Castanea Sativa

[Woodworks]

58 minutes ago, Rough Hewn said:

Very true. But SC grows so many times faster than beech, and seasons quicker.
You ever eaten beech masts?

But that is not what we are debating

 

I do wonder if there are varying growth characteristics to SC. I dont think half of us are wrong so there must be another explanation. Honestly the only SC I have had I would trade for some douglas or larch any day when comes to its use as fuel.

Edited March 1, 2020 by Woodworks

[Rough Hewn]

But that is not what we are debating

 

I do wonder if there are varying growth characteristics to SC. I dont think half of us are wrong so there must be another explanation. Honestly the only SC I have had I would trade for some douglas or larch any day when comes to its use as fuel.

This I don't understand.

Having cut and sold chestnut and oak for fire wood fir several years in Brittany.

The feed back/common Breton knowledge is that oak is denser,gives out more heat but takes two years to season (60€m3) whereas SC is less dense, seasons in one year and burns quicker (45€m3)

Bit like the softwood debate...

[emoji848]

If you're surrounded by oak,

Burn oak.

If you're surrounded by SC burn it.

I absolutely love it.

But that's personal choice.

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[Luckyeleven]

I've just split and tested a few bits of SC from the stack, (cut and stacked less than a year ago) its at around 23-26% I put that mostly down to the relative humidity we've had here (Brittany), it seems like it started raining around October and hasn't stopped since. 

Edited March 2, 2020 by Luckyeleven

[Big Beech]

Burns well ?