re: OBers that use a fireplace/wood heater

Yessir.

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And cook with pecan

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Hell yes! One of my favorites.

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here's a fun fact about the gum family, they were used (in one of the WWs, i think) to construct roads. they were stripped of their bark and squared off and laid side by side. the fibers of the blocks would fuse with one another creating one solid piece of wood.

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Never heard of this, but pretty damn cool.

We stick to oak at the camp. We had a bunch of sweet gum somebody cut up there but I found it was harder to get lit and didn't burn as hot.

We used a little bit of everything. Just mix with some good oak and it will burn fine. No matter what you burn get your chimmney cleaned

Cypress makes the vest kindling ever. I bust up pieces of driftwood and use it to light the stove at the camp. Its like filling the damn thing up with lighter pine.