Leon wrote:
"Mike Marlow" wrote:
Leon wrote:


Actually I have burned relatively green wood in my fire place that
leaks bubbling water from the ends and then drips to the bottom of
the fireplace. It burns slower but does burn.

Anyone who burns a wood stove will tell you that this is not true
Leon. It will smolder, but it will not burn. I've been burning
wood for too many years for anyone to tell me they can actually burn
green wood. I guess it depends on your definition of the word
"burns".

Well I only burned our fireplace in our other home for 30 years. It
burns and is gone by morning. FWIW I burned in a fireplace and not a
stove. Perhaps the limited air flow of a stove hampers the burn.


Like you, I've been burning for over 30 years, but to be fair - and I should
have included this exception in my earlier comments... it does depend a lot
on the wood in question. Of the common woods found around here, the most
common exception is Ash. You can literally cut an Ash tree down and burn it
the same day, and get good heat out of that hunk of wood. For all I know,
there may be other types of trees that are not commom to our area, which
behave like Ash. Not so with Maple or Beech, or Cherry. Unseasoned Maple,
Beech, Cherry will sizzle as the water is boiled out of the wood, and will
not generate any amount of heat as the water cools the fire. You can hear
it and you can see the water boiling out of the wood. Around here, we
generally leave the Ash standing in case we find ourselves in need of more
wood in February.

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