What is the best wood to use to keep firewood in a fireplace lit.?

Question

we use wood starters for the fire but the fire doesn't last so i need to know what can you use that helps

Answer 1

http://www.mastersweep.com/wood.htm

http://www.tdc.ca/wood.htm

http://frugalliving.about.com/cs/woodstoves/a/092402_2.htm

These sites will give you a lot of information on the different types of woods.

Answer 2

For fire starters i use small pieces of wood like limbs from trees broken up. I lay these on the grate. Then get paper, most any kind will work, and ball up the paper and poke it up under the grate where the small wood is. Light this paper and within a few minutes you can add your firewood to it. This works for me even when i'm burning wet wood. I rarely use pine because of the creasote problem; chimney fires!

Answer 3

I burned with wood for forty five years on the Canadian Minnesota border, raised five kids up there. I used Maple in the day time, it burns fast. Especially if it's been dried for more than two years, three years and it burns like paper. White oak was the best. It was hard and burned all night. You could fill the furnace and it would burn with a clean fire that burned with a clean blue flame. Swamp Ash was hot too. So was Piss Elm, out of the swamp but it had a smell to it, that's why they called it that. But it burned all night. Yellow Birch and white Birch were O.K. Stay away from all soft wood. Maples etc. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

I too agree tht u should use dry wood

Answer 5

use really dried out wood, a really white color will indiacate that it is really dry.

Answer 6

oak, cherry, walnut, apple.