Post by naughtyfox on Aug 2, 2020 11:09:53 GMT
Noticed this thread on Canalworld and thought I'd add my thoughts:
"Birch would make good kindling then?"
www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?/topic/107220-which-woods-burn-ok-in-stoves/
The whole of Scandinavia (and probably Russia) runs on burning silver birch, probably 99% in our wood racks is birch, the rest being plane and alder and perhaps a bit of pine thrown in.
A willow tree had fallen across the towpath in Lower Heyford last July - I spent some hours attacking it with our bowsaw and cutting the lengths up into 15cm logs which we put in a plastic box in the cratch - it was already dry enough to burn by October, and burnt very nicely in our little stove (by co-incidence called a Valor Willow!). So don't buy into this nonsense that willow is not suitable for stoves.
"Birch would make good kindling then?"
www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?/topic/107220-which-woods-burn-ok-in-stoves/
The whole of Scandinavia (and probably Russia) runs on burning silver birch, probably 99% in our wood racks is birch, the rest being plane and alder and perhaps a bit of pine thrown in.
A willow tree had fallen across the towpath in Lower Heyford last July - I spent some hours attacking it with our bowsaw and cutting the lengths up into 15cm logs which we put in a plastic box in the cratch - it was already dry enough to burn by October, and burnt very nicely in our little stove (by co-incidence called a Valor Willow!). So don't buy into this nonsense that willow is not suitable for stoves.
