I generally scrounge any hardwoods i can. Not having come across it before, i'm unfarmiliar with it. Put in a call to my FIL (who grew up on a farm), who also new nothing about it. He called a forrester friend of his, who recommended we not bother with it. He said the core is very soft, and tends to rot quickly. I do have a bunch of silver maple that was given to me.... would it compare to the silver? My FIL sort of made a comparison to poplar... burn quality wise. I don't have any real issues with a little poplar.... but i might not be so thrilled to spend my day working on a large amount of it. I do have other wood that i could be collecting..... but the BE is going to be time sensative. It will be given to someone else if i don't act on it in a day or so. Just wanted to get more opinions on it before i passed on it.... or acted on it.
Thanks,
Scott