Anyone have experience burning? Tree service cleared one in my yard for power line right-of-way. Is it decent? Couldnt find much info/btu wise. Thanks in advance.
No idea, but I just took down our 3 apple trees that the deer and wabbits killed, then cut 'em up to burn. Nothing bigger than about 1.5".
I've seen it compared to apple, which is awesome I understand. Also have seen it compared to maple, good scent, low smoke and hot coals. Maybe classify it as a "soft hardwood"? I'm sure someone on here has knowlege of it-I have about a 3/4 cord of red oak to split tomorrow and if worthy, I will throw this in too.
It's basically a fruit tree. Fruit tree wood is good to burn. I have some that needs to be split to burn this coming winter and expect it to do well.
I trimmed my 100 plus year old apples and I have seen this pear compared to that that old tree was better than sugar maple and beautiful to burn blue and green flames... so my recommendation is take it dry it and get a bottle of wine and burn in a wood stove with glass front!
Will do Canadian border VT -will separate it from all the red oak I have to split tomorrow and report back when burned-dreading having to split just a few rounds vertically of the red oak due to size-anyone have shin guards I can borrow?
It's BTUs !! Should be a good hardwood, looks pretty tight grained, Betting you'll be pleasantly surprised. Nice score
Some say that Bradford pear burns poorly. I have a hard time believing that it won't be much different than any other fruit tree.
I will be finding out myself what it's like, probably next year, because I picked up about a face cord's worth last fall. I've already turned several carving mallets out of it, for the college woodworking shop I help to run. It is quite hard and the shavings coming off the lathe smell good, which bodes well for it as firewood. My guess is it will be similar to hard maple. Maybe worth mentioning that the grain in the tree that I got is very twisted and interlocked. I was glad to have my little electric splitter, because it would've been a nightmare to break it up by hand.
If bradford pear is like a fruit tree, is it worth keeping some to smoke with? I have 2 in my front yard that are about as large as I've ever seen a bradford pear get and I assume I've only got a couple years before they split.
that looks real close in grain color density etc to my apple which doesn't split well even with hydraulics kind of breaks and chunks..
That's also how my big old dead sugar maple I need to get the rest of is as well. Gnarly and knot much fun to even think about non hydraulic splitting. Great firewood though.
A lot of people say that, once dried my fruit tree burn great do not dry fast. the ice storm up here damaged a lot of apple plum and northern pear took a long time to dry. burns great smells great splits rough lots of uglies.
I've been told it's worth zilch... But I never believed that to be the case. We took out (well, the wind) 4 in the yard- the smaller pieces(<2" diam.) didn't hold up to piled on the ground seasoning(duh) but some of the logs from the trunks are still solid- going on 4 years- and they're laying on the ground, too. I will be treating the Bradford differently next time we trim the last one in the yard... So as stated above, I say go with it Ashwatcher!
Thx sir-we're talking 10-15 rounds-I'll be ya huckleberry, SS and give a full report and more importantly, my opinion.... ...Seriously though, the comparison to apple and maple leads me to believe its a mid-weight worth burning especially if the smell is nice-shoulder wood if nothing else-Thanks to all
There are very few fruit trees that don't burn well. I'd take any fruit tree....or almost any. One we have lots of is thorn apple. Now talk about something that smells bad. That stuff it awful. Still, occasionally I'll cut a little bit of it if it is in the way and we'll burn it. Burns well too. On the pear, I'd take it in a flash.
