Do you have a wood burning fire place?
 

Well I'm kind of new at this burning wood in the fireplace stuff. I was given some wood to burn, so I dont have to go and buy some or find some laying around.
Well I think I know why....I think the logs were laced with Mighty Mite Fire crackers or bullets.:2gunfire: They crackle and pop so loud, I was getting scared that a log was going to jump out of the fire and onto the carpet. I had to turn up the TV to hear it at times. Now I'm fairly sure the wood isn't Cedar, but dont know what it really is.

What type of wood is the best for burning that doesnt sound like Halloween night in my living room?

Don't really want to destroy my living room
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Merry Christmas to all
Rob

Birch is the best. Burns hot.

The crackle sound is dry wood. Probably got wet and dried out.

not a good choice out here as there isn't much... we make furniture out of it here :mrgreen: any sappy w wood is going to crackle, so ceder, spruce, pine ect. the sap is trapped in little pockets and when it boils and expands it pops its chamber open.

Steve

Cedar burns hot & fast, but alder gives a longer burn usually. I used cedar to start the fire & alder to keep it going for the night. And as mentioned above, its the sap in the wood that's popping. I think really dry wood is less likely to pop like that, since most of the moisture is already evaporated out of the logs.

Enjoy your wood-fireplace. I lived in Powell River in a trailer by a fish farm in the mountains for 2 years & my main heat source in the winter was an old wood stove, so learning to bank a fire properly so the wood burns all night was a necessity.

Anthony

I put a vote in for birch, and hard wood doesnt crackle to much.

So do I but we can't get enuf of it out here to burn.

Steve

NO birch in BC wow, i can go to the gas station and get a bundle of it.

well there is but not like there was in alberta, we used to just go out back and wack down 4 or 5 coards for burning. on the island especialy it is hard to come by. and I guard the one in my back yard :mrgreen:

Steve

I start the fire with pine or spruce, then nothing but birch! :biggrin:

Where are you getting the birch from? Some days at work I'll cut 1 km of trees but have only hit maybe two birch trees in the last 5 years. The stupid part is that I'm not allowed to put them on the truck for burning. I wonder if this thread will draw attention from the tree huggers :smile: on the island.

nope they only hug trees when its warm out, otherwise there burning them also to heat there houses. :rolleyes:

Steve

My brother burns wood for his heat in his house and he goes and get all of his wood. He first gets a licence from the goverment to cut for personal use and they send him to a special area to cut and it is all birch, and all the trees are a nice size so he doesn't have to split them :lol:

I heat my house all winter with wood. We use mostly all white poplar. Usually cut our own from friends that need some more pasture cleared.

Also use spruce at times. Burns cleaner and is a good wood to throw in during the day. Birch is a very hard wood. Ask my chainsaw. :lol: Burns hot and last long. I dont like it for a night load though. Nothing beats poplar for that.

Also birch is very expensive. A cord of poplar is between $80 & $100 to buy. A half ton box load of birch is around $200. The rich tourist type cabin owners out here, just love it though and spare no expense, much to my friends delight. :lol:

I grew up in rural Nova Scotia where my family has always used a wood-burning furnace fueled by hardwood from our property. We cut only the largest birch, maple, etc. and let the younger growth fill in the now vacant spots.

The sugar woods (maple stands) are also tapped for sap which is piped to a maple syrup lodge.

Self sustainable resource with enough production to provide my family with firewood and syrup and sell a sizeable portion on the side.

I'm lazy, so I just make a phone call and find it on my driveway a couple weeks later. :biggrin:

Calling the "Birch Fairy" hot-line? :lol: