It may be. I know it sparks an cracks like hedge. Burns good an hot to. Sent from my SM-S906L using Tapatalk
Saw this thread and thought about some wood I had cut out of my way when I was processing a white oak 2 days ago. This what looked like a small sapling had a white oak fall across it during hurricane Matthew in Rocky Mount, NC so I had to cut it out from underneath the oak while I was processing. I thought locust at first but it had a yellowish tint to the wood and a sweet smell kind of like a persimmon when I busted it apart. Very stringy and soaking wet. Maybe something like the hedge y'all are talking about? What do y'all think? Never seen locust this far east in NC. Look pretty identical to the OP's piece of wood -Rick T2 Tappin'
Well then, that's a little tidbit I'dve never known! Thanks! Now I'm gonna go have a dry cup of coffee...
OK I saw an ash get hit by lightning .. it blew most of the bark off tree (up to 50 feet away) and the tree steamed for minutes.. because of location it was cut split right away.. that was dry wood! just wondering g if your oak held up better due to being dried by lightning!
Not my findings in burning Oak for over 30 years, if left in rounds and stacked it will dry, wood dries in rounds as long as you stack it and let the air get to the ends, wood dries a lot from the ends as the cell structure is like a series of straws. Not sure why people think wood does not dry in rounds.
I wonder oldspark if it has to do with location, not trying to argue or be belligerent. ... I live in a wet area.. OK in winter normally it's snow and drier but in summer 80% humidity is common.. cut 2 foot long and stacked here rots... used to cut open snowmobile trails and power lines ... those piles if gotten too quick could be used .. birch is fastest 6 month on ground.. but all others rotted too... why I personally stack on something and top cover... of course this is my experience in Northeast...
I'm sure location has a great deal to do with seasoning. Here, it's common to go 3-4 weeks without precipitation in the summer-fall-winter. And it's windy. Stacks will dry quickly after a rain, and have time to dry out completely. I too wondered why some guys don't think that wood drys in rounds, until I thought about the climate differences. Edit: Not that wood can't rot quickly here. Yesterday I went for a walk in the woods and walked across a magnificent American Elm that I know was green and growing 14 years ago. I don't recall exactly when it fell, but it was soon after it died, maybe 8-10 years ago. It's rotted to the point that I could kick the trunk apart. I went farther into the woods than I've been in a decade, looking for a couple ash trees I'd seen then. At some point in the past the dirt had been washed away from the base and so you could actually crawl through the roots of the living tree. I thought I was in the right area, but if so then they're on the ground rotting now. We tend to think of trees as static and unchanging, but on a decade time scale they're no such thing. It was a walk to inspire though. There are a couple hundred ash trees 20" dbh and bigger, and many huge ones on the ground. I need to get stacking now that I have a stove.
Funny you say that as some of the Oak (Bur) is laying on the ground and will not rot for at least a couple of years, sometimes things are not easily explained.
I have often wondered if people have stacked the rounds or just left them lay on the ground as the air really need to get to the ends, maybe I should cut some green rounds this spring and see how they do over the summer.
the color of the split is way too light to be hedge. the bark actually kinda looks like hedge. I'm gonna say the top piece is mulberry and the bottom piece could be hedge. hedge bark is more orange and flakier. and the strips of bark are longer. I have about 40-50 cords of hedge in the wood lot right now. let me see if I can get a pic of a side by side comparison of hedge and mulberry.
Hmmm. well the oak that I had that began to rot after one year but it was buried in the pile so that must be the difference.
