Dense Wood Dense hardwoods like Jarrah, with an air-dry density of 820 kg/m3, are an excellent choice for burning in a wood fired oven and for home heating as they give off more consistent heat as they burn. Jarrah in particular burns cleaner leaving little ash behind.

Hardwoods such as maple, oak, ash, birch, and most fruit trees are the best burning woods that will give you a hotter and longer burn time. These woods have the least pitch and sap and are generally cleaner to handle.

For example in Western Australia, Jarrah and Wandoo are considered the best. In Tasmania, Brown Peppermint is considered best. In South Australia, Victoria and southern NSW it is generally River Red Gum. In Queensland, Ironbark and Box are preferred.

Basswood firewood is not very good for a long sustained fire. It burns up quickly which means you will have to constantly feed the fire if you don’t mix it with a higher quality wood. Many people burn it during the spring or fall when the outside temperatures are mild and it’s often referred to as a “shoulder wood.”

Basswood, Tilia Americana, is a light, soft wood which is easily worked and very stable. It once had a reputation as difficult to finish since it developed “fuzzy” edges during sanding, but with today’s advanced machinery, manufacturers have been able to overcome that obstacle in most instances.

one year per inch of thickness is the rough time for drying to ‘fully dry’ – so uncut trees of any size will take about a decade unless you do something!

Decay Resistance Basswood has no resistance to decay.

Re: Basswood drying? Stack it in a shed with good air flow and keep it off the floor. If your making turning blanks don’t use the pith/juvenile wood and you should have stable wood. I’ve carved with air dry basswood off the farm and the wood never checked.

Cedar trees can vary in height so greatly that the cost for removal runs from $500 to $2,000. Mature maple trees can grow to 60–100 feet and are typically quite expensive to remove, usually costing between $1,100 and $2,000. A mature ash tree can reach 40–80 feet and usually costs between $500 and $1,000 to remove.

What does EAB look like? Adults are green beetles approximately one-half inch long with slender bodies. Larvae are cream colored and up to 1 1/4 inch long. Larvae have brown heads and a 10-segmented body with bell-shaped segments near the back end.

When EAB populations are high, small trees may die within 1-2 years of becoming infested and large trees can be killed in 3-4 years.