I don't cut on company or yalls time I promise you that!!! But I do get the good stuff!! I know people and have certain gate keys that most don't have
I notice the same here in the state cutting area. The easy stuff is gone in a new cutting area Way before I find out they opened a new one. Inside information & secret cutting places is work out good for you
If I think about it later I will take a pic of a split, resplit it then take a pic of Tue moisture meter in it to prove MC.
And I still buy my stupid permit as well. Honestly we should give them away. It cost Tue government more to process your $10 ( in our case) check than that $10!!
Were not that fancy and don't do that many. Ours are like $10 for I think 2 cords?? No one counts or cares so me and my buddy usually buy one per season and call it good. Were both employees.Mst trees we cut could be considered hazards anyway.
[quote="clemsonfor, post: 39319, member: 16" No one counts or cares so me and my buddy usually buy one per season and call it good. Were both employees..[/quote] Well , you are the ""counter"" You need to stop digging Someone who cares about government insider abuse may read this . L OL
Haha!! I am far from abusive. I will tell anyone what I do! I often just say firewood for x months and don't put a volume on it. And I usually don't cut more than 2 cords a permit anyway I cut all year.
Weird that you are having issues with the Hickory.......I burn a ton of it and don't have any trouble with it however it has all had 3 years of dry time before I burn it. I wonder if it is still slightly green? I will say it does take a bit longer to get it up and burning good so I usually load on a bit hotter coal bed than normal to help out with reloads.
20% is 20% do sent matter if it is pine oak or hickory. A bit of species /density correction bit honestly I don't think it be statistically significant. Oak is about the same mc. And burns fine and hot no sizzel. My oak that has been split and stacked going on 4 yrs is only 14-15% and oddly can have a small sizzel? The oak I'm burning is 20 months old split wood, no sizzel and is about 20% mc. I think the old wood has surface moisture that was working into the wood as its on the side of the shed???
Got a bunch of shag bark hickory a bunch of years back, split big 6-8" after 2 years stacked was still too wet in center although the oak next to it was fine. Seems to make a differance in heat output on how hot a coal bed you have when re-stoking. Put a load of sugar maple in this morning on a real low bed of coals it was struggling to get going for almost an hour. Same stuff that was blasting heat out last night.
As promised here are the pictures to show I am telling the truth. Pictures cause it did happen. Smaller ones are lower this is a big split.about 5 x 6 in size.
Possible especially if it has a little punk around the outside. Also a note that when checking mc, item to be checked should be around room temp not frozen. Most units have a temp range stated somewhere for proper use.
The only problem I have with Hickory is splitting the occasional old gnarly one.... Nothing that 5lb Helko twisted wedge & 20lb sledge wont cure though.....The X27 just bounced off this bassturd.
