Good Burners

• Apple: Great fuel that burns slowly and steadily when dry.
• Ash: Considered one of the best-burning wood with a steady flame and good heat output.
• Beech: Similar to ash.
• Birch: This has good heat output but burns quickly. The smell is also pleasant.
• Blackthorn: Burns slowly, with lots of heat and little smoke.
• Cedar: puts out a lot of lasting of heat.
• Cherry: A slow-burning wood with good heat output. It should be seasoned well.
• Elm: should be dried for two years for best results. You may need faster burning wood to get Elm going.
• Eucalyptus: A fast-burning wood. It is full of fresh sap and oils and can start a chimney fire if burned unseasoned.
• Hawthorn: Good firewood. Burns hot and slow.
• Hazel: fast burning fuel but burns up faster than most other hardwoods.
• Holly: good firewood that will burn well best if dried for two years.
• Hornbeam: Burns almost as good as beech with a hot slow burning fire.
• Larch: good for heat. It needs to be seasoned well but can form oily soot in chimneys.
• Laurel: Produces a brilliant flame.
• Lilac: Thinner branches make good kindling, whilst the thicker burn well.
• Maple: A good all-around firewood.
• Oak: Dry oak is excellent for burning slowly and steadily. However, it must be seasoned for two years after winter felling. (Summer felled Oak takes many years to season well)
• Pear: Burns with good heat. Needs to be seasoned well.
• Pine species generally: Including Leylandii burns with a impressive flame. Leaves oily soot in the chimney.
• Plum: Wood provides good heat.
• Rowan: A good firewood that burns hot and slow.
• Rhododendron: burns well.
• Robinia: Burns slowly, with good heat.
• Sycamore: Burns with a good flame, with moderate heat. Must be seasoned.
• Sweet Chestnut: Burns when seasoned.
• Thorn: One of the best firewood’s that burns slowly, with great heat and little smoke.
• Walnut: Low to good value to burning.
• Yew: This burns slowly, with fierce heat.

PLEASE NOTE ALL WOOD NEEDS TO BE SEASONED FOR A MINIMUM OF TWO YEARS

Bad Burners

• Alder: Poor heat output and short lasting. A low quality firewood.
• Chestnut: A mediocre fuel that produces a small flame and weak heat output.
• Douglas Fir: A poor fuel that produces little flame or heat.
• Elder: A mediocre fuel that burns quickly without much heat output and tends to have thick acrid smoke.
• Horse Chestnut: A low quality firewood with a good flame and heating power but spits a lot.
• Laburnum: Completely poisonous tree with acrid smoke that taints food and is best never used.
• Lime: A poor quality fuel with dull flame.
• Poplar: A terrible fuel that doesn’t burn well and produces a black choking smoke even when seasoned.
• Wellingtonia: Poor for use as firewood.
• Spruce: poor firewood that burns too quickly and with too many sparks.
• Willow: A poor fire wood that must be dry to use. Even when seasoned, it burns slowly, with little flame.