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Hackberry

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  1. Slocum

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    Does anybody have any experience burning or seasoning hackberry?


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    I’m no expert, but it’s gooder btu’s and season about the same. I’d say a year plus to season much like mulberry. Not quite as hot as mulberry in my opinion. I’ve burned a cord of it over the last two winters.


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    Good Shoulder Season firewood or daytime firewood. Can season in one year if set up with the correct sun and wind condition. Overall if you can get it, get it... :yes:...
     
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    Stringy to split. Not elm stringy, but keep a hatchet closeby if using hydros. Medium quality wood. Wood boring insects love it.
     
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    We don't have any around here, can anyone post a pic so I can see it? I find it interesting to see and read about different wood(s) we don't have up here.
     
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    Get it split ASAP. Rots fast. Great burning wood, as good as Cherry
     
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    It's easy to identify, it grows berries Every 2 years, birds and squirrels eat them till spring.


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    Thanks for the pic, I've never seen such a white tree besides Birch.
     
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    The splits are really white. Ash is going to be a thing of the past around here before long. I'm trying to figure out what wood is going to fill that gap I'm my wood pile.


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    Blujacket is dead on right. C/S/S as soon as possible. It rots very fast as logs or if left in rounds.
     
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    I have 8 logs or so off the ground under my Quonset hut. I just cut couple weeks ago. Surely they will be ok till fall.


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    Yes, if they are out of the weather where they can't get wet from the rain I would think they would be fine. Apparently, Hackberry soaks up the rain and gets wet all over again. I had a big pile of Hackberry logs that I got from a felling job I did in the fall. I put them in a pile up on runners in the log yard. By the next fall they were completely spalted and junk. They were cut when the sap was up though.
     
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    I'm sure sap is up in these logs also. They were blow downs but root balls still attached. Pretty heavy for a wood that's not that dense. I CSS a rick in Quonset hut and filled a ibc tote cage to see how it's going to dry down.


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