Wood for Next Years Shoulder Season

[thewoodlands]

This will be some of our wood for the shoulder season, basswood.

Zap

 

[EatenByLimestone]

Cut those green things up while you are at it. Make them go away one BTU at a time....


Matt

 

[bigtall]

Dang Zap, I do like all your pics. Keep em' coming!

 

[Cedrusdeodara]

I see alot of standing dead in that pic. I would get it all.

 

[savageactor7]

Last couple of years I've been slaying basswood saplings as an invasive species. We got plenty of poplar for shoulder season ...Zap I was told to get rid of them while I could cause even fully grown there was no btw's to them. So what's your take?

Got to admit I'm quick to burn any dead tree that's down on it's own...there easy takes and part of our general wood lot housekeeping plan.

 

[SolarAndWood]

Zap I was told to get rid of them while I could cause even fully grown there was no btw's to them. So what's your take?

They end up taking a huge amount of canopy like the beech that get the rot and are never worth anything more than pulp. Cut em all.

 

[thewoodlands]

Last couple of years I've been slaying basswood saplings as an invasive species. We got plenty of poplar for shoulder season ...Zap I was told to get rid of them while I could cause even fully grown there was no btw's to them. So what's your take?

Got to admit I'm quick to burn any dead tree that's down on it's own...there easy takes and part of our general wood lot housekeeping plan.

The bees love basswood and bees are good to have around and also deer love basswood so I'll take what comes down and do some thinning of some young basswood. I will not get rid of all the basswood.

zap

 

[Cedrusdeodara]

Last couple of years I've been slaying basswood saplings as an invasive species. We got plenty of poplar for shoulder season ...Zap I was told to get rid of them while I could cause even fully grown there was no btw's to them. So what's your take?

While their wood BTU value is low (13.8 MBTU/cord - about half of oak) and it may not be a great burning wood, I would not consider American Basswood/Linden (Tilia cordata) an invasive species. It is in fact native to our country. Generally the term invasive kicks in for non-native species which tend to spread into the wild and outcompete natives -- usually they don't have natural predators in their new home to keep their populations in check -- so they can outcompete natives and take over. Like the grey squirrel in Europe, which is taking over and driving the native European Red Squirrel toward extinction.

Anyway, if you are culling out all Basswood due to it's low BTUs for firewood, and because they are taking up space where better burning woods could live (Hickory, Locust, etc.), I completely understand that. That becomes "Invasive" in another sense.

I actually never burned Basswood, but with BTU's that low, it cant be a great wood to burn. I know that it isn't the easiest tree to grow from seed (we grow it on our nursery), which further makes me feel that it can't be invasive. Generally the invasive stuff takes off like a weed from seed.

 

[JustWood]

Last couple of years I've been slaying basswood saplings as an invasive species. We got plenty of poplar for shoulder season ...Zap I was told to get rid of them while I could cause even fully grown there was no btw's to them. So what's your take?

Got to admit I'm quick to burn any dead tree that's down on it's own...there easy takes and part of our general wood lot housekeeping plan.

Hack'em and stack'em! Worthless unless you are a wood carver.

 

[JustWood]

Dang nab ZAP! You gots lots of wind damage. You're gonna be years ahead in no time.

 

[LLigetfa]

I actually never burned Basswood, but with BTU's that low, it cant be a great wood to burn. I know that it isn't the easiest tree to grow from seed (we grow it on our nursery), which further makes me feel that it can't be invasive. Generally the invasive stuff takes off like a weed from seed.

It suckers about as much as Schubert Cherry so I'd call that invasive.

 

[savageactor7]

OK thanks for all the advice brothers...I'll continue hacking them out of existence.