[@RandyDesin]

Locus is the hottest burning wood by far.

[@hunterjames3167]

Sorry that goes to the live oak of the Deep South!!! The most dense, hard, heaviest wood in the US! It even surpases Osage orange and locust easily!!

[@meddlehedd1194]

They forgot ironwood/hop hornbeam.

[@jamespotter1990]

I like OSB mixed with bridgestone truck tires and 80w90

[@American-OutdoorsNet]

I dont have any recent data on the BTU output of 90 weight combined with radials and particle board but it may be worth digging into for a future video. Stay tuned!

[@clayton1439]

Lmfao

[@richcooke9241]

Throw in some used oil filters and the shop will be warm

[@NelsonGeorge_ng]

You know the numbers in the triangles on food containers? is the higher the number, the hotter it burns? or vice versa?

[@smert_rashistskiy_pederacii]

It's interesting, but no one has yet investigated - will ordinary pine, which is so disliked because of its resin content, give the same amount of heat when burned, but in a pyrolysis boiler? Because there, with boost, the efficiency is slightly better than ordinary direct combustion boilers. For example, in my case, pine sedge easily develops the same temperatures as oak, only faster. Perhaps because the sedge fraction is certainly smaller than oak sedge, and perhaps due to the burning of resin, or maybe both factors at the same time. But, of course, the same volume of firewood put into the boiler, pine or oak, pine burns faster. Because in the same volume there is still less mass.

[@sethsevaroth]

Anyone else find that white oak burns down to ash and doesn't really leave much coals? I'm sure it's efficient but makes keeping the fire going a bit more challenging. Maple on the other hand leaves a ton of coals to where I have to pile up the coals open up the damper and really burn coals down every couple of fires. A mix of maple and oak or barring that a mix of red and white oak seems to be the magic sauce.

[@jamesdavidsmith4033]

Osage orange 🔥

[@jtrocktree5409]

Eastern beech should be split and stacked for 1 year minimum, burns like coal, white oak 8 months split and stacked , hickory is my overnite wood , love my wood heat , stay cozy 😀

[@chrisgabbert658]

An all hickory fire can turn a stove reddish orange yep I played attention to what wood I was using after that.

[@blythkd9017]

Hedge (osage orange) does burn very hot and makes excellent firewood if your equipment is up to the task. Works great in a fireplace but may burn too hot for a wood stove unless it's a very good one. A pile of hedge wood will literally create a forge. Plus all the popping and sparks may not be something some folks want in their home. But I have to disagree with the comment about taking several saw chains with you to cut it. When it's green, it doesn't dull a chain any more than any other wood. If you cut up old dead dry trees, I've seen sparks fly from it but a good chain will still last a while between sharpenings.

[@jimmieburleigh9549]

You sure about locust and hickory?? My experience with locust its hotter and longer burning than hickory

[@American-OutdoorsNet]

There are different strands of Locust and Hickory, and climate/location/etc all can affect density, and ratings will vary depending on the source. Regardless, these 5 species will roast the chestnuts. Thanks for tuning in!

[@jeremychance6463]

Pretty sure mesquite is right there with number 1, can't burn it in clay smokers or chimineas cause it'll crack it and pretty sure it does the same with glass

[@robertlivingston1634]

Where I live hard maple is most abundant and makes fine firewood but if you can find large enough ironwood, that will dry your socks

[@firstjohn3123]

👍

[@loquat4440]

Black locust should be used for fence posts and not wasted by burning. Osage orange is another useful wood that should not wasted in a stove. There was no mention of live oak that we have in north gulf coast of mexico. Most of my wood is not dried or seasoned and I regularly removed the creosote.

[@matthewbeaver5026]

You cant use the crooked pieces for post 😂

[@kidglort3781]

I cut down my neighbors callery pear in July and I’m burning it now. It’s dry!

[@warrenklaus-tm1oo]

This is all fine and dandy, but most of us burn the local woods that are mist available. I have been many wood species over the years and what I can definitely say is that no matter which we stsyed warm.

[@Willy12927]

I like to season my osage orange for at least three years before burning. Also, if it has set a while before I can get to cutting it, I use a carbide tipped chainsaw blade.

[@richardphelps5041]

Back. 40-50 years ago red elm was the best

[@Lmfleaflicker]

I love the smell of black cherry burning

[@coalknob]

yes, for sure. definitely my favorite

[@trevorcooley430]

Hands down Red oak

[@greggsnyder8586]

Hedge apple/Osage orange

[@osagejon8972]

yep

[@marktwain2053]

Actual name is Bois D'arc (pronounced: Bow Dark), but most know it as Osage Orange, or Horse Apple in my neck of the woods.

[@jlangevin65]

@@marktwain2053 There's no such thing as an actual common name - the actual name is Maclura pomifera.

[@robertsimpson7113]

When you state BTU's per cord, what size cord are you referring to? Face or bush?

[@American-OutdoorsNet]

A Full Cord, 4'x4'x8.

[@patbrennan6572]

I'm not sure but my guess would be face chord, been wrong before though.

[@davidlangley1844]

Black jack is harder to split but it will make a house warm

[@patbrennan6572]

I thought hard maple would have been on this list.

[@robr5786]

We burn Hard Maple,Birch,Ash,Some Oak usually slabs cut up from our hobby mill,i think the hottest burning wood i was ever close to was some Elm that was as dry as a bone