This got dropped off from the tree company that brings me most of my wood. It’s very heavy and pretty sure it will stay that way once dried. It’s hard but splits easy.
Never seen a Norway maple with bark like this. At first I was like oh look, tree of heaven based on the bark alone
After looking at the pics on the puter, tree of heaven is a good possibility. I think i remember splitting some one time and it had a bad smell. Could be heavy when green.
Looks an awful lot like the tree of heaven stuff I got not long ago and posted on here Small Scores & an ID
I agree that it looks very much like that but I’ve always read that was terrible firewood. This didn’t cut like poor grade softwoods and is really heavy.
Here’s the thing with it being or not being tree of heaven - everyone says it’s absolute junk wood but this stuff is heavy and dense. I am pretty sure it will still be heavy when it dries but I could be wrong. The stump piece is about 18-20” long, 20”-24” in diameter as it flares out and two of us can’t pick it up without really straining. Is that normal for tree of heaven?
Yes. Really wet and heavy when green. Dries out a lot. I have a couple of cords of TOH that I had to take to get a bunch of mulberry. It burns ok. Better than snowballs!
Not much better... I had to cut one up to get it off a friends lot in town. By the time it was dry it was pretty light compared to when it was green. I ended up tossing it all out in the woods. Some of the branches that we had thrown on one of our burn piles were touching the ground and sprouted... I had to spray it 3 or 4 times to get rid of it completely. Our forester popped a vein on his forhead when he saw it sprouting by the burn pile. It is very invasive and hard to erradicate if it gets established. I can't really say if what's in the pix is TOH or a Maple. My experience with TOH was a few years back and mostly what I remember is that the leaves look very much like Black Walnut leaves.
The bark looks tree of heaven. I typically find that TOH wood tends to be a bit more yellow. But it may just grow/mature differently in different areas. I collect Tree of Heaven and burn a lot of it here. It is actually a pretty heavy wood. I also find that it burns pretty well. It’s not a soft wood. It’s actually a hard wood. Puts out a fair amount of heat. Seems like that’s an unpopular opinion though. You’ve already split it. Just stack it and burn it. Or just give it to me. I won’t let it go to waste.
Tree of heaven....new one on me. Did you ask it can you ask the tree guy? I have my tree guy id the wood prior to drop off and verify with pictures. Luckily my tree guy knows I only take hardwoods. It sounds picky, and I help him on small jobs with softwoods, but loads of low BTU wood simply does not work for me. Love to see the final verdict.
I’ve cut a lot of TOH but smaller ones. Haven’t really burned any yet except for in a pit. Seems a lot like Tulip to me as far as weight and splitting. Maybe the bottom of the tree is holding a lot of water? I know the small splits I burned seemed relatively dry considering they had only been cut and split a month. But they sizzled pretty good once they got hot LOL I know from reading it’s used in China for firewood and cooking fires.
