Horse chestnut as firewood

[DocMustard]

Morning all, I have access to a recently felled horse chestnut tree. I have never logged or burned this before, does anyone have any experience of the species? How does it season and burn? I have capacity to season it for at least 2 years. 

[Steve Bullman]

Not great, tends to sit and smoulder a bit. Ok if mixed in with something decent though.

[doobin]

Will rot before it seasons, burns cold and leaves a shitload of ash. Don’t waste your time. 

[Vedhoggar]

Leave it.

 

Third rate firewood, which doesn’t burn well, doesn’t smell great. It splits relatively easy and dries quite quickly.

[neiln]

It depends how desperate you are.  Or splits ok and dries (it shouldn't rot!) But dries light. One of those pithy woods with not much to them so a lot of volume for not so much back.  It does burn though.

I've a couple of cube in my stack but only took it as I was building my relationship with another local tree guy (and since have had 3 mature oak trees).  If he called offering more, right now is pass.

[DocMustard]

Good morning, thanks for the advice, I will give this one a miss based on your advice, I'm certainly not desperate at the moment. 

Edited May 11, 2021 by DocMustard
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