I had a guy here in town ask if I wanted some wood. I said always. He said come get what you want. He is clearing a little over 2 acres of pecan trees. This is the first trailer load. Just a few hours this weekend. I'm going to get him to stack some longer larger pieces that I will get as time allows.
It is, it's probably my favorite. To me it's more mellow than hickory and has a bit of "sweetness", and more flavorful than oak. That said, I've never had fruitwood other than wild black cherry...
I like it as a smoke wood. We dont have any around here so we have to order it in bags for the smoker. Apple smoking wood I have plenty of but not Pecan. Nice score!
Some nice stuff there. None here and ive only seen one as a yard tree. They wouldnt let me cut it down!
One of our hosts from our spring Texas hog hunt was pretty insistent that I bring some pecan wood home with me. He had a pretty fair size pile from a tree that came down at his camp house. I grabbed 4 pieces about 3 ft long and 3-4 inches in diameter. It’s not bad in the smoker, but I sure like apricot better. I imagine it is probably pretty good heat in a stove, just something that most people don’t have access to in any quantity. Nice score
Got a decent stack growing that I need to process. There is plenty of time for that later. Spending the time I have now to get more of the wood to bring back. That empty spot in the shed is all the space I have under cover to fill back for future seasons. The rest I guess I will stack down the fence. I really hate to do that as I always loose some to rot even with my makeshift top covering.
I like pecan as firewood. Not hard to split, seasons faster than oak, burns with good flame, pretty hot, doesn't last like oak but no big deal here. A tragedy that I witnessed was a farmer bulldozed and burned a 20 acre pecan orchard and turned it into a cottonfield. The dozing and burning took months, so, he had plenty of time to find somebody to get a bunch of good wood. I did not do firewood at that time.
