Hop Hornbeam for the woodstove?

[NorthCountryWd]

The land I'm clearing has a ridiculous amount of it and wondered if anybody burns it?

It's supposedly got the 3rd highest BTU per pound of all wood behind Osage Orange and Hickory and splits fairly easy, but I never hear of anybody burning it.

All the wood I've bought over the years and I don't think I've ever seen it in a pile that I can remember.

[Bret4207]

Ironwood is the local name. Good stuff. Tends not to grow more than 4-5" thick, but makes great stove wood.

[simplyflow]

Never heard it called Hop Hornbeam...Ironwood, we have it all over our property and darn happy about it. DH uses it for legs and such in his rustic furniture.

We burn it mixed in with our other woods...oak and maple. We love it. Count yourself as lucky to have it.

[simplyflow]

Never heard it called Hop Hornbeam...Ironwood, we have it all over our property and darn happy about it. DH uses it for legs and such in his rustic furniture.

We burn it mixed in with our other woods...oak and maple. We love it. Count yourself as lucky to have it.

[rambler]

Iron wood, it was named that for it's toughness. Good burn, you'll like it for firewood!

--->Paul

[GREENCOUNTYPETE]

just cut it green , it is a bear to cut cured and with it not usualy geting very big there may be a temptation to cut to poles then pile for later , cut it down to stove size before it dries

[GREENCOUNTYPETE]

the other warning i got from my cusin who burns it all the time is

it is usualy smaller peices , don't let your wife stack the fire box full of them and go to sleep

his wife had done this he come home to a glowing red stove pipe from his second shift job he was actualy surprised it hadn't stared anything on fire ,
it can over fire the stove and do real damage , so a few peices at a time he siad

he didn't have an air tite stove so that would maybe help but i don't think i want to try.

[willow_girl]

We used to have a lot of this back home. My neighbor built a log corrall out of it.

[ibcnya]

Ironwood is right up there in BTU's if not ahead a smidgeon with black locust and I burn black locust all winter. I also burn osage orange as well. As long as you can control air flow to your wood burner, you should be able to burn anything.
You have the same "problem" I do NCW. Don't know what to do with all the black locust here. Oh and it splits sweeter than any wood I know. By hand of course.
You know you got the good stuff when you can pump out as much BTU's as a ton of good coal. Burn it and enjoy it NCW but season it first.