Hackberry score

Not a bad scrounge. Had the daughters of the sweet old lady who lives on the acreage helping load up the small stuff. Even got some homemade cookies for the drive home.

 

I burned about a third of a cord of Hackberry last winter. I was actually really impressed with it. Put out great heat and burned for a fairly long time. I’d take all I could get my hands on.

Great score!

 

Yep I like hackberry too, biggest complaint about it is that there’s never a straight piece to be found on a tree

 

That was the case with this one, and it's usually heavy and full of water.

 

That's a big o'le Hackberry for my neck of the woods. What part of Ia are you located in?

 

Hackberry is gooder stuff. Right close to ash in the heat department but minus the ash's ash!

 

Southwest Iowa. East of Omaha. Theres quite a few old ones around here, mostly just yard trees.
Here's a hackberry I helped a tree service on last year.

 

Nice score. We have some around here, never burned any though.

 

Woodchucker, I was looking at the picks and I thought “is this Iowa! Been through that area many times!

Hackberry is some “interesting” wood. Really heavy, pretty hard to split (not like elm! But pretty hard) burns nice, nice sent, never cooked or smoked with it but seems like it would work good…….

 

I helped tackle this hackberry a little while back. The cut I made where the line is used most of a 28” bar, so probably 24” inches diameter. Had to stand on the tailgate of a pickup to reach it.
I have a friend with a mill interested in a couple logs if’n there is anything suitable.
Still have the other arm and main trunk to drop when he gets that power line out of the way. Gonna need the 181 and a 32” bar for that