Made a trip to a friend's place where I have been cutting some trees for him. Only dropped two trees today. Picks are of the larger of the two. Probably nearly 26" at the butt. The other one was about 14" at the butt. Both with 50'+ tall. They tand to have lots of slash on them, so after dropping them, there is a lot of limbing work, then bucking and loading. I got to use my 288XP today. I don't run it much as it's a lot heavier than the 372XPW I have. But when the wood gets big, or especially when I have to noodle some of it down, it comes out like today. Here are a few pics...
Finally got around to splitting this wood today. It's way nicer to work eucalyptus when it's wet. Way too hard when it's dry...
Nice 288! I love two series Husqvarna. I got no experience with eucalyptus, looks like alot of limbs. Where is eucalyptus on the btu chart?
I have never seen it on a burn chart, but I bet it would be up near the top. When its dry, you cant hardly cut it.
Its on the FHC btu chart, but listed in the middle. I dont know if its the same eucalyptus though. Here's the link. Firewood BTU & Drying Chart
Interesting. Euch is a very hard wood. I would have though it to be higher on the burn chart. I didn't notice Live Oak on that chart. It is at or near the top of many charts that I have seen in the past. Madrone (Arbutus to some) also was higher on the list on other charts.
I dont agree with a lot of the numbers on the chart and dont know where they came up with them either.
Very high on the BTU chart. One chart had it at 34.5 mbtu a cord. Yep. That's very high. The lowest btu ratings I've seen it at it's 32 mbtu a cord. So it's one of the highest btu firewood in the US. The fhc chart is way off on this, and many other wood BTU's. The smell though, oh boy, it smells so amazing. bigfrank , can you do a smell-o-vision for me? One of the best experiences ever was me riding my bike on hwy 1 in NorCal though eucalyptus groves. Simply amazing.
Yep. See my other post, but madrone is way up in the btu charts too , in the mid to low 30's), regardless of what the fhc chart says.
I'm originally from the central coast of California (now living in Northern California). The Railroad planted euch trees along the railroad tracks all along California on the coast. They planned on using them for railroad ties. They are all along the tracks and in groves along the way. Unfortunately, there are about 900 different varieties of euch trees, and they planted the wrong trees. They warped so badly when dried, they couldn't use them. Some of those trees are over 8' at the stump now. I'm told it's great firewood. I burn pellets, and have been for over 20 years. Cut wood for the exercise and sell the wood and buy pellets. Crazy, eh? Eucalyptus - Wikipedia Actually I just love to run a saw, so...
We have it here were I live, but it doesn't grow like the trees in Canada. It grown more as a bush, and looks like Manzanita, only bigger. I see in Canada, it grows like a very tall tree. Ours is VERY oily and very hard. I have burned it in the past in a wood stove and just about melted the wood stove (was glowing red!)
Yeah I'm pretty familiar with it. I used to live in SoCal, and my wife is from the Bay area, but she moved further north on Cali for college. We got married in mendocino. We go back as much as we can, but it's been a couple of years since we've been back.
Was supposed to head over to the North coast for some surf fishing last month. But my fishing buddy who lives in Idaho now got covid. So maybe sometime next year I can make the trip over
That looks like Blue Gum (Eucalyptus Globulus) native to Tasmania. Takes about 2 years to fully dry. Burns almost smokeless with a sweet smell and burns hot and long with very little ash. You can also get the oil out of the leaves for medical or cleaning purposes. Didn't know you had them over in the US.
