On my way to a delivery this afternoon and miss a turn. I continue down the road to turn around and spotted this on a corner...black locust! Grabbed it on my way back. Storm down red oak cut up right there too which i left. Spied this abandoned pile of rounds across the street. Hackberry! Empty commercial lot with no one to ask so i left it. Never have scrounged any before either. Good thing i missed the turn!
Its all over the place here. You should see what i drive by on a regular basis. (maybe ill post a thread but that would probably PO some members) I was on the interstate today and spied a bunch of fresh cut wood done by the state. Id grab some, but its all on the median!
Lol what highway?!?! Seems like the state is cutting roadside every year now. Last place I saw a while back was by the bridge in Middletown. The median between the north and southbound lanes had a row of Bradford pear trees taken down. Not exactly a hoarder-friendly spot though.
91 by the rest area in Wallingford. Funny thing is many years ago i had the cojones to hoard in the same spot...until a "friendly" state trooper stopped by to say hi...true story Eric, no BS this time!
I don’t go out of my way for Hackberry which is weird because it burns like black cherry and I do go out of my way for black cherry. yep weird and i’ve been beering does this garbage i’m spewing make any sense. ?
Yeah, you just as well leave the hackberry alone! With all the other species you get it would be a disappointment. Those pieces in the picture are about as long of a straight piece of hackberry as you are likely to find. Don’t stack worth a damm.
Right near roads edge well overgrown with weeds, vines etc. Looked like watershed maybe. I walked the edge by the road looking for older logs and a stream going through it into underground pipe under road. Hackberry was maybe 30' off the road in and open field/yard with no house or structure on it.
Never have scored any and only know of 2-3 of them in the area. More of a novelty score if i took it.
Those chunks look pretty aged already, could be starting to get soft. It doesn’t seem to last very long in the rounds. Although those chunks are short enough it might have dried up enough to keep from getting to bad
Lol. I better put my readers on. I missed the part no one to ask. I like hackberry. Burns better then cherry and leaves some ok coals. If I saw hackberry and cherry side by side, for burning I would pick up the hackberry. Just my opinion
