Is it OK to use ONLY Kiawe firewood?

[AKpilot]

Is it safe to burn ONLY Kiawe in a wood stove as a primary source of heat (Pa'auilo Mauka 2200 feet.) Or will only Kiawe get too hot. I can get either ONLY Kiawe, or a mix with some Kiawe in it.

What do you y'all think?

AKpilot

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[AKpilot]

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[dmbwest]

No worries on stove ... But make sure spacing on chimney and stove distance from walls is o.k.

You open / close vents on your stove yeah ???

aloha,
pog

[dakine]

In the past the problem I have had with Kiawe is the bugs it seems to always have. Maybe it's only the rare times I have had a few logs brought to me by folks with kind hearts that come from makai and bring 'some old wood we thought you'd enjoy adding to your firewood pile' but there have always been some sort of boring type beetle? or some such that I have feared would then get free in my environment (predominantly very old growth ohia) so I have always shied away from importing wood from sources outside my own type of forest. Not to say I 'know' exactly what I am talking about, but only to suggest caution.

I also collect exotic hardwoods for shop use and have never had this problem with milled lumber, but with firewood I've seen it a lot.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

I burned 100% kiawe at 4000' elevation on Maui for six years.
As pog pointed out, as long as you can open and close vents on your stove (and in your chimney pipe) you can easily control the rate of burn to keep the temperature from getting too hot.

[Guest]

What a shame or waste for such a good fire wood only to be burned, jmo. Kiawe wood is my absolute favorite wood to cook about anything over, or smoke meat with( marshmellow favorite ). The flavor or sense is unique to the wood. Many scorpions use to be found within most of the kiawe wood we would gather, Along with many long thorns big enough to get through most slippers or tires. Seen a few kiawe wood wild forest fires in my life to know how hot it can burn, incredibly hot. The roots from the burning kiawe tree would still be smoldering months after being put out.

P.S. grab only kiawe wood, then take your better logs out for BBQ'S or small camping fires.

[Frankie Stapleton]

I find guava logs the cleanest, hottest firewood. Not the thin, smallkine branches but the 4-inch-+ diameter logs. Not much of it around but don't let it go to waste if you see someone pruning back a guava grove.

[terracore]

I have a guava forest. You can cut and take as much as you want. Some of it has been dead for awhile thanks to the goats and is seasoned and ready to go. The rest is green wood.