[Greenbuilding] wood split or not, make a difference?

[Reuben Deumling]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Sacie Lambertson <
sacie.lambertson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm, RT, a piece of split wood with three sides provides more surface that
> a round piece?
>
> I think this is a surface to volume thing.

> As for Reuben's comment about needing the bark off cherry, we don't burn
> much cherry here in Kansas but when we do, it burns just fine regardless of
> bark or no.

Then I suspect you have different cherry than we do here. Ours is what some
call orchard cherry. The wood is yellowish, not the typical reddish wood
most associate with the name.

> It is interesting though that according to Reuben's charts, cherry doesn't
> burn as hot as does some other species.

If I said that I didn't mean to. My sense was that lighter/less dense woods
like cherry and fir have less oomph, don't share as many BTUs per volume
than does white oak (my preferred species).

> Given the density of the wood, I would have thought the opposite.
>
>
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