Norway Spruce.....What do you Know???

Will soon be finished with a log load that was 1/2 Poplar and 1/2 Norway Spruce. I heard Norway
Spruce it tough to split. Anyone have experience with it? I heard it's almost as good as some of the softer hard wood if that makes sense. What about seasoning time? Any help would be appreciated...

 

Another Western NY'er? Welcome to the club!

I've never split any Norway spruce but I imagine its going to be difficult if its really branchy. Try to split it radially right down the center of the knots. As far as seasoning time, ill bet one summer in the sun will be enough to get it dry - but the problem is keeping it that way, so if you can cover it in the fall that would be ideal IMO.

I'm surprised you didn't get better logs - there's a lot of fine hardwoods around here!

 

Welcome indeed.

Not sure if it was Norway variety but I had a bit of spruce a few years ago. It wasn't a lot of fun to split.

I think it was one of the few times I used hydraulics to split.

 

I'm tuned in, I have a 80'+ Norway spruce only 20 feet from my house that my wife insists must come down this summer. I unfortunately have no experience with it to share.

 

I've split some with 25 tons of Cub Cadet hydraulic PSI, The spruce didn't stand a chance. Although, it fought hard and resisted well. I wouldn't want to do it with an axe/maul.

 

Norway going to be pretty knotty.

 

Here be my demon.

 

I'm a small town country boy, B-sav! I can't count that high!

 

Hahahaha , thanks mr sav, I needed that laugh!

 

I don't have an y experience burning the Norway Spruce, but I will in time. I have a bunch in my stacks, but probably won't access those for a few years yet. However, I do have experience with splitting them. To top half, even 2/3rds can be split by hand. But the larger the main part of the trunk is, the more difficult it will become. A hydrolic splitter for those would be best, or as I did, just noodle them.

What I did with the branches, is make a lot of it into kindling and firewood since some of the branches tend to be quite thick. It is time consuming though. The remains will ultimately end up going through the chipper to become mulch for my western arborvitae.

These are the Norway Spruce (pine to me) I felled a bit over a month ago.


And this might be an option when all is said and done! At least this is what I did with the stumps.


In another week or so I'll be posting an updated picture of my natural flower pots. The two pictures above were fresh planted after I created the pots.

 

Well that settle's it. Going to borrow a 22 ton Hydraulic from a friend at church. Should be dropping it off next week. He said I can have it as long as it takes. 170 rounds all about 18" of Norway Spruce ready to meet its end.

 

I cut down two Blue Spruce almost that big. It was a lot of work limbing my way in once they were on the ground. Cut, and stop and clear the branches. Repeat, many times.

 

Great job on the flower pots, I would never of thought of doing that.

 

Thanks! I figured with the stumps being near the road they still represent my property. I like low and level stumps when they're not removed by a grinder or other means. But creating flower pots out of the stumps wasn't really my idea, just an expansion of one of the threads here that used logs as flower pots. One was a train if I recall correctly.
In my opinion, I have the prettiest stumps in the area!