Butternut?

Anybody ever burn butternut? My father-in-law is nice enough to cut and haul cords of wood with his processor and forwarder, and this year he had a few butternut trees that he took down to get at some maple and ash. The stuff splits really easily, but I imagine it won't last long in the furnace.

Thistle said:

Getting quite scarce & expensive thanks to Butternut Canker.Threatened in several states now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butternut_canker


Save some of the nuts if you can,they might grow up to be resistant to the disease.

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I'm guessing that is what is happening to a lot of the butternut on our land. Many standing dead and many tipped over. Maybe I'll start cleaning some of that stuff up. At the very least I can use it in the fire pit.

DBoon said:

Butternut is one of the best cabinet making woods there is - light and fairly soft and easy to work with, and very dimensionally stable. If the trunks are long and straight, you might want to call a lumber mill near you and see what they will give you for them. It is probably worth more in cash than in firewood.

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My FIL logs for a living, so if he is putting it in my firewood pile, I'm sure he doesn't have a market for it. For instance, he told me not to cut any yellow birch that is growing straight because he gets great money for it. Not many mills want white ash for fear that their loads will get quarantined because of the ash borer. Around here they are cutting logs for veneer and smaller stuff/soft wood for pulp. An occassional load goes to the pallet mill.