Big sycamore anyone?

[lone wolf]

Wow. Let us know how it splits. I have been told to split right after its cut down but never given the reason why.
Nice job by the way. Not everything is easy.

They split awfully!

 

[olyman]

Green it feels like Hedge Apple and dry it feels like a roll of paper towels... I hate to come off as a snob but I'd leave lay.

good shoulder season wood.........

 

[windthrown]

Mine's bigger, but I'm not going to cut it, and I sure as heck wouldn't burn it. Good for nothing but throwing away, IMHO.
I hate that stuff. Leaves more ash than you had wood to begin with, and so little heat. Bleh! I hate it! (Can you tell?)

What he said. Crappy firewood in my experience. I would never plant one either. Had a huge sycamore in California in my front yard. I had to constantly prune it and I burned the wood, but... never again.

 

[_RJ_]

Also that white crap from the leaves [emoji107]

 

[Sawyer Rob]

That would go on my BSM, and there STILL would be a decent amount of firewood coming off it!

SR

 

[TeeMan]

There are three sycamore trees coming down across the street from me right now. I'm not going to bother with them after have gone through splitting two others up a few years back when my other neighbor had some come down.

 

[Woody912]

Looks like good mill size logs. Idk how good the material is though...

sycamore is spiral grain, it will warp badly in all probability. It also splits better around the perimeter than thru the middle. Better but still not easy. Splits best at -20 degrees

 

[ponyexpress976]

It burns better than snowballs...but only barely. Be glad you didn't have to chip the brush. Every time I have to deal with one, I get a fresh pack of dust masks and I still end up a hacking mess.

 

[bigblue12v]

It burns better than snowballs...but only barely. Be glad you didn't have to chip the brush. Every time I have to deal with one, I get a fresh pack of dust masks and I still end up a hacking mess.

Lmao!
I don't own a chipper I'm a firewood junkie not a tree guy. Yea the saw dust was definitely as you described it. Yuck.

 

[Kevin in Ohio]

We have some larger ones over at the farm.

Naturally by a creek and there about 5 this size within 200ft of each other.

When healthy, they can grow amazingly big and use a LOT of water doing so. Not my choice wood either and I put it just above cottonwood.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I love the wood they make when I mill them!

SR

 

[Kevin in Ohio]

I love the wood they make when I mill them!

SR

Wow, you REALLY like them!

 

[redoakneck]

Quarter saw into boards, has a beautiful spotted leopard pattern. I strapped mine together for a few years and it dried straight, well, as a board!!!

My buddy uses it in his OWB, it will burn if it is dry

 

[sdt7618]

Heat our home with it mostly as it is our predominant wood here, but has been debated before the sycamore in the UK is more likely to be London Plane, doesn't have the splitting issues and is free heat.