my dad use to burn fir and oak mostly but it was plentiful around our house. he'd burn fir during the day and evenings and when we'd go to bed he throw in the oak and let it burn all night long.

 

ditto

I love to burn tamarack...

 

tamarack, tamarack, and maybe another tamarack! or commonly known at larch. i maybe wrong but i beleive its the hottest BTU for a none hardwood species. easy on the saw. bark falls right off most of the time. splits easy. and ages well! usually never much for limbs till the top

 

+1 :applause:

 

Don't cut wood anymore. When I used to live on the west side ...... the wood of preference in my neck of the woods was madrone. Be sure to split it while green. If you don't, you just as well go try and split your driveway. On the east side we preferrred tamarack (Western Larch), or Douglas (red) Fir.

 

Madrone!! Nothing better on the planet than burning dry madrone.....but tough to come by up here, it's a South Coast tree (and a little area on the Olympic Peninsula)

TR

 

Dry.

 

Juniper. Nice hot fire, smells great, easy to split when dry.

 

$275 is too much for a cord. Oak, alder, fir, ash, Tamarack(hard to find on the west side) I usually cut my own but this year I bought 7 cords at $150/ cord.

 

Fir.

 

I like oak but fir is easier to find and cheaper if you are buying

 

that price is too high in my opinion. things to look for: a cord is 128 square feet, so measure when stacked it will look like a mountain just in a pile. soft woods to start fires and hard woods to keep them going. when i sold fire wood i split, delivered and stacked mixed maple alder cherry and fir for $150 and always a full cord. its almost impossible to fit a full cord in a pickup unless it is stacked:twocents:

 

For what I can get around here it would be fir, maple and alder. Oak is ok. It burns for a long time but doesn't put out as much heat as a good tight grain fir. A cord of oak will last longer than a cord of most other woods. Where you would buy 4 cords of fir you can get away with 3 cords of oak. If you are buying wood this time of year you can expect to pay around $200.00 a cord for soft wood and over 250 for a good hard wood. That is unless you have a connection. Basic economics of supply and demand.

 

Madrone is by far, my wood of choice.

 

:agree:

Start the fire with softwood, and then madrone the rest of the way.

 

Larch kindling since I can't get a consistent supply.

Lodgepole Pine to get the fire box hot and the house warmed up.

Juniper for the long haul. If I had to choose one wood it would be Juniper.

And I still have about 10 sticks of the hardrock Maple that I got from Greenbuttskunk about 6 years ago when a tree blew down in his yard. I only use that just before bed on nights when it's below 0. There's still blue flame in the morning and the heating system doesn't have to bring the heat up. If I could get a couple more cords of Maple I'd be a happy guy, but it helps to have a soft wood to get things good and hot before going to the harder woods. A mix of fir and oak or alder would be a good combination on the west side.
TF

 

NW Natural Gas.

 

gas stinks! go electric


any type of wood will work fine just make sure its dry and clean your flu

 

Madrone - almost zero ash, long burning, easy splitting when green or dry and HOT

 

:yeahthat:

 

Locust, Oak, Fir, Ash in that order $275 is way too much per cord in my opinion. It really depends on what you're trying to to do with your fire? I'm not home during the day so I like the locust and oak. They burn all day and I don't have to build a new fire. Then toss on some fir when I get home to get the heat up and back to oak or locust when I go to bed. I normally only build one fire and then just keep it going all season long.

 

I like to burn Fir, Madrone and oak. I agree $275 seems a little high.

Kaymen

 

FREE:excited::excited: Larch and Juniper

DAB

 

Maple, and juniper are my go to choices

 

Balsa...it's easy on the back.

 

Price is $75-$100 too high high but ash is top shelf firewood. We are burning fir and maple for the next several years. I live in Scappoose, so maybe the prices are lower here.

 

I use fir to start a coal bed and then pile on the white oak.

Tough to start fires with oak unles you have really small kindling - and I don't have the patience or strength to make kindling out of oak.

I paid $150 in August for 1 chord of split, seasoned, delivered Fir.
Oh, the comment about a chord not fitting in a truck bed unless stacked is right on the money!

 

Any more the kind that comes in little pellets. For true fire places and stoves, madrone or oak.

 

juniper is great, i just dont like sitting down and sharpening my saw every 5 minutes and splitting it just sucks, but it does burn great and nice aroma it gives off.

 

I stocked up last summer. We have Fir, Alder and Oak in our wood pile.
I prefer to burn wood that has been seasoned at least three years or so.
Dry wood burns a little cleaner as far as the chimney build-up goes.

Starting up the woodstove is much easier since my son hooked me up with these "fire starter" packets. No more crumpling paper.

I put smaller wood on the bottom with a few larger pieces on top, lay one of the "fire starter" on the top. Lite the corner and the packet oozes down over the wood and voila my fire is going. It's so nice and easy.

I love the heat of a woodstove!

Shop around and I'm sure you'll find a better price.
As you know, the longer you wait the higher the price will go.
$275 sounds like a December price for aged/seasoned wood.

Enjoy your new home.

 

If you owned a hardwood saw mill, Ash is the only thing you would burn.
It is the cleanest of all the hardwoods leaving a film of ashes in the
fire box.