Hi, does anybody have any experience burning Basswood? Is it worth cutting and spitting? I have a lot of it but have not been using it.
Thanks!
Hi, does anybody have any experience burning Basswood? Is it worth cutting and spitting? I have a lot of it but have not been using it.
Thanks!
I think you'd do better selling it (at least the big chunks) to woodcarvers and getting wood with more heat value. Should be no problem to burn, just might not be the most economically sensible use for it, and not the hottest wood since it's kinda low-density.
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Depends on what you have for markets around your area. Basswood at least here in NH does not pay big money, it is less than what the mills pay for pine around here. We send our basswood to the pulpmill with the pine pulp for biomass or put it in the sugarwood pile to burn during the season. It has a low btu rating but just like the softwoods, and popular it burns hot and fast.
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leo just like others said i mix it in with my sugarhouse wood and i also use it for get the fire going in the house but not to heat the house.But i will say this i've been buring alot of mix would wood this year in the house and have no trouble keeping it warm in here with the temps out side
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I burned some bass wood in my house just because it fell over the pasture fence it does not burn good just likes to smolder and make smoke it might be ok in the evap if it was mixed in with some other wood
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I have burned it in the house but it is very low BTU. It might be the lowest BTU rating of any hardwood. Never tried it in the arch but I think it would be ok, just refuel a little sooner.
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depends on how big you are, if you are a hobby producer like myself, i would burn anything that is available. i would mix it with hardwoods but if its free then i would not throw it away. like others have said hardwood burns best but i have had decent luck burning dry softwoods they burn hot and fast so you have to add more often. like the maple producers guide says cut and use it especially if it helps clean up your woods, and releases more benificial species.
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Basswood is pretty low on the heat scale, like other said, but it is real nice for carving and getting a fire going. I personally would use it if it was free, but I would see myself constantly feeding into the fire.
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We've burned hundreds of cords of basswood. Split it early so it dries out and you won't have troubles with smoke. It's the best wood for splitting but you'll reload often due to the low BTU's.
With not much market for it as logs we burn it because I don't want to see it rot in the woods!
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