100 Types of Firewood Rated | accurate BTU ratings, what a journey

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99% of BTU ratings you see online of incorrect for firewood. I decided to see if I could come up with BTU values correct for firewood, it turned into more, a lot more.

Enough of a journey that I wrote a blog post on how I came up with the data in my firewood ratings tables. You can read the blog post here:

https://boisafeudunord.com/blog/how-i-built-my-firewood-btu-ratings/

The firewood rating tables holds data for over 100 trees, you can see it here:

https://boisafeudunord.com/pages/firewood-btu-ratings

Hope some of you find it useful!
 
Something seems off with the density and cord weight numbers. According to the table, most dry woods would sink in water. And, in the table, the weight of a wet cord is equal to the density of dry wood x 128 cu ft. If you compare the density of dry red oak, for example, to the weight of a dry cord, the stack would be 42% air.
 
Something seems off with the density and cord weight numbers. According to the table, most dry woods would sink in water. And, in the table, the weight of a wet cord is equal to the density of dry wood x 128 cu ft. If you compare the density of dry red oak, for example, to the weight of a dry cord, the stack would be 42% air.

I'll have a look tonight, somebody also mentioned something similar.
 
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