The last willow I dealt with was what we call 'American willow', pretty different from 'weeping' variety, has a huge shock of little white flowers in the spring and seems to die off at around 40-50yrs, the bark is a bit like alder and the branch structure can only be called crazy. And wet? OMG, I had to drop a 'dead' chunk about 20ft high and 20"dbh, what came out of my poor wee saw resembled porridge, stuck to everything within 4 feet (me mostly). I stacked it at the back of my shed figuring it'd be fine by spring, ya right, it got burned about 2yrs later, and what I said earlier about the dead cat burning smell was being polite, yuck! I must say though that it did burn nicely with very little ash (not a whole whack of heat but it burned). It was interesting to see that a couple of years later just about every chunk of branch that was left on the ground (we lived in a managed forest area at the time) had 1-2ft sprouts, the conservation group that wanted to revert the land back to a natural state is going to have fun with those lol.
GO LIONS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!:rockn:
