Whats Your BIG 3?

[Wolverine]

If you let it freeze ut splits real easy.
Hickory is also stringy as heck like elm

Tried letting it freeze (on the first run in). No different.
I have burned much hickory and have much hickory in my stacks to burn this season. Ain't no where near like elm.

 

[beaglebriar]

I've had two run-ins with it. I'm a snob at this point and won't bring any home with me. Too many other great woods around us to deal with it.

I hear ya. There's stuff that has to be in my way to get cut. Soft maple is almost worthless in the boiler as well as sycamore,unless it real big I don't mess with it. Anything up to 16" doesn't normally get split here.

 

[Wolverine]

I hear ya. There's stuff that has to be in my way to get cut. Soft maple is almost worthless in the boiler as well as sycamore,unless it real big I don't mess with it. Anything up to 16" doesn't normally get split here.

Agreed. I'll burn maple, but for me, it seasons really quick and doesn't last real long in the box. Great shoulder season wood or I burn it during the day when I'm home.

I helped a local FHC guy split wood one day. He had a small gum log bucked. It was ignorant. Just like this pic.

 

[Nutball]

If you let it freeze ut splits real easy.
Hickory is also stringy as heck like elm

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Again, hickory and most woods need to dry out to not be so stringy. Hickory isn't generally twisty grain like elm either, so it's more of a moisture thing.

I have run into a burly oak that was a pure waste trying to split. It would crumble into a bunch of useless junk under the hydro splitter. I should have diced it with a chainsaw.

 

[Homemade]

1 free
2 delivered
3 cut and split

Ok number 3 was two choices. I don’t chase after any particular species. I do mostly clearing on fence lines. Every few years I help out on a thinning job, but that is just to get rid of the sick or dead standing trees. Or make room for the high valued lumber trees.

 

[CrystalRiver1]

I like osage orange , hedge, and bois d'ark.

DITTO!

 

[I saw a lot]

Only hedge I've burnt so far was some old fence posts. Funny thing is best friend has a few hedge trees on his acreage the landlord wants out. Been putting them off because of all the other wood (trees) down that need processed first. One of these days will start to take them down, just not sure when.

 

[alleyyooper]

Seems like even Maple that has been growing in the middle of a farm field for years cn be a bugger to split. I think the wind keeps twisting the tree cusing a twisty grain.

Al

 

[kingOFgEEEks]

1 - Ash (quick to season, easy to cut/split, and decent heat)
2 - Locust (same as ash, except harder on chains. best heat ever!)
3 - Sugar Maple (more work to cut/split, better coals, somewhere between ash and locust for heat)

 

[Cat 525]

Hedge, red elm and Ash!

 

[Hinerman]

I have 34T of hydro pressure. If you think this is splitting fine, more power to ya.
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My wedge goes 1/2-1" into oak and the round pulls easily apart. Piss on elm, next time I run into some let me know... you pay shipping and I'll send it all.

Locust would have made my list but I don't get much if at all.

That is what elm splits like here too. I turn it down.

 

[jakethesnake]

I’ve got some elm. I wish I could find the picture I quartered all the big stuff w a 288 the amount of chips on the ground was astonishing

 

[jakethesnake]

This might be one. Picture doesn’t really do it justice

 

[Lightning Performance]

Red head, blond or brunette

 

[I saw a lot]

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That's a lot of noodles. Are you going to save them? Make great kindling.

 

[alleyyooper]

Al

 

[kingOFgEEEks]

Al

Why is he making matches out of perfectly good stove wood? That's almost maple syrup making size.

 

[Definitive Dave]

fresh wet poplar
fresh wet aspen
fresh wet CLEAN cottonwood
all bark-less and square

 

[alleyyooper]

Maybe he has a wood cooking range in the house to feed. My mom liked her range wood small.

Al

 

[jakethesnake]

That's a lot of noodles. Are you going to save them? Make great kindling.

Yeah I grabbed up like a bucket or so. There were lots. Most of them I just left.