Bushcraft Stuff

Logs to burn! Logs to burn!
Logs to save the coal a turn!
Here’s a word to make you wise
When you hear the woodsman’s cries.
Beech wood fires burn bright and clear.
Hornbeam blazes too.

If the logs are kept a year
To season through and through.

Oak logs will warm you well
If they are old and dry.
Larch logs of the pine smell
But the sparks will fly.
Pine is good and so is Yew
For warmth through winter days.
But poplar and the willow too
Take long to dry or blaze.
Birch logs will burn too fast.
Alder scarce at all.
Chestnut logs are good to last
If cut in the fall.
Holly logs will burn like wax-
You should burn them green.
Elm logs like a smoldering flax,
No flames to be seen.
Pear logs and apple logs,
They will scent the room.
Cherry logs across the dogs,
Smell like flowers in bloom.
But ash logs all smooth and grey,
Burn them green or old,
Buy up all that come your way,
They’re worth their weight in gold!
Note: Elder, sweet chestnut, ceder, hemlock, balsam, spruce and the pines all spit hot cinders into the air.

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