Monkey Puzzle take down

[Bolt]

burning it is fine.

 

Splitting it can be a bit of an ordeal though.

[Taupotreeman]

Can't be half as bad as dried for two years gum. Explodes like a hand grenade and is nigh on impossible to split with an axe.

[Lyndon]

Didnt they make match sticks out of poplar?

[Matthew Arnold]

It is very very sooty. And gums up the saw for a past time. Its worse than Larch and the dreaded Leylandii.

[Bolt]

Didnt they make match sticks out of poplar?

 

they did once (in the UK)

 

And they still do (in Poland)

[Taupotreeman]

I find both Larch and Leylandii are excellent for kindling once dried well and yes, Poplar was used for match sticks. We have heaps of the stuff here. It's like a weed and was over planted back in the day so is readily availbale as firewood. Obviously burns quicker than most but in an enclosed firebox it burns hot and gets that heat in the fire for the harder natives and stuff like Wattle and gum. Some of our natives here are horrendously sooty and you end up cleaning the chimney on a monthly basis so Monkey Puzzle shouldn't be a major, just make sure it's well dried.

[Lorry thompson]

I remember doing a dead one and the bark kept falling off when spiking and smelled of dog crap

[Taupotreeman]

I did a macrocarpa hege the other day that smelt of dog crap but that's probably because the garden I was dragging the brash through was full of the stuff. Big Labrador, poor sod looked like he'd never been out of the garden judging by the mess. Everything got caked.

[nepia]

Was told my the wife last year not to sell all the MP I had because it was such good firewood and she's not wrong. Burns like dry (real) conifer but lasts longer.

[Taupotreeman]

Choice. Then it's settled, it's coming home with me. The locals can bugger off and find firewood elsewhere.