cut some birch

[rustred]

cut a bit of birch this weekend . gotta get a jump on next years firewood. and split a few days worth of tamarack. far as i am concerned tamarack i like better than birch. people go nuts for birch and its way over priced. .

 

[Part Time Pete]

Tamarack, or larch as we call it around here, is my favorite wood. Very tough wood - I made all of my wagon racks and wood rail fence out of it. I even had some shaped into tongue and groove flooring - came out beautiful

 

[Tim in New York]

cut a bit of birch this weekend . gotta get a jump on next years firewood. and split a few days worth of tamarack. far as i am concerned tamarack i like better than birch. people go nuts for birch and its way over priced. .

SW6 TA?

 

[Russ from MN]

We have both Birch and Tamarack on our property in N MN, but the Tamarack is dying from the larch beetle, I believe. The most popular firewood in that area is Black Ash, and it's the easiest to process, it's easier to split it by hand than lift it into a splitter. When the area was first settled about 1905, they needed a name for the post office, so my grandmother submitted Birchdale, and it was accepted. The paper mill will buy all 3 species if it's mixed in with a specie that they really prefer, but if that's all there is they're not interested. The most popular pulpwood for that mill is poplar, with spruce being a close second, and I think they use almost 2,000 cords a day. We are very lucky that that mill is still running!

 

[rustred]

We have both Birch and Tamarack on our property in N MN, but the Tamarack is dying from the larch beetle, I believe. The most popular firewood in that area is Black Ash, and it's the easiest to process, it's easier to split it by hand than lift it into a splitter. When the area was first settled about 1905, they needed a name for the post office, so my grandmother submitted Birchdale, and it was accepted. The paper mill will buy all 3 species if it's mixed in with a specie that they really prefer, but if that's all there is they're not interested. The most popular pulpwood for that mill is poplar, with spruce being a close second, and I think they use almost 2,000 cords a day. We are very lucky that that mill is still running!

we have lots of poplar also. i try to avoid it as it leaves a lot of ashes and you do not get the heat from it like tamarack. tamarack is next to coal for heat and leaves little ashes.

 

[Buckhammer]

As long as it is dry all wood makes heat, some just makes more than other.