This weeks scrounge - Stringy bark...Any guesses on how much?

[Hills Hoard]

So i've been pilfering around my cousins yard this week. They have dropped 6 stringy bark eucalyptus trees and its all for me to take........i love this wood...a good all rounder so to speak...splits well, burns hot and burns long...only issue i have with it is the sap which can be messy......wd-40 removes it easily .....and the bark (as the name suggest) is stringy and your are often left with big thick clumps of bark that sticks like velcro to everything... happy times!

Any guesses on how how much this will be when split?

 

[PDXpyro]

That must be at least half a semi-ricked facecord as we reckon it here in down Oregon.

 

[Auzzie Gumtree]

I have the same ute and I think if you fill it its equal to 1\3 cord just over a cubic metre. How many trips so far?

 

[geoff1969]

about 2.5 cubic meters

 

[USMC80]

1/3 cord

 

[Adios Pantalones]

Standard pickup load is ~1/3 cord. That's a little less than 2 cu. meters

 

[Jags]

Yep - agreed. .33333333 of a cord.

 

[My Oslo heats my home]

+3, 1/3 cord. The bark looks simular to cedar.

 

[Hills Hoard]

Thanks guys. That pile is 3 full ute loads. Still more to get

 

[Auzzie Gumtree]

Stringy Bark is a high BTU output firewood with a gsm of 890 gsm (Red Oak 740 gsm) so its right up there with the good stuff.

 

[Hills Hoard]

Stringy Bark is a high BTU output firewood with a gsm of 890 gsm (Red Oak 740 gsm) so its right up there with the good stuff.

well there you go....thanks for that...in my first season of burning I was given a heap of stringy bark and I split and burnt it before it was seasoned and it burnt awesome!!...haha now i know better and i'm far more organised.

Out of curiosity, what gsm is something like red gum or yellow box?.....(yellow box is my favourite!....that smell)...and what does gsm stand for...hahah....i think BTU is the unit of measurement for heat?

 

[Auzzie Gumtree]

gsm (grams per square metre) - is a measurement of the density of the wood. In this case 890 gsm means that a cubic metre would have a mass of 890 Kg. This is dry weight so unseasoned wood could be double this weight. Here's a list i made - the ones highlighted in green are Australian. I try to use this to compare when the guys on here talk about Oak, ash etc...

Its not all about the density though - but if that's all you know about a given wood then its a good start.

 

[Hills Hoard]

great list, thanks for that....Australia has some dense wood!....so im hearing that GSM is not always directly proportional to BTU?

Out of curiosity Aussie, how much do you load up you triton? I have read some horror stories duel cabs with the 2mm chassis rail bending...because that arent a true 1 tonner people over load them thinking they can take heaps, then break springs, mounts or even bend chassis....you can see form my first pic, thats prob my limit for loading...

 

[Auzzie Gumtree]

it is proportional - 20 kg of pine will give out the same btu as 20 kg of oak - but you would need a fire box twice as big........

There is more to it though - some types of wood have volatiles which can add to the BTU - also some types of wood have greater coaling attributes.

When i scrounge for wood i look for 3 things (in this order)
Location - is it close to home
Split-ability - can i split it with my Fiskars
Wood Type - GSM level.