So I understand if you need wood, and if you don't want to see any wood wasted, and that it burns better than a snowball...etc etc.... But do you regularly burn sweetgum? Or need wood that bad?
I've heard gum produces little heat and alot of ash. Any truth to that? Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
Oh BOY!!!! I got PLENTY of that! Sweet Gum! I Love it and it burns well and long! Just can't split it without Dynamite!!! I leave it in the logs and only keep the size that will fit in the stove. A big round will burn 6+ hours in my Fisher. I'll dig out some of my FUN pics splitting gum! It is also known to folks as "Black Gum" here...
Not my experience. I've burn't cord after cord of the stuff. One winter about 10 years ago, it's all I burn't all winter. It's what I had ready. I can't be to picky here and when I get wood I can't really chose, it's usually a blow down and removal job for me unless my tree surgeon buddy drops a load off.
My only experience with Gum trees was in Australia and they were great firewood.. Must be farther south
I think that's an entirely different species is my guess Lyle. I know that they seem to be plentyful here in New Jersey! Here's one in my neighbors yard and you can't miss there seed pods, they look like Covid balls!!! There kinda spikey things about the size of a golf ball.
I’ve said the same thing numerous times here... when my dad was alive and my folks still lived in VA, that’s all they burned and that house stayed toasty warm in 20-30° weather with sustained winds above 20 mph throughout the heating season. And his splits never looked that stringy- but I guess being retired, my dad could take his time and read the grain- even with a 5 ton electric
I sell wood. This was dropped off by a tree company. I do all I can to keep this junk off the property but now that it’s here…cut and split
I don’t mind the heat it puts out. Very easy to start with all those splinters sticking out everywhere
I’ve never split Sweetgum but I imagine it’s the same as Blackgum. I’ll never take another gum that’s for sure.
I knew he sold firewood. But I didn't know anyone bought, or sold, sweet gum for firewood. Like WeldrDave Dave said, different species. However, I did see some sweetgums planted when I was there. I was wondering "wth?". I guess as "ornamentals"....the leaves do tend to turn nice colors in the fall, at least here. Roger that. It's great that you can sell it! I hate a sweetgum tree, used to go behind the technicians on their paint lines to hit the ones they skipped when marking a timber cut. But if yall convince me that it's "good enough wood", I may add some to the stacks. But I have more oak and hickory than I can cut now. WeldrDave, how long have you found it takes to dry, especially in rounds like you mentioned?
