woolly wrote:I will second (or third) the opinion that ash/oak is best - puzzled that with all the ash dieback going on it is still in short supply...
At a guess, maybe the ash affected from dieback can only be sold very locally, or not at all, for fear of spreading it.
As for ash/oak being best, my local scout campsite gets all sorts of offcuts and fence panels and crap, but the best stuff we ever found on there were oak shingle offcuts. Stick a few of them on the fire and you were warm all evening. Lovely stuff. Let's ignore whether they were treated or not. I think not. Probably.
woolly wrote:UncleIan - loved the firewood poem, one to pin on wall of wood lore in the wood store. The olden-days folk had such a succinct way of passing on useful knowledge!
Thanks. I saw it on the wall of my local. Near the open fire. Naturally.
Ian