It will burn very quickly and isn't a wood that is desirable for fire wood.

 

Once gave a load of dried sycamore to a guy as free firewood. Heard he spent hours and hours trying to split it with a wedge and eventually gave up.

 

It will burn very quickly and isn't a wood that is desirable for fire wood.

Do you know, is it not desirable because it burns fast or is Sycamore more like pine?

 

http://firewoodresource.com/firewood-btu-ratings/

 

take a big piece or two home and try to split it....

Green or dried it is near imposible ...

 

If its free, burn it up.

 

if you don't have to split it and its free and dry, burn it. if you have to split it, forget about it. the grain on sycamore is twisted together which makes it nearly impossible to split.

 

They only way to make sycamore fit in a wood stove is to cut it with a saw. Even a power wood splitter has trouble with sycamore. It puts out heat, but doesn't have the prolonged burn characteristics of oak and locust. Kind of like burning poplar. Lots of high heat for a very few minutes and then it is gone.

 

From what I understand, it takes a good deal of time for them to dry too.

 

Not the best but it will burn fine. If its all you got take it and deal with it. If you have access to better wood dont take it.

 

It makes good ashes, not good heat. Most of it goes into pallets.

 

Thanks to all who replied.
I asked about Sycamore because I have a huge tree that's falling down. It's not dead, the ground is eroding around it. So it is free and I have a gas powered splitter. It seems to me that it's O.K. to burn, it's just a lot of work for wood that doesn't burn very long.

 

If its free, burn it up.

yup