Other soft hardwoods.
Is silver birch a hardwood.
A good example of this is silver birch.
Sweet birch has a janka rating of 1 470.
Birch yellow 1260 cherry domestic black 950 bloodwood 3300 imbuia 950 bocote 2200 maple soft 999 brazilian tiger mahogany 3840 teak plantation 1000 brushbox northern 2045 cherry africa makore 1010 bubinga 1980 ash victorian 1010 butternut 490 walnut domestic black 1010 camaru brazilian teak 3540 oak tasmainian 1010.
Both woods make great flooring for your space but there are some differences.
As a result it burns fiercely throwing out a lot of heat but only for a short time.
Hardwoods such as maple oak ash birch and most fruit trees are the best burning woods that will give you a hotter and longer burn time.
Birch hardwood flooring is one of the most popular wood species to be used for interior spaces.
Spalting is very common.
Of all the quality domestic hardwoods birch would probably be the lowest in price.
Carlg17 5 years ago i would like to add that massive birch is the most popular hardwood in finland and the northern parts of scandinavia.
A beautiful wood to look at and work with and sold at a reasonable price.
That of yellow birch is 0 62.
Of more importance than the question of hardwoods or softwoods.
The specific gravity of sweet birch is 0 65.
It makes for excellent furniture material on its own as long as it s indoors.
Birch firewood also tends to decay more quickly than for example sweet chestnut because it has a much lower tanin content and a high sugar content.
The wood of sweet and yellow birches is hard strong and heavy.
Between 30 and 50 species of birch grow in asia north america and europe.
It is the main hardwood in use up here.
Equally popular and similarly durable is oak hardwood which has been used for floors boats and barrels for centuries.
Unfortunately silver birch firewood isn t first class it doesn t have the same density as the old favourites such as oak and hornbeam so a cord of birch won t go as far for heating.
Paper birch wood is lighter and not as stiff hard or strong.
40 45lbs cu ft white birch slightly lighter than yellow birch.
It is our version of oak or maple.
Whatever moisture is in the wood to be burned has to be boiled.
This is its most redeeming feature.
Turned bowl from silver birch.
Is the moisture content.