Leaf Bin Potatoes

[hqueen13]

Maybe, Deb, the leaves are skinny and about the size of your finger. When they fall they mat down and don't decompose very well at all!

 

[Denim Deb]

Yep, sounds like willow oak.

 

[Wannabefree]

Yeah that sounds like willow oak. Those things are HARD to kill out too. stupid things bounce right back when you chop them down, and grow 15 feet a year....royal pain in the you know what! I hate em!!!

 

[Denim Deb]

Well, if they grow that fast, just think about how quick you can have it for firewood!

 

[Joel_BC]

Well, if they grow that fast, just think about how quick you can have it for firewood!

Willow, buckeye, chestnut, white pine, and balsam fir are all in pretty much the same class as heating woods.
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/wood-combustion-heat-d_372.html

So, as Deb suggested, could be a good thing to harvest for home heating, if the willow is (as you say) fast-growing and abundant on your place.

 

[Wannabefree]

Well, if they grow that fast, just think about how quick you can have it for firewood!

Um, yeah, they'd be perfect for firewood! We cut one down that sprouted up beside our house, the next Spring, the stump had sprouted and was already grown over the peak of the house again So we cut it down AGAIN, and poisoned the crap out of the stump, and it grew back again, no joke, we had to pour salt all over the stump, chop down into the stump, and pour salt all in there to ever kill the stupid thing. If you had just a few trees, you'd have firewood for life

 

[Denim Deb]

Well, if they grow that fast, just think about how quick you can have it for firewood!

Willow, buckeye, chestnut, white pine, and balsam fir are all in pretty much the same class as heating woods.
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/wood-combustion-heat-d_372.html

So, as Deb suggested, could be a good thing to harvest for home heating, if the willow is (as you say) fast-growing and abundant on your place.

Joel, not willow, but willow oak. It's a type of red oak, but its leaves that look more like a willow leaf than an oak leaf. Many people don't even realize it IS an oak and refuse to believe it-until you show them the acorns. :/

 

[Marianne]

Here's a pic of a willow oak leaf:
http://www.arborday.org/treeguide/treeDetail.cfm?id=137

If it grows that fast, wouldn't it be a low heat firewood? Sorry, way off topic, again.

 

[Joel_BC]

Joel, not willow, but willow oak. It's a type of red oak, but its leaves that look more like a willow leaf than an oak leaf. Many people don't even realize it IS an oak and refuse to believe it-until you show them the acorns. :/

Hmm... sorry about that misunderstanding... we don't have that species around here. But...

Here's a pic of a willow oak leaf:
http://www.arborday.org/treeguide/treeDetail.cfm?id=137

If it grows that fast, wouldn't it be a low heat firewood? Sorry, way off topic, again.

I think this is the main point. Once dried, fast-growing species (like willow, certain pines & firs) are light in weight. They have comparatively little density to the wood itself.

But if it's abundant and available, could still be useful as a heating wood. Advantageous, in the sense of being free!

 

[Denim Deb]

Here's a pic of a willow oak leaf:
http://www.arborday.org/treeguide/treeDetail.cfm?id=137

If it grows that fast, wouldn't it be a low heat firewood? Sorry, way off topic, again.

Don't know. I don't have them growing in the woods next to me, but they're fairly common a bit east of here.