Not my best cuts, but they all went right where I wanted them. Two 12-18 inch butternut hickories, a few smaller of the same and a small 6 inch hard maple. I skid these out before anyone comments on the spider web. They are staggered on the ground for that reason. Ms461 with square ground!
Nice. I'm jealous of you guys south of the border (Canadian border that is). The nice trees like elms, hickories etc., etc. are exotics around here unless you get closer to the niagara region. Would love to see a stand of osage orange up here, and I'm just a little north of Toronto.
It's amazing what that 40 mile wide Lake does to the land on both sides. I grew up in Kingston and it is amazing how different it is.
Yeah I've got a handful of hickory on my woodlot in SW Ontario. But not sure what kind. Would love to have a bit more and some beech. But hey, I'll burn what I have.
Nice, I like the different hickories but so do the hickory borers. Always plenty of saw dust in the hickory stacks
The 461 is a solid saw, not heavy either. Highly suggested if you are cutting volumes of bigger wood. Smaller saws will do it, but this saw with a sharp chain makes rounds fast
I have a stand of Bitternut Hickory which looks very similar to your Butternut. Great wood, I love it, heavy dense wood. I selectively cut my harvest of them with great joy when I take one or two. The pic with the saw on the stump is great. It epitomizes what we do, Thanks, great post.
Don't mean to be, as Moe says, a wise guy, but Butternut is a walnut, bitternut is hickory, or least dat's hows hit goes down here souf o' da Mason-Dixon. And I've got a 461 and love it. I run a 20" bar/chain combo and that's a mean combo on that saw. As for the cuts, snow on the ground will make you do that!
Nuthin wrong with pines and firs, I burn pine if it's dry for over a year and I like it. We have mostly oaks and bitternut hickory here in maryland.. happy burnin.
The funny thing about my Bitternut Hickory is, I have no idea how it got here. I've never seen ANY elsewhere EVER. There is none anywhere around here to seed it. One could say animals spread the nuts, but I've been through every patch of woods within 10 or miles of here Hunting, fishing, trapping, and snowmobiling over the last 50 years. Never seen any. And where it grows now was an Apple orchard when I was a kid. I'm beginning to think somebody from Maryland drove up this way a half century ago throwing nuts out the window.
