Plum Tree

[jhoff310]

I have an old plum tree <beyond fruit bearing years> in the yard of one of my rentals that is coming down in the spring. How is it for firewood? I haven found much on the btu charts. I know most of the "fruit wood" is good for smoking, how about burning? I can see the fun part is going to be splitting it, it is as crooked as a politicians spine.

Jeff

 

[Thistle]

Heat value should be similar to Cherry,either wild or domestic.Not quite as dense as Apple or Pear.Great for the smoker & BBQ grill also.All are closely related & members of the Rose family.Along with Hawthorns, Blackberries,Raspberries etc.

 

[Wood Duck]

Plum is closely related to cherry, so the wood should be similar. I am burning pieces of an old ornamental cherry and it is really dense wood due to the many knots, but it was tough to split, judging from the condition of the ends of the split. Looks like it took a few whacks before it came apart.

 

[smokinj]

Fuirt trees all do very well. Keep some for the BBQ!

 

[ScottyT]

Every fruit tree I have ever burned has had good burn times. Burn it what can it hurt.

 

[billb3]

I would assume similar to cherry, too.
I lost all my plum trees to a wave of black knot fungus.

I cut all the branches off in April and carted them off, far far away, figuring I'd save the nice straight 5 and 6 feet tall trunks for firewood.
By September every single one of them was completely infested with tiny black ants.

 

[scottandlorig]

definitely keep it for the the BBQ!

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Burned Plum once when my in-laws tree took a fall-burns very nice.