Can you burn fir tree wood

White ash weighs less than most other types of quality firewood and is easier to split into burnable logs.

The bark of many mature birch trees is quite flammable, making it good for easily starting fires. You can certainly burn it, but the wood from coniferous trees also contains pitch and is notorious for creating creosote buildup when it burns. Creosote can stick to the walls of your chimney and become a fire hazard.

These woods also tend to produce more sparks and smoke, which can spoil the mood that you want to generate by starting a nice, cozy wood fire. The wood of hemlock trees not to be confused with the poisonous plant of the same name features extremely hard knots that make the trees difficult to split into burnable logs. Even if you get hemlock wood to the point where it can be burned, it produces sparks sure to discourage you from ever burning that type of wood again.

Aspen, basswood and willow trees all have very soft wood of generally poor quality for burning and producing heat.

Keeler Johnson is a writer, farmer, blogger and videographer with a passion for pruning trees. He lives on a farm in northern Wisconsin, where he cares for more than apple trees and one foot pear tree that should have been pruned long ago. New outbreaks almost always originate in or near public campgrounds or link back to a homeowner who bought firewood from an infested area.

David Adkins, an inspection manager with the Ohio Department of Agriculture, says that if you have any suspicions, buy only enough for a single fire and follow the "use it all, burn it all" rule. Ask the seller what kind of wood it is. Trees like pines, firs, or cypress have "soft" wood, which burns fast, leaves few coals, and makes a lot of smoke that can coat your chimney with soot not a safe thing in the long run.

Seasoned softwood is okay for outdoor fires, but you may want to avoid it if a fireplace is involved or you want a long-lasting fire or coals to cook over.

Burning salt-saturated driftwood is a bad idea as it can release toxic or harmful chemicals when burned, according to the EPA. Watch out for any wood covered with vines. Burning poison ivy, poison sumac, poison oak, or pretty much anything else with "poison" in the name releases the irritant oil urushiol into the smoke. Breathing it in can cause lung irritation and severe allergic respiratory problems, the Centers for Disease Control state. Oleander shrubs thrive in frost-free climates and every part of it is toxic.

Blue ash, American chestnut, the Kentucky coffee tree: There are more than 20 endangered species of native trees in North America, and by their very rareness you're unlikely to find any in a batch of firewood for sale. However, you should double check this list before chopping anything down yourself. Pretty much the only exception is Laburnum. Those trees Cedars or Firs??? The wood must be loosely stacked to allow maximum ventilation. Alternatively, if kept in log form in a damp place, they may not be dry enough even after two years.

Then when you come to burn, the fire must be laid and stoked to encourage hot bright burning of the initial outgassing.

If allowed to smolder, that's when your problems will start. Post by desperate » Sun Nov 06, pm I burn loads of that kind of stuff as my tree surgeon freinds cut more of that than anything else, presumeably because of its nuisance factor. I find it dries quite fast, lights up quite easily and most of it cuts and splits ok.

Any wood provided it is reasonably dry and burned hot enough will be fine. I rarely get more than a couple of handfulls of soot out of the chimbley after a season when we usually burn kg or more of wood.

Post by happymama » Sun Nov 06, pm Wot Eco said: season two years to dry the volatiles out. Meantime the fresh leylandii fronds can start a fire really well. In spring get a chimney cleaner, burn it and then get a sweep out. It burns hot and in my open fire there's not a lot left. Je Suis Charlie! Post by Chimney Sweep » Sun Nov 06, pm As said will burn nice when seasoned, I leave it a year to weather rain and sun then another months in the log store the rain helps it split and crack also helps with the sticky residue.

Essex Chimney Sweep. Post by gmerry » Sun Nov 06, pm A common mis-understanding is that volatiles need to be "seasoned" out of firewood. No they don't. In fact the volatiles such as terpentines add to the calorific value of the wood. It's only the water which needs to dry out.