"Harry K" wrote in message
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The real story after all the people who have never used cottonwood for
firewood:

It is down near the bottom of the ratings for firewood BUT - it is
wood, it burns and thererfor puts out heat.
Fact regularly ignored: ALL wood contains approximately the same
amount of BTU pound for pound, thus the only difference as far as
heat goes is "how often you need to load the stove".

For free why turn it down?

I have never used the cottonwood, but from the chart it seems similar to
Popular wood. That I have used in a wood stove. I used it because I needed
to cut a few trees down in the yard and needed to get rid of the wood.

Sometimes when the weather is like it is now, cold and warms up later in the
day wood like tht comes in handy. Build a fire to get the basement warm so
I can play in the shop down there, then the fire will go out in a short time
and the sun warms up enough that I do not need the fire for the rest of the
day.

For free and maybe a small ammount of work that is fine. I would not buy
any of the popular or go very far to get any.