Oak is a joke

[Wet1]

I'll take oak any day of the week... those that don't like it are just jealous because they don't have access to any. :cheese:

 

[CrawfordCentury]

I love oak too. It's almost exclusively what I have burned my whole life. Cherry is my favorite wood, but I don't have a lot of big stuff to choose from. I've never burned pine, even though we have a lot of it, but Dad used jackpine for kindling. I don't even use that for kindling, I use oak for that too.

We go through a lot of pine in our Crawford Century cookstove. Plus a lot on the margins of heating season when a hot and fast quickie is in order.

Owing to the fact white pine and red oak often times comprise mature stands, there's a saying I've heard in relation to heating with them. "Burn it as it grows," with the fast fire pine igniting the heat holding oak.

We have 2 types of cherry in cantral NH. Pin cherry is very light and goes to punk about as quick as white birch. They even look a little similar, excepting the bark color. Then there's black cherry. Like oak, it rots from the outside in and has a longer shelflife if you're hunting dead and down stuff.