EastwoodGang4
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I voted poplar. Poplar, willow, and Sweet Gum are the only woods I'll let go and let some other poor fool grab up.
I second that
I voted poplar. Poplar, willow, and Sweet Gum are the only woods I'll let go and let some other poor fool grab up.
Butternut... The nuts stain anything they touch, the wood smells like shat while you're splitting it, and worse when you're burning it... It has no real heat value, it pops and crackles, and the saw chips make me nauseous and flemmy when I'm cutting the stuff (I might have a mild allergy, but I doubt it... I'm not allergic to anything that I know of).
Doesn't it mean trembling, or more litterally quaking? Either way, in the few books I have, cottonwood, poplar and aspen are all generally classed very similarly.
Still don't get all the naysayers that hate pine.
I split some basswood this year and really didn't mind it that much. I will have to see how it burns. My least favorite wood to burn is catalpa. I just don't like the form, seed pods or wood of the tree. And I have ready access to lots of it. My fil's farm has 1-2 acres of ALL catalpa, that is all dying and he wants me to cut most of it down.
Is aspen assumed included in one of these
'poll' categories? I know Carl von Linne put aspen in the poplar family. Scandinavian aspen in latin Populus Tremula
Tremula means "wobbling", the leaves wobbles
Worst wood I've ever burnt was pallet wood. It did keep us warm for a week or so till I found something else.
+1! It's the worst of them all, closely followed by willow and basswood. At least willow and basswood don't smell like a dead bug.You forgot Boxelder! :hmm3grin2orange:
Ed
At least willow and basswood don't smell like a dead bug.
I'm actually kind of surprised that OP even included elm on the list. Red elm is right there with ash and oak as being the best firewood there is.Posts like this one give me some insight on how you spend your free time.
Coming soon to a Web site near you: Wood Doctor's poll, "Which dead bug smells worst."
Helpful hint: don't get your sniffer too close to those winged kinds with the black and yellow stripes.
I just split a cord of sweetgum, so I hope the opinions on here are because you are all spoiled by and abundance of hardwood.