Hophornbeem

[blacklocst]

Because of the site being hacked I was able to split 2/3 of a cord of standing dead Hophornbeem. Has anyone burned much of it and what are your likes and dislikes about it. It's pretty high on the btu charts but I doubt its as good as the legendary standing dead Red elm.:msp_wink:

 

[lone wolf]

Because of the site being hacked I was able to split 2/3 of a cord of standing dead Hophornbeem. Has anyone burned much of it and what are your likes and dislikes about it. It's pretty high on the btu charts but I doubt its as good as the legendary standing dead Red elm.

I got a lot done around here too.

 

[haveawoody]

I drank beer and crashed right along with the site LOL

Hop is real nice firewood, sort of like BL for burning aspects.
Same as BL hop likes to be in a hot fire to burn well.
Hop IMO easily better than red elm and just a bit better than white oak.

 

[Steve NW WI]

It's what's for dinner for the stove when it's -25 outside. Mix a little bit of faster burning stuff with it - I like maple or birch.

Best stuff I have in the woods, just don't have as much of it as I do elm, oak, and maple.

 

[D&B Mack]

Because of the site being hacked I was able to split 2/3 of a cord of standing dead Hophornbeem. Has anyone burned much of it and what are your likes and dislikes about it. It's pretty high on the btu charts but I doubt its as good as the legendary standing dead Red elm.:msp_wink:

Hophornbeem? Never heard of it. Sounds like a trait I would like in a woman though! Hop-horn-beam!!!

 

[blacklocst]

It's what's for dinner for the stove when it's -25 outside. Mix a little bit of faster burning stuff with it - I like maple or birch.

Best stuff I have in the woods, just don't have as much of it as I do elm, oak, and maple.

Yeah, I did't even know what it was till this last year and don't have much of it either, I cut a cookie thats about a foot in diameter and it has over 135 rings! I'll try to get a pic of it up later.

 

[TonyK]

We have a ton of it on our land. It grows slow and burns HOT. As it has been said before use it after the fire is going. Unless you have some of Spiders super napalm lighter fluid...

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

To me it would be a shame to cut down any live Hophornbeam trees, unless you were thinning. They are so slow growing, in the course of a mans lifetime you would still have a small diameter tree. Never had the pleasure of finding a dead one to try for firewood, though I know where there are few live ones up on the mountain. Kind of hold them as very special trees in my book.

 

[AIM]

We call it ironwood around here. I've found several dead ones over the years. They burn GREAT! I haven't ever cut a live one so far. Small diameter tree and very slow growing. I think about 12"-14" is the biggest I've ever come across.

 

[PLAYINWOOD]

aka ironwood..it's as good as it gets, has same btu rating as anthracite coal in some publications. I hoard as much as I can for those colder months. A naturally drier wood it seasons quickly.
Only problem with the darn stuff, it's 6 inch diameter and 30 feet high, takes a lot for a cord. I have one in my bush that's around 18inch DBH by my guessing and 50 feet ? tall.
I've always wanted to cut it, but I don't have it in me.
Ruffed grouse can be seen in them all the time eating buds after the leaves are gone and a dusting of snow.Logging types have told me they are prevalent in hardwood bushes that have been pastured by cows,the leaves are to bitter and cows will eat every leaf but those and that's why they get a start.

 

[GVS]

Yeah, I did't even know what it was till this last year and don't have much of it either, I cut a cookie thats about a foot in diameter and it has over 135 rings! I'll try to get a pic of it up later.

Oldtimers around here called it hardhack.Very good firewood.Never seen one close to a foot in diameter.More like 6-7 inches.

 

[haveawoody]

They get pretty big here in Ontario.
Slow growing for sure, bet this one is a few 100 years old.
If you cut down a live one your great grand children wont be looking at something like it when seedling regrow, maybe the great grand children of them.
A local nickname is the shingles tree, makes for an easy id.
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[zogger]

I got a couple a LONG time ago. The owner where I lived at the time told me what they were. He had a real big spread and had had it timber cruised and found out, then told me. Some were martked for thinning so I got em. No, not big from what I remember.