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Hickory Dickery Dock

Discussion in 'The Wood Pile' started by T.Jeff Veal, May 26, 2024.

  1. T.Jeff Veal

    T.Jeff Veal

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    A friend the next county over had some more hickory trees he wanted gone. We were happy to relocate them. He even loaded them with his mini-excavator.
    Only tree we got a picture of, cut 2 smaller trees and 1 already down to finish the load.
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    Cutting the smaller tree from the stump 30239.jpeg
    Doing some limbing... 30235.jpeg
    Main trunk coming down... 30240.jpeg
    More limbing... 30255.jpeg
    And bucking... 30315.jpeg
    Loaded for home... 20240524_135617.jpg 20240524_140447.jpg
    Added bonus, he had a fat pine stump he had dug up... 20240524_135609.jpg
    We cut at his place a couple years ago, got 8 loads then.
    Will be more loads and pictures to follow...
     
  2. Eric Wanderweg

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    You are the Dixie hickory king! :thumbs:
     
  3. jrider

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    Wish I could get my hands on more hickory. Nice haul.
     
  4. The Wood Wolverine

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    Some guys have all the fun. :D Great job T.Jeff!
     
  5. T.Jeff Veal

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    Thanks, the real FUN was yesterday...on the oak tree
     
  6. John D

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    Nice job looking forward to more pictures
     
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    Great stuff there Jeff. You certainly get some big scores. Cant beat being able to cut to your specs too. I see lots of precut free wood and decline just for that reason. How many folks are amazed that I don't like it precut.
     
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    That is some beautiful firewoood. I'm jealous!
     
  9. Backwoods Savage

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    Nice score. I’m not so sure about the pine stump bonus tho LOL. Will you work it up?
     
  11. T.Jeff Veal

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    We'll cut it in to and see if it's very fat. If not, it goes to the junk pile.
     
  12. jo191145

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    As in fatwood? Now that would be worth working up. Hoping to find a bunch of that someday.
     
  13. T.Jeff Veal

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    Yes sir. Fat wood, fat pine, fat lighter...old growth pine tree stumps. Down here it was long leaf or slash pines that made it
     
  14. BuckeyeFootball

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    Thats some good btus. Hickory gives me ptsd though.
     
  15. Chud

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    Same I have a hate love relationship with hickory.
     
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    Why???
     
  17. buZZsaw BRAD

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    X2
     
  18. Chud

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    The big ones I have gotten were a pia to split. Real time consuming and many of my Hickory stacks have collapsed. I’m sure your splitter does fine with it, but with mine I have to work it about like Blackgum.
     
  19. jo191145

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    I don’t get much hickory but the ones I’ve had lately run through my homemade box splitter rather easily. I have a harder time splitting Tulip. I can’t figure that out :)
     
  20. Chud

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    I have split some Poplar that was stubborn and I’m in the Elm is easy if aged enough camp.