Eucalyptus wood for a log burner ?

[sparky71]

We went to a shop selling log burners today and the owner advised using Eucalyptus logs as they were cheaper and gave a better heat output than Olive/Carob. Has anybody heard of this and the price/availability in the Ozankoy area.
Thanks

[Munchkin]

Eucalyptus is O.K. I've had it and it burns alright I have an open fire not a log burner but seems good to me.

You can try Necat (nejat) 05428520621 he may be able to help you he speaks English.

Or

Serdhar 0533 8623915 speaks Turkish but can understand.

[waddo]

I have used eucalyptus in my log burner as well as pine, almond, olive, karob, lemon, orange, acacia and a few others that I can not name. It matters not which wood you talk about first, the main thing is whatever wood you burn, it needs to be dry and seasoned well, two years old at a minimum is the best - that's the first bit.
Now, what burns best/fastest:
Pine will burn faster than anything and it also will tar up your chimney faster than anything, use it sparingly for starting your fires only.
Almond is hard and burns long and slow but if not well seasoned will not give off as much heat as others, no problem with tar. Very hard to find!!!
Olive is hard and burns well and medium slow, gives off good heat, not much tar and lasts well. Expensive but worth it.
Karob is hard and burns well, slow burn and leaves good bed of red hot cinders, gives off best heat of all. More expensive but well worth it - good for Bar-B-Que's as well!!
Lemon/Orange are soft woods that will produce tar and soot, give off limited heat and burn fast. Cheap and plentiful.
Acacia is medium hard and burns well burns well but unless really seasoned will tar up your chimney fast, not too much heat either. Not too hard to find but you need to search around if you really want it.
Eucalyptus, hard wood that just seems to go on getting harder the older it gets, difficult to chop so get it cut to size. Burns well and gives off medium heat, I found it best used mixed in with olive/karob but it can work out a lot cheaper if you get it from the forestry guys as there is a lot of it.

Hope this helps a bit.

[Munchkin]

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[bigOz]

I think wood - espacially pine and eucalyptus - should only be purchased from the local forestry office, who regularly prune the wooded areas, rather than private suppliers who are destroying these trees and nature indiscriminately just to make few hundred pounds each season. They should not be encouraged!

If you drive out to a mountain side anywhere along "beşparmak" mountains and walk into wooded areas you will always find dead trees or thick branches to fill up your boot with! It would be a good exercise too (especially if you use a manual saw to cut them to size...

[sophie]

It does worry me that people should start asking for wood like this. There are so many people out there who don't care a monkey as to the scarcity of a wood and will lie through the back of their teeth when trying to convince you that they have chopped down the wood legally. Please check and then treble check that whoever supplies your wood is telling the truth because so many of them don't!!

[waddo]

Bit moreinfo for you on the eucalyptus issue. I ussed it for one season and it burns that hot in the bottom of the grate (inside my wood burner) that the cast iron grate top - the bit that you can slide backwards and forwards to get the ash to fall through - warped out of shape!!! Yes it was cast iron, yes it warped, no I have never known cast iron to warp before, yes it was the heat of the wood burning that caused it! I had that bit replaced with a steel part cut to the same size (about a half inch thick) and it is now back in good working order - but I stopped using JUST eucalyptus anyway and now use a mix of woods. My wood burner is a french (somebody had to buy one) sheet steel construction burner with firebrick inserts and half and half (now) cast iron/steel grate.