I suppose one way to definitively answer this would be to Chemically/geochemically analyze exactly is left over in the ashes after combustion of...
That the reason hickory was so hard on saw chains was due to the amount of mineral metabolism in the tree. This when we were cutting hickory...
3 Purdue foresters in my family. Maybe they are wrong but that is what I have always been told. I couldn't say for sure I am the one that went...
Harder on chains because of the amount of mineral take-up the tree does.
I also think this is good info. Maybe it should be a tacked/permanent thread or in a resource, knowledge body. I learned a little bit from it.
It really is a great firewood. Dense, lasts a long time in the furnace. Good for overnight burns. Seasond/drys faster than oak. Downsides are it...
I am going to sell by the cord and half cord from my recent cut here in 2 to 3 years. It will be dry under 25 percent Firewood. Oak, Hickory,...
Sorry no picture but I can say it was very attractive work and I was surprised it came out of what many would regard as a trash wood.
So many times you would think I would learn not to. Especially at my age.
Should be good heating wood. I have seen some furniture and cabinetry made out of it and it was very nice work.
The "Bottoms" is north of me a few miles. I have caved there several times and mapped there. I am three miles north of Owensburg and a mile west...
I just did a 384 stem cut of a hundred thousand board foot plus on my 40 acres that hadn't been cut in 70 years. I have so many high quality tops...
The Yukon does well for us here in southern Indiana. I have no issues with it. It does creosote the secondary heat exchanger badly when the...
Stihl saws. A 50 hp Kubota. A very old 21 ton hyd. Splitter. A Yukon furnace. A woodmizer lt 40 sawmill.
About an hour, twenty minutes north on I69 of Evansville.
I run a Yukon dual fuel furnace. Have about 15 cords stored. 35 years or so of solid fuel heating.
Thank you both. I am in southern Indiana, Greene County On the Crawford Upland.
Good day all. New member "Brokenstone" here. A confirmed hoarder and I look forwards to participation in FHC.
