The city is trimming some giant cottonwood trees about a half a mile from my house. They're cutting it into 4' lengths and pile it up on the curb; eventually it will get hauled off to the dump or something.
I collected 1/2 a pickup load yesterday and barely made a dent in one of the piles. I burn wood in the winter for supplemental heat, but I don't have a lot of room to store it.
I would never pay good money for cottonwood cordwood, but is it worth getting for free? (my inner cheapskate says "yes" but he lies to me sometimes) It has about the lowest BTU's per cord of anything, even lower than basswood or willow or catalpa. I've read conflicting info about how easy it splits.
I put a handful of the sawdust in some lead that I'm melting and it generated an awful lot of ash.
I'm thinking of just getting the smaller stuff that I can burn w/o splitting.