lilac Firewood no splitter needed

[NDtreehugger]

Anybody ever use lilac for firewood.
(Please no google search post, there useless as a tick on a mosquito's ass)

 

[philoshop]

Perfect timing! I just picked up a small pile of lilac today and was wondering the same thing.
It's dense and hard, for sure. I'm thinking similar to the fruitwoods?

 

[fin460]

I have a big lilac in my yard, and its looking pretty sick with the drought we are in right now, its right on the bank of the yard, I know it has to be bone dry. I may have to cut it up and try some this winter. I've always just burnt it as brush.

 

[zogger]

Not lilac, but I have burnt a ton of privet, which grows about exactly the same and as big.

 

[Cheesecutter]

I've burnt it before. It seemed to take a long time to dry, and like mentioned above it burns like fruitwood. I only took the stuff 2-5 inches and didn't split any of it. It was a lot of cutting and brushing for a little wood.

 

[NDtreehugger]

I've burnt it before. It seemed to take a long time to dry, and like mentioned above it burns like fruitwood. I only took the stuff 2-5 inches and didn't split any of it. It was a lot of cutting and brushing for a little wood.

Sounds good,

I picked a job with possibly 1/2 mile of the stuff that’s not been cut for 20 years or more.
They want it all removed.

I was thinking for a 20 year growth and only the size of my wrist and forearm it should be some ok wood.

Rather then push it up into a pile and burn, I could push it out of the ground cut the big stuff then finish making a pile to burn this winter.

I don’t like to waist what could keep me warm in the winter.

This year I wasted some poplar and some box, don’t much care for the poplar but the box I should have kept, the worst I could have done was to use it in the spring and fall or sold it next year for pit wood.

If this stuff burns like fruit its worth having.

Thanks!