Woo Hoo! Mystery scrounge turned out to be shagbark hickory!

Y'know, in some environments out there, you'd be told "You suck" for such a drive-by gloat.

I didn't say that. Not me.

The fragrance of burning hickory is something else. Enjoy.

From what I hear, it stacks up nicely against any wood.
Good score!

Oh, I don't see no picture

Its great stuff, had some last year and loved it. BTW, Id be here gloating with that score too :lol:

OH,Sure go to Google to ID it rather then coming here first! :cheese: What do they have that we don't? Is it just the money or the technology? :lol:

Gary

Serendipity! Never got hickory to burn, but is WAY up there on the BTU charts . Might save a few chunks for the barbeque.

Hickory burns loooong. Your gonna enjoy it but use it during the coldest times.

One thing I have learned , this place like PICTURES! We need proof!

Badfish740 said:

Just got back from an impromptu scrounge-caught a CL ad that just happened to be down the road from my office. I pulled up, saw that it wasn't pine (I'm not picky) and started loading. It wasn't until I did some searching on Google Images that I figured out what I had. I've never burned hickory before so I'm curious to see how it stacks up against black locust and pin oak.

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Shagbark Hickory is pure junk....if you need a place to dump it, I'll meet you half way.

Definitely keep some for the BBQ or smoker.
I probably go through 1/2 a cord a year of Hickory in my smoker.
As for burning I'd place it short step down from Oak.

Badfish740 said:

I've never burned hickory before so I'm curious to see how it stacks up against black locust and pin oak.

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Nice haul! :coolsmile:
It's "Long March" wood...burns for hours and hours. Hopefully, some of it's dry and you can burn it this year. If not, it should be good next season if you stack it soon, assuming you have good drying conditions in your locale. We've got Shagbark here but they don't die or blow down often; I've burned more Pignut which I think is almost as good BTU-wise. BL may be slightly better but not much. I've got some Pin Oak I'm working on for 2013. Never burned it but since it's in the Red Oak group I assume it will burn about the same...

Sometimes we just seem to stumble onto some good finds like that.

Hickory is on my bucket list!

Hickory is great! We have pignut hickory around here. I've got some huge hickories on our place but they're very healthy and I'm not going to touch them. I have found a couple of smaller, storm downed hickories back in my absentee neighbor's woods in the past. No sense in letting them lay there and rot so I buck 'em and bring 'em home.
They split okay when fresh. I left about a dozen rounds unsplit for a couple of years. When I finally tried to split them both my 10 pound maul and my Fiskers SS just bounced off the wood! Hardly made a dent in it. These were about seven inch rounds. The next winter they went into the stove unsplit. Made some sweet overnight burns!

By the way, in case you're wondering. My neighbor (absentee owner: six acres of woods) knows that I harvest his downed trees. It's basically payback because I keep the front of the property bush hogged so it doesn't get all overgrown and make our front yard look bad. I've been doing that at my expense for several years.

Im burning hickory for the first time this year.. Its burn very hot and for a long time. Great find.

You will love it! Shagbark Hickory is the longest burning wood I have encountered so far, it burns twice as long as Oak. Enjoy!

I just split a whole shagbark tree I scrounged after the hurricane. 4 pick up loads. I couldn't split it by hand. I rented a splitter and it growled thru it. It was stringy. I learned to put a 2x6 under the round so the splitter wedge would break all the way thru. (figured this out near the end of the pile - figures). 7 hours of vertical splitting (hydraulics) and I was spent. Shagbark is SO heavy. It better be the best burning wood ever, or I'll pass on the next one. It was a bear to process.