Here’s some pictures of the logs I saved from my “would you keep any” post. Not really sure what, if anything, I’ll do with them. Make some of it into campfire wood I reckon. Didn’t figure the bigger stuff would burn up completely with the rest of the brush and cedars. It’s really wet. (See the photo in “body temperature” post.) If it was anything but cottonwoods I wood have my 3 year plan in the bag. Maybe a 4 year plan
too bad. You wont buck any for your own use or is it that poor for burning that its just not worth the effort? Cant say if its around here or not or if ive ever cut any.
I have some in my stacks. Nice and dry it seems to work fine for me. Surely wont replace top notch hardwood but...….. What stove are you using? Curious. Seems that the Cat equipped stoves are reasonably forgiving with more undesirable varieties.
I hate Cottonwood, but with that grapple I think I'd take it & burn as shoulder wood if you've got room.
I see nothing wrong with that wood! Serves multiple purposes! Wish I had some on hand right now, but mine won’t be dry till next year.
I’ll probably buck up a bunch and burn it at the shop where I work. That’s the property it came from anyway. Plus take some home for my RV lot. Dry it burns fast and produces lots of ashes and little btus. I’d woodn’t want to have rely on it as my only heat
I bought the grapple just for this project, probably the only reason I saved that much. But the novelty of using it started to wear pretty thin by the end. I doubt that I’d have saved hardly any if I had to chain up each log & drag em through the sand with the payloader
I use dry cottonwood or tulip poplar for starting the stove up. Stuff takes off and heats up quick for the next prices of hardwood I put in.
I don't mind cottonwood. i usually cut it into bigger chunks than i can handle and by the time they season. they are much lighter. there is more btu's in 100 lbs of cottonwood. than there is in 100lbs of most hardwoods
Weeelllll... Firewood BTU Ratings – World Forest Industries "The BTU in a cord of firewood is usually close to the same per pound between species. One pound of dense hardwood will have about the same amount of energy as one pound of light softwood. The difference in energy content is in the woods density. A cord of the more dense wood will have more energy than a cord of less dense softwood."
you are 100% correct!! they are close to the same btu per lb, and a cord of hardwood DEFINITELY has more btu's than a cord of softwood. for sure!! hands down. without question!! thank you for posting that chart to help me prove my point. for example on the eastern hardwood chart take the cottonwood and compare it to shaggy bark hickory (btu's are in the million) 13.5 -- btu per cord of cottonwood. x 2.06 =27.81 btu's 2018 -- lbs of cottonwood x 2.06 =4157 lbs where as the shaggy bark hickory comes in at 27.7 million btu's and weighs 4327 lbs. (but it takes 2.06 cords of cottonwood to equal the btu's) there are exceptions though, like comparing cottonwood to osage orange. or in the western hardwood chart, when you compare cottonwood to live oak or Eucalyptus. so it kinda depends on which chart you wanna go off of. generally speaking though there is usually more btu's in 100lbs of seasoned soft wood than 100lbs of hard wood.
It took me a while to (perhaps) understand because the derivation wasn't explicit, but I think what he's saying is that 2.06 cords of cottonwood has the same BTUs as 1 cord of hickory but weighs a little less. I would have first shown how much cottonwood it takes to make the same BTUs as a cord of hickory and then work back to the weight. Starting with the answer (2.06) made it a little hard to follow.
