If you want maximum noise and spark production, you're looking at the softwood family. Pine tops the list. Eastern white pine, red pine, pitch pine it doesn't matter which variety you grab around Kingston, Sydenham, and Odessa, they're all going to give you a show.

A full cord of wood is a stack measuring 4 feet high, 4 feet wide, and 8 feet long. That gives you 128 cubic feet of wood and air space combined.