---- Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > When my daughter heated her house with wood while living on a University
> > of California Research Preserve she used mostly Doug Fir.  mcneely
> > This winter my house is being heated with red oak, pin oak, cherry, sugar
> > maple and a variety of others mixed in. The heat pump doesn't come on for
> > weeks at a time.
> >
>
> Jim

A nice mix Jim.  When we live in Appalachia (Eastern Kentucky), we burned Scarlet Oak (smells like urine until seasoned, but well seasoned is excellent), Black Oak, White Oak (comparable to the hickories in heat output after seasoning) with some Sugar Maple.  Some of this was harvested from our property, taking the "scrub" trees, and some was harvested from the scrap left from clear cuts on federal land.  The stove was at one end of the house, with a small fan in the wall between that room and the next.  Three loads of wood a day kept that room (family room) heated to around 72 F most of the time, and the bedrooms at the far end of the house at around 64.  Though we had a gas furnace, it seldom ran except for times when the temperature was down to 0 F and below.

mcneely

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David McNeely