Put about four hours worth in tonight. Thought it might only go two hour but it's much better than I thought. 80 degrees in the living room with the furnace fan going. First time using this species. Think it's ggonna be fine for shoulder season.
Wood Duck said:I think on this forum you get an exaggerated idea of how bad woods like Cottonwood are compared to better woods. I am not saying Cottonwood, Aspen, White Pine, etc. are as good as oak or hickory, but they aren't as bad as some reports indicate.
Wood Duck said:I think on this forum you get an exaggerated idea of how bad woods like Cottonwood are compared to better woods. I am not saying Cottonwood, Aspen, White Pine, etc. are as good as oak or hickory, but they aren't as bad as some reports indicate.
NextEndeavor said:Put about four hours worth in tonight. Thought it might only go two hour but it's much better than I thought. 80 degrees in the living room with the furnace fan going. First time using this species. Think it's ggonna be fine for shoulder season.
NextEndeavor said:Put about four hours worth in tonight. Thought it might only go two hour but it's much better than I thought. 80 degrees in the living room with the furnace fan going. First time using this species. Think it's ggonna be fine for shoulder season.
snowleopard said:Extremely well-seasoned aspen got me through last winter. I talked to someone who said he burned nothing but, as he was trying to get the birch and spruce to grow on his 7 acres. He'd been heating with it for 20 years. I wouldn't hesitate to do it again if I had a winter's worth of poplar like that.
Backwoods Savage said:Cottonwood indeed can vary a lot from area to area. It is really heavy when you cut it here but after it dries, then it is very light. Drys quite fast too as most of the softer woods do.
NATE379 said:You guys must have different cottonwood then what we have here. The cottonwood here is easy to split.
I burn some that I've cut from trees that blew over. It makes heat but it doesn't last very long. It's not a dense wood at all. Equal size birch split is probably 2x the weight.
fire_man said:NATE379 said:You guys must have different cottonwood then what we have here. The cottonwood here is easy to split.
I burn some that I've cut from trees that blew over. It makes heat but it doesn't last very long. It's not a dense wood at all. Equal size birch split is probably 2x the weight.
Splitting Cottonwood from MA is like splitting layers of glued string. I had to run the splitter completely through every piece, and then rip it apart the rest of the way. That was for the nice and straight pieces. The crooked ones were a real pain.
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