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bkellyvtme

March 08, 2010, 01:41:41 PM
Are these used for fuel such as woodchips, pellets, (not firewood I'm just about certain). Is it considered a softwood or hardwood? Any other uses for it?

rcanderson1968

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March 08, 2010, 02:06:59 PM
As far as it being used for pellets - I've heard reports that some pellet mills in Maine do not use aspen as a feedstock.  I've also heard reports that pellet mills in Northern WI are using a heavy dose of aspen as a feedstock.  So I guess it depends on a particular pellet plant's "recipe".     
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SwampDonkey

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March 08, 2010, 02:22:25 PM
If it were up to me, and it ain't :D , I would use species that are inherently low in moisture content when green. Like white cedar, jack pine, white spruce, tamarack and white ash for starts. ;D
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Jeff

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March 08, 2010, 02:27:31 PM
Quote from: bkellyvtme on March 08, 2010, 01:41:41 PM
Are these used for fuel such as woodchips, pellets, (not firewood I'm just about certain). Is it considered a softwood or hardwood? Any other uses for it?

Yes they are used for fuel and yes, they are hardwoods.
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SwampDonkey

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March 08, 2010, 02:34:25 PM
99 % used as pulpwood the other 1% for dried kindling to light your hardwood if you can't get good cedar or yellow birch bark. :D Well I guess some is sandwiched in between hardwood veneer in your plywood and go into aspenite and OSB, that kind of stuff. :X No wonder the hurricanes take out so many modern houses. By now I've said too much.
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Jamie_C

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March 08, 2010, 06:09:29 PM
About the only market for Aspen around here is for the local pellet mill ... they supply pellets to a town in Sweden or Finland.

SwampDonkey

#6
March 08, 2010, 06:25:50 PM
Right now the marketing board wood yard is about stuffed with aspen pulpwood, already scaled and sold. Just waiting to be hauled. A while back I never saw a stick up there. I assume it came in just before closures and the yard is beside two truck routes, one route 5 miles from Maine. I think this goes to Maine to Domtar in Woodland. I know they had a contract to scale and buck a year ago. I don't think they are getting rich off the processing, but keeps the cash flowing. :D
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Maine372

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March 08, 2010, 09:31:43 PM
headed to maine it might go to LP for OSB too.

SwampDonkey

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March 09, 2010, 05:59:25 AM
Possibly, but I think it's Domtar. There is also Huber nearby. I believe Domtar pays trucking on the contract.
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