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> >It is most definitely a soft wood, burns much like poplar, imo.

'Soft wood' has different meanings in different contexts.  In wood working 
parlance, soft woods are all coniferous an all diciduous trees are hard.  
Poplar, for example, is easy to cut when it's green, but properly dired it is 
quite 
hard and the tools let you know it.   </HTML>