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Looking for any advice on a good all around wood for burning in the fire pit? We are not able to walk into the nature preserve/woods that backs up to our fence and harvest our own so we are looking to have a cord delivered to us for the fall and winter weekend fire pit/drinking/smores fun for our family.

Thanks for any input. I appreciate it.
 
For a fire pit anything works fine. Hardwoods will burn longer but any type should work fine. If it was for a wood stove I’d recommend hickory bc it burns hot and long and the coals stay for a good while.


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Wat he said........outside fire pit.....anything. We save our junkmail, small paper packaging and what not to use as a fire starter.

We have burned old wood furniture (after destroying it in any which way we found entertaining.....), old sections of untreated wood from storm damage (fences, lattice, old rotten osb). Whatever burns that isnt eplosive or toxic.
 
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Guess I was over-thinking this. Sounds like I will simply find someone to deliver some hardwood such as oak or maple and have at it.

Thanks gentlemen!
 
We burned scrap in ours Friday night and pecan in it last night. I'm keeping my eyes on the neighbor's white pine that got pushed askew by Matthew. All the needles are brown and my chainsaw has been refurbished.
 
Hardwood burns good and long but the flames dieback pretty quick. Burning a mix of softwood and hard I think is better. The hardwood will keep going and the softwood provides flames an more importantly light to see by.... For me.
 
JustKeepSwimming said:
Hahahaha! Now that is funny right there sir. And no way I am chancing getting on your wifes bad list :)
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The words "chain" and "saw" actually came out of her mouth about an hour ago if we can't "re-home" those two things.
 
The only wood I would stay away from is poplar for a fire pit. It pops and throws coals bad.
 
When I get a load of wood I sort it into inside vs outside stacks. Of course I ask for all oak, but it never comes that way.

I do need a load, anyone selling near me?
 
I burn oak or maple in my fire pit with yard scraps for kindling. Cedar branches smell good and make great cigar starters. Poplar and pine are undesireable for the sparks they throw off - they'll pop and fling hot coals all over. Worst idea I ever had was to cut up an old pine pallet and burn it. Damn near set my house on fire from 30 feet away. Also some wood just is crap to burn like Cypress and Crepe Myrtle - that goes in the trash.
 
Chdamn said:
The only wood I would stay away from is poplar for a fire pit. It pops and throws coals bad.
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I found poplar to be the best for my fire pit. It starts quick and burns bright. It's also easy to bust up with an axe. I wish I had a trailer load of it.
 
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kcult said:
I found poplar to be the best for my fire pit. It starts quick and burns bright. It's also easy to bust up with an axe. I wish I had a trailer load of it.
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Don't burn it inside the house. Like Chad said, it burns hot and violent.
 
Come down to Mt Croghan. There's a guy selling firewood by the tun. Want me to get you a bed full of it?
 
fieldgrade said:
Don't burn it inside the house. Like Chad said, it burns hot and violent.
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I don't have a fireplace inside.

My stepmom had her property clear cut. Poplar everywhere. Best fire pit wood ever! I could bust it like a real man and it would burn like that was its life goal. Nothing I have tried to burn since has come close to burning like poplar. Pecan sucks. Beer rocks.
 
I think you need to think more about what you burn for what the conditions are- if it has been dry for a few weeks, no pine, poplar, paper... you don't want it to drift and get away on you to the woods. Or if you plane to cook over it, oak, hickory, pecan, cherry... think of what "taste" good.
 
kcult said:
Come down to Mt Croghan. There's a guy selling firewood by the tun. Want me to get you a bed full of it?
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If you’re coming to town to get a can I’d sure appreciate it, just let me know when it might be. Don’t make a trip for it though, I can find it local my usual guy is MIA, his old parking spot is now a shopping center.
 
We used to run a fire pit pretty much exclusively from broken pallets we got from a truck company. It burns well, is easy to "split" and they stack nicely.
 
mj1angier said:
I think you need to think more about what you burn for what the conditions are- if it has been dry for a few weeks, no pine, poplar, paper... you don't want it to drift and get away on you to the woods. Or if you plane to cook over it, oak, hickory, pecan, cherry... think of what "taste" good.
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If its been dry for a while......i dont burn anything outside.
 
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