Had time to buck all the holly last night Trees were dropped 4-13 and 5-5-21. It sure spalted quick, with some of the smaller rounds almost punky. Only split a little so far... It cuts very similar to soft maple, hope the bigger rounds are better. Chart has it as high BTU's. Seems fairly dry. 1 of the bigger rounds I carried a few smaller pieces to the house to burn My opinion, it seems to rot fast, cut and split soon, it might be good wood. Don't know if I would go out of the way to cut more. This was from a job we did. We do have some nice size hollies on our place, might leave them as the birds really like the berries in late winter...
Neat stuff. I take it you seldom score/process any? Always fun to work on a wood species you seldom encounter IME.
1st time in years getting any holly. We cut some back when I was a teen...dad burned it pretty green.
I have burned a few of the holly rounds. It seems to make decent coals, actually. I put a 4" round in the back of the stove, with a split of ash and hickory knots in front about 8PM, woke up about 3:30AM, biggest coals were from the holly, pulled them to the front, and laid some ash chunks on top. Quick relight.
We got the holly split yesterday morning. Got a nice pile of splits Saved some pieces with nice grain for our friend, Chris, he makes pens and knives Close up, has some streaks of color in it Got a round of holly and hickory knots in the heater this morning
That holly made some nice splits. The color and grain texture remind me of red & sugar maple. Nice work my friend
It does resemble the red maple we have here, grain and how fast it spalted. Need to get it and the ash in totes today and tomorrow, I hope. Thanks, my friend
Got the holly stacked in a tote Had this much left over, filled up the low spot in the last ash tote, took 5 pieces in the house Got the first roof on...
Yep, it really helps them out. We normally keep a lot of that, but we have plenty. We had been processing a lot of that tree service wood, you know how that goes...
Had a good day at our friend's house, munched leaves, pine cones and small sticks from the storm Sunday. Pretty chilly ride on the mower... Then he wanted us to drop 2-3 pines, turned out we did 6 The GOOD LORD was smiling on us, put 5 of the pines in that 1 opening. 2 had a slight hang up, but was able use saw to get them down. Undercut 1 partially, it gave enough to fall, the other 1, cut it loose from the stump carefully on 1 side, it rolled off the other tree. The lone pine that had to go a different direction. Even missed the big azaleas and small Leyland cypress Cut it in logs he can move with his tractor. Using it for erosion control
Tell us the truth Jeff, it was 70* out in those pictures??? Heated seat on the mower? Those pines are the straightest trees ive ever seen. Firewood or lumber to come from those? EDIT: just read for erosion control
I wish it had been 70°, y'all would have thought it was summer... It was upper 40's, I think, breezy and then add about 6-7 mph for the mower...hands got cold...found my insulated gloves...... And the seat was heated...right where the seat of my pants was...... Those pines are planted thick. The ones we dropped had catfaces or top broken out/ forked...
Delivered a load of firepit wood with some chunks thrown on to the older feller with the OWB. He told me last year he wasn't going to use it anymore, but his son called, he has been loading the wood for his dad. They had cut him a trailer load earlier, but needed more
