We’ve lost many orchards around here to make room for the row crops. Have one close to us that the kids and grandkids caught the vision for and are keeping it going, but seems to be a challenge to get that next generation to share the same passion. What’s the case with the pecans down there? Hard to scale how large those trees are, but probably destined for a massive fire or a tub grinder
Several companies are planting large orchards, turning row crop land into orchards and in our county, an old peach orchard was replanted in pecan.
That’s terrible Jeff! Was it a productive grove? If there’s lots more like it I bet the price of pecans will have to go up for the holidays.. Very sorry for the growers
I've got about a half cord of Bradford pear CSS in the back that is ready to burn this year. Moderately hard to split to get nice uniform pieces, but a good bit of BTUs in it. The only problem is there are so many in our area that have hit the age of breaking at about 20+ years. There is one down my street that broke off, and the people still haven't gotten much cut up out of it. I'd probably go cut it and bring it home, but I found two different small pre-cut oak scores today so I grabbed that instead. Maybe next weekend... It's worth it to me.
Nobody in my area sells it. I bag 8" splits (I got a load of random size rounds so it made sense to do that). It took a while but I have regular buyers now. I did the same thing with honey locust.
I passed on two Bradford Pear trees that were down in my neighborhood over the last couple of weeks. I got a hold of some roadside red oak that was freshly cut, and what a joy to split in comparison to the Pear! But the pear is a really good firewood... Just not quite good enough to make up the difference in splitting when compared to red oak.
