We have more than 10 cords of it. Working through all the uglies and shorts that were in the middle of the 3.5 cord loafhausen this shoulder season. It's more work keeping her loaded and keep an overnight fire, but it's warm, free, and the ashes must be finding their way up the flue, as they don't seem to be building up in the stove. Everyone is happy!
Loafhausen? Did you design something new and different? How’d it work out? Keep everything dry? Been considering a Holzhausen but have been wondering if it’s really worth it. I’m not the tallest guy LOL I’ll be burning a lot of tulip this year too. The wood itself seasons fast but there’s a layer of brown sponge under the bark that just loves to hold water.
Well, I had a rectangular space in the corner of the garden, started out with the traditional round holtzhhausen, but ended up with a loaf-shaped end product- loafhausen! Not as dry as I'd have liked, it was top-covered, but that seemed to hold condensation in as much as it kept rain out. Also yes, that cambium layer (or whatever it is) is a sponge. I spent a lot of time peeling it off. It's cheaper than a psychologist. We burned on it both shoulder seasons last year, and just finished moving the remnants to new stacks by the house.
Thanks for the review. I ask because I saw your from PA. Wet year there just like here. I had to toss about a cord of tulip into the mud ditches. Dumped about four cord in a pile. Never got around to stacking it due to health issues. Saved about three cord of it but the middle was just black and moldy. I’ve seen that before too. Many years ago my dad and I stacked all the wood on pallets in a huge square. Not good So Ive just been wondering if the holzhausen will perform similar. Especially if your not careful building the roof.
It doesn't grow here unless someone planted one as a landscape planting like so many of the other pink flowered magnolias that are so popular, but not poplars. If it is like eastern white pine for burning hot, it's actually a good middle of Winter wood as long as you can keep fueling the stove with it. I like it for shoulder season as I can have a morning fire and a after supper fire without long lasting burns that overheat the house. As long as it isn't too cold out a short duration fire often works well.
Sorry you lost some wood, I've probably lost about 2 cords from stuff I didn't get to in time in the last several years, and it bums me out. I only did the loafhausen as an experiment, and the amount of wood that became available overwhelmed me at the time (poor me). Only very minor mold, but the stuff in the middle didnt really dry. The amount of linear space it would have taken in a 4' high single stack would have been 80 or so feet. I will avoid doing it again if I can help it. I greatly prefer single or double linear stacks. In fact, I'm scheming on enclosing my entire 75' x 75' garden with a "wall of wood". So far, I have just about one wall done. It's where I have the best sun, and it's just flat-out cool.
Got quite a few of them here in Ct. growing wild. Bigguns. Seem pretty healthy too because it’s not often I find a dead one. They’re made of wood so I burn em LOL. Not bad. Can even get an overnight burn out of my PH using it. Need more heat add more air.
We have a good bit of tulip poplar down here in GA. These were blow downs from Hurricane Erma last September. Burns good when dry. Got to get this CSS.
Those are some poles! Nice and straight. Should make some good looking firewood. Down in GA, I bet it's just the ticket for most the year.
That layer is the strangest thing. I just pulled the bark from a piece that got felled a year and a half ago, cut split and stacked under cover this spring, and it was still wet this morning. I split that piece up and used it to kindle the fire I've got going right now. Wood lit right up no problem. As far as black and moldy goes, I just dry it out under cover and burn it so long as it's not punky. Here are some pieces that got left behind for one reason or another. They get thrown in the stove once it's rolling.
Hey, it gets cold down here and not much insulation...lol... This is what some of those logs looked like when we first pulled them out... 32' poles...
It’s rumored Daniel Boone made a 60’ dugout canoe from a tulip/poplar trunk. Would have been the Cadillac of its day I guess.
