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My buddy and I fell a small birch tree in my backyard yesterday. I cut it into rounds today and threw it on the splitter. Holy crap was it STRINGY! Should I have let the rounds dry a couple weeks and then split, or is this just the nature of birch?
good that you split it. If you leave birch whole it will often times turn punky due to the bark holding in the moisture. yellow definitely holds higher BTU's than the white.
My buddy and I fell a small birch tree in my backyard yesterday. I cut it into rounds today and threw it on the splitter. Holy crap was it STRINGY! Should I have let the rounds dry a couple weeks and then split, or is this just the nature of birch?
Paper, Alaska, yellow, red birch here, goes by many names but never had real trouble splitting it.
Spruce is more difficult.
The bark makes a great fire starter, rarely ever need anything else to get a good fire going here.
Birch is our best firewood here, so I try to get it mostly when possible. Has good BTU content.