What firewood do you like to burn in wood stoves? I have access to a large amount of osage orange. Does anyone burn this on a regular basis?

Supposed to be high in btu 's
Near the top of the list ..

That's about all anyone burns around here

Great wood.....sometimes too hot. I've seen dry hedge crack the stove box on an Ashley. Best if mixed with other woods. Not good for fireplaces as it pops and throws sparks when a rush of oxygen hits it.

Its good firewood. Dont burn it green. Will stay good for years also cut and stacked.

Good advice above. Just googled BTU of various hardwood. Osage orange is approximately 15% above hickory. Holy sh— Batman. None around here.

There are a few near me, but they are ornamental plantings or escapes

Don't have any close to me. Oak and locust are the best I can get easily.

Lol. That's about all there is to burn there... I worked at the refinery in El Dorado this last week... Took a drive one afternoon just to look around outside of town. 99% of the trees were Osage Orange, Cottonwood, or Cedars. Saw some occasional Hackberry but nothing like the numbers of the other 3.

Mike

Good straight grained osage in lengths 5-6 feet long are worth good money as bow staves. Most osage is gnarly twisted stuff. Decent money as fence posts too. Burn the crooked stuff and buy seasoned oak already cut and split with the proceeds of the straight stuff.

I'm just 40 minutes north of there. My sis lives down at Eldorado. We have enough oak, elm, locust mulberry and ash if guys wanted to burn it.
One interesting thing I've seen with Osage Orange is it takes lots of oxygen to burn. I've heard of some guys having troubles keeping it burning in stoves if they aren't getting enough air to it. I took some up to the mountains with me and couldn't get it to burn very good, even when I threw on a good hot fire of pine.

Love Osage orange for my outdoor wood burner. Too hot for my insert wood burner. Had a guy who cut about 400 hedge posts for an order a few years back that fell through. Has let me cut any of them I want. They were pushed down the side of a ravine but worth the effort to get them. He also has a sawmill so I get lots of hardwood slabs.

Never burned it other than brush piles
How does it split?
Not much of it around here, used to be used for fence posts but pipe and metal T-posts have made it mostly obsolete

A hydraulic splitter is a good tool with hedge, a maul and wedges work. Its a job for a young man though

You must be about my age! Class of 74..

Just mix some in the stove along with other good hardwoods and see how it does. I burn it in my hot tent titanium stove but only when I want it real warm and I mix in other type of woods. Split small it makes great kindling along with some cedar...gets things going quickly.



^ that is my 22 gauge steel stove, hedge in the kindling pile.

Like above... Make sure your stove can handle the heat.

Aged black locust. The kind that's been down 15-20 yrs, the bark has fallen off. Some of it look like junk till you cut into it. burns like a block of coal. Burns hot and keeps a fire for a long, long time. Hedge, mullberry, white oak, red oak, we have tons of ash as the power lines are being kept clear.

Harder than Chinese arithmetic! We have it along road sides in a few areas, near me. Burns HOT.

Dad burned it for years its just a little on the explosive side