Hey all, I'm into the third cord for the winter and it was a neighbors tree that went down in my yard during Sandy. IT STINKS out side like S#!T….. Do any of you all get the same odor, Iv'e been buring 90% Maple and Oak all winter and maybe I just got used to that pleasent smell….. I don't think Iv'e had hackberry in the past, but this one was free and in my yard. Almost sorry I kept it, but BTU's are BTU's it just stinks!
Making the neighbors stay indoors Good & dry ? Not familiar with Hack, maybe it got it's name cause it makes you "hack" . LOL Birch bark is an acrid smell, but don't stink, only last an hour or so after a new load. Catalytics reduce the odor a bit too though.
I don't have any, My wood stacks consist mainly of maple, oak and gum. I scrounge what ever I can get though, I'm not generally picky with the exception of any pine, I "REFUSE" to burn it! I'm down on the shore area Dave and beggers are not choicers if you know what I mean. Once in a while I'll get a hickory or a nice oak, but mostly maple and gum. There are a lot of "trash" trees like hackberry that grow in this soil, We are very acidic and sandy for the most part. I don't know if I ever had any locust to be honest.
You bet C-106! It's not like I can pick what I want to burn. I'm basiclly at the mercy of folks who know me and know I burn. I'll get a call asking if I want to take a tree or some elderly folks in the neighborhood want a tree removed. I get most of my stuff from word of mouth. As much as I don't want to see another one, storms and hurricanes are great for guys like me down here on the shore. I got one maple gave me a bit over 2 cord
Dave, It was a monster! I posted it on the "other" place when I was in good standing. At the trunk cut it was 42" across It ripped the ground up and had a root bed about 50'+ in diameter. It took my buddy and I two days sun up to sun down to just cut it up and bring it home. If I were to guess, it was 60+ feet high. Hurricane Sandy took it down.
Never noticed that before. I burned it the last two years. Don't have any this year. Hopefully next year I will as I like how it seasons and burns. But since it related, to the elm family it could reason that it may have a smell. I just haven't had the pleasure to smell it I guess.
Had some cleveland pear/flowering pear that as soon as i put it in the stove complained of the odor right away.
I burned mostly Hackberry one winter, probably 20 years ago. Stringy and not the highest BTU, but it burned fine. It smelled odd in the stacks, but I don't remember it stinking when burned.
Have burned maybe 2 cords of hackberry 2-3 years ago and did not notice a bad smell from it. I thought it burned quite well, about like cherry or maple.
Hackberry is very prevalent here. I never realized there were so many in Ohio. Needs to be off the ground ASAP. We lost some big rounds in less than six months.
I got a stove full of it now, it burns good, don't last as long as oak and has a fine ash, but like ya said it was free and it heats the house. haven't noticed any smell though. I did cut this tree down green a couple years ago.
I feel like apologizing to my neighbors this year. I usually burn a lot of cherry and it smells great. This year I'm burning a ton of locust. I walk outside during reloads and it smells like someone lit a big pile of chit on fire.
I agree it burns well, I guess I got accustomed to the nice smeel of oak and maple. In my opinion, it smells like s#!t….
