Firewood

[Jafo]

Looks like a lot of pine. Be prepared to clean your chimney more than you would with hardwood.

[UKadventurer]

Originally Posted by Jafo

Looks like a lot of pine. Be prepared to clean your chimney more than you would with hardwood.

Siberian larch to be precise. I have little experience with wood types for burning. Larch is a "hard" softwood from what I've learned. There's the occasional silver birch tree amongst a sea of larches.

It's free though so there's that. I'm expecting labor to be needed in many forms but I'm retired (early) so that's fine.

[Bob Rowlands]

Well seasoned ponderosa pine burns clean in my experience. Pine sucks as firewood, but it sure beats not having firewood. Edit to add, I also burn seasoned scrub oak, which is wonderful fuel. Not only does it burn long, but the smell is incredible. There's a reason why charred oak is used for whisky barrels.