A guy a couple miles down the road took down a 2 big catalpas and I talked to him and he said I could cut them up and have the wood is it worth it? It's a lot of wood but also a lot of work. But it is free. So what do you think?
Free is free btus I dont usually care what kind of wood i get. I get what i can when i can it all burns
Yeah, only a few years ago I burned exclusively catalpa for 1 season. That's what that "mixed hardwood" load was. It burns fast. Not a lot of btu's, but for shoulder wood it's fine.
I guess I'll pound them out then. What the heck. Im still grinding away on my cutoffs but this will be a nice change of pace. Might as well.
Catalpa used to be considered an up and coming wood in the lumber industry. I am curious what quality of smoke it would produce on the grill.
I enjoy having variety in my stacks; like you, I have lots of oak in my stacks, so having some lower btu wood is a nice change from time to time. I'd go for the catalpa and keep on stacking those cutoffs; did you ever get the hard maple cutoffs?
I think it wouldn't be good for smoking use at all. It doesn't smell good, kinda like box elder. JM2ยข from burning 2 cords of it a few years back.
