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I like combinations of wood for burning too. I usually want the heat fast in the morning when it is very cold in the shop, really dry stuff, but then more longer lasting slower species like Elm or Chestnut. Still somewhat green wood like Oak makes for longevity as well.

Any wood that has a history of being used for gears at water powered flour mills, or for wagon wheel hubs, makes for difficult splitting. Elm fits that category. Thanks, Stephen, made mucho moons ago.

Bay Laurel makes for excellent chair seats and other woodworking. Good resistance to splitting when wedging legs near the outside of the seat. It isn't an extremely hard wood though, I'd say fairly similar to Walnut. I have worked with it a lot. I used to get a good quantity from an old...

I have split all the wood for my shop stove by hand for the last twenty years. I kind of enjoy it, emphasis on "kind of", but it makes for a change from the indoor often acute work. Elm or our Zelkova makes for good burning, but anything longer than twelve-fourteen inches or so and I have no...