[FrmlyZ]

I don't really heat with wood: I just supplement. I usually burn oak and hickory and some black locust [which is really the best]. The heavy rains this winter saturated the ground. The following heavy wet snow and winds brought down a number of wild cherry trees. When I cut it up and split it, I will have more than a cord. I have never burned it before. How does it work?

Best Wishes,,,,,

Z

[Aleph Null]

It works well... I am actually burning a fair bit of it this year, there is some heating me as we speak. :D

(I'm in New England, not sure if it is the same type of cherry as where you are...)

a0

[goodwater]

It's aromatic, like other fruit woods.

Excellent for use in a smoker, too. Save some for barbeques next summer.

[FrmlyZ]

A0:

It is the same tree, although, they get bigger here. This is where the expensive cherry hardwood for expensive Vermont homes comes from. :) Fortunately, the biggest ones didn't come down.

Best Wishes,,,,,,

Z

[Seldom Seen]

Sorry,I just use Doug Fir here. Certain hardwoods give me sneezing fits when I burn em. Unfortunately I don't know which ones.

[gardia]

We had to take some down where we wanted to plant the new orchard and have been burning a lot of it for our heat this year. We find it quite wonderful.

[north runner]

Our wood supply usually is mixed hardwoods which consists of cherry maple birch oak. Cherry gives off the quick heat and birch is the deluxe stuff.

[FrmlyZ]

Our wood supply usually is mixed hardwoods which consists of cherry maple birch oak. Cherry gives off the quick heat and birch is the deluxe stuff.

NR:

I have a lot of birch, but it is river birch [very pretty tree]. Here, it rots faster than it dries. I don't bother with it. Black locust has the highest heat output per unit weight, but it is so disease susceptible that the trees never get very big. I have a lot of white ash. It is the variety that the stores sell to put in your yard. Turns a combination of purple and yellow in the fall. Very pretty but the xylem is helical. Impossible to split. You have to cut it into slabs with the chain saw. Have you ever tried to split persimmon. :) It does burn like charcoal. You can load the stove at 6:00 pm and it will still be burning the next morning.

Best Wishes,,,,

Z

[Chills]

I have burned cherry and apple...but it has been a couple years... if I recall correctly the cherry burned hot and longer than some woods... but that may have been the large gnarled knots ..which this particular tree had a perponderence of...

[FrmlyZ]

Goodwater:

Good point. But I have this wood from a plum tree that I am using to smoke pork tomorrow. You are correct.

Best Wishes,,,,

Z

[goodwater]

Smoked pork.

YUMMY!