What I’ve cut and split so far seems pretty dry. I will throw some in the boiler tonight and see how it does
Yep. Really heavy green. Light weight when dry. Guys in the mill hated sawing it. Water would fly off the headsaw like a garden hose.
All Sycamore is, is soft Maple with nasty bark & a twisted grain that usually doesn't split well. If it's splitting good it'll make heat, burn it. I won't take it unless paid to.
Sycamore was one of the first woods I ever scrounged. I thought I hit the jackpot until I tried to split it. Long story short, it sat for nearly a year until I bought my splitter. It burns easy once dry but I'll never take it again. We have American sycamore all over here in upstate NY and it looks nothing like what you posted. Has more of a smooth camo looking bark. Yours must be a different type, especially if it's splitting that easily.
It burns like medium BTU hardwood. I have burnt a fair amount and have quite a few trees on my property. Very hard to split, quick to dry... I'll take it, but try to cut all the young saplings so I can promote better hardwoods. There's a case to make to cut it all down and burn it, so better hardwoods can thrive...
My daughter's tree is going to hit the ground someday , somehow, someway and I will split it , noodle it or whatever, and burn it
Here is some sycamore I got a couple years ago I liked the way it burned was good for the shoulder season.
Yep, that's Sycamore like we have here. Not sure on the OP's pic. Didn't look closely at the pic till just now.
That doesn't look like the Sycamore that grows in the creek basins around me. Those splits look more like maybe some kind of maple. Sycamore splits that I've seen look stringy as in JCMC's picture.
