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Here is a good Positive distractuion for everyone.
Recommend the best kind of firewood for home heating purposes, much will be harvested on my own property and if not already cured (deadfall) will be properly cured and split (farmer's daughter, I know how to split wood)
Also if it is different, recommended wood for building a fire to heat a Wood-Fired Furo (Japanese bath).
You'll have to come on down to the Paauilo Pad for a shindig, we can eat a pig in my Imu.
Mahalo!
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Do your best to find hardwoods such as koa, mango, teak, etc. for home heat as they burn hot and tend to have less "pitch soot" that builds up in the flue pipe and starts fires. Outside open flame softer words such as eucalyptus works well, high in oils to give decent flame, brought over as a quick growing fuel for locomotives and boilers. Need an extra kick to the flame you can use kiawe wood, as it is the hawaiian mesquite wood, and burns similar to manzanita, but not as much wood oils. Mentioned eucalyptus as I believe they started a export plantation near you, and they may have a scrap pile for the public. Tree Maintenence companies (HELCO contract) also have scrap yards hidden here and there to supplement what is not ready for home harvest.
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Hey Thanks!
I see the logging trucks from time to time, good idea!
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I turned off the Helco backup to my solar heater a few years ago and when it rains I now build a fire for hot water. Guava burns very hot and that's what I use for the water heater. I use ohia for our brick oven and our woodstove in the house. Ohia also burns hot but much more slowly than the guava and it gives the food a good flavor. It was once prized by the Japanese community in Hilo for grilling and there was a guy in Glenwood that had a business making ohia charcoal. He ended up falling into his charcoal maker and that was the sad end of that venture.
