VernonFirewood
ArboristSite Member
I have some sweetgum.(you know the stuff with the little pointed balls, real common in the south) and i was wondering if it was good firewood.
so if i mix in some sweetgum with the rest of the hardwood i sell(mostly oak) will my customers flip out.
I have some sweetgum.(you know the stuff with the little pointed balls, real common in the south) and i was wondering if it was good firewood.
Here is what the National Audobon Society Field Guide to Trees has to say:
"An important timber tree, Sweetgum is second in production only to oaks among the hardwoods. It is a leading furniture wood, used for cabinetwork, veneer, plywood, pulpwood, barrels, and boxes."
I wouldn't mix it in with the wood I sell. Kinda like mixing in pine or aspen(popple).
I don't know anything about Sweet gum, but Black Gum is absolutely awful to split. Makes the splitter whine and growl. Tough stuff. When dry is burns very hot with little draft. Larger pieces leave a beautiful coal bed.
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