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- From: webdw@cbnews.cb.att.com (bruce.d.woods)
- Subject: Re: firewood -- what kinds are best?
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 13:06:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.130623.14997@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <3264@isgtec.isgtec.com> <14190005@hpmwmkt3.sr.hp.com>
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- In article <14190005@hpmwmkt3.sr.hp.com> gordond@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Gordon DeWitte) writes:
- >Based on a note I clipped out of the Boston Globe back in 1974:
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- > If we consider that coal burns better than the best wood --
- > hickory -- by at least 10%, then we can make a chart with
- > hickory as 100% for burning efficiency of wood and others
- > following in this order:
- >
- > Pignut Pignut 95
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- Pignut is a variety of Hickory
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- > White Oak 84
- > Ash 77
- > Apple 70
- > Beech 69
- > Black Birch 65
- > Elm 58
- > Cedar 56
- > Poplar 51
- > Butternut 43
- > White Birch 43
- > Pine 30
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- Pines have several ratings. Yellow pine is better than several
- of the lower rated hardwoods, whereas white pine is none too good.
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- Also, Red Oak and most all the Maples are excellent.
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