Anybody burn hackberry?

I like it burns great in the NCH -30 good heat smells good, I have a cord of locust but I have to tell ya the wife hates the odor it gives off

Firewood Bandit said:

I am kind of an snob as the worst wood I'll sell is red oak followed by white oak and hickory.

The problem is a landowner who has given me access to cut ANY OAK that is not marketable timber has a large hackberry in his yard and wants it gone. I told him I would gladly cut it up and dispose of the brush but am not wild about the wood.

Anyone with experience burning hackberry? I see in the BTU charts it's not bad.

How does it split?

Click to expand...

I burned about 1/3 cord earlier this year. Burned good for me. Burned about like cherry and split fairly easy for me but the tree was pretty straight

It's good firewood, not as good as some but better than others. I don't look for it,but if it's in my way, I'll take it.

bioman said:

It's good firewood, not as good as some but better than others. I don't look for it,but if it's in my way, I'll take it.

Click to expand...

That sums it up real well!

I like it. Should be good to go by this time next year. It does have a nice smell. Sometimes the trunks are hollow.

I burn a lot of it. The nasty crooked stuff can be a real bear to split by hand. It's like Elm that way. Straight stuff is pretty easy.

It's like Silver Maple, but with a few more BTUs. It rot quickly, so you have to keep it under a roof once it dries out.

Hackberry is kind of like a weed. It grows quickly and fills up ditches and fence rows. I get tons of it from farmers. You snobs can have your Oak and Hickory. I like my weeds: Hedge, Hackberry, Honey Locust, and Mulberry.

ewlsey said:

Hackberry is kind of like a weed. It grows quickly and fills up ditches and fence rows. I get tons of it from farmers. You snobs can have your Oak and Hickory. I like my weeds: Hedge, Hackberry, Honey Locust, and Mulberry.

Click to expand...

I'll burn anything that's free.

I bucked one up that fell across my power line last winter, it's in the stacks but haven't burned any yet. Good to know for next year, and agreed with Chris- I love me some free wood!

Good firewood to mix in with other. Seasons pretty fast about like cherry.

I burnt some today in my stove and it burnt just fine and was very easy to split.

Don't pass it up. I have acres of the stuff thus my forum name. Burns good, smells good, seasons within a year. Don't leave it on the ground or it will rot at an alarming pace.

I picked up two Hackberry trees last winter (3/2014), cut, split and stacked it in April. Burning some of it right now. Burns very nicely and dried very nicely too. I'm reading 16% moisture on it currently. Has an interesting yellow color to it and smells a little funny. Splits pretty easily too, but not as easy as Ash.

cleary524 said:

I picked up two Hackberry trees last winter (3/2014), cut, split and stacked it in April. Burning some of it right now. Burns very nicely and dried very nicely too. I'm reading 16% moisture on it currently. Has an interesting yellow color to it and smells a little funny. Splits pretty easily too, but not as easy as Ash.

Click to expand...

I'm bringing some Hackberry home right now. Was your wood from 3/2014 green or dead? Mine is from a large tree with a split trunk but most of it is still green despite being split like that well over a year. Goal is to get it split within next couple of weeks to serve as my shoulder and starting wood for next year.Think it will be ready?

wahoowad said:

I'm bringing some Hackberry home right now. Was your wood from 3/2014 green or dead? Mine is from a large tree with a split trunk but most of it is still green despite being split like that well over a year. Goal is to get it split within next couple of weeks to serve as my shoulder and starting wood for next year.Think it will be ready?

Click to expand...

I cut down a green one last year and it was at 20% in 6 months. I had heard it took longer. It was in direct sunlight and had a hot Mississippi summer though

I like it as well puts out good heat and burns well too.

In my experience it is fine for burning but gets buggy if kept around very long.

I'm burning two-year-old hackberry in my stove right now.

I have been burning a little here lately. It is good stuff. I am running low on black locust but have been mixing hackberry with it. A very good combination.

Hackberry dries fast and burns hot. It is stringy when splitting, but it makes up fpor that by being ready to burn in one season.