Is Hickory hard to get lit up

I never burned any Hickory before I'm waiting for it to dry but , I put some pieces of bone dry shagbark, bark only in the fire pit and it seemed like it took a long time to light up

 

In my experience the splintering character of hickory seems to take a flame very well. The rest of the dense split may take a bit to follow suit.

 

maybe the bark is just denser than the actual wood

 

I've had a small amount of hickory maybe 2 yrs ago.
It seemed to take well in a hot stove, it was always added as a reload never in a cold startup

 

I thought the " shagbark bark" was a typo.
I was referencing actual splits. I can't speak of the bark.

 

Bark does not burn well in my opinion and it takes a while to catch.

 

Are you burning the entire sheets of bark? or the flaky exterior bits?
I have noticed the main portion of the bark doesn't burn real fast - works great for the smoker though.

Could be a natural fire retardant in the main core of the bark?

 

It actually is harder than the wood itself.Contains silica also,one reason cutting Shagbark is very rough on chains.Normally I just wear safety glasses over prescription eyeglasses when bucking.But when bucking Shagbark I also wear faller's helmet w/ mesh screen - cause those pieces of bark tend to fly off & sometimes hit you in the face. Sharp little bits,they will also leave marks on forearms too.

 

Make syrup out of it instead.

 

I thought bark was supposed to give things an off flavor when you smoked meat with it.

 

Hickory bark doesn't seem to give me off flavors. I use limbs from the yard all the time, sheets of bark off the logs in the stack and split cookies that I hang in the garage.

I know BBQ places down here don't want Pecan wood to have bark as it can grow a fungus in the bark that will give strange flavors.

 

Yeah I threw in a couple sheets of bark in the fire

 

No but @Grizzly Adam has. http://firewoodhoardersclub.com/for...-bark-syrup-its-awesome.276/page-2#post-20586

I have some hickory in my stacks but it will need to wait until I can pull it out.

 

Please no pics!

 

Good to know from know on.

 

Thank goodness you don't have pics. Nobody likes hickory jerky or that one keyword?

Oops.

 

Jerky and

Only a couple months till one of those does I jumped yesterday will become the wholesome goodness of the dried delicatessen.