I burn a lot of poplar. It burns intense with little "coaling". Easy to work with too. My preferred wood for the arch.
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I burn a lot of poplar. It burns intense with little "coaling". Easy to work with too. My preferred wood for the arch.
I burn it if I have to. Cannot stand the smell of the stuff when its wet or still green.
When it's dry it burns like paper, need to refill often, doesn't coal, does smell (especially when green). I split by hand and would rather work with hard wood, but if a tree goes down close, I burn it. Not my first choice though, closer to my last. I'm going to try Basswood this year. Its laying 10' from the evaporator. Well, I guess it will be next year, as I will let it dry some. I burn mostly Hickory, then, Red Oak, W. Ash. It's most abundant for me.
Mike Z, I can tell you from experence if you use bass wood mix it in with good wood. I never got the heat from it.
Thanks for the tip. It's a big tree, I can see where it would have given me the impression of having "all the wood I need" for the season. Are you from Winter? I'm just south of there 20 minutes or so, north of Tony.
Ya, I'm south of town about 3 miles on co."W" on the south side of the road. A sign out on the road says "Brad & Linda's Sugarbush." Stop in if your in the area.
Brad, sounds good, thanks. Always nice to see other's set ups. Go Packers!
Mike, If you wany to come send me an E-mail. I don't want to miss you.
Brad, yes I will send E-mail before coming. I would like to visit when you're boiling, but I'll likely be boiling too, so we'll just see how it goes. Thanks - MZ