Firewood ?

JayinNY · Feb 16, 2012

Anybody ever burn European buckthorn? My brother and I hate that stuff and are trying to eradicate it from our land. We never tried burning it, we just chip it. So I thought I'd ask if anyone burns it as firewood? Thanks

Zachary Hoyt · Feb 16, 2012

Is that the one that looks almost like an apple tree but with big thorns an inch or two long? I like it for firewood, it is fairly dense and fairly small so it usually doesn't have to be split. I also try to eradicate it, but it does keep coming back.
Zach

JayinNY · Feb 16, 2012

Yes that's it, leaves stay green until the end of November, and it does have thorns. Also has blue colored berries in the fall. I just told my brother the same thing u said, it's harder than popular and rather small in diameter no splitting.Lol

TomOlson · Feb 16, 2012

I"ve been burning it for years. I use all but the very top (down to about 1" in dia.) It quite dense and hard; burns hot. After I found out what it is, I have cut just about all of it off our place.

For info on eradication, see:

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/volunteer/julaug98/buckthorn.html

Tom

Billy NY · Feb 16, 2012

Is that also orange, very dense looking when cross cut, also has a grain similar to hickory, grows in hedgerows, but also in clusters, groves, takes forever to get any diameter ? When cut and left, does not decompose ? I've got a ton of it here, some 6" dia, I like to split it, the color and the grain is really nice. Leaves stay green like right til the end and literally fall at once, well continuously, sometimes you can watch. Burns long, leaves nice coals. Whenever I cut anything, I take it all, down to twigs til my garbage barrels are full, excellent starter.

First group of photos, I like the wood color and grain, looks dense on the cross cut.
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Wardner · Feb 16, 2012

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Yes, that is European Buckthorn. In eastern MA, it's likly found at the interface of field and woods. It grows slowly unless allowed full sunlight like the hedge above. I have one solitary plant that I planted about 40 years ago. It has about eight shoots around 10-12" in dia. Total shrub is 35 feet dia by 25 feet high. Can't see it growing much taller, just wider. Often wondered if it has any specialty wood value.

JOB · Feb 17, 2012

If you want to stop it from coming back cut it in the fall. Buy the roundup that has the purple cap. It is expensive, saw it at fleet farm a years ago I think for like $40.00 a quart. Mix the roundup with diesel fuel 50/50 and paint the stump with it in within a half hour. The stump will not sprout new growth the next spring. The park department here mixes it with antifreeze because they cut it into the colder season. The berries can still produce a new tree for up to 5 years, they stay fertile that long. good luck

PetemiddleTN · Feb 17, 2012

Thats right its dense, brudder and I cut lots of it last fall in an old stone fence line. When the leaves all came out this spring it got a nice dose of the roundup. Burns well.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 17, 2012

That stuff burns good, pretty hot, and long... If you only halfass get rid of it tho, you'll be fixing a lot of tires about hay time... I worked a piece last year where the guy wiped out a hedgerow full of that stuff the year befor and just ran a mulcher over it at the end. The stuff was poked up to perfect tire poking size the following summer. Last thing he did last fall was plow the area, spring harrow, raked everything up to a pile, and burned it. Roundup isn't allowed in that area and real expensive anyway...

Have fun....

Bret4207 · Feb 17, 2012

One thing I've learned over the years- all wood burns! I don't care what it is, if it's deciduous, it'll make fire wood. Anything larger than a broom handle goes in the stove. Popple, elm, grape, basswood, buckthorn, elder, all the stuff they say "won't burn good" does. You just need to dry it.

ericlb · Feb 17, 2012

i heat with wood, i dont care what it is, if it burns it will heat the house, i also clean the chimminy about twice a year so i never have a problem there

Anonymous-0 · Feb 17, 2012

Agreed. I have three buddies that I can count on to come pick up my brush from any fencelines I've just cleared. All three use it to heat their homes. Doens't matter what species wood it is.

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