On 28 Nov 2003 17:32:58 GMT, (Wheelbarrowbob)
wrote:

Hardwoods to avoid for poor burning (mostly simply high moisture
content) poplar, willow, elm, holm oak and turkey oak.

Would you consider willow a hard wood ?
Not a hard wood but a hardwood ;-) the trade differentiates between
softwood and hardwood, more properly conifer or broadleaved. Willow
and poplar are hardwoods/broadleaves but of low strength.

but I have had a load of oak drying out all summer and it is burning
fantastically.

Was it drying as cordwood or split and stacked?


shame I only have 2 weeks supply left then out with saw to chop
a load of elder.

Elder is hardly a wood, did you mean alder?


By the way has any one ever burnt conker ?

This is also a disappointing wood to burn, I have not tested it for
green moisture content. Along with birch this is a wood that can
actually rot within it's bark if stored outside as roundwood.

AJH