Can you burn weeping willow

Burn only dry wood to minimize creosote and maximize the efficiency of your equipment. Creosote is a major factor in chimney fires. Marisa Y. Marisa Thompson at desertblooms nmsu. Please copy your County Extension Agent and indicate your county of residence when you submit your question! Issue: November 2, Burning willow wood Question: Can wood from a willow tree be put in our fireplace to burn?

It will hold a fire overnight if the drafts are shut down - won't put out a lot of heat but there will be enough there to get a roarign fire going in no time in the morning.

Would I burn Willow if better stuff was available? But if I had to remove a tree I for sure would be using the wood. Somethings not mentioned Willow makes very good charcoal. Willow is a good wood to use for smoking meat. The community "sausage feed" types use only Willow for that here.

Harry K. Joined Feb 6, Messages 15, Location Warshington. I agree. Willow is easy to split, and I do all my splitting with a splitting maul. I burned it last winter. It did fine. I mixed it with maple or Doug-fir. I don't try to keep a fire going all the time because my house gets too warm and that is a waste of wood.

My willow came from a tree I felled and since it was here, I used it in the stove. By the way, the stump will sprout. I found out that the deer like to munch on the sprouts and they seem to leave other things alone. So I have a willow bush for the deer now. Joined Nov 23, Messages Location Kansas. Aug 11, Stephen C. You must have a different variety of willow than what we have here in central Michigan.

I have burried 4 wedges an axe and a splitting mall in rounds only inches in diameter and then had to use a sledge to pound the wedges almost the entire length of the round before I could get it apart. Willow burns ok.

Its a good shoulder season wood to use when you need to get the stove warm and take the chill out of the air, but I wouldn't want to use it to heat my house in January.

Splitting can be easy or hard, depending on the piece you're working on. I've had 16" diameter rounds about 20" long that split wide open like ash on the first hit I've also had a 6" diameter piece from the same tree that was about as stringy as elm.

Very stinky the first month after you split it, but it does dry fairly rapidly If you have easy access and its free, have at it, but I wouldn't give up a maple score for willow.

Joined Feb 23, Messages Location wv. As long as it is coming down anyway, burn it. It isn't anything I would go out of my way for. I burn it My generic rule of thumb is if I have to touch it, I burn it. I burn every species here. Got a lot of willow down in the swamp pastures and if branches fall off of them where I have to mow, I buck them up, split them, and they get mixed into the pile.

Fifty feet from your woodshed? Cut it split it stack it, but be sure to get other wood as well. That tree might last you several years for fast morning wood and for "shoulder season" wood. I look at the wood piles areas. I have the space and the opportunity, so I am the anti wood snob.

If all I had was a tiny lot with very little room and had to go drive miles and miles to go get wood, no, I'd go for the better species gusto.

But free right at your house, sure, you can burn it, it is just not much heat per cubic volume. A ton of dry willow got similar BTUs to a ton of oak. By the cord, no, by the ton, yes. Aug 12, These trees can be found on the middle and east side of the U.

The largest group of these trees can be located along the Mississippi River. Its ability to grow and survive is powerfully symbolic and show how we can thrive even in challenging conditions. In Scripture, the willow is always associated with a brook or river, that is, with a perpetual source of nourishment and supply.

Weeping Trees Especially Bad If a tree is deciduous and also has a weeping growth habit, like a willow, it is doubly out of favor in feng shui. Although these trees have a graceful beauty, their form suggests sadness.

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