I hope I don't need them all winter, but once I put them on they stay on until spring as they are a PITA to get on. The Butternut had been hanging upside down for three years. I've been waiting for it to fall, the Hickory and Maple were at the bottom of the pile of log length I bought. Everything in my yard is cut to length and I will finish S&S this week if the weather holds. Got about 5" of the white stuff today. gave me a chance to clean and sharpen the saw again.
missed this thread. VERY NICE JCMC Got a bunch of shag rounds waiting for me to split. If you happen to be in Southern CT with your splitter let me know!
No hydro. I have maybe two cord of hickory rounds to split and it can be tough, especially shag. I was kidding with him. Ill split them when its dry and cold. Any hickory out your way Sandhillbilly ?
Nice! Butternut is a realllllly nice wood to work with. My son has used it for the handle of a couple knives he's forged recently. Almost looks bland till you put the oil to it then your jaw drops.
No hickory here. I think maybe some along Missouri River on the East end of the state, probably 300miles.
Just a side note for you folks that have access to this wood. I bought a couple of board feet of hickory last week. I paid $6.67 /bf. 1536 bf in a cord of wood. You're sitting on $20,490 in that hickory. Think about that when you're feeding it into your stove. One man's firewood is another man's treasure.
I bust up black walnut and sell that for campfire wood. Splits easy, burns with a blue flame and the smoke smells good.
Sounds good, but finding a log buyer to pay you anywhere near that is about impossible. Besides what you pay for a finished board, isn’t what I’d get for a rough log. I guarantee if I cut some of my 20-24” diameter straight Hickory’s, and placed an ad I’d get people wanting it for free or for very little. In fact I’d probably end up on a Craigslist laughs post at AS. Any decent wood could be turned into lumber and sold for more money. Unfortunately scrounging only twisted, ugly, half rotted, limb wood, etc for firewood would take a long time to produce 8 full cords every year. Some big, straight wood has to be sacrificed for the cause.
