Oak Firewood - How Does It Compare? (Episode 1: Firewood Series)

Amazing information, thank you!!!

Thanks for the video

Just found your channel, subscribed. Oak is top on my list. Black locust is supposed to be best in my area, we shall see this winter. Keep the videos coming.

Nothing like tested and proven wood. Overall BTU is high and splitting is reasonable. Good stuff!

I have been burning some oak I cut and split from a few dead standing oak trees in my inside wood stove a couple of years and find great heat output, slow burning wit little ash. Chimney has little to no creosote buildup. Bonuses are little to no smoke and a great smell smell outside around the cabin.

I burn 50% oak & hard maple & 50% American Beech. Oak has the longest seasoning time of two years, hard maple about 1 year & Beech about 8 months. I season all three in the same location in separate CSS in a wide open sunny & windy area & therefore can monitor seasoning progression of all three at the same time. Beech seasons faster because it has lower green moisture content when it is cut down, but is always harder to split. I find my 8 month seasoned Beech burns hotter than my 2 year sesoned Oak or 1 year seasoned hard Maple. One Beech tree I cut down earleir this past spring I am already burning in my woodstove with no water bubbling out the ends, whereas red & white Oak I been seasoning for two years still bubbles some water through the ends.

Question? What is black Oak? I have red and white oak, never herd of black oak

Hedge/Osage orange is all I can get in my area. Burns hot as hell and sparks like crazy. In the wood burning stove you have to be careful not to put to much hedge in. I wish we had more oak in my area.

The main difference I see between oak and beech is ash. I just swtched over from red oak to beech last week & the amount of ash that accumulates is at least 4 times faster for beech than red oak for the same quantity that I burn to get about the same amount of BTUs. I burn with an old Huntsman in my basement. At the start of this heating season I was burning only 3 year seasoned red oak. I let the fire burn out at night & for two or three days of burn cycle & never need to clean out the ash to restart the fire. When I do the same exact burn cycle with 1 year seasoned beech the stove will be filled with ash in just one burn cycle. The only PLUS to burning beech vs red or white oak is it's much shorter seasoning time for moisture to be below 20%. Oak requires at least wo years drying time under the most ideal conditions, even then I have put oak in my stove & watched water sizzle out the ends, but never with beech cut at the same time with only a few months drying time that has been stacked right next to the oak. Now I'm out of oak, I burned it all up & it will be two years from this summer before I can get some more cut down for burning two years from now. I only have the beech left & a little hard maple. I'm gonna miss that oak this coming winter 22-23.

Hi Burly Beaver is six to seven years seasoning oak stacked & off the ground to long for oak ? Is there any problems with it rotting?

One good thing I got a good bit of white oak wood it burns pretty good

We have a lot of eucalyptus here in Southern California. How does euc rate?

Cool channel. iMade a holz hausen. Looks a lil bigger than urs with a shingle roof(made from oak) n part living roof (moss). Subd up 👍🏽. Hope u grow fast

You didn’t talk about one of the major cons of oak and that being drying time. Sometime oak feels impossible to dry.

Oak is the best!!! All around!

Dude, what is up with the cricket? That is all I could hear. I have a wood burning stove, so I'm legitimately interested in this, but I couldn't get past ol' Jiminy....

Oak wood is difficult to cutting with Chainsaw and splitting with Ax

Love it. Great channel. Check out Rocky Mountain Firewood for all things firewood! Thanks everyone keep on firewoodin'

I am take only Oak Firewood

I thought there was a cricket in my house