What wood would .....

put the supporting frame on an open fire the wood burns quickly and pops quite a bit, and it doesn't last for long when burning. It's light in colour and quite light in wieght too and you can quite easily mark it with a finger nail, so I was wondering what this wood is........ other than cheap rubbish, what sort of tree does it come from and is coated with something that;s causing the pops. ?

Tree wood

n open fire the wood burns quickly and pops quite a bit, and it doesn't las t for long when burning.  It's light in colour and quite light in wieght too and you can quite easily mark it with a finger nail, so I was wondering what this wood is........ other than cheap rubbish, what sort of tree does it come from and is coated with something that;s causing the pops. ?

Likley to be birch.

something that;s causing the pops. ?

The birch we get as logs doesn't snap crackle or pop, it burns fairly slowly and reasonably hot. Density is medium, a log weighs what you'd expect a log to weigh, it's not light weight, it's not easy to mark with a finger nail. Birch isn't in the "cheap rubbish" class either.

What does snap crackle and pop are some bits of "pine" (but not all) or

ex-pallet wood (mostly). I don't know what the really snappy stuff is, something foreign I expect, it doesn't look like a "pine". But is a softwood of some sort.

ISTR leylandii being very snap crackle and pop

NT

open fire the wood burns quickly and pops quite a bit, and it doesn't last for long when burning. It's light in colour and quite light in wieght too and you can quite easily mark it with a finger nail, so I was wondering what this wood is........ other than cheap rubbish, what sort of tree does it come from and is coated with something that;s causing the pops. ?

Describes some burning characteristics.

open fire the wood burns quickly and pops quite a bit, and it doesn't last for long when burning. It's light in colour and quite light in wieght too and you can quite easily mark it with a finger nail, so I was wondering what this wood is........ other than cheap rubbish, what sort of tree does it come from and is coated with something that;s causing the pops. ?

Maybe it is lava wood (comes off the lavatory)

Does burning wood go against the grain.. Its probably a cheap softwood of some kind. Often if untreated and in a house for a long time it does very much get dry and kind of soft I've found. Brian

Yes now that they are not thrashing kids with it it needs a new use.

Brian

open fire the wood burns quickly and pops quite a bit, and it doesn't last for long when burning. It's light in colour and quite light in wieght too and you can quite easily mark it with a finger nail, so I was wondering what this wood is........ other than cheap rubbish, what sort of tree does it come from and is coated with something that;s causing the pops. ?

Could be poplar, light, cheap and takes paint and other finishes easily.

yes. Poplar. Use to make liteply.

A vile wood for burning - spits and bangs and doesn't burn at all well.,

For when a one iron won't do?