Sounds like shellback. It looks like shagbark but not very shaggy, and it has the largest nuts of all the hickories. I've got mostly shellback...
I split some elm today that was zero drama. A photo for all the haters. [ATTACH]
Splits about like some fresh cottonwood, takes every bit as long as white oak to season... But once well-seasoned, the flames pour out of a fat...
All things considered I'd take the sugar maple over the white oak. Seasons a lot faster and burns about as good and long.
You're right that I don't have a dampler like that in it. The house started with architect approved plans that included a single prefabricated...
Correct. It was the damper. I removed the door or whatever you call the part that closes, but the actual frame wouldn't let a 6" stainless liner...
Great info and advice. Thank you, sir.
My Napoleon sure was pretty new. Looks like hell now, but still burns good. [ATTACH]
I could install a chimney damper, I just wouldn't be able to open or close it. ;) (The cat's not dead, just a weirdo.) [ATTACH] The...
You make an interesting point about velocity. I'll have to think more about that one. I saved a few bucks going with a 5" liner and it was...
I would weld a bracket that holds a piece of structural steel square tube, and use a hitch pin to hold the tube in the bracket. That way the...
My beech is the smoothest gray bark I've ever seen on a tree. Many of the beech around here suffer from some sort of heartwood rot fungus. It...
Too bad about the squirrels. I dropped a huge dead white oak a few years ago causing a baby squirrel masacre. Even though there is an...
Is that black birch in the back of the bed? Looks a whole lot like beech, both both the bark and the grain / color.
I see. I've got a medium size insert that I use to heat a 3700 square foot house. The house is well insulated, at least, and I close off a few...
Yeah, classic hoarder mentality: "I'm sure I'll have a good use for that someday." I used to even save a few garbage bags full of noodles...
I've never cut any that was dead, dying, or down. But now that you mention it, I do remember bugs liking the sap last time I cut a live one and...
Beech + black birch is a good combo. Maybe too good. I burned mostly 4-year old chinquipin (white) oak + decade old white ash last year and I...
I tend to "save" that stuff too. This year I wanted to free up some of the totes so I burned nothing but the reject for 2 months. It was not...
You ever burn any? It's a common understory tree in my forest. I've cut some that were 6" diameter and 50+ years old. They grow slow in the...
