That’s a lot of BTUs I only have maybe a stove’s worth of Holly to try out next year. Fairly rare around here.
Yeah it’s a rarity for me also. I wish I’d have found out sooner that it’s a higher btu wood. Over the years I have cut down some big ones and hauled them to the dump. Some close up pics
I need you to send my employer an official prescription for this week off you've got going... alone time, firewood'n with quality logs. Just need some pics of the all orange saws.. .
Mom has a forty foot Holly tree in her garden that is 60 years old at least. It is 18" across at the base and has about three tops. We laugh and say that is my inheritance as I planted a sprig of holly in the ground at that spot many years ago. I didn't realize I was growing a high BTU product for my retirement.
Nice stuff there. Ive only seen it in shrub form and cut one with 2-3" trunk last year. How does it split? Any aroma? Id say the 400 dines on anything you can sink its teeth into.
I’ll be splitting some of it today, so I’ll get back to you on how it splits. No noticeable aroma while cutting. I’ll give it a close up sniff. The 400 is unreal and I can’t believe there is higher levels of performance that would be sustainable. It feels like it wants to launch into space.
Hearing your stories on the 400 has my ears perked. Although mine came with the bark box and foam filter as nice upgrades that have me enjoy cutting with it. I just cant swallow the $400 for porting it. Could you put those upgrades on it for more power?
The foam filter and bark box? Kevin made a second port on the muffler. The filter may add a little boost. A couple loads of firewood is a small price to pay for lightning in your hands.
That is the first thing that came to mind for me as well , a bush. I had no clue it was even a tree. Another thing learned from FHC!
There was a person who did woodworking bowls here and I picked up a bowl turned out of holly to send to my brother. Really nice looking grain to it.
I found a holly at the dump about that big a few years ago. Was the whitest wood I've seen yet, real nice because it's so different. It's one of those trees that I abhor the loggers cutting when they clearcut. Like, what's the point. Seems to me, might make a dollar difference 40 years from now. I'd leave them. Ya don't see many that big. But, they don't leave anything. Period. These days.
There are 3 here about this size. If one of them ever comes down I’m going to be foaming at the mouth to cut it. Of course I took a few berries from this one to propagate it Dang Japanese wisteria covers everything here, along with burning bush, multiflora rose and bittersweet.
