I admit I am a novice on wood ID - one of the many reasons I joined this site. I cut this up today and wasn't sure what it even was. Pretty light, easy to cut. Bark falls off and looks like camoflouge. Is it any good? It just shoulder wood?
I'd say Sycamore. You could look at the handy BTU chart we have available to us, but I think it's pretty decent.
It's Sycamore.. Medium density wood, good for shoulder season. Dries quick, but is not the easiest to split.
I call 17.9 mbtu's wood mid grade. That's just like box elder for btu's. Not bad at all. Basswood, red pine, cottonwood etc is regular grade.
Good question... Sycamore is the reason I bought a hydraulic splitter... Small straight stuff splits ok but big stuff and crotch pieces are another story.
Its very heavy when green. Probably one of the wettest trees that you can find. As a result, pound for pound it isn't the highest yielding tree. And it is one of the harder trees to split. If it's easy to get and you need wood do it. If you have a choice it would be on the list to pass up.
It makes great splitting stumps and anvil bases. Buddy of mine does a lot of woodworking by splitting with a Froe. I gave him one of these 20 years ago and it's still going strong.
Well I threw my Fiskars at a couple and found out I wasn't going to go that route. Haven't split any yet but will use the 3 pt hitch splitter on the John Deere for these. I tell ya, as far as cutting it, the 262xp went through it like hot butter. Easy to cut!
