I've never harvested, split and burned Bradford Pear before. But there may be a haul in my near future. Won't be ready fo this season obviously. What are your experiences and thoughts about this wood?
Farwood.... From my understanding from other post on here. Decent BTU's and relatively fast drying....
I have picked up quite a bit here. It does dry very quickly (6 months in Texas summer) and burns nicely. It splits like mashed potatoes though, the grain is very soft. I will pick it up whenever I can.
Cut them all down before they fall apart on their own. They also spread invasive pear seed. The flowers don’t impress me either. It’s a weed tree burn it.
Worth processing. Good heat. Not fun to split by hand. Would not turn it down, in fact, I'll be burning some this winter.
Ive only scrounged a small amount. Decent firewood. I split a couple yesterday on the hydro and they "pop" when coming apart. Careful of the family jewels. These were year old rounds. The wood is on the brittle side, wind, ice and heavy wet snow seem to break them easily. Id take it for sure Buck! Heres a couple of my threads. Another mystery wood! A Little Bradford, Bradford?
I have some Bradford pear that came down last winter so I’m looking forward to burning it next winter. Still have to spilt some of it.
At one time being all clones the seeds were sterile and weren't invasive. With so many 'cousins' ( like Calleryana) being cloned they now can produce viable seed and can be invasive. With so many long sometimes pendulous branches to chip often there isn't much trunk wood to turn into firewood. I won't say what the flowers smell like but it ain't perfume unless you're awful kinky or in heat.
I don't usually ride with the windows down, unless in my truck (which is wood/farm/ hunting/go-fer etc truck). But it amazes me how I can smell a chestnut tree when they're blooming, most times before I see it or even know one is in the area. And to me, chestnut doesn't smell like "salmon rotting in the summer sun"...
